Reports594 results
Telegram Bots: Evaluating Crypto's New Cash Cows
Telegram trading bots burst on the scene last summer, offering the market a much-needed fun new concept in the midst of a lethargic bear market. Trading bots were a major driver in the memecoin rally...
20 Min
DeFi
Feb 2024
The State Of Bitcoin
Bitcoin rebounded strongly in 2023, not just with respect to price but on-chain activity through ordinals and renewed interest in Bitcoin scaling. This report is a retrospective on what 2023 brought t...
28 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2024
Experimental new β€œAsteroid” inscriptions protocol brings tokens and NFTs to Cosmos Hub
Summary: Delphi Labs and Astroport contributors have unleashed a new inscriptions metaprotocol on Cosmos Hub β€” a blockchain that, by […]...
12 Min
Other
Jan 2024
Zetachain Part 2: The Opportunity Ahead for Omnichain Applications
App Building Opportunities Zetachain’s ability to support smart contracts and connect to heterogeneous chains – including the Bitcoin blockchain – […]...
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2024
Zetachain Part 1: A Competitive Landscape of Blockchain Bridges
ZetaChain – Architecture & Key Features Architecture At a high level, the way we would explain ZetaChain is β€œTHORChain with […]...
51 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2024
The Year Ahead for Markets - 2024
Introduction β€” Oh, How Far We’ve Come Exactly one year ago, we published our last Markets Year Ahead report β€” […]...
76 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2023
The Year Ahead for DeFi 2024
Introduction On the surface, 2023 may seem like a pretty uneventful year for DeFi. The chaotic global macro environment and […]...
100 Min
DeFi
Dec 2023
The Year Ahead for Infrastructure 2024
L2 Wars, Solana Separating From The Pack, THORChain & Chainflip: Decentralized Highways For Bitcoin, Intents & Solvers, Ethereum's 2024 Roadmap and more....
93 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2023
The Year Ahead for Gaming 2024
Intro 2023 has been a somewhat slow year for blockchain gaming. Although there are many reasons to remain optimistic for […]...
36 Min
Gaming
Dec 2023
The Year Ahead For NFTs 2024
Green Shoots β€” The State of NFT Markets Last year, we opined that NFTs were in the trough of disillusionment. […]...
37 Min
NFTs
Dec 2023
What Should Crypto Do About Consumer Fraud?
On October 23, 2023, CoinDesk gathered a group of industry leaders for an intensive private roundtable on how crypto can […]...
14 Min
Policy
Nov 2023
WTF Is Anoma? Part 3: WTF is Typhon?
What is Anoma? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer. Anoma is not a blockchain. Or, more accurately, not just a blockchain. Anoma is an architecture....
28 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2023
WTF Is Anoma? Part 2: WTF Are Intent-Based Apps?
What is Anoma? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer. Anoma is not a blockchain. Or, more accurately, not just a blockchain. Anoma is an architecture....
24 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2023
Friend.Tech Continues Making Waves
This report serves as a partial update of a previous report written by Ceteris, β€˜Came for the Tech, Stayed for […]...
7 Min
Social Media
Sep 2023
Came for the Tech, Stayed for the Friends
In our β€œReflecting on EthCC” report, we mentioned how most of the crypto discourse has been about the infra layer as opposed to the application layer. Friend.tech, a new social app launched on Coinbas...
30 Min
Social Media
Aug 2023
WTF Is Anoma? Part 1: WTF Are Intents?
What is Anoma? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer. Anoma is not a blockchain. Or, more accurately, not just a blockchain. Anoma is an architecture....
23 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2023
Worldcoin
Worldcoin Founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has launched Worldcoin, his attempt at solving the sybil problem. A Sybil Attack is […]...
6 Min
Data
Jul 2023
DYDX Valuation Analysis & DEX Perps Comparison
Self-custody and censorship resistance are seldom the deciding factors for the average user selecting a crypto exchange. The collapse of FTX created a window of opportunity that DEXs have thus far fai...
40 Min
Derivatives
Jul 2023
Show Me The Money
Show Me The Money New types of narratives are emerging in a maturing industry. These narratives share a common denominator, […]...
7 Min
DeFi
Jul 2023
And Then You Win
And Then You Win In a blow to the SEC, a judge has ruled the XRP is not a security. […]...
5 Min
Policy
Jul 2023