Artisan – #16 Weekly: Dec 19-25

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Review of algo-stablecoins, the 2022 staking ecosystem report, crypto valuations signaling the end of crypto winter? investment trends of 5 crypto verticals, building a crypto data unicorn, token supply’s effect on the price, 5 memes that define DeFi in 2022, Lido on Solana v2 is live, Uniswap’s credit card… ✍🏻 Author:…

Artisan – #15 Weekly: Dec 12 – 18

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Predictions for crypto 2023, Ethereum’s OFAC-compliant blocks decreasing, 2022 the year on-chain, Current state of DID, SUI Foundation released SUI token allocation, Maple released v2, Lido released VaNOM, Donald Trump’s NFT collection, Hong Kong’s New Bitcoin and Ether Futures ETFs, PayPal working with Metamask, Apple allowing external apps… ✍🏻 Author: Daisy Chen,…

Artisan – #14 Weekly: Dec 5 – 11

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Solana staking outflows and FTX collapses, on-chain look of Ethereum liquid staking, Mass adoption of Web3 social, Ethereum’s Shanghai fork targeted to be March 2023, Chainlink staking v0.1 is live, Uniswap’s on-chain vote of “Fee Switch”, Synthetix Atomic Swaps V2, RWA analysis site, Ape staking is live, EU to impose crypto…

Artisan – #12 Weekly: Nov 21 – 27

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz MEV and flashbots, Curve’s LLAMA, Mango Market hacker “loses” millions in failed Aave exploitation, Bitcoin miner selling aggressively, Chainlink staking going live, Crypto firms under pressure to share info about reserves ✍🏻 Author: Daisy Chen 🤔 Analysis & Thoughts Flashbots – The future of MEV is SUAVE (Read more) The MEV landscape…

Artisan – #11 Weekly: Nov 14 – 20

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Collapse of Alameda and FTX, self-custody on MPC, crypto wallets from B2B to B2B2C, EIP-4844, Sui testnet wave 1, Genesis sought an emergency loan of $1 billion, Lemma Finance v2, Binance pushes for self-custody with Trust wallet, Adidas originals launches NFT wearables, Apple Pay now available on Circle ✍🏻 Author: Daisy…

Artisan – #10 Weekly: Nov 7 – Nov 13

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz FTX Saga, #Decentralization, $ATOM 2.0 proposal, #Solana proposal, #DeFi on $BTC, Google Cloud & Solana partnership, NFT Allowlist Platform, New York Fed collaborates with Singapore MAS to explore CBDCs ✍🏻 Author: Daisy Chen 🤔 Analysis & Thoughts How to survive a dark time by Tascha (Read more) Personal post-mortem of how I…

Artisan – #8 Weekly: Oct 24 – 30

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Tokenomics study, Monetary policy in crypto, Real-world assets, in-depth research memo on GMX, Sei whitepaper, USN winding down, liquid mining for $HOP, Azuki’s proof of stake, NFTs confirmed as a property in Singapore, Reddit’s NFT success… ✍🏻 Author: Daisy Chen 🤔 Analysis & Thoughts A framework for studying tokenomics and net-new…

Artisan – #7 Weekly: Oct 17 – 23

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Crypto emotions shifting from fear to apathy, Venture capital investment trends in Q3, Aptos vs Sui, Avalanche Subnets vs Cosmos 2.0, Crypto adoption in Southeast Asia, Web3 growth tools, $frxETH Available to Mint on Frax, PancakeSwap expanding to Aptos, Tether reduces the amount of commercial paper, Reddit launched NFTs, OpenSea launched…

Artisan – #5 Weekly: Oct 3 – 9

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz Application-specific blockchains, mapping the Ethereum staking ecosystem, Solana outages, Ethereum’s MEV-Boost, BNB Smart Chain resumes to operations, MakerDAO to deploy $500mn to RWAs, Samsung to launch metaverse in Decentraland… ✍🏻 Author: Daisy Chen 🤔 Analysis & Thoughts Application-Specific Blockchains: The Past, Present, and Future (Read more) Mapping the Ethereum Staking Ecosystem (Read more)…

[PREVIEW] Artisan – #1 (Weekly: Sep 5 – 11)

The Artisan Narrative @artisan_xyz The Ethereum Merge is coming, NEAR’s Nightshade Sharding phase 1, Move language is hyped up, new Flashbots upgrade, introducing EIP-3525, Coinbase offers MakerDAO up to 1.5% APY on USDC held, Coinbase backs Tornado Cash lawsuit… ✍🏻 Author: Daisy Chen 🤔 Analysis & Thoughts Tornado Cash: What web3 needs to know (read…