Securitization brought about the centralization of equity and fixed-income assets. Real-world asset tokenization emerged as a hot topic amid the crypto bear market in 2022, an approach poised to leverage…
EigenLayer: The Restaking Collective
Bitcoin pioneered decentralized trust. It was effectively the first monolithically designed blockchain, creating a fixed consensus protocol with limited programmability on top. From there, Ethereum introduced the modular blockchain, enabling…
Crypto Wallets: The Drivers of Mass Adoption
Your debit card does not hold your money. It only authorizes your bank account to send transactions to the banking system database. Similarly, your crypto wallet does not hold your…
Aptos vs Sui
Introduction After years of seeking regulatory compliance, Diem, a cryptocurrency payment project from Facebook/Meta, ended abruptly in 2022. Its assets were sold off, including the underlying blockchain network. In its…
Creating the App-Chain Internet: Avalanche Subnets vs. Cosmos 2.0
Introduction Before the internet, computers had no method for transmitting data to other computers. Once computers could transmit data through a common language, or protocol, the internet rapidly expanded. The…
Growing up with Kujira
Key Take-Aways Kujira was initially launched as ORCA, a Terra-native liquidation platform focusing on liquidations on Anchor Protocol, and was rebuilt as a semi-permissioned Cosmos SDK blockchain in July 2022,…
Arbitrum Nitro: Fueling Scalability
It is often said that innovative products get built in bear markets. This summer was a far cry from 2017’s “DeFi Summer”, but major developments in the layer 2 front…
Move With Sui
Introduction With the Solana and Nomad hacks over the last week, the demand for a secure and scalable blockchain has become increasingly apparent. Our previous report discussed Aptos, a blockchain…
Mina: The Succinct Blockchain
About a decade into the blockchain industry’s development, early adopters realized that a hidden form of centralization was taking place. As a chain grew utilization, it became longer, which decreased…
The Token Economy – Introducing a Framework for Token Policy
When discussing and analyzing project tokenomics, investors tend to focus on three main areas: – Token distribution & allocation– Token…