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Preparing For Shanghai
Since Ethereum's Beacon chain went live at the end of 2020, over 18M ETH or 15% of the total supply has been staked in a deposit-only staking system. In this report, we consider the implication of the...
7 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2023
NFT Photography and the Future of Digital Art
The ubiquity of smartphones and social media platforms has revolutionized visual storytelling, with photographs playing a central role in this transformation. NFTs have emerged as a potent resource fo...
24 Min
NFTs
Apr 2023
March Gaming Roundup
We have reached the end of the first quarter of 2023! In this month’s edition of the Gaming Roundup, we will take a look at the markets and how gaming assets have performed over the past three months....
14 Min
Gaming
Apr 2023
TreasureDAO: A Decentralized Gaming Ecosystem
TreasureDAO is the 5th largest entity on Arbitrum by transactions and log occurrences. This report will outline the past, present, and potential future for one of the most promising Web3 gaming ecosys...
30 Min
Gaming
Mar 2023
zkEVMs Launch on Mainnet
🔍 zkEVMs Launch on Mainnet Over the past few months, Optimism and Arbitrum have dominated the Ethereum layer-2 landscape. These […]...
6 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Mar 2023
Finding the Edge
Edge is a repeatable process in which a trader can expect to make money over time, net of costs and fees. In other words, edge can be thought of as a trading process with positive expected value. Expe...
24 Min
Financial Market Themes
Mar 2023
Braindrops: Pioneering the AI Art Movement
The world has been enthralled by AI this year, and for good reason; AI is a species-level shift that could shape the rest of our lives. Riding on this theme, AI art is poised to be one of the defining...
15 Min
NFTs
Mar 2023
Market Note: DeFi's Resurgence?
Price action following the COVID crash saw DeFi outperform pretty much every asset. Since then, DeFi has generally not shown any meaningful strength against the rest of the crypto market. That is, unt...
11 Min
Macro & Markets
Mar 2023
The Arbitrum Airdrop Is Finally Here
🔍 The Arbitrum Airdrop Is Finally Here Tomorrow, Arbitrum will launch the ARB token and airdrop 12.75% of its supply, […]...
9 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Mar 2023
USDC De-Pegs & Bitcoin Rallies
🔍 USDC De-Pegs & Bitcoin Rallies If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’re probably inundated with headlines spelling […]...
8 Min
Cash-Backed (Custodian) Stablecoins
Mar 2023
Pro Crypto Insider Talks - March 2023
Raoul Pal, Kevin Kelly, and Ash Bennington engage in a comprehensive discussion on the current state of the crypto market, stablecoins, and the global economy....
2 Min
Macro & Markets
Mar 2023
Avoiding the Real Banking Iceberg
We’ve been saying for months that access to funding is the biggest risk to the crypto industry this year. Never has that been more relevant than right now given the events of the last few days....
38 Min
Global Macro Themes
Mar 2023
Trader Joe's Novel Take on Concentrated Liquidity
Trader Joe’s LB introduced a novel innovation that created an alternative model of concentrated liquidity and provides more flexibility for LPs. Its unique implementation of a constant sum invariant w...
9 Min
AMM
Mar 2023
NFT Debrief - March 2023
Welcome to our monthly coverage of NFTs and the metaverse. This month: Bitcoin Ordinals, Cool Cats, and the meteoric rise of Checks NFTs....
20 Min
NFTs
Mar 2023
Policy Paper Series (Part 1): Reframing How We Look at a Crypto Legislative Solution
In the past twelve months, we have seen a flurry of policy papers reflecting the universal acknowledgment that we are at an impasse in the United States. We can universally agree that crypto is in nee...
35 Min
Policy
Mar 2023
Everybody Needs *******
Blockchain infrastructure can be broadly summarized in three verticals: scalability, privacy, and UX. In this post, we’re going to dive into privacy....
37 Min
Infrastructure
Mar 2023
Analyzing Market Behavior for Key Airdrops
Airdrops are one of the most sought-after events for users of on-chain projects. It’s the distribution of a protocol’s token, often to historical users. The aim is to reward loyal users and encourage...
17 Min
Asset Management
Mar 2023
Monthly Chartbook - Wishful Thinking
Investors are people, and they, too, underestimate the likelihood (and duration) of bad things happening. So far, 2023 is shaping up to be a case study in this kind of wishful thinking....
19 Min
NFTs
Mar 2023
Are Infinity Pools the Next Big Speculation Primitive?
Implementing leverage in crypto is not easy. Many current platforms use middle-term solutions or large off-chain components. Crypto leverage trading therefore lacks the composability and permissionles...
12 Min
AMM
Mar 2023
Botto: The Decentralized AI Artist
The field of generative AI has rapidly evolved in recent years and is already being used for a variety of different purposes. One of the most intriguing applications is in the realm of art. With the a...
16 Min
NFTs
Mar 2023