Ethereum and DeFi Tracking Sentiment via Liquidity Pools Volatility has returned to digital assets markets, with performance of ETH and many tokens experiencing outsized drawdowns. Derivatives markets are suggesting liquidity continues to move higher up the risk curve. We also deep dive into how liquidity pools provide market information.
Ethereum and DeFi Is DeFi Back in Business? Regulatory conditions in 2023 have been a tug-of-war between positive and negative news, with altcoins and DeFi tokens being most heavily impacted. With MKR and COMP experiencing significant out-performance in recent weeks, we explore how we can extract information from changes in DEX liquidity.
The Week Onchain Newsletter The Surge in Liquid Staking Since the Ethereum Shanghai upgrade, a very clear market preference for liquid staking tokens has emerged. Lido's stETH maintains an impressive dominance, with DeFi capital flows suggesting it has become a preferred collateral asset.
Ethereum and DeFi Risk-Off Capital Rotation While digital asset prices have remained stagnant in recent months, several indicators point towards a risk-off rotation of capital taking place beneath the surface. Volumes have dried up, and investors are increasingly expressing a preference for stablecoin capital.
Ethereum and DeFi Dealing With The DeFi Downtrend DeFi on the Ethereum is a centrepiece of the ecosystem, with DeFi protocols being a destination for tokens, stablecoins and NFTs alike. However, DeFi tokens remain in a multi-year, and relentless bearish trend. In this piece, we uncover why this may be.
Ethereum and DeFi Post-Shanghai: What Really Happened We previously simulated the potential economic outcomes of ETH withdrawals enabled by the Shapella upgrade. In this edition, we will examine what actually happened to the 1.55M withdrawn ETH, and how stake has reshuffled between stakers, staking service providers, and sell-side pressure.
Ethereum and DeFi Simulating Shanghai Sell-side: Investigating the Ethereum Unlock The highly anticipated Shanghai/Capella hard fork is scheduled to take place on 12-April-2023, which enables withdrawals of staked ETH. In this piece, we establish cohorts of stakers, and assess the potential sell-side pressure which may occur due to the unlock event.
The Week Onchain Newsletter The Merge: A Feat of Engineering This week saw the successful deployment of one of the most impressive feats of engineering in the blockchain industry: The Ethereum Merge. We explore it as it happened, on-chain.
Ethereum and DeFi Before the Merge: Analysing the Ethereum Beacon Chain With the Ethereum Merge on the horizon, we dive into Ethereum a suite of new metrics which describe Proof-of-Stake consensus, and profile the performance of the Beacon Chain since genesis.
Market Pulse Market Pulse: ETH 2.0 Stakers Are Underwater The Ethereum 2.0 upgrade is one of the most anticipated, and most watched events in digital asset industry. However, with staked ETH locked up, and market prices declining over 75%, the vast majority of stakers are now firmly underwater on their position.
Ethereum and DeFi The Great DeFi Deleveraging The Ethereum DeFi market is undergoing a dramatic deleveraging, with over $124B in capital flushed out in just six weeks. The Ethereum investor base is now heavily underwater on spot positions, and is locking in historically large realized losses.
Product A Short History of the Etherverse We deep dive into Ethereum's most prominent use cases by quantifying gas consumption across major token, protocol, and transaction categories. Our analysis shines a light on the complexity and ever-evolving nature of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: DeFi Valuations Dislocate As a predominantly leverage driven correction hits the market, we continue to see expansion in DeFi protocol usage, whilst token valuations struggle to keep pace.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: What's Next for DeFi? NFTs continue to command an impressive lead in Ethereum ecosystem attention. We explore whether this attention is leaking back into the DeFi sector.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Hints of a Multichain Future Interest in alternative smart contract chains hits a new stride in the past weeks, as the prices of Avalanche, Solana and Terra explode higher.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: The Battle for Attention DeFi flirts with renewed growth as NFTs lead capital back into the Ethereum ecosystem.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Hunting for Value A framework for finding value in DeFi governance tokens.
Ethereum and DeFi NFTs and Gaming Lead the ETH Rally We map out the basics of the NFT space, and assess the volume and demand metrics describing its meteoric growth.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Exploring the Sushi Ecosystem As the DeFi market continues to demonstrate a risk off appetite, we embark on a deep dive assessment of the fundamentals and performance of the Sushi project.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Adjusting to the New Normal As DeFi continues its downward move, we present a short-term bearish but medium-term bullish case.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Finding Alternative Sources of Yield As crypto continues its sideways walk, finding alternative sources of yield become attractive in an environment of depressed rates.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: DeFi Showing Signs of Life Governance tokens rebound as pockets of DeFi show resilience.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Experiments in Money and Value DeFi's reliance on USD presents a tangled web of risk. Is DeFi on a path to create something better/new, or is DeFi destined to be an incremental improvement to legacy finance?
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Activity on DeFi Stalls Despite activity on Ethereum DeFi stalling, protocol liquidity and product releases continue to drive the ecosystem forward.
Ethereum and DeFi DeFi Uncovered: Does DeFi Outperform ETH? We asses how the risk-adjusted performance of active and passive DeFi strategies compare to the benchmark of holding spot ETH.
