Category: DeFi Research
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Polygon’s Embrace of ZK Testnet May Usher in Vibrant Season for Crypto
ZKSync’s Coming Mainnet Launch Underscores Mounting Activity for the Technology
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Exploring Ethereum’s On-Chain Activity After The Merge
Mechanics of Ethereum’s Blockchain Are Changing in a Proof of Stake World
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IntoTheBlock: Stablecoin Yields Reveal the Inner Workings of DeFi
Stablecoin Yields Mirror Speculative and Deleveraging Cycles
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The Center Will Not Hold: How Select Crypto Projects are Decentralizing
Part Two: Optimism, Hop and Loot Provide Key Lessons on the Future of Decentralization
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The Center Will Not Hold: How Decentralization is Reshaping Technology and Governance
Part One: A Convergence of Forces Disrupts the Logic of Centralization
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DEX Trading Volume is About to Drop Below CEX Volume for the First Time in Over a Year
After dominating during the bull run, decentralized exchanges have been losing ground to CEXs as trading volumes plunge.
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IntoTheBlock: How One DeFi Protocol is Sustaining Growth in the Bear Market
A Look at Ribbon Finance Shows Key Lessons on Revenue and TVL
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Contrasting The 2022 Market Crash To 2018’s Crypto Winter
This special report from DappRadar compares the 2018 crypto winter with the current six-month bear trend in an attempt to assess whether a crypto winter is ahead, and what the crypto industry can expect in the upcoming months.
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IntoTheBlock: Diving into Optimism and the Promise of Layer 2s
Speculation Mounts About Prices and Airdrops
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IOSG Report: A New Financial System Will Be Built on Rollups
A Deep Dive Into What Comes Next for DeFi
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How Blockchain Bridges Became Hackers’ Prime Targets
Nearly a billion dollars in crypto assets have been stolen from blockchain bridges in 2022.
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The USDN Fiasco Spotlights Economic Risk in DeFi
IntoTheBlock: There Are Other Threats Besides Exploits in DeFi
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Exclusive DappRadar Report: How Russia’s War and the West’s Response is Impacting Crypto
Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine is shaking up crypto in unprecedented ways.
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Decoding The NFT Black Box
A professional investor looks at NFTs as an emerging asset class.
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How Swapping and Staking on Curve Drives High User Engagement
In this primer, IntoTheBlock unpacks how Curve drives user engagement with staking and swapping.
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IntoTheBlock Report: How DEXs Use Incentives and Tokenomics to Generate Revenue
In this exclusive report, IntoTheBlock explores the financial structure of decentralized exchanges and how they produce revenue.
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Exclusive DappRadar Report: Why are NFTs Sidestepping the Crypto Crash?
An exclusive DappRadar report explores the separation between NFT valuations and the crypto market during the selloff.
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Exclusive Report: Solving the Riddle of the DAO with Colorado’s Cooperative Laws
DAOs should memorialize their cooperative structures in legal entities that protect members from liability, the authors say in this research piece.
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DappRadar Exclusive Report: The Metaverse May be an Old Idea But It’s Just Getting Started
After 30 years n gestation, the metaverse is finally emerging with citizens, economies, currencies, and millions of users.
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Concentrated Liquidity Increases Risk of Impermanent Loss, Bancor and IntoTheBlock Found
On-Chain Markets Update by IntoTheBlock Uniswap v3’s concentrated liquidity improved capital efficiency, but also amplified the risks of impermanent loss. Here is the breakdown of the profitability of liquidity providers and how it could potentially be improved. Recently an interesting paper was published by the Bancor team related to impermanent loss when providing liquidity on […]
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Smart Contract Platform NEAR Gains Momentum with Plan to Distribute 40M Tokens
This research piece explains NEAR, a smart contract protocol that uses a sharded public Proof-of-Stake blockchain.
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How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Became Ethereum’s Magic Bullets
Zero knowledge proofs are powerful cryptographic instruments that accelerate innovation on Ethereum, writes Alex Shipp.
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MakerDAO’s Update is a Pure Expression of DeFi 2.0
IntoTheBlock explores how MakerDAO’s update will allow it to interact with the secondary market with more control over DAI.
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Balancing Crypto’s Carbon Footprint with Its Social Utility is Key to Sustainable Finance
Global Digital Finance argues that digital assets’ carbon footprint is outweighed by its social utility.
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DappRadar Exclusive Report: Play-to-Earn Revolution Leaps Beyond Axie Infinity with New Games and Tokens
The play-to-earn model isn’t just driving the explosive growth of blockchain games like Axie Infinity: it’s also changing socieconomics.
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Fantom Deploys High-Speed PoS to Solve the ‘Blockchain Trilemma’
While the ever expansive world of decentralized finance is improving on its traditional counterpart the web3 is not without its problems. For example, to maintain an optimal state of functionality, commonly used assets like Bitcoin need to compromise between one of three core components: scalability, security, or decentralization. This concept is known as the “blockchain […]
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Axie Infinity is Up 223x This Year: Here’s the Skinny on What’s Propelling AXS
On-Chain Markets Update by Juan Pellicer, IntoTheBlock Since our last in-depth analysis of Axie Infinity almost two months ago the price of their AXS token has increased over 100% within a few weeks. The rally has multiplied the value of AXS by 223 times since January. The catalyst behind this latest bull-run may have been the Series […]
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NFTs Are Changing Everything But Are They Built to Last? (Hint: Some Are)
Are NFTs a bubble? That’s been the burning question ever since the first specimens of this breakthrough application on the Ethereum blockchain captured the imaginations of crypto heads and non-crypto fans alike. In this research piece for The Defiant, we will unpack this query as definitively as possible. And what better place to start than […]
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Looking for a Bullish Signal? Fidelity and HSBC Shrug Off Crypto Angst and Scale DeFi Offerings
In 2017, the ICO boom helped propel crypto assets to record levels only to fall almost as precipitously. With that history it is perhaps only natural that 2020-21’s extraordinary increase in activity has been greeted by mainstream attention, albeit with some hesitancy from media commentators who are yet to be convinced that the crypto-sphere is […]
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Exploring the Multi-Chain Universe Amid Incentives & Upgrades
On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock Smart contract platforms’ tokens have been amongst the top performers of 2021. While Ether has recorded a remarkable 330% return year-to-date, newer platforms such as Solana, Avalanche and Terra have seen their tokens grow over 1,000% in 2021. The rise in these platforms has been driven initially by […]