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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This article recaps remarks by Amberdata CEO Shawn Douglass in a podcast discussion about digital-asset data infrastructure, market behavior after the FTX collapse, and changing institutional preferences. It presents comprehensive blockchain and…
This market snapshot examines the surge in memecoin activity and its effects across centralized exchanges, futures, decentralized exchanges, lending markets, and blockchain networks. It connects demand for tokens such as PEPE and Bitcoin’s BRC-20 assets with…
The podcast describes Kettle Finance’s approach to bringing luxury watches onto a blockchain-based marketplace. Its proposed model combines third-party authentication, on-chain ownership records, global trading access, and loans against tokenized watches.…
This overview explains three exchange designs used for cryptocurrency trading: central limit order books (CLOBs), request-for-quote (RfQ) systems, and automated market makers. In a CLOB, buy and sell orders are collected and generally matched by price and…
The document introduces play-to-earn games, where players can receive cryptocurrency or NFTs for completing in-game activities. It describes how blockchain networks support tokenized game items that players may own, sell, or trade, and how some games use…
The article explains play-to-earn games as blockchain-based games that reward activity with tokens or NFTs that may be traded beyond the game. It outlines how a game built on a blockchain can assign digital identities to items, enabling players to hold,…
This market snapshot interprets late 2023 digital asset activity using spot volumes, Bitcoin on-chain profit measures, a price valuation indicator, decentralized exchange volumes, lending data, and network transactions and fees. It reports rising trading…
This dashboard description covers tokenized gold, silver, and platinum on Ethereum, alongside stablecoins. It outlines how to track token issuance, circulating supply, market capitalization, transfers, distinct senders and receivers, velocity, and holders.…
This overview surveys seven themes the article expects to influence crypto markets in 2025: regulatory developments, traditional finance’s engagement with DeFi, stablecoin use, tokenization of real-world assets, memecoins, AI and blockchain projects, and…
This report summarizes an institutional panel discussion about blockchain and digital assets. The speakers describe tokenization as a way to create potential liquidity and new exchange venues for assets that are difficult to sell, while smart contracts could…
The article introduces three areas of decentralized finance beyond lending: staking, asset management, and insurance. It explains how proof-of-stake networks reward validators for locking tokens, how delegation can let smaller holders participate, and how…
This overview explains three decentralized finance protocol categories: staking, asset management, and insurance. It describes proof-of-stake validators locking native tokens to help verify blocks and earn rewards, delegated staking for holders who cannot…
The article explains how stablecoins seek to hold a reference value and distinguishes supply-adjusting algorithmic designs from coins backed by fiat, commodities, or crypto assets. It describes several routes to a depeg: insufficient or illiquid reserves,…
This podcast recap summarizes an interview with Dakota’s founder about stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, institutional adoption, and crypto-oriented business banking. It presents stablecoins as a potential way for fintech firms and businesses to move…
This introductory guide distinguishes coins, which are native assets of blockchain networks, from tokens, which are issued through applications or services built on a blockchain. It describes coins as assets used for transactions, value storage, and network…
This overview introduces decentralized finance as blockchain-based financial services built from decentralized applications and smart contracts. It describes proposed advantages such as open access, user control of assets, interoperability, and reduced…
This survey report describes crypto holders’ experiences with fraud, theft, and common account or transaction mistakes. It says many respondents worry more about errors they might make themselves than attacks by others, and that security concerns have kept…
The document reviews stablecoin deposits and interest in DeFi lending protocols from 2020 through September 2023. It explains how deposits supply lending pools, while borrowers post collateral and pay interest; stablecoins make collateral values and…
The document explains Ethereum’s transition from proof of work to proof of stake through the integration of the Beacon Chain with the main network. Under proof of work, miners competed to validate transactions through computation; after the transition,…
This strategy monitors the same spot trading pair across two venues: one is an automated market maker decentralized exchange, and the other may be a centralized order-book exchange or another supported spot venue. When the price difference offers…
The article explains how Uniswap V3 liquidity providers allocate capital within chosen price ranges rather than spreading it across the full price curve. Concentrating liquidity can put more capital to work and increase fee earning while prices stay in…
This article outlines a planned redesign of Hummingbot Gateway, a service that connects trading clients to decentralized exchanges with different software stacks. It focuses on operational issues that can make blockchain trading unreliable, including…
This article explains Ethereum proof-of-stake and liquid staking tokens (LSTs), which let holders delegate ETH to a protocol and receive a token representing their staked position. That token can be used in DeFi, such as as lending collateral, improving…
This live dashboard describes a Web3 yield scanner that periodically reports lending and borrowing rates across Aave V3 assets and chains, estimated returns from looping deposits and borrowing subject to loan-to-value limits, fixed yields in Pendle markets,…