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Bitcoin Breakout Tease & Looming Market Risks
Bitcoin flirts with a breakout while market risks begin to surface....
9 Min
Spot Exchange
Sep 2020
Ethereum Ecosystem Analysis
In this report, we analyze the increased usage on Ethereum and explain the impacts of the continuation of yield farming and experimentation on various sectors ranging from DEXs to stablecoins. We also...
1 Min
Derivatives
Sep 2020
All For UNI and UNI For All
After much anticipation, Uniswap finally released its protocol token, UNI, late last night. Through its use of retroactive rewards, virtually every DeFi user instantly became a member of the Uniswap c...
6 Min
Spot Exchange
Sep 2020
Percent.Finance Attracts $125M In TVL In A Few Hours
Percent Finance has launched a fork of Compound that features a 20M hard-capped PCT supply and aggressive yield farming issuance rewards....
4 Min
Spot Exchange
Sep 2020
Fork Defense Strategies in DeFi
Competitive strategy is now critical to crypto projects and founders who aspire to build something valuable, defensible, and lasting in our space. A special Guest Post by Ian from the IDEO team!...
13 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
The Smallest Market Everyone Knows About
Last month, our own Kevin Kelly was asked to write a contributor piece for Global Macro Investor, Raoul Pal’s flagship research service. The report is packed with charts and interesting perspective on...
1 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Follow Up To Our PowerPool Proposal
The best way to learn in this space is to participate. Here’s a follow up to our proposal for PowerPool, while also diving into our thought process behind it....
15 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Reimagining The PowerPool
What if we redesigned PowerPool as a liquidity pool rather than a lending protocol? LP shares effectively become an ETF token for the DeFi sector, with PowerPool acting as the governance layer built o...
7 Min
Indices
Sep 2020
Low-Mid Market Cap DMR
This dashboard monitors all projects with market caps of greater than $1M, deriving a DMR rating representing the ratio of developer activity to the project's market cap, and displaying here all proje...
1 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
When Vampires Attack: SushiSwap and Uniswap
Sushiswap has garnered significant attention in the market as the decentralized exchange, with a native token SUSHI, has successfully completed its migration from Uniswap....
5 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Was That The Top? Ruminations on the Alleged DeFi Bubble
In the context of the recent market drop and macro climate, we take a step back to fundamentally understand DeFi’s long-term thesis, yield farming, and where we are in the cycle....
9 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Social Tokens: The Rise of the Coin’s E-Den Syndicate
Social tokens enable an interesting take on speculative assets that trade based off personal brands in a manner we haven’t quite seen before. What’s more, they can be used to incentivize certain actio...
4 Min
NFTs & Gaming
Sep 2020
Get Ready for Balancer’s First-Ever Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool ($PERP)
As mentioned in previous Daily’s, Perpetual Protocol plans to list on their $PERP token on a Balancer liquidity bootstrapping pool (LBP). This will be the first Initial Dex Offering (IDO) on an LBP -...
4 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Bitcoin Slides as Crypto Market Pulls Back
Bitcoin has fallen ~11% since Tuesday, putting it on pace for its worst two-day stretch since the second week of May. The latest DeFi craze was arguably overdue for a pullback, but bitcoin’s slide ind...
4 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
yETH: Now Do You Understand?
yETH is here and there's a reason why people are so excited. In this daily, we dive into what yETH means for the space and YFI in particular....
8 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
CREAM Finance: Crypto Rules Everything Around Me ?
This July, CREAM Finance launched; a decentralized money market protocol and fork of Compound to allow users to lend or borrow different tokens....
6 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
How NXM Accelerates With Scale
In this post, we explore how NXM transitions from a programmatically grown MCR to a gearing factor-based one. Few understand what this means long term for Nexus....
9 Min
Insurers
Sep 2020
A Collection of ETH Supply Sinks
With ETH locked in DeFi, Phase 0 of ETH 2.0, and now the newly created yETH Vaults, we take a look at the increasing ETH supply sinks and the dynamic between them....
4 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
How NXM Accelerates With Scale
In this post, we explore how NXM transitions from a programmatically grown MCR to a gearing factor-based one. Few understand what this means long term for Nexus....
9 Min
Insurers
Aug 2020
A Power Play For PowerPool
PowerPool might capture a sizable governance stake in the top DeFi projects across the sector. With a slight change to their strategy, it could even become a governance blackhole....
5 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2020