The Rise And Fall Of Crypto Lending: What Went Wrong

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, crypto users can choose to lend out their crypto assets to willing borrowers for a fee. […]

Are Liquid Staking Derivatives The Solution For Ethereum’s $19B Withdrawal?

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 narrative into one which cannot be missed. Before diving into the protocols leading the charge for […]

Key Takeaways From Messari’s Top 10 DeFi Trends In 2023

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 be taking a look at them and summarising key takeaways going into 2023. […]

Solana Is Down 95%, Is The World’s Fastest Blockchain Dead?

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 say the fastest blockchain is dead. Well, the first thing we have to […]

A 2022 Review Of The Top 5 Coins And What We Can Expect In The Coming Year

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 it almost felt like 2022 was going to be the year […]

10 Key Takeaways Of Caroline And Gary Ratting On SBF To The FEDs

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 Caroline and Gary ratting SBF to the FEDs may just put a […]

Stay Ahead Of The Curve By Tracking Trending Contracts On DeFiLlama And Dune Analytics

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 recently dropped a game changer of a dashboard optimised for querying short periods […]

Unpopular Opinion: We Should Continue To Trust Crypto Thought Leaders

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 been quick to outcast once prominent leaders – and rightfully so. After all, […]

How This CEO Wants To Solve The Gaming Black Market

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. WEMIX is coming to disrupt that. Founded in 2018 under parent company WEMADE, the blockchain gaming platform has […]

I Used DeFiLlama To Track 10 Projects Who Raised Millions In The Bear Market

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 projects in pre-seed, seed, round, or private rounds. Here’s an overview of the dashboard, with the […]

Donald Trump Once Said He Hates Crypto, Now Releases Cash Grab NFT Collection

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 the atrocity of it selling out within minutes, what are the actual implications of such an unprecedented […]

Should We Put A Countdown Timer For Binance?

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 90% mark. Today, we talk about the entirety of Binance’s FUD, but […]