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Fork Defense Strategies in DeFi
Competitive strategy is now critical to crypto projects and founders who aspire to build something valuable, defensible, and lasting in our space. A special Guest Post by Ian from the IDEO team!...
13 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
The Smallest Market Everyone Knows About
Last month, our own Kevin Kelly was asked to write a contributor piece for Global Macro Investor, Raoul Pal’s flagship research service. The report is packed with charts and interesting perspective on...
1 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Reimagining The PowerPool
What if we redesigned PowerPool as a liquidity pool rather than a lending protocol? LP shares effectively become an ETF token for the DeFi sector, with PowerPool acting as the governance layer built o...
7 Min
Indices
Sep 2020
Low-Mid Market Cap DMR
This dashboard monitors all projects with market caps of greater than $1M, deriving a DMR rating representing the ratio of developer activity to the project's market cap, and displaying here all proje...
1 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
When Vampires Attack: SushiSwap and Uniswap
Sushiswap has garnered significant attention in the market as the decentralized exchange, with a native token SUSHI, has successfully completed its migration from Uniswap....
5 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Was That The Top? Ruminations on the Alleged DeFi Bubble
In the context of the recent market drop and macro climate, we take a step back to fundamentally understand DeFi’s long-term thesis, yield farming, and where we are in the cycle....
9 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
Social Tokens: The Rise of the Coin’s E-Den Syndicate
Social tokens enable an interesting take on speculative assets that trade based off personal brands in a manner we haven’t quite seen before. What’s more, they can be used to incentivize certain actio...
4 Min
NFTs & Gaming
Sep 2020
CREAM Finance: Crypto Rules Everything Around Me ?
This July, CREAM Finance launched; a decentralized money market protocol and fork of Compound to allow users to lend or borrow different tokens....
6 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
A Collection of ETH Supply Sinks
With ETH locked in DeFi, Phase 0 of ETH 2.0, and now the newly created yETH Vaults, we take a look at the increasing ETH supply sinks and the dynamic between them....
4 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
A Power Play For PowerPool
PowerPool might capture a sizable governance stake in the top DeFi projects across the sector. With a slight change to their strategy, it could even become a governance blackhole....
5 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2020
SushiSwap Takes a Shot at Uniswap
SushiSwap has hit the scene to compete with Uniswap, one of the most popular decentralized exchanges on Ethereum....
3 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2020
The Shadow of Mordor: Facebook, Oculus, and Closed Ecosystems
The metaverse will be complicated, driven by standards & protocols, mediums through which to interact with it, hosting infrastructure to power it, content with which to fill it, and a cultural shi...
5 Min
NFTs & Gaming
Aug 2020
Perpetual Protocol (Strike) - $PERP Listing Soon
Perpetual Protocol, previously Strike Protocol, has plans to list their $PERP token soon. Since writing about Perpetual Protocol in May, its name isn’t the only thing that has changed. Let’s break dow...
5 Min
DeFi
Aug 2020
Delphi Enters DXdao
Delphi Digital is officially joining DXdao as a member and we wanted to share why. A few proposals included inside the report....
2 Min
DeFi
Aug 2020
DXdao
Delphi Digital is officially joining DXdao as a member and we wanted to share why with our members....
2 Min
DeFi
Aug 2020
The Race to Layer 2s Is Underway
While Layer 2 will bring incredible benefits for individual applications as they are ported over, it initially will most likely impair the composability we all cherish between these projects ....
3 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2020
KeeperDAO: A Cooperation Black Hole
KeeperDAO is an on-chain liquidity underwriter for DeFi. Using KeeperDAO, people can pool their assets to earn passive income through liquidations, arbitrage, and other opportunities from all across D...
9 Min
Lending / Borrowing
Aug 2020
Helium and Melon Update: Cautious Traction
Given the positive action around Helium and Melon, we feel as though it is time for a quick update on both. With positive price action for both Helium (HNT, ~$0.20 to $2) and Melon Protocol (MLN, $5 t...
6 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2020
Floods and Mining in China
China has been experiencing historic levels of rainfall and flooding. With 70% of Bitcoin's hashrate originating from the country, what impact is this having on mining?...
4 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2020
Yield Farming
In this report, we dig in to the yield farming frenzy in DeFi. We unpack the latest insights ranging from the widespread impact it has had on the industry, what needs to be improved, upcoming opportu...
1 Min
Vaults
Aug 2020