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The fundamentals of Avalanche
In this week's research piece, we focus on the current state of Avalanche's product, business model, financials, usage, competition, and more! Avalanche is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Avalanche was founded by Emin Gün Sirer and launched in 2019.
Angle's stEUR: Earn the Euro risk-free rate onchain
Pablo Veyrat, the Co-Founder of Angle, walks us through how stEUR is critical in the vision Angle is trying to push for, by laying down the permissionless and fully transparent foundations for a Euro risk-free rate onchain.
Helix Markets – How building on the Internet Computer enables a better end-user UX
Helix Markets is a decentralized exchange built on the Internet Computer.
RockawayX – Value accrual, modular vs. monolithic blockchains, industry trends & pain points | ep.78
In this episode, we’re joined by Viktor Fischer, the Founder and CEO of RockawayX – a venture capital firm backing leading web3 funds and founders. We dive into the details around the current state of the crypto market, RockawayX's unique position as builders, and users, in addition to being investors.
The fundamentals of Base
In this week's research piece, we focus on the current state of Base's product, business model, financials, usage, competition, and more! Base is a L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. Base was founded by the Coinbase team and launched in 2023.
Fantom – value proposition, new tech stack (Sonic), economics, overcoming challenges & more | ep.77
In this episode of the Fundamentals podcast, Michael Kong, CEO/CIO of the Fantom Foundation, discusses the unique value proposition of Fantom within the blockchain landscape, its core technology, and approach to achieving scalability.
The fundamentals of Arbitrum
In this week's research piece, we focus on the current state of Arbitrum's product, business model, financials, usage, competition, and more! Arbitrum is a L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. Arbitrum was founded by Offchain Labs and launched in 2021.
The Ethereum Investment Framework: History, tech, economics, ETH price targets, and more!
On this episode of the Fundamentals podcast, we welcome back Michael Nadeau, who runs the DeFi Report, to deepen our understanding of valuing blockchain networks. Michael has been working on deep-diving into this topic for several years and has recently published the 'Ethereum Investment Framework'.
The state of zkSync: scaling, security, UX, traction, challenges, financials | Fundamentals ep.75
In this episode we’re joined by Alex Gluchowski, the Co-Founder and CEO of Matter Labs – the engineering team behind zkSync – a Layer-2 blockchain protocol that scales Ethereum with zero knowledge technology.