Analysis

During the first week of the year, Solana raked in less than 3% of the total fees across 11 major blockchains

Billions of dollars have piled into spot bitcoin ETFs in their first month and there’s little sign of slowing down

SEC troubles and potentially lower stablecoin yields make bitcoin trading a noticeably stable part of Coinbase’s business

Web3 companies are decentralizing the software audit process with bug bounties and cold hard cash

The correlation between Zhao’s “gm” and bitcoin’s price has been so strong that it was possible to base a dollar-cost averaging strategy around the former Binance CEO’s Twitter timeline

Yet more proof that we’re living in a simulation

With a 50,000 USDC payment, the 1inch DAO executes an on-chain vote to hire a lawyer

Only a handful of cryptocurrencies have ever been worth more than $100 billion — tether could be next

Spot bitcoin ETFs would officially bring some of Wall Street’s most powerful players to crypto

Crypto loves little more than hot market-moving gossip, and whether it’s real or fake news doesn’t seem to matter

The $650 million locked in Blast’s deposit contract hearkens back to 2020, when Ethereum’s Beacon Chain got under way

It’s a strange situation to be in where the banks are more bullish than the degens

What’s the future of crypto? Based on the first day of Permissionless, it might be a suit and tie

Walden sees more DeFi protocols taking the unbundled approach to building their marketplaces

Lido has a lead that looks ‘very difficult to beat’ on Ethereum, but doesn’t seem to have traction on other chains

While optimistic rollups rely on “socioeconomic games,” Nailwal says, zero knowledge proofs instead rely on mathematics

An ETF offers tax advantages and investment opportunities like Roth IRAs, Santos says

When you find yourself in a hole, just stop digging

ETFs will change the “aura of acceptance” around crypto, says Shaughnessy

The Web3 game is different because “everything is monetizable”

Barraford says the protocol isn’t aimed at “degens,” but for those who want to improve their quality of life using crypto assets as collateral

Gunter acknowledges that there are “no perfect solutions” to the problem of MEV

Unlike Ethereum, Solana has allowed staked withdrawals since “day one”

While the general partner at Castle Island Ventures prefers to use USDC, he understands why people choose Tether