2022 was The Great Reset for crypto. Overly hyped trends and mass speculation pushed the crypto market far out over its skis by the end of 2021, so this year’s washout was a necessary reset. Sizable c...

Polygon has consistently grabbed headlines with mainstream partnerships, a $450M venture raise, and a $1B investment into scaling solutions. But how has Polygon's gaming ecosystem fared?...

OpenSea transacted $242.2M in November compared to $295.8M in October, representing an 18% decrease over the previous month. There were notable developments in the broader NFT ecosystem, however....

Join us as we discuss the recent CPI print, concentration of volume in DEXs and NFTs, daily active users of prominent dApps, the veToken model, and more....

The reasons for the monumental collapse of FTX still aren't entirely clear. There are numerous theories that speculate on what went down. Yet, nothing can be said with absolute certainty. That said, s...

A popular takeaway regarding the FTX drama has been that this was not a DeFi problem, but a TradFi one. It’s absolutely true that custody risks apply to CEXs and not DeFi. Yet, given the size of the c...

Has anything changed on the macro front given the macro-driven bear market? This month, the answer is…we’re getting closer....

The total market cap for all gaming-related tokens hit roughly $7.4B at the end of November, representing a 17% increase from September, according to CoinGecko. However, as we will illustrate in this...

Join us as we discuss recent price action, Maple Finance's troubles, what on-chain metrics say about the markets, DAO treasury ranks, how insightful bridge flows are, and more....

Gaming was a primary driver of the 2021 mania, yet it has given way to cold realism as we move into the trough of disillusionment....

In this report, we look to highlight some key opportunities and challenges for DeFi and spell out the reasons we remain optimistic that DeFi will thrive....

We looked at the year that was and the year that may be in the world of NFTs....

Tokens are an integral part of crypto projects. Over the years, the way token economies are designed has changed considerably, becoming increasingly complex. They can help a good project prosper but f...

Join us as we discuss SUAVE from Flashbots, how DeFi trading infrastructure can be improved, Uniswap's NFT plans, RPC alternatives, Frax's staked ETH growth, and more....

The emergence of DeFi opened up yield-generating opportunities across many protocols. But as protocols gained traction and saw increasing deposits to smart contracts, this created lucrative opportunit...

Chicken bonds are a bonding mechanism that can be applied to yield-bearing tokens to bootstrap protocol-earned liquidity while boosting yields for bonders. The enhanced yield on boosted tokens is deri...

Join us as we dissect the fallout from the FTX collapse and how the industry can move forward....

NFT wash trading is a subset of price manipulation that occurs for two main reasons. The primary reason is to earn trading rewards from incentivized platforms such as LooksRare and X2Y2. These platfor...

Join us as we discuss early stage projects we're watching, the FTX fallout for NFT and gaming projects, sectors that could be prominent in the next cycle, and debate how effective proof of reserves wi...

The idea of a decentralized identity is a core component of the Web3 technology stack. As it matures, it will unlock a whole new set of use cases in DeFi, NFTs, and future paradigms in crypto....