Reports240 results
The Curious Case of Fully Diluted Valuations
In this piece, I touch on the intricacies behind fully diluted valuations and why understanding them early in an asset’s lifecycle can help guide better decisions based off risk/reward....
8 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2020
Looking in The Mirror
In this piece I explore the present and future of Mirror, a synthetic assets protocol focused on real world assets....
13 Min
DeFi
Dec 2020
'Tis The Season
With the current tax year coming to a close, what can we expect for the start of 2021? Let's dive in and analyze the historic seasonality of BTC and ETH as we attempt to answer that question....
3 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Dec 2020
Layer 2s: Betamax vs VHS?
This first mover advantage combined with simple onboarding and backing could give Optimism enough adoption by the time that zero knowledge proof solutions are sufficiently mature that the network effe...
6 Min
ZK-Rollups
Nov 2020
The Shift to Layer 2: A Potential Disruption Catalyst for the AMM Ecosystem
Layer two solutions such as optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups promise reduced latency and cost, but these present a further liquidity fragmentation problem as AMMs will need to launch copies of th...
5 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Nov 2020
Polkadot’s DeFi Stack
Polkadot was one of 2020’s most anticipated mainnet launches. Despite launching in May 2020, the Web 3 Foundation – which developed Polkadot – has been hard at work with other teams to create an ecosy...
1 Min
DeFi
Nov 2020
? Best of Delphi Research (Oct. 2020)
Keeping up with content these days has become increasingly hard, which is why we’re excited to announce our new monthly Delphi Research Recap! From now on, we’ll be releasing a monthly digest highligh...
1 Min
Stablecoins
Nov 2020
? Best of Delphi Research (Oct. 2020)
Keeping up with content these days has become increasingly hard, which is why we’re excited to announce our new monthly Delphi Research Recap! From now on, we’ll be releasing a monthly digest highligh...
1 Min
Stablecoins
Nov 2020
Ethereum Ecosystem Analysis
In this report, we take a look at how the Ethereum ecosystem is holding up in light of the DeFi cool down and the market cycle rotation of alts into BTC with the favorable macro environment. We dive i...
1 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Nov 2020
Signal: Trustless Curation with The Graph
The Graph’s incentive model iterates on comparable incentivised prediction/curation models from Steemit, prediction markets, Aragon Court and many more. Such models are enabled by token economic desig...
6 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2020
Bitcoin and DeFi are Symbiotic
The recent Bitcoin price rise has sucked the air out of alts and also brought back to the fore tensions between the Bitcoin and DeFi communities. In this post, we argue that these tensions are short-s...
8 Min
AMM
Oct 2020
It Might Soon Be Flow Time
Keep an eye on Flow as they leverage their unique market insights into creating a network specifically for open worlds. If they can build upon their early momentum in the partnerships domain, then the...
9 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2020
Wormhole: A Solana/Ethereum Bridge ?
Certus One has released Wormhole, a bidirectional bridge ERC-20 and SPL Token bridge between Ethereum and Solana....
5 Min
Infrastructure
Oct 2020
Keep’s tBTC: Re-entering the Race
On the back of Keep Network re-launching tBTC, we take a look at the latest developments and what to expect given the high demand for tokenized BTC on Ethereum....
6 Min
Layer 1 / L1
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
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
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
The State of Ethereum 2020
Our inaugural monthly Ethereum Ecosystem Analysis report - special edition for ETH's 5th birthday. We dig into the Ethereum ecosystem led by DeFi and unpack the latest on the road to Eth 2.0....
1 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Is FTX's Serum The DeFi Cure?
We look at FTX's Serum Project launch and the effect this may have on the broader DeFi space...
5 Min
Infrastructure
Jul 2020
Curve: Hypergrowth Stablecoin Exchange
Volume on Curve has picked up, in part due to yield farming activities....
6 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020