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Just 12 months ago, the lending and borrowing industry was robust. In retrospect, it was peak euphoria. Crypto lending is essentially banking but for the crypto world. Just like customers who earn interest on their savings at their banks, c
With the Shanghai upgrade around the corner, a new narrative has risen. Liquid staking derivatives on Ethereum have caught eyeballs among the crypto masses, but why? Today we look into why the unlock of Ethereum withdrawals has pushed this
Recently, Messari published a 168-pager Crypto thesis report for 2023 a few days before the end of one of crypto's most "eventful" years. Within the concise and in-depth report were their top 10 trends in DeFi for 2023, and today, we will b
Solana's price, decapitated. Solana's TVL, vaporised. Solana's network, down. So, where do we go from here? Is Solana dead? To answer this question, we have to look into Solana as a blockchain, its metrics, and all the FUD as to why some sa
For the purposes of the 2022 annual recap, there will be no meme coins/ stablecoins included. We will only focus on five top projects and how they performed this year. This year has been tough; we entered the year with a booming spirit, and
This may be the final episode of the entire FTX saga. For over a month, the whole crypto market has searched for the truth about this fiasco. While the only legacy that carries on is the repercussions of the crash, the findings between Caro
What if I told you there is a simple way to discover alphas before everyone else? In a space where knowledge is out there in an open-sourced nature, those with the best interpretation will be the eventual winners. Crypto data analyst Kofi r
SBF, Do Kwon, Su Zhu. These are just some of the names that have collectively cost investors billions of dollars. Be it outright fraud and deception in the case of FTX, or misguided bullishness and arrogance from 3AC and Terra, crypto has b
Did you know that the gaming industry is set to reach $256 billion by 2025? What's more surprising is that the gaming black market is already valued at a fifth of that today, at approximately $50 billion. WEMIXhttps://www.wemix.com/en is co
I was dabbling through DeFiLlama and found a new feature on one of its dashboards, "raises", and thought this may be the most significant readily available alpha yet. This DeFiLlama dashboard shows the amount raised for new or existing proj
Perhaps one of the most ridiculous turns of this bear market, Donald Trump’s latest announcement unveiled a 45,000 Trump NFT collection, urging followers to spend $99 on a poorly photoshopped version of trump. Beyond just the ridicule and t
Although highly unlikely, history has a way of either repeating itself or proving us wrong. In our previous article, we looked into the proof of reserves of Binance and found out that on the "clean reserve' scale, they are closing in on the
