Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
203 documents
This article outlines factors to assess before depositing token pairs into a decentralized exchange liquidity pool. Liquidity providers receive a share of swap fees, generally represented by redeemable pool tokens, and some pools may also distribute…
This podcast recap discusses how AI agents may interact with crypto assets and decentralized applications, alongside a vision for regulated DeFi that connects conventional banking with self-custodied digital assets. The guest describes agents as systems that…
This weekly crypto market report assesses a recovery in prices by combining spot performance with trading volume, volatility, open interest, funding, order book depth, ETF flows, stablecoin issuance, and DeFi credit measures. It interprets rising prices…
This market snapshot reviews several digital-asset areas: centralized exchange share, spot price moves, futures long-short ratios, DeFi lending activity, and blockchain transaction patterns. It describes Binance losing exchange-volume share after regulatory…
The article outlines ways decentralized finance and smart contracts could alter financial institutions beyond offering new digital asset exposure. It describes decentralized data storage as a possible way to reduce reliance on centralized data centers, and…
This podcast recap discusses institutional participation in crypto, the launch of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, the more modest reception of Ethereum ETFs, and regulatory barriers to further products. It describes how financial advisers and smaller offices can…
This market update reviews spot exchange activity, Uniswap v3 pool volumes, DeFi lending, and Bitcoin network indicators. It highlights stablecoin-to-asset pools as a major source of Uniswap v3 trading volume, and proposes tracking new stablecoins’ pool…
This overview describes an interactive Moody’s data story examining prominent stablecoin depegs through dynamic charts. The reported episodes include Terra’s collapse, an FTX-related USDT depeg, USDC losing its peg amid stress in traditional finance, and a…
The article surveys possible uses of artificial intelligence in crypto trading and decentralized finance. It discusses robo-advisory, automated bots, strategy development and backtesting, risk assessment, arbitrage monitoring, sentiment analysis, predictive…
The webinar summary outlines how data and infrastructure providers support institutions working with digital assets. Its central points are that blockchain data is unusually transparent, institutional interest in blockchain and digitally native finance…
This market snapshot discusses three digital-asset themes: institutional Bitcoin adoption, prospective uses for autonomous AI systems in decentralized finance, and tokenization of real-world assets. Its Bitcoin analysis describes a sharp rise above $100,000…
This market newsletter combines digital-asset developments with indicators and market commentary from October 2024. It reports growth in OpenEden’s tokenized U.S. Treasury vault, contrasts Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF assets and flows, and describes a recovery…
The article explains stablecoins as crypto assets designed to track another asset, usually the US dollar, and distinguishes reserve-backed tokens from algorithmic designs. Reserve-backed tokens depend on the issuer holding assets intended to support…
The article explains why financial institutions need direct on-chain data alongside market data, then identifies four obstacles: many changing data sources, protocol differences, complex processing, and scarce specialist talent. It describes how smart…
This market snapshot interprets crypto conditions across derivatives, spot flows, order books, stablecoins, and DeFi lending. It describes continued long liquidations in BTC, ETH, and SOL, funding turning negative across major assets, and BTC–ETH correlation…
This podcast recap discusses Rated’s work on Ethereum proof-of-stake infrastructure data. Validator assessment uses real-time and historical measures such as uptime, efficiency, and protocol adherence to give operators context for improving performance. The…
This webinar recap reviews digital-asset market indicators around Q2 2024, covering Bitcoin exchange-traded fund flows, spot trading, DeFi lending, blockchain transfers, and tokenized real-world assets. It reports that Bitcoin ETF flows cooled in Q2, with…
The document explains how lending market metrics can help track activity across protocols and networks. It discusses total value locked (TVL), deposits and withdrawals, borrowing and repayments, liquidations, stablecoin use, and user activity. These measures…
The article outlines how Amberdata datasets can be accessed through Snowflake, Google Analytics Hub, and Databricks. It frames these integrations as a way for institutional researchers and traders to work with historical and fresh digital-asset data using…
This market snapshot links a sharp crypto price swing with changes in centralized exchange activity, DeFi lending flows, and miner behavior. It reports that spot trading volumes recovered after a brief decline, with Binance gaining share and Bybit trading…
This document introduces Curve as an automated market maker and lending protocol deployed on Ethereum and other layer 2 networks. Its pools can support multiple tokens, including tokens backed by underlying ERC-20 collateral. Multi-token pools may reduce the…
This report reviews digital-asset market developments in Q4 2023 and gives an outlook for 2024. It discusses token prices, circulating supply, market capitalization, Bitcoin spot-exchange share and volume, and activity across blockchain networks and DeFi…
This podcast overview introduces Panoptic, a decentralized protocol for minting, trading, and making markets in perpetual put and call options. The conversation is described as covering co-founder Guillaume Lambert’s path from physics into decentralized…
This market commentary surveys crypto conditions around the period following Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade. It describes a permit-signature scam risk: gasless token approvals can look like ordinary wallet signatures, making it difficult for users to recognize…