Reports21 results
ZK-bridges use ZKPs to improve performance of light-client bridges without introducing new trust assumptions. Polymer and zkBridge stand out with their use of parallelizable/recursive proofs. Others w...
18 Min
Bridges
Feb 2023
Finding a Home for Labs
Delphi Labs is Delphi’s protocol R&D arm, with a team of ~50 dedicated to building new Web 3 primitives. Previously, the team was focused on researching & developing protocols on Terra. In the...
48 Min
Inside Delphi
Sep 2022
Cosmos: The Evolution of IBC
Interchain Accounts & Interchain Security are the two biggest catalysts in the Cosmos ecosystem to date, greatly increasing cross-chain composability....
23 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jul 2022
GMX Users Increase, King Dollar, HOPping Thru L2s
Chart of The Day: GMX Users Increase Through Integrations  GMX is a DEX and margin trading platform that utilizes an […]...
5 Min
Macro & Markets
May 2022
veBAL Lockups, Governance House, & ThorChain's Revival
Chart of The Day: Balancer’s veBAL Driving Lockups Balancer recently launched the veBAL governance system. VeBAL is a unique ve-derivative […]...
7 Min
Cross-Chain
Apr 2022
Real Vision Pro Crypto AMA - 29 March 2022
Below is a recording and transcript of the Real Vision Pro Crypto AMA call our team did on Tuesday, March […]...
40 Min
AMM
Mar 2022
Ronin: Calm Before The Storm, As Axie Origin Approaches
Ronin is Sky Mavis’ answer to Axie Infinity’s scaling problem. Or rather problems, as there were more than a few […]...
11 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Mar 2022
Aave V3: A Multi-Chain Liquidity Protocol
Introduction On January 31st, 2023, we released Aave: A Review Of The Fundamentals, offering updated insights on the themes covered […]...
14 Min
Money Markets
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
Incentives Rule Everything Around Me: Multi-Chain Edition
Market Update After yesterday’s rally, BTC is having a breather as L1s take center stage again. Apart from L1s, DeFi […]...
4 Min
Infrastructure
Oct 2021
Out From Chaos Comes THORSynths
We're excited to provide a large update on THORChain, which we present in 3 parts. First, we share our brief assessment on the recent unfortunate exploit. Next, we analyze historical THORChain MCCN da...
21 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jul 2021
Multi-Chain DeFi, Terra's Scare, and DAI's Resilience
Multi-chain DeFi is growing, Terra's scare with UST has a silver lining, and Maker DAO's PSM hits $1 billion of liquidity,...
3 Min
DAO
May 2021
DeFi Rundown, Curve Captures the Long Tail, & Stablecoin Growth
Multi-Chain DeFi TVL, ETH DeFi Performance YTD, Meta Pools Push Curve's Liquidity Higher, DeFi Stablecoins Nearing $10 Billion Market Cap...
2 Min
DAO
May 2021
Wormhole: A Solana/Ethereum Bridge ?
Certus One has released Wormhole, a bidirectional bridge ERC-20 and SPL Token bridge between Ethereum and Solana....
5 Min
Infrastructure
Oct 2020
Fork Defense Strategies in DeFi
Competitive strategy is now critical to crypto projects and founders who aspire to build something valuable, defensible, and lasting in our space. A special Guest Post by Ian from the IDEO team!...
13 Min
Infrastructure
Sep 2020
DEX Wars and Aggregation Theory
Aggregation Theory by Ben Thompson describes how the internet changed value capture in business. We explore how this applies to DEXs....
5 Min
DeFi
Aug 2020
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2020
Infrastructure
Dec 2019
Infrastructure
Nov 2019