Reports120 results
DYDX Valuation Analysis & DEX Perps Comparison
Self-custody and censorship resistance are seldom the deciding factors for the average user selecting a crypto exchange. The collapse of FTX created a window of opportunity that DEXs have thus far fai...
40 Min
Derivatives
Jul 2023
Voltz, IPOR, and the Next Wave of Interest Rate Derivatives
Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in all of crypto. Interest rate projects have struggled mightily to attract liquidity, and seemed forgotten about t...
22 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
Level Finance's Success and Sustainability
Level Finance is an oracle-based margin and spot trading decentralized exchange (DEX) that emerged following the success of GMX. Its growth has been remarkable since launching in 2023, achieving volum...
12 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
Analyzing Leverage Ratios and Altcoin Price Movements
Leverage is a double-edged sword, and is frequently misunderstood in the realm of crypto trading. While it can act as a profit multiplier for disciplined traders, it simultaneously serves as the harbi...
17 Min
Derivatives
May 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
Monthly Chartbook - Uncertainty Reigns Supreme Post-FTX Collapse
Has anything changed on the macro front given the macro-driven bear market? This month, the answer is…we’re getting closer....
19 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2022
Monthly Chartbook - Inflation Cooperates, But Is It Enough?
This month’s Monthly Chartbook focuses on the macro outlook, market structure & on-chain observations, L1s, L2s, & DeFi analysis, and an NFTs & gaming sector breakdown....
20 Min
Macro & Markets
Nov 2022
Monthly Chartbook - Falling Out of the Merge
This month’s Monthly Chartbook focuses on the macro outlook, market structure & on-chain observations, L1s, L2s, & DeFi analysis, and an NFTs & gaming sector breakdown....
21 Min
Macro & Markets
Oct 2022
The Path Forward for DeFi Fixed Income and Yield Tokens
Introduction Since early 2021, crypto derivatives have taken off at a wild pace. But the success of DeFi derivatives’ has […]...
16 Min
Derivatives
Aug 2022
FTX Overtakes Coinbase, Tarot Optimism Pools, Decentralized Derivatives
Chart of The Day: FTX Exceeds Coinbase on BTC Spot Volume Trades Since the middle of May, FTX’s aggregated daily […]...
7 Min
Derivatives
Jun 2022
Convex Amassing Frax, Macro Trend Reversals, & On-Chain Derivatives
Chart of The Day: Convex Now Owns 10% of Circulating Frax Frax is the first fractional algorithmic stablecoin protocol that […]...
6 Min
Derivatives
Feb 2022
Vega Protocol Update: Evaluating Value Accrual
Earlier this month, we published a deep dive on Vega Protocol, one of the most ambitious attempts to build an […]...
9 Min
Spot Exchange
Feb 2022
Cheap Gas, DAO Updates, & DeFi Perps Plunge
Chart of The Day: Gas Is On Sale! Are you looking to move funds around or claim yields? Now’s a […]...
4 Min
Stablecoins
Feb 2022
Delphi Office Hours Call (February 9th, 2022)
We recently hosted our Delphi Office Hours call on February 9th....
1 Min
Derivatives
Feb 2022
Delphi Office Hours Call (January 19th, 2022)
We recently hosted our Delphi Office Hours call on January 19th....
1 Min
Derivatives
Jan 2022
Market Lull Shifts Focus to Fundamentals [Chartbook]
Market Follows Weak January Playbook The new year picked up right where it left off at the end of 2021, […]...
18 Min
DeFi
Jan 2022
Option Skews, Ribbon's Divergence, & Transactional Traction
Option Skews Don’t Look Too Hot Implied volatility for near-term options are skewed towards puts, indicating that market participants have […]...
3 Min
DeFi
Dec 2021
A Post Mortem of Last Week's Flash Crash
The Great Deleveraging Leveraged longs took a senseless beating over the last week — and it was perhaps overdue. BTC’s […]...
5 Min
DeFi
Dec 2021
ETH & BNB Hold Strong, Options Weakness, & Liquidity Concerns
An Unlikely Winner When it rains in crypto, it pours. And while BTC holding up well isn’t a surprise, seeing […]...
4 Min
Infrastructure
Nov 2021
Examining the Design and Traction of GMX's Hybrid DEX
The DEX space is rife with innovative designs that enable efficient swaps across a multitude of assets. One of the […]...
13 Min
Derivatives
Nov 2021