Investors are people, and they, too, underestimate the likelihood (and duration) of bad things happening. So far, 2023 is shaping up to be a case study in this kind of wishful thinking....
Implementing leverage in crypto is not easy. Many current platforms use middle-term solutions or large off-chain components. Crypto leverage trading therefore lacks the composability and permissionles...
The field of generative AI has rapidly evolved in recent years and is already being used for a variety of different purposes. One of the most intriguing applications is in the realm of art. With the a...
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of 17M ETH getting ready to be withdrawn from staking, nearly $30B of ETH supply previously locked up coming onto the market ready to be sold. Or at least, this is w...
All in all, 2022 was a year of survival for Maker. Their fundamentals took significant hits, but so did the rest of the market. Their dominance in the stablecoin sector is as of yet unchallenged, and...
In this month’s edition of the Web3 Gaming Roundup, we will take a look at the sector’s performance over the 28 days of February as well as highlight some points of interest....
The NFT market has grown exponentially since its inception, with NFT exchanges participating in an escalating war. To siphon users from each other, creators have become collateral damage as exchanges...
Radiant Capital aims to be a one-stop money market where users can deposit and borrow across multiple chains seamlessly. While money markets like Aave exist on many different blockchains, they don’t h...
Yield farming, or some form of token-based bootstrapping, has become a core component of every project’s go-to-market strategy. Protocols actively think about how best to employ game theory to attract...
Arbitrum’s DeFi ecosystem is starting to look strong. Arbitrum-native projects such as GMX have outperformed during the bear cycle and rekindled the spirit of experimentation and composability. Arbitr...
ZK-bridges use ZKPs to improve performance of light-client bridges without introducing new trust assumptions. Polymer and zkBridge stand out with their use of parallelizable/recursive proofs. Others w...
Ordinals are extremely interesting and far more than just "NFTs on Bitcoin." Users can store digital artifacts and data on Bitcoin’s L1 forever. Not only can users store data forever, but ordinal theo...
Crypto games, often referred to as GameFi, have created an allure previously nonexistent in traditional games for the average player -- monetary incentives. The amalgamation of gaming and finance has...
After a miserable 2022 for risk assets, 2023 opened on the opposite foot. Risk assets rose considerably across the board, in large part due to recent increases in global liquidity driven by China’s PB...
Blockchain-based virtual land projects garnered industry-wide attention in late 2021/early 2022. The average price per NFT plot of land hit $18k in January 2022 and total secondary trading volume reac...
The explosion of interest in NFTs these past 2 years has led to a proliferation of blockchain platforms vying to become the go-to destination for NFT creation, issuance, and trading. Solana, with its...
DeFi options have failed to take off. While we can point to the success of dYdX as a blueprint for perpetuals, or GMX for synthetic margin trading, there is no single DeFi options venue that has achie...