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.
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The article introduces total value locked (TVL), active users, and network infrastructure as measures for examining blockchain ecosystem growth. It describes TVL as the value held in smart contracts and associates higher TVL with liquidity and activity,…
This guide surveys projects on Coinbase’s Base network, grouping them across AI, decentralized exchanges, lending, fixed income, and meme coins. It presents Base’s Ethereum compatibility, low fees, and Coinbase-linked onboarding as factors supporting…
The article examines BONK’s planned token burn and its place in the Solana ecosystem. It presents burns as a supply-reduction mechanism whose market effect may be limited in direct economic terms, while attention and community enthusiasm can make the event a…
The guide outlines common ways projects distribute tokens, including rewards for holding assets, testnet participation, staking, liquidity provision, and other community activity. It explains that eligibility rules vary and may include token balances or…
The guide explains the difference between custodial wallets, where a provider controls the keys, and self-custody wallets, where the user controls them. It also distinguishes software wallets from hardware devices, which keep keys offline. The setup steps…
The document describes Hyperliquid as a decentralized perpetual futures exchange built on its own Layer 1 blockchain. It emphasizes a fully on-chain order book, claimed throughput above 200,000 transactions per second, and 0.2-second block times as features…
The document describes STON.fi as a decentralized exchange on TON, outlining token swaps, liquidity provision, staking, and yield farming. It reports platform activity and a Series A funding round, then lists planned development including concentrated…
The article compares decentralized exchange activity across Solana, Ethereum, and BNB Chain, reporting that Solana exceeded Ethereum in 30-day DEX volume while remaining behind BNB Chain. It attributes Solana’s activity to low fees, throughput, and ecosystem…
The document reviews decentralized exchanges, from peer-to-peer trading to automated market makers that use liquidity pools instead of order books. It also describes perpetual DEXs as venues for leveraged exposure through perpetual futures. Institutional…
The document surveys stablecoins’ role in crypto trading and their potential expansion into payments and decentralized finance. It describes their use as fiat-linked assets that traders can use to hedge crypto volatility, and gives figures for their market…
The document introduces Toncoin and the TON blockchain, describing proof-of-stake consensus, dynamic sharding, and cross-chain bridges. It explains how Telegram’s integrated wallet aims to simplify access by letting users send, receive, and stake Toncoin in…
The document reports that Itaú is exploring a stablecoin while awaiting Brazil’s central bank consultation on digital currencies. It places the proposal within the bank’s broader digital asset activity, including participation in DREX, a wholesale central…
The document describes Plasma as a proposed Bitcoin sidechain for stablecoin transfers, combining claimed Bitcoin settlement security with Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility. It presents fee-free transfers as a target use case for frequent small…
The document introduces decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), where people contribute hardware or other resources to shared services and may receive project tokens. It surveys examples across storage, GPU compute, blockchain data indexing,…
The document compares two Web3 infrastructure roles. Chainlink supplies external data to smart contracts through decentralized oracle networks, while The Graph organizes blockchain data into subgraphs that developers can query. It describes their…
The document outlines Psy Protocol’s proposed approach to blockchain throughput: client-side zero-knowledge proofs, a horizontally scalable state architecture, and a Proof-of-Useful-Work consensus mechanism. It characterizes this consensus as collaborative…
The document describes Zora’s model of issuing ERC-20 tokens linked to creators and their social media content. It presents Creator Coins as a way to connect content, audience participation, and trading, with creators potentially benefiting from trading…
Liquid staking lets users stake crypto assets while receiving tokens that represent their staked positions. Those tokens can remain tradable or be used as collateral and in other DeFi strategies, potentially combining staking rewards with access to…
This guide presents a practical checklist for diagnosing why a crypto wallet will not connect to a decentralized application. It recommends checking basic connectivity, confirming that the wallet is set to the network the application supports, and looking…
The document explains how blockchain platforms and smart contracts can support crowdfunding by reducing reliance on intermediaries. It describes direct fundraising from global communities, with code potentially automating fund distribution, milestone…
This article examines how a high-profile trader’s activity can shape attention around Solana meme coins, using Unipcs and BONK as its central examples. It describes meme coins as speculative assets whose prices may be influenced by community activity, viral…
The article describes Aave DAO’s approval to expand onto Aptos, a blockchain using the Move programming language, and frames the decision as Aave’s first deployment beyond EVM-compatible networks. It reports that Aave V3 was deployed on the Aptos testnet…
The document presents the XUSD depeg as a case study in how operational losses and leveraged strategies can undermine a stablecoin. It attributes the crisis to a reported loss by an external fund manager, recursive borrowing and reinvestment that raised…
The document explains how crypto projects use airdrops to attract early users, raise awareness, and encourage participation, and how staking can make eligibility depend on longer-term engagement. It presents utility, governance, network security, and…