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The Evolution of RWA Trading Onchain: Variational Swaps
·Deep DivesTrading

The Evolution of RWA Trading Onchain: Variational Swaps

Perpetual futures (perps) have become one of the strongest instruments for digital asset trading.

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Solving the Cold-Start Problem in Fixed-Rate Lending
·Deep DivesDeFi

Solving the Cold-Start Problem in Fixed-Rate Lending

This excerpt is from our research on Fixed-Rate Lending: Market Structure and Protocol Design, highlighting new and emerging designs in the category.

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The Ethena Week, Crypto Cards Hack, Solana Disinflation Doubled and Robinhood ATH Activity
·DeFiMarkets

The Ethena Week, Crypto Cards Hack, Solana Disinflation Doubled and Robinhood ATH Activity

PLUS: Stablecoins beyond USD, Fomo ATH Revenue, Kamino Fixed Rate, Morpho In-Kind Redemptions, and more

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Markets UP, TradeXYZ’s new competitor Entropy, Kinetiq is back, and CLARITY soon?
·L2sOptions

Markets UP, TradeXYZ’s new competitor Entropy, Kinetiq is back, and CLARITY soon?

PLUS: HyperEVM DEX activity, Ethena basis trade exposure, Fomo, and Lighter Robinhood instance.

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The Expanding Business Model of Blockchains
·L2sDeep Dives

The Expanding Business Model of Blockchains

Selling blockspace is no longer a defensible business for blockchains.

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The Birth of Bitcoin-Native Finance: Turning Idle BTC into Productive Capital
·Deep DivesMarkets

The Birth of Bitcoin-Native Finance: Turning Idle BTC into Productive Capital

The Birth of Bitcoin-Native Finance: Turning Idle BTC into Productive Capital

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The Broken Link between Protocol Revenues and Token Performance
·Deep DivesMarkets

The Broken Link between Protocol Revenues and Token Performance

Since the beginning of the year, crypto protocols have cumulatively made $7.42 billion in revenue.

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The New Security Bar for Onchain Finance
·PrivacyDeep Dives

The New Security Bar for Onchain Finance

Private Today, Durable Tomorrow

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Prediction markets as option-like instruments
·OptionsDeep Dives

Prediction markets as option-like instruments

This article is an excerpt from our research on The Renaissance of Onchain Options, mapping the expansion of options (and prediction markets) as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them, published in collaboration with BlockScholes.

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Putting RWAs to work in DeFi
·RWAsDeFi

Putting RWAs to work in DeFi

The growth of RWAs has led to over $32 billion of assets flowing onchain.

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Options from a Builder’s Perspective
·OptionsMarkets

Options from a Builder’s Perspective

A Gap Analysis with Interviews from Rysk, Derive, Panoptic, and GammaSwap.

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The Rebirth of Onchain Options: An Ecosystem View
·OptionsDeep Dives

The Rebirth of Onchain Options: An Ecosystem View

This article is an excerpt from our research on The Renaissance of Onchain Options, mapping the expansion of options (and prediction markets) as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them, published in collaboration with Block Scholes.

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