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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
The Crypto Conspiracy
The Crypto Conspiracy Suddenly, financial titans of the world have collectively decided that it’s time to enter crypto. BlackRock has […]...
7 Min
Asset Management
Jun 2023
BlackRock
BlackRock The SEC is suing Ripple and the lawsuit is expected to come to fruition soon. Ripple’s lawyers have been […]...
12 Min
Asset Management
Jun 2023
Gary's Protection
Gary’s Protection In spectacular fashion, the SEC has filed lawsuits against the two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, on […]...
8 Min
Spot Exchange
Jun 2023