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 podcast recap explains how real-world assets can be represented on blockchains, with examples including real estate, commodities, stablecoins, and Treasury-backed products. It presents tokenization as a way to broaden access, improve transferability,…
The primer explains how Curve developed from a stablecoin-focused automated market maker into a broader DeFi ecosystem. It contrasts Curve’s dynamic invariant with constant-product pricing: the curve is flatter when a pool is balanced to reduce slippage,…
This interview summary reports Shawn Douglass’s views on institutional participation in digital assets and DeFi, including how U.S. regulation may affect adoption. It says institutions continued building crypto capabilities after the FTX collapse and points…
This market snapshot connects crypto news and on-chain activity with spot-market, decentralized exchange, lending, and network indicators. It notes that BTC and ETH pairs remained prominent in centralized exchange dollar volume, while Binance’s share of…
This document describes an adapter for collecting DeFi data from EVM blockchains and making it available through a trading system’s data model. It covers historical and live block feeds, DEX pool discovery, pool event replay, snapshots, and an experimental…
The document describes an institutional data product for analyzing stablecoins across blockchains, decentralized finance, and centralized exchange venues. Its stated analytics include transfers, minting and burning, wallet activity, supply changes,…
This product update describes two types of on-chain data for analyzing decentralized finance activity. Lending and borrowing summaries aggregate deposits, borrows, protocol revenue, liquidations, and withdrawals across protocols, assets, and chains, with…
This podcast recap follows quant Artur Sepp’s move from traditional finance into crypto derivatives. It describes his work on delta-neutral options strategies, volatility modeling, and market making in illiquid options, where one-sided order flow and…
The document describes two risks institutions may encounter in decentralized finance: scam tokens, especially liquidity-draining rug pulls, and crypto assets connected to illicit activity. It argues that blockchain data can support token due diligence by…
This report section reviews DeFi activity and security incidents in 2025. It frames the year through several measures: total value locked (TVL), lending utilization, liquidations, decentralized exchange volume, and major protocol exploits. It argues that…
This overview explains Hummingbot executors as components that manage order lifecycles under conditions set by controllers using market data. It lists executor categories for positions, dollar-cost averaging, grids, arbitrage, time-weighted execution,…
This introductory overview explains how blockchains function as decentralized databases and distinguishes them from the cryptocurrencies that may use them. It describes distributed nodes as participants that store data and verify transactions under protocol…
The article explains how crypto market makers support trading by placing bids and asks around prevailing prices, seeking to earn the spread while keeping order books populated. It links two-sided quoting with faster execution, narrower spreads, reduced price…
The guide explains how impermanent loss arises when the relative prices of two tokens change while they are held in an automated market maker (AMM) liquidity pool. It contrasts a liquidity position with simply holding the deposited assets, describes how…
The document introduces blockchain oracles as software that retrieves off-chain information and makes it available to smart contracts. Because a blockchain cannot directly query external APIs or data feeds, an oracle provides a link between on-chain…
The article compares custodial wallets, where a provider controls private keys, with non-custodial wallets, where users control and protect them. Custody by a platform can simplify setup, account recovery, and internal transfers. It also exposes users to…
This article explains how to combine centralized exchange market data with blockchain data through multiple Model Context Protocol servers. Exchange tools provide prices, candles, and order books; on-chain tools can reveal transfers, holders, decentralized…
This market snapshot examines the February 2024 crypto rally through spot-market activity, ETF flows, decentralized exchange volumes, lending deposits, miner supply behavior, and Bitcoin net unrealized profit and loss (NUPL). It presents the view that ETF…
This study builds separate XGBoost models to predict next-day Ethereum volatility from activity in the USDC, USDT, and DAI lending ecosystems. Features include lagged borrowing, repayment, and flash-loan measures, plus seven-day averages. It uses time-series…
This introductory overview explains Celo as a blockchain payment platform designed with mobile users in mind, including payments linked to phone numbers and support for decentralized applications. It distinguishes CELO, used for governance and staking, from…
Hyperliquidity Provider (HLP) is described as a community-owned protocol vault that supplies liquidity to Hyperliquid. It uses multiple market-making strategies, carries out liquidations, and supplies USDC to the platform’s Earn product. In return, the vault…
The report explains how AAVE v2 liquidators repay part of an undercollateralized loan and receive collateral with a protocol bonus. It examines stablecoin debt backed by ETH from 2021 to 2023, relating liquidation activity to ETH price drops and volatility.…
This market snapshot examines a sharp crypto selloff and its effects across centralized exchanges, decentralized trading, lending, and on-chain sentiment measures. It reports that spot and Uniswap V3 activity surged during the August 5 decline, with…
This podcast recap describes Loop Crypto’s approach to recurring cryptocurrency payments. Because ordinary crypto wallets send funds through user-initiated transactions, collecting subscriptions is less convenient than card-based payment collection. Loop’s…