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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
NFT Debrief - June 2023
Welcome to our monthly coverage of NFTs and the metaverse. This month: Blend captures 93% of the NFT borrow volume market share, facilitating over $650M in volume. Nike Virtual Studios collaborates wi...
20 Min
NFTs
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
Maverick Takes Aim at the DEX Landscape
There’s a brand new DEX in town, and it’s quietly sitting among Ethereum’s top 5 DEXs by volume. Maverick Protocol has been off to a great start since its recent launch on Ethereum and zkSync....
11 Min
AMM
Jun 2023
Battle for Supremacy: Blur vs. OpenSea Pro
Over the past eight months, OpenSea, the once-dominant leader in the NFT marketplace realm, has found itself in a challenging situation. This predicament unfolded when Blur - an NFT marketplace and ag...
14 Min
NFT Marketplace
Jun 2023
Monthly Chartbook - AI Narrative Takes the Wheel
This month’s musing will be devoted to analyzing vibes. You might think, what’s the point of wasting time on, uh, “vibes?” Shouldn’t we focus on more important stuff like numbers, charts, and math? We...
30 Min
Global Macro Themes
Jun 2023
A Wild BART Appears
A BART is a charting pattern that is most often seen in the crypto markets. BART patterns are most frequently characterized by a sharp surge in the price of an asset, followed by a period of consolida...
10 Min
Financial Market Themes
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
Solo, Liquid, or Centralized: A Guide to Staking ETH
The launch of Ethereum's Shapella upgrade marks a significant moment that allows the withdrawal of staked ETH from the Beacon Chain, a feature that was previously unavailable. As highlighted in our ea...
16 Min
Liquid Staking
Jun 2023
May Gaming Roundup
Welcome to another edition of Delphi’s monthly Gaming Roundup! As always, we have curated the latest and greatest data and news from the past month to keep you updated with everything that’s going on...
18 Min
Gaming
Jun 2023
Exploring Web3's Implications for Multi-Billion Dollar In-Game Item Economies
As mobile gaming grew its share of the global games industry, representing roughly half of total revenue, the free-to-play (F2P) business was booming. Following a model of onboarding first and monetiz...
25 Min
Gaming
Jun 2023
Vitalik's Warning
Ethereum is known to be the most secure layer-1 blockchain. Part of the reason why it has attracted so much volume and liquidity is due to the security it can provide to applications that deploy on it...
7 Min
Staking
Jun 2023
Solana the Monolith
Solana is not just about slapping some expensive hardware on a blockchain and calling it a day, but rather, how do we optimize software to best take advantage of performant hardware?...
52 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Pro Crypto Insider Talks - May 2023
Delphi Co-founder & Head of Research, Kevin Kelly and Head of Delphi Labs, Jose Maria Macedo join Founder & CEO of Real Vision, Raoul Pal, for May 2023's edition of Crypto Insiders where they...
53 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Reddit Avatars: NFTs as Digital Identity
Reddit - the "front page of the internet" - has been revolutionizing the way people interact and share ideas since its inception in 2005. Renowned for its diverse communities, ranging from light-heart...
12 Min
NFTs
May 2023
Bitcoin - Back From the Future
For the first time in a while, Bitcoin's future is exciting with possible upcoming catalysts and innovations. Only time will tell if they lead to a positive renaissance on Bitcoin or fundamentally bre...
17 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Mass Adoption
Mass Adoption Last week, NFT project “Pudgy Penguins” announced the launch of Pudgy World, a blockchain-powered digital experience intended to […]...
6 Min
NFTs
May 2023
Market Note: INJ Ecosystem Fund Boost Has Precedent
The second half of the most recent bull market, colloquially named the "double bubble," was dominated by the "L1 Wars" narrative. The initial spark was Avalanche's announcement of "Avalanche Rush," a...
17 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Voltz, IPOR, and the Next Wave of Interest Rate Derivatives
Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in all of crypto. Interest rate projects have struggled mightily to attract liquidity, and seemed forgotten about t...
22 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
Lido's Game Theory
Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) enable users to swap ETH in return for a derivative token that represents staked ETH. LSDs let users bypass the frictions of staking ETH: (i) the technical know-how o...
5 Min
DeFi
May 2023