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 compares three types of privacy-enhancing tools in digital assets: mixers, privacy coins, and zero-knowledge proofs. Mixers obscure the link between senders and receivers, while privacy coins can conceal transaction details at the protocol…
The document introduces Uniswap V3’s concentrated liquidity, where providers allocate liquidity within chosen price ranges, and explains how to examine decentralized exchange activity through trade records, prices, and OHLCV aggregates. Individual trades…
This podcast summary describes SOMA.finance’s plans to connect traditional finance with blockchain markets through token issuance, a decentralized exchange, and yield products. It says the platform aims to support tokenized securities and digital assets,…
This overview explains why financial institutions may consider digital assets and surveys market structure, asset categories, trading venues, and regulatory developments. It contrasts crypto markets with traditional finance, emphasizing continuous global…
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…
This guide explains how decentralized finance yield farming works: users supply crypto assets to liquidity pools, lending markets, or other smart contract applications in exchange for trading fees, interest, or token rewards. It distinguishes liquidity…
This overview surveys ways institutions can seek yield in decentralized finance, including lending, liquidity provision, staking, and yield farming. It outlines the main exposures associated with each: smart-contract and liquidation risks in lending,…
The document outlines how decentralized finance uses blockchain networks and smart contracts to provide services such as trading, lending, and borrowing. It describes potential advantages over traditional finance, including broader geographic access, direct…
This survey reports on U.S. crypto holders’ intentions, confidence, preferences, and portfolio changes. It says 88% planned to continue investing over the next 12 months, compared with 73% in the prior-year survey, and 70% reported greater confidence.…
This article introduces an automated arbitrage approach that compares prices on Balancer, an Ethereum automated market maker, with prices on centralized order-book exchanges. It describes a bot that monitors for differences and can buy on one venue while…
The article describes an EU consultation on possible changes to MiCA, covering crypto assets, token issuers, crypto service providers, and areas left outside the first framework. It explains how stablecoin classification could shift regulatory attention…
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…
The guide compares hot and cold crypto wallets, self-custody and third-party custody, and several approaches to protecting access. Hot wallets offer convenient access for frequent trading and decentralized application use, while cold wallets keep keys…
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…
This weekly digital-asset snapshot examines a market in which Bitcoin and Ether were weak or nearly flat while selected altcoins, especially DeFi-related tokens, rose sharply. It combines price and volatility measures with trading volume, open interest,…
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…
The document outlines the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, a framework for crypto-assets outside existing financial-services rules. It describes requirements for public token offers, including clear disclosures, white papers,…
The document explains how Bitcoin can be represented as an Ethereum ERC-20 token backed by BTC held on another network. This structure is intended to combine Bitcoin’s liquidity with Ethereum smart contracts, allowing the token to be used in decentralized…
This introductory guide explains how an exchange order book records bids and asks and how its matching engine fills orders. It connects liquidity and order-book depth to the price impact of market orders, defines the bid-ask spread and mid price, and…