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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The document describes the delivery of historical and current market and blockchain datasets through cloud storage, including data in a format suited to analytical workflows. The described coverage includes decentralized exchange trades and liquidity,…
This podcast overview traces Premia’s development from an early peer-to-peer options concept to a decentralized platform supporting order books, RFQ, pools, and vaults. The team’s traditional finance experience shaped its response to crypto-specific…
This article explains how liquidators can profit by repaying part of an undercollateralized Aave borrower’s debt and receiving collateral with a liquidation bonus. It introduces the health factor as the protocol’s solvency measure, describes how falling…
This market snapshot reviews regulatory developments in the United States and United Kingdom alongside trading activity across centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and major networks. It argues that the approved FTX asset sales…
This beginner overview explains Chainlink as a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts with external data and computation. It describes data feeds, lower-latency data streams, cross-chain messaging, developer functions, automation, and…
This article presents Almanax’s approach to preventing blockchain exploits through AI-assisted code review and continuous security monitoring. The described system uses language models to examine code logic and potential attack surfaces, and is intended to…
This market commentary reviews Bitcoin and Ethereum options positioning alongside activity in oSQTH for the week covered. It describes several reported structures: a put spread financed with calls, a put risk reversal, a short-dated straddle sale, call…
The document gives a brief overview of four blockchain oracle networks: Chainlink, Pyth, API3, and Band Protocol. It describes their roles in supplying data to decentralized applications and notes that Chainlink also offers a protocol for transmitting data…
Balancer is described as an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange protocol where liquidity providers deposit tokens into pools and receive a share of trading fees plus BAL incentives. Pools can hold as many as eight tokens, with weights set to define their…
This article introduces Algorand as a smart-contract blockchain and explains its pure proof-of-stake consensus. Block creation uses a proposer-selection stage followed by a vote from randomly selected token holders; the article argues that stake-weighted…
This market snapshot discusses legal and regulatory developments alongside trading conditions across centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and blockchain networks. It describes a court ruling in Grayscale’s challenge to the SEC…
This article explains how on-chain monitoring can help liquidity providers and DeFi teams detect contract risks and unusual pool activity. It outlines reentrancy, code flaws, and front-running as common vulnerabilities, then recommends tracking liquidity,…
The document compares crypto-backed borrowing options using custody model, borrowing rate, maximum loan-to-value, eligible collateral, borrow currency, liquidation terms, and security history. It distinguishes custodial services from non-custodial protocols,…
The document explains how DeFi borrowers pledge collateral worth more than their loans, creating a buffer against falling crypto prices. It discusses how lending platforms set overcollateralization ratios according to collateral risk, market conditions, and…
The article outlines buy-and-hold, day-trading, and swing-trading approaches for volatile altcoins, and describes stablecoins mainly as trading-pair assets, temporary havens, or inputs to yield farming. It distinguishes fundamental research, such as…
This report studies whether DeFi lending activity in USDC, USDT, and DAI is associated with Ethereum volatility. It estimates daily volatility with the Garman-Klass method, which uses open, high, low, and close prices, then applies Augmented Dickey-Fuller…
The document compares three exchange designs used in digital asset markets. A central limit order book gathers maker orders, publishes available prices and quantities, and matches taker orders, often by price and then submission time. An RFQ process lets a…
This introduction explains stablecoins as crypto tokens designed to maintain a relatively steady value, often against a fiat currency or another asset. It describes three approaches: fiat-collateralized tokens backed by reserves of traditional currency;…
Gateway is middleware that lets Hummingbot interact with blockchain protocols through a standard interface. Its decentralized exchange connectors maintain connections to automated market makers and other protocols, integrate with their JavaScript software…
The article compares staking proof-of-stake tokens with earning interest by depositing crypto assets into lending platforms. Staking rewards are linked to network issuance and transaction fees, while savings interest reflects demand from borrowers. Staked…
This retrospective describes Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake and reviews network operation, price, transaction activity, and gas fees in the following weeks. It reports that the network experienced no outage during the transition.…
This market snapshot discusses the early effects of US spot Bitcoin ETF approval across centralized exchanges, decentralized finance, lending, and blockchain networks. It reports that Coinbase gained share in key BTC pairs and interprets its USD and USDC…
This article introduces decentralized science, or DeSci, as an effort to apply blockchain tools, tokens, and decentralized organizations to research funding, publication, peer review, data access, and intellectual property. It argues that open participation…
The article explains how liquid staking lets ETH holders stake through a provider and receive liquid staking tokens that represent deposited ETH and accrued rewards, net of fees. Those tokens can remain usable in trading, lending, and other DeFi activities.…