Optimistic Rollups

In this episode of Check the Chain, Ceteris and Jordan examine Arbitrum's $ARB token airdrop and assess the on-chain effects of USDC's temporary depegging on DeFi protocols. They also explore Thales' March Madness event, where users mint their tournament bracket as a soulbound NFT and earn a share of the prize pool.

Check the Chain is our new DeFi and Infrastructure premium livestream with analysis from Research Associate, Ceteris and Research Analyst, Jordan Yeakley. They deep dive into the data and walk through the hottest on-chain trends. This week they focus on BASE, Coinbase's new rollup.

🔍 Base by Coinbase Last week, Coinbase launched the testnet for Base, a layer-2 network built using Optimism’s open-sourced OP […]

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Chart of The Day: Optimism Causes Spike in L2 Settlement With Optimism’s $OP token launch, the L2’s activity has spiked […]

This report dives into the intricacies of Optimism's airdrop, novel governance, retroPGF's funding mechanics, and how to get a piece of future incentives.

The Power of Free Governance Tokens ENS registrations this month did laps over average monthly registrations since 2019. Whether this […]

Optimism might still be in its infancy, but Uniswap V3 and Synthetix are preparing it for prime time.

November & December edition of Delphi's Research Recap report includes the bull case for bitcoin in 2021 & beyond, in-depth analysis and much more of our team's top content.

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 .