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.
3,101 documents
This crypto market snapshot examines trading and decentralized finance activity around the July 2023 Ripple v. SEC ruling. It describes the ruling’s distinction between XRP programmatic sales and institutional sales, then considers exchange volumes, market…
This document outlines a grid trading mode designed for relatively stable markets. It maintains buy and sell orders at configured intervals, aiming to capture small price movements. The grid can use fixed spacing and increments, be initialized from a chosen…
The document explains how an EVM layer can read current trading and account information from a connected exchange core, including positions, balances, vault equity, staking data, oracle prices, and block height. It describes the consistency guarantee for…
This reference describes Binance spot market WebSocket streams for trades, aggregated trades, candles, ticker statistics, best bid and ask quotes, and order book updates. It explains raw and combined stream formats, subscription controls, timestamps, update…
This post reports a data-quality question about one-minute BNB/USDT candles retrieved through a trading platform’s GetRecords interface. The author compares a candle for a specified minute in August 2018 with Binance’s displayed data. Open, high, low, and…
This weekly snapshot reviews crypto regulatory developments alongside spot market, decentralized exchange, lending, and network activity. It reports that centralized and decentralized exchange volumes remained below their 2022 peaks, with a modest lift in…
This overview explains decentralized finance as blockchain-based financial services that can operate without conventional central intermediaries. It describes three ways crypto holders may seek income: yield farming, staking, and lending. Yield farmers…
This overview explains Bitcoin’s basic design and use. It describes public and private keys, peer-to-peer nodes, proof-of-work mining, block validation, and the protocol’s capped supply. Miners compete to propose blocks and receive newly issued coins and…
The document distinguishes coins, which are native assets of base-layer blockchains, from tokens, which are issued through applications and services built on those networks. It explains that coins may be used for transfers, value storage, and network…
This tutorial presents a two-way Bitcoin spot strategy using MACD crossovers for entries and exits, with a stop that adjusts as price moves favorably. It defines bullish and bearish signals using the relationship between MACD’s DIF and DEA lines, their…
This report summarizes a Binance BTC-USDT daily-candle backtest covering January 2019 through January 2021. The strategy recorded 155 closed trades and one open trade. The displayed metrics include an 89.77% net profit, 22.4% maximum drawdown, 37.64% annual…
This report examines Bitcoin spot liquidity across six market regimes, focusing on the October liquidation cascade. It tracks order book depth at several distances from mid-price, exchange volume shares, and a composite resilience measure based on depth…
This tutorial explains how to collect market data for many trading pairs through aggregated exchange endpoints and organize it for a multi-symbol strategy. Using Binance futures and Huobi spot as examples, it shows how to normalize different response formats…
The document explains Lightning as a Bitcoin layer that moves payments through off-chain channels, with channel opening and closing settled on the base chain. It contrasts this approach with ordinary on-chain transfers: Lightning can support faster,…
This market snapshot reviews digital-asset activity around the period following Bitcoin spot ETF filings. It describes spot trading volumes as returning toward typical levels while Bitcoin and Ether prices remained above the levels cited in the report. It…
This article explains how crypto order book heatmaps display resting limit orders across price and time, and how traders can use them to inspect apparent supply, demand, and liquidity. It describes combining books from centralized exchanges and comparing…
The document introduces a connector for Perpetual Protocol and an automated strategy intended to trade price differences between perpetual contracts and spot markets. It describes comparing perpetual venues, including decentralized and centralized futures…
This overview explains how centralized exchange spot-volume dashboards can be used to examine market activity across exchanges, quote currencies, stablecoins, and frequently traded tokens. It describes comparing total volume and exchange shares, then…
The article addresses the criticism that bitcoin lacks intrinsic value because it is not backed by a government or reserve of assets. It acknowledges that bitcoin differs from traditional currencies and from stablecoins backed by cash or other real-world…
This developer guide lists the exchange interfaces needed to build spot and perpetual connectors for a trading client. Core REST functions include retrieving trading rules, checking service status, reading open orders and balances, and creating orders;…
This guide walks through preparing an XRP Ledger account for use with Hummingbot, importing the account into a wallet app, connecting the connector, and checking balances. It also describes editing connector settings to use custom markets or node endpoints.…
The article recounts the emergence of Bitcoinmarket.com, describing its proposal on the Bitcointalk forum and launch in 2010 as an early venue for exchanging US dollars and bitcoin. It notes that bitcoin had no widely agreed market price beforehand and gives…
The article introduces stablecoins as cryptocurrencies designed to track another asset, often the US dollar or a commodity. It explains the basic idea of backing tokens with reserves and describes how traders may use dollar-linked tokens to hold value…
The document describes a simple cryptocurrency spot trade-following bot. It treats one exchange account as the reference and periodically compares its current token balance, including frozen holdings, with the previous reading. An increase signals a buy and…