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This product update describes several analyses for crypto derivatives and blockchain activity. Its options material includes constant-maturity butterfly values across selected deltas and time windows, at-the-money implied volatility box plots, and dealer…
This market snapshot discusses the October 2023 Bitcoin rally alongside regulatory headlines, exchange activity, DeFi markets, lending, and network metrics. It cautions that reports of a spot ETF listing or approval rumors did not establish that an ETF had…
This article explains why total value locked can give a misleading impression of a decentralized finance protocol’s health. TVL rises or falls with the market prices of deposited assets, so a decline may reflect falling token prices rather than users…
The document compares Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base by their early network histories. It describes how each network differs in architecture, consensus, execution environment, token use, and launch context, then uses…
This case study describes how blockchain ratings company Metafide used a third-party data platform to support an AI and machine-learning product. Its required inputs spanned blockchain networks, crypto market data, decentralized finance, and several traded…
This article explains governance and day-to-day management practices for organizations handling crypto market, blockchain, liquidity, and customer data. It recommends assigning data stewards, setting access rules, defining quality standards, protecting data…
The document outlines ways to compare blockchain activity and use cross-chain data in trading research. It proposes converting transaction volume into a common currency, aligning observations across networks in time, and adjusting measurements so activity…
This report surveys digital-asset market conditions in the first quarter of 2025, connecting sharp price moves with macroeconomic news, regulatory actions, exchange security events, and institutional positioning. It discusses Bitcoin and Ethereum, ETF flows,…
This live-robot page shows a screening and observation workflow for newly active tokens across several chains. The displayed table ranks candidates by one-hour volume expansion and reports liquidity, fully diluted valuation relative to liquidity, token age,…
The document argues that informed DeFi analysis requires four complementary data views: protocol, pool, asset, and wallet. Protocol data supports comparisons across financial functions such as lending, staking, and asset management. Pool data describes…
The document introduces decentralized finance as blockchain based software that can perform functions commonly handled by financial institutions. It describes smart contracts supporting lending, trading, liquidity pools, risk management, derivatives,…
The episode explains how Ethereum’s move to proof of stake helped create demand for liquid staking. Users stake ETH and receive liquid staking tokens that can be used in decentralized finance, lowering the technical and asset threshold for participating in…
This weekly snapshot reviews digital-asset activity from February 6 to 13, 2024. It compares centralized exchange volume in major Bitcoin quote pairs, decentralized exchange volumes, lending deposits and withdrawals, token-level depositor activity, and…
This article summarizes a 2025 industry report that describes tokenization moving into institutional production. Examples cited include tokenized U.S. Treasuries and money-market funds, as well as bank workflows for settlement and repo. The article frames…
This market snapshot reviews digital asset conditions across spot and derivatives markets, exchange-traded fund flows, stablecoins, and DeFi lending. It reports a shift in Bitcoin perpetual funding from negative to positive, tighter BTC and ETH spreads,…
This October 2023 snapshot reviews crypto market structure and activity alongside industry news. It reports shifts in centralized exchange volume share, including gains for Bybit and changes in Binance and OKX shares, while noting that aggregate exchange…
This company profile describes Amberdata’s effort to provide financial institutions with a shared data source for digital asset markets. It groups the information into cryptocurrency market data, blockchain records such as contracts and events, and…
This product update describes an institutional dashboard for monitoring tokenized, treasury-backed assets on Ethereum. It focuses on aggregate market capitalization, protocol-level activity, and unique wallet holders, with individual views of issuers and the…
This digital-asset market snapshot combines news about DeFi custody concerns, US crypto policy, corporate Bitcoin holdings, and a regulated hybrid exchange with analysis of Bitcoin’s move above $100,000. It discusses the sharp intraday reversal, higher…
The article explains a framework for examining digital assets by combining exchange data, such as trades, with blockchain information about transaction proofs, protocols, and asset supply. It argues that market data alone can miss changes defined by an…
The document introduces Rho Protocol as an on-chain venue for trading crypto-native interest rates, especially perpetual funding rates and staking rates. It describes fixed-for-floating contracts as a way to hedge exposure to changing rates, similar to…
The document introduces network value to transactions (NVT) as a crypto-market analogue to the price-to-earnings ratio. It defines NVT as market capitalization divided by transaction volume, treating on-chain transfer activity as a rough measure of network…
The report compares on-chain behavior around Bitcoin volatility shocks in bull and bear periods. It defines a shock as a day when absolute daily return exceeds two standard deviations above its historical average, then studies 21 shock days in each market…
This weekly crypto snapshot links institutional news and regulatory developments with activity across centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and blockchain networks. It describes spot Bitcoin ETF filings and a planned traditional…