Reports578 results
The Curious Case of Token Unlocks
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...
24 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2022
DEX Volume Spikes After FTX Collapse
🌅 Welcome! OpenSea continues to expand to other chains, announcing that NFTs on BNB Chain will be integrated by the […]...
3 Min
Spot Exchange
Nov 2022
The Current State of Crypto Insurance
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...
10 Min
Asset Management
Nov 2022
GBTC And ETHE Trade at Record Discount to NAVs
🌅 Welcome! El Salvador gets one step closer to the construction of its Bitcoin City as a new bill to […]...
5 Min
Asset Management
Nov 2022
Liquity's Chicken Bonds: Will They Fly?
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...
11 Min
Structured Products
Nov 2022
Morpho Finance: A Pareto-Efficient Lending Optimizer
Instead of just P2Pool matching, as with Aave and Compound, Morpho uses a hybrid model. It combines P2P matching with the underlying P2Pool market as a fallback....
13 Min
Money Markets
Nov 2022
Monthly Chartbook - Inflation Cooperates, But Is It Enough?
This month’s Monthly Chartbook focuses on the macro outlook, market structure & on-chain observations, L1s, L2s, & DeFi analysis, and an NFTs & gaming sector breakdown....
20 Min
Macro & Markets
Nov 2022
Exploring DYAD: A New Approach to Decentralized Stablecoins
DYAD is a new overcollateralized algo-stablecoin with NFT-gated token minting....
14 Min
Algorithmic Stablecoins
Nov 2022
Gearbox Protocol: Shifting DeFi Into the Next GEAR
Gearbox is one of the few recent 0-1 products in DeFi, bringing a more efficient approach to leverage....
10 Min
Vaults
Nov 2022
Fraxlend Attracts $10M in Collateral as a Whale Deposits CRV
🌅 Welcome! A Southeast Asian crypto hub proposes clamping down on leverage and the CEO of a prominent crypto exchange […]...
4 Min
Money Markets
Oct 2022
The Emergence of Principal-Protected Yield in DeFi
After two years of free money, DeFi yields have fallen to unimpressive levels. The days of depositing stables into a Yearn vault for 20% APY seem long gone. Crypto yields are now struggling to compete...
10 Min
Structured Products
Oct 2022
Can Euler Finance Carve Out a Moat?
Aave and Compound have paved the path for the basic money market design space in DeFi. While Euler's TVL is incredibly small compared to them, it has been a standout year for the protocol's growth....
13 Min
Money Markets
Oct 2022
The Better TWAP Oracle: Arithmetic or Geometric Mean?
Delphi Labs is proud to present a overview on arithmetic and geometric mean TWAPs. In this piece we’ll try to […]...
1 Min
AMM
Oct 2022
GMX's Success Spawns Competition, But Can They Keep Up?
GMX’s success has resulted in competitors attempting to replicate it with designs inspired by GMX. Mycelium (previously TracerDAO) and MUX (previously MCDEX) are two protocols designed very similarly...
21 Min
Perpetual Futures
Oct 2022
The State of Undercollateralized DeFi Lending
Unsecured lending is one of the best ways to unlock capital efficiency in DeFi, and various protocols have tried their hand at developing robust systems to earn the trust of crypto lenders. In this re...
10 Min
Unsecured Lending
Oct 2022
Monthly Chartbook - Falling Out of the Merge
This month’s Monthly Chartbook focuses on the macro outlook, market structure & on-chain observations, L1s, L2s, & DeFi analysis, and an NFTs & gaming sector breakdown....
21 Min
Macro & Markets
Oct 2022
SLAMM: A Unified Model for Cross-Chain Liquidity
DISCLAIMER This whitepaper is intended solely for informational purposes. The ideas are theoretical and have not yet been implemented. The […]...
25 Min
AMM
Oct 2022
Select Stablecoin Market Caps Decline As Binance Auto-Converts To BUSD
🌅 Welcome! A trillion-dollar financial services company is launching an Ethereum fund and a bankrupt crypto fund’s multi-million dollar NFT […]...
3 Min
Cash-Backed (Custodian) Stablecoins
Oct 2022
Sei Network: DeFi-Optimized Cosmos Chain
When building blockchains, we generally try to bucket them into two distinct boxes: general purpose or app chain. General purpose chains for permissionless innovation and app chains for permissioned a...
15 Min
Orderbook
Sep 2022
Do Fundamentals Matter in Crypto Markets?
Introduction There are a number of crypto projects that generate revenue and simultaneously reward their users and token holders. Sometimes […]...
17 Min
DeFi
Sep 2022