After a miserable 2022 for risk assets, 2023 opened on the opposite foot. Risk assets rose considerably across the board, in large part due to recent increases in global liquidity driven by China’s PB...
Blockchain-based virtual land projects garnered industry-wide attention in late 2021/early 2022. The average price per NFT plot of land hit $18k in January 2022 and total secondary trading volume reac...
The explosion of interest in NFTs these past 2 years has led to a proliferation of blockchain platforms vying to become the go-to destination for NFT creation, issuance, and trading. Solana, with its...
DeFi options have failed to take off. While we can point to the success of dYdX as a blueprint for perpetuals, or GMX for synthetic margin trading, there is no single DeFi options venue that has achie...
In stark contrast to last month’s Web3 Gaming Roundup, January 2023 set the stage for what could potentially be a great Q1 for the sector. Many of the top gaming tokens have seen triple-digit growth o...
Recent increases in global liquidity have been a driving factor in this year's market rally. There is evidence supporting potential trend continuation in the coming weeks, as there are still multiple...
When playing a new game, the first thing people usually do is learn the rules and game mechanics. Sometimes there are very few rules and the mechanics are simple. Other times, the game is more dynamic...
Frax Finance is a household name for seasoned DeFi users. In the last year, they’ve launched Fraxlend and Fraxswap alongside several other products. This post will look at Frax’s newer product launche...
In our Year Ahead report for DeFi, we examined the thesis for so-called DeFi blue chips and their ability to bounce back from a tough year. Aave is one of those projects, and one that virtually everyo...
In our Year Ahead report, we mentioned access control/wallets as a major theme. This report will expand on the topic and look at the full picture from the perspective of wallet strategies, roadmaps, r...
Many had written off Solana as yet another hyped L1 narrative play from this cycle. However, the most recent rally has left many market participants sidelined and speechless. The “up only” regime on a...
Thales is leveraging the power of parimutuel markets to build easy-to-understand derivatives, prediction markets, and sports betting. This report will analyze what makes Thales unique from its predece...
Before the first murmurs of an “echo bubble” could be heard, LTC began its move higher while the broader market struggled to maintain its footing. Seemingly nothing was immune to the FTX implosion and...
Join this week's call with our research analysts to discuss crypto developer data, the echo bubble thesis, X2Y2's NFT lending growth, liquid staking derivatives, and more....
The issues that plagued centralized exchanges (CEX) in their infancy have still not been eradicated. In the grand scheme of things, we’ve made some vast improvements to CEX performance. Some are bette...