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 document explains how DAO founders can choose a legal structure by considering the project’s activities, potential liability and taxes, membership size and fluidity, governance, US connections, and available resources. It outlines options including…
The document summarizes a review of 63 blockchain-related experiments led by G20 central banks. It reports that 47% of the sampled projects were compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, across areas including central bank digital currencies,…
The document outlines proposed U.S. tax changes for digital assets, dividing them between congressional legislation and IRS guidance. Legislative priorities include taxing staking rewards when sold, creating a trading safe harbor for foreign investors,…
The document explains how proof-of-stake collateral and validator infrastructure can be reused to secure additional protocols, a model it calls shared security or restaking. It presents Symbiotic as a coordination layer in which network developers choose…
The document introduces Alloy, a Rust toolkit for Ethereum and other EVM networks, and explains features relevant to building bots, indexers, and applications. Its compile-time Solidity interface generation provides typed contract bindings and handles ABI…
This discussion examines how crypto tokens might support creators and online communities through digital merchandise, fan recognition, fundraising, and tradable claims. A token can represent a collectible or redeemable physical item while also serving as…
This report reviews publicly reported crypto and blockchain venture deals in Q2 2024, comparing deal activity, capital invested, valuations, stages, sectors, and company locations. Deal count edged down from Q1 while invested capital and median pre-money…
The report assesses how the 2024 election results might change U.S. digital-asset policy and institutional participation. It expects a more supportive executive branch and Congress to influence bank regulators, the SEC and CFTC, and future legislation on…
This report introduces decentralized autonomous organizations as blockchain based groups whose rules and operations are encoded in smart contracts. It traces the idea from early decentralized corporation proposals through The DAO’s 2016 launch and hack, then…
The article examines how stablecoin payment flows, onchain records, and smart contracts could support asset-backed lending with more efficient monitoring and enforcement. It contrasts earlier undercollateralized crypto lending, which relied on weak onchain…
This monthly update reports April and year-to-date returns for crypto hedge fund composites and subcategories, comparing them with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a broad crypto index. Fundamental funds had the strongest reported year-to-date performance, while…
Centrifuge proposed allowing eligible CFG holders to exchange tokens for tokenized company shares at a one-to-one rate. The plan would place larger holders directly on the share register and route smaller holders through a trust, while leaving conversion…
The article explains the gap between Cosmos’s original vision of a central Hub and the independent growth of application-specific chains. It describes how the Cosmos SDK supports specialized chains and how Inter-Blockchain Communication allows compatible…
This overview explains Solana’s design choices and the tradeoffs behind its performance. It describes hardware-oriented scaling, Proof of History combined with Proof of Stake, parallel transaction processing, and a unified architecture that supports…
The document introduces SeC FiT PrO, a framework for assessing operational risks before institutional investors interact with DeFi protocols. It scores protocols across six domains—security, compliance, finance, technology, protocol, and operations—using…
This report examines four publicly traded U.S. companies adopting Ethereum treasury strategies. It describes how they financed ETH purchases through equity offerings, private placements, and asset sales, and compares their holdings, staking activity, and…
This report surveys the development of Bitcoin Ordinals through 2023, covering inscription growth, wallets and marketplaces, token standards, rare satoshis, and recursive inscriptions. It compares image-based minting and trading activity with NFT activity on…
This monthly commentary reviews a June 2024 crypto market pullback, describing how news of planned Mt. Gox repayments coincided with long liquidations, lower Bitcoin perpetual futures open interest, and a temporary drop in funding rates. It interprets…
The report reviews crypto-collateralized borrowing in Q3 2025 across centralized lenders, DeFi applications, and collateralized stablecoin systems. It finds lending reached a new high, with DeFi applications accounting for a larger share than in the prior…
The article explains Impact Markets as instruments for expressing an asset’s expected value in a specified event scenario. It contrasts this with binary up-or-down prediction markets, which record whether a threshold or direction is reached but discard the…
This report assesses Ethereum roughly 100 days after its transition from proof of work to proof of stake. It frames the review around network issuance and token burning, block timing, validator performance, maximal extractable value, and the planned process…
The article uses India’s Unified Payments Interface as a case study in retail payment adoption and draws lessons for stablecoin distribution. It attributes UPI’s reach to accessible identity verification, low-friction onboarding, free QR-based merchant…
The document describes two proposed extensions to event prediction markets. Impact Markets would let participants trade an asset at a price conditional on a specified event, aiming to reveal how the market values an asset in that scenario and to offer more…
This report examines ways decentralized finance products seek to make non-fungible tokens easier to value, trade, and use as financial assets. It organizes the landscape around fractional ownership, NFT lending, investment groups, derivatives, and pricing…