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…
MEV: The Censorship Dilemma
For a technical introduction to MEV post-merge, check out our earlier report. The State of MEV Censorship Not all validators explicitly and purposefully propose blocks built by MEV relays. Many…
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…
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…
Cross-Chain Bridging – Current Risks & Future Development
Today, there are 180 national currencies. Each country has a different legal tender, and each economy settles its economic activities in its native currency. For example, most economic activities in…
Danksharding: Ethereum’s Scalability Killer
Following up my last piece (where I discussed the role sharding is playing in solving decentralized scaling), it’s time to discuss a novel model that could be the savior of…
True Network Value: A Novel Throughput Metric
At their heart, blockchains are trust machines. Evaluating trust, let alone a chain’s performance, is not a routine task. Amongst the many tools used to quickly evaluate a chain’s performance,…
Blockchain vs Traditional Databases
Chainlink Staking: v0.1 Roadmap
Introduction In our previous paper on oracles, we dove into the intricacies that make up these networks, both old and new. Among the oracles discussed was Chainlink, the decentralized oracle…