Reports512 results
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 “Asteroid” inscriptions protocol brings tokens and NFTs to Cosmos Hub
Summary: Delphi Labs and Astroport contributors have unleashed a new inscriptions metaprotocol on Cosmos Hub — 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 “THORChain with […]...
51 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2024
The Year Ahead for Markets - 2024
Introduction — Oh, How Far We’ve Come Exactly one year ago, we published our last Markets Year Ahead report — […]...
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 — 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, ‘Came for the Tech, Stayed for […]...
7 Min
Social Media
Sep 2023
Came for the Tech, Stayed for the Friends
In our “Reflecting 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
DeFi Summer
DeFi Summer Four years ago, DeFi “Blue-Chips” such as lending protocol AAVE and derivatives protocol Synthetix put in their all-time […]...
11 Min
DeFi
Jun 2023