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1 week ago |
blockworks.co | Donovan Choy
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, . World is the one crypto project that you either love or hate. Since launch, the Sam Altman-backed World (previously Worldcoin) has been roundly criticized for its "low float" tokenomics and faced scrutiny from regulators stemming from data privacy concerns. Yet, World continues to stand out in the industry for trying to do something uniquely innovative.
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1 week ago |
blockworks.co | Donovan Choy
More than a year after its initial announcement, StarkWare is today launching S-two (STARK Two) in public alpha. S-two is a next-generation zero-knowledge STARK prover fast enough to run natively on consumer hardware. Developers will be able to start building with S-two today.
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1 week ago |
blockworks-research.beehiiv.com | Donovan Choy |Macauley Peterson
Crypto remains a paradox: wildly risky yet wildly efficient. Hyperliquid, Tether, and Pump[dot]fun generate staggering revenue with lean teams. DeFi undercuts banks on cost, but exploits like Cetus expose lingering fragility. And then there‚Äôs the curious case of ‚ÄúJames Wynn‚ÄĚ ‚ÄĒ a perps gambler surfing billion-dollar trades with improbable precision. ‚ÄĒ Macauley Maple Finance Protocol Revenue: Maple Finance is clocking in new monthly highs in revenues this month at $753m.
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2 weeks ago |
blockworks.co | Donovan Choy
One of the longstanding complaints against Big Tech is that they "exploit" user data for their own profit. In some sense, I guess that's true. I've used Twitter for years, and was never paid a cent for giving up any information about my demographics and interests. But is that "exploitation?"Sure, my data is valuable in hindsight. But billions of dollars in cloud infrastructure and data analytics had to be invested to turn it into something economically valuable that marketers want to buy.
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2 weeks ago |
blockworks.co | Donovan Choy
How should blockchains be valued? In crypto's very short history, there have been many attempts to definitively answer that question. One early approach drew from monetarist economic theory, applying the MV = PQ equation.
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RT @Obol_Collective: Ethereum is stronger with Distributed Validators. 🔥 "Lido decentralizes, thanks to Obol." — Great write-up by @yelua…
The argument that "scaling the L1 doesn't take away from the L2s" seems disingenuous. Say there are 100 users onchain. Half are on the L1, half are on L2s. Don't scale the L1, more users migrate to L2s for speed/costs. Scale the L1, users return to or decide not to leave the L1.
Ethereum's multi-trillion-dollar bet on the hub & spokes strategy - What is eth's hub & spokes strategy? - How does it work? - Why is it going to take over the world and win against alt L1s and bitcoin? Let's dive in imo it's urgently needed for everyone in ethereum -