Research & Opinion

Every incentives team knows the chart. Emissions start, TVL rises, dashboards light up, and the program looks like it worked. Then emissions end and the line returns to where it began.

Zoomex brings the week's biggest ETF stories onto a single, rule-based derivatives venue, giving traders easy-to-use exposure to SPY, QQQ, IWM, XLF, XLK, and TQQQ ahead of this week's interest rate decision.

Instant settlement, automated coupon payments and collateral that can be re-pledged in DeFi are what separate a tokenized asset from its offchain version.

History says major airdrops mark tops as often as they spark rallies, but the timing is everything.

DeFi carries close to $100 billion in total value locked, and under 2% of that is covered by anything resembling insurance. Firelight's Connor Sullivan argues the real gap isn't missing coverage but coverage nobody outside the deal can verify.

Bitcoin’s slide from above $80,000 to the low $60,000s has reset the conversation, and the most structurally significant development is a sustained outflow from spot Bitcoin ETFs, including a 13-session streak that saw $4.4 billion redeemed between May 15 and June 3. The market is now discovering what Bitcoin looks like when that ETF tailwind stalls, with AI-linked equities competing for the same capital that fueled crypto’s recovery.

A regulated security backed 1:1 by independently certified bitumen reserves — issued under ERC-3643, settled on Ethereum, and offered to accredited investors through a dedicated SPV. The thesis: a structural supply shock in U.S. asphalt binder, met with a tokenization framework purpose-built for the kind of long-lifecycle, securities-compliant commodity exposure institutional balance sheets actually want.

The strongest signal in Bitcoin right now is not price, but who is taking supply off the market.

A study of 1.29M wallets shows users returning more often and trading across more categories, with sports leading at $10.1B and crypto serving as the main onboarding gateway.

The bank's digital assets team argues the post-Kelp coalition response and structural fixes around bridges leave DeFi stronger, not weaker, ahead of the Ethereum Economic Zone going live this summer.