In our recent report on Nexus, we discussed the opportunity and importance of smart contract insurance to hedge technical risk. There are other forms of risk in need of mitigation as well though, and...

The composable nature of Ethereum begets the layering of defi primitives and assets. One clear, but a generally underappreciated example of this is smart’ stablecoins. While catalyzed by the yield far...

Shroom Finance proposes to be a 100% community owned DeFi protocol, governed through a DAO, that focuses on in-game asset minting, launches, and trading. The platform could ultimately become a useful...

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....

Financial markets are increasingly driven by global policy rather than underlying fundamentals. Elevated intermarket correlations between major asset classes puts financial markets on fragile ground,...

We propose a comprehensive, long-term oriented model that charts a sustainable path forward for the community heading into the mainnet launch of the PowerIndex....

Pickle is a new protocol with the basic goal of using farming incentives and strategies to bring stablecoins back to their pegs. This strategy is cycle agnostic and can generate alpha in DeFi bull or...

While moats are crucial to long-term value accrual and sustainability, DeFi’s open, permissionless nature makes it difficult to establish moats due to the possibility of forking. We explore four unfor...

Unlike other NFT projects, rarity is not fixed in the Aavegotchi universe. It is constantly fluctuating based on a number of inter-woven dynamics. Your ultra-rare NFT might become less rare the follow...

In this report, we dig into Bitcoin’s outlook amidst an uncertain macro backdrop. We unpack notable long-term miner, exchange, and holder base metrics, as well as touch on where Bitcoin could move in...

Bitcoin flirts with a breakout while market risks begin to surface....

In this report, we analyze the increased usage on Ethereum and explain the impacts of the continuation of yield farming and experimentation on various sectors ranging from DEXs to stablecoins. We also...

After much anticipation, Uniswap finally released its protocol token, UNI, late last night. Through its use of retroactive rewards, virtually every DeFi user instantly became a member of the Uniswap c...

Percent Finance has launched a fork of Compound that features a 20M hard-capped PCT supply and aggressive yield farming issuance rewards....

Last month, our own Kevin Kelly was asked to write a contributor piece for Global Macro Investor, Raoul Pal’s flagship research service. The report is packed with charts and interesting perspective on...

The best way to learn in this space is to participate. Here’s a follow up to our proposal for PowerPool, while also diving into our thought process behind it....

Sushiswap has garnered significant attention in the market as the decentralized exchange, with a native token SUSHI, has successfully completed its migration from Uniswap....

In the context of the recent market drop and macro climate, we take a step back to fundamentally understand DeFi’s long-term thesis, yield farming, and where we are in the cycle....

As mentioned in previous Daily’s, Perpetual Protocol plans to list on their $PERP token on a Balancer liquidity bootstrapping pool (LBP). This will be the first Initial Dex Offering (IDO) on an LBP -...

Bitcoin has fallen ~11% since Tuesday, putting it on pace for its worst two-day stretch since the second week of May. The latest DeFi craze was arguably overdue for a pullback, but bitcoin’s slide ind...