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 weekly review covers several crypto-market themes, including relative performance and volatility among exchange tokens, Bitcoin’s price and spot activity, and investment and business developments in NFTs and blockchain gaming. It cites reported weekly…
The article introduces zero-knowledge proofs as a way to demonstrate that a statement is valid without disclosing the underlying information. It distinguishes interactive proofs, which involve exchanges between prover and verifier, from non-interactive…
The article reviews factors associated with Solana’s sharp rise in late 2023: favorable public comments about the chain, the launch of SPL-20 image inscriptions, regulatory approval for Paxos to issue a stablecoin on Solana, and a shift toward more…
This article reviews Bitget Token’s reported 2024 price performance and attributes its rise to ecosystem utility, market dynamics, and community participation. It describes a planned reduction in supply through a large token burn, followed by quarterly…
This article evaluates Ethereum against familiar functions and attributes of money, including durability, portability, divisibility, fungibility, scarcity, stability, and acceptability. It describes ETH as a digital asset usable for online transfers and…
The article introduces centralized finance (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) as different ways to provide financial services. CeFi relies on institutions and intermediaries operating within established regulatory structures. DeFi uses blockchains and…
The document describes Grvt as a self-custodial on-chain platform that combines earning, investing, spot trading, and derivatives trading around one account balance. Its central concept is capital composability: deposited funds can serve different purposes,…
The article explains Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin mechanism, in which supply adjustments between UST and LUNA were intended to maintain a dollar peg. When UST fell below its peg, redemptions and declining confidence increased LUNA issuance, adding pressure…
The article describes Memhash as a TON-based token project that distributed rewards through an app-based mining process on Telegram. It outlines a Hashcash-inspired proof-of-work mechanism, energy limits that users replenish or manage, upgrades, and…
The document describes GoKite as a Layer 1 blockchain intended to support autonomous AI agents with cryptographic identity, programmable permissions, payments, governance, and verification. Its account highlights KitePass identities, a Proof of Attributed…
The document explains cryptocurrency staking in the context of Proof-of-Stake consensus and contrasts it with Proof of Work. In its account, Proof of Work relies on miners using computation to validate transactions, while Proof of Stake uses token holdings…
The guide explains that an EVM wallet address identifies an account on Ethereum-compatible networks and can be used to receive assets or connect to decentralized applications. It describes where to find an address in a wallet app, how a blockchain explorer…
The document describes FXRP, a Flare Network asset intended to represent XRP on a smart contract network so it can be used in DeFi applications such as trading, lending, and liquidity provision. It presents FAssets as a way for assets without native smart…
The document introduces KernelDAO as a protocol that reuses staked assets to secure multiple blockchain services, a model it calls shared security. It describes three product areas: Kernel restaking infrastructure on BNB Chain; Kelp’s rsETH liquid restaking…
The document describes EGO as the payment and utility token for Paysenger, a social platform where users, creators, and brands commission content, trade NFTs, and access platform features. It outlines potential creator earnings through commissions, NFT…
The document introduces Rayls as a proposed bridge between regulated finance and public decentralized finance. It describes permissioned institutional networks, a public chain, privacy features, and the RLS token’s stated roles in staking and settlement. It…
The article describes Sapien as a decentralized marketplace for collecting and reviewing specialized AI training data. Its proposed process combines global contributors, human annotation and quality checks, machine-assisted error flagging, blockchain-based…
This beginner guide compares USDT and USDC, two dollar-pegged stablecoins, and briefly classifies fiat-backed, crypto-backed, and algorithmic stablecoins. It describes how the two fiat-backed tokens are issued and redeemed, their blockchain availability, and…
The document distinguishes APR, which reflects a stated annual rate and associated costs without compounding, from APY, which accounts for the effect of compounding. It explains why APR can differ from a nominal interest rate and gives loan and investment…
This educational overview explains two common rug-pull mechanisms in decentralized finance: developers can remove valuable assets from a token liquidity pool, or sell a large token allocation after launch. It also describes contract restrictions that can…
The review describes Solaxy as a proposed Solana Layer 2 that would batch transactions and use bridging to reduce congestion and costs. It recounts the project’s presale and exchange launch, then summarizes its token allocation, reported supply burn, and…
The document describes Lighter as an Ethereum-based perpetual futures exchange using a custom zero-knowledge rollup. Its off-chain order book processes orders under price-time priority, while proofs are intended to attest to matching, margin checks,…
The document describes Genius as a non-custodial DeFi trading terminal that brings execution, liquidity aggregation, and portfolio tracking into one interface. It says the platform connects to more than 150 decentralized exchanges across several blockchains…
Maple Finance is presented as a decentralized credit marketplace for institutions and sophisticated investors. Pool delegates curate lending pools that provide capital to vetted borrowers, while credit assessment combines off-chain and on-chain analysis,…