The contest between Layer 1s versus Ethereum and Layer 2s was a big story in 2021.

DeFi was a steady story in a mad year in the crypto markets.

DeFi’s purpose is to create greater financial inclusion. That’s the core mission, to lower the barriers of access to wealth generation so anyone with the internet can participate.  How do we get a mother in Mozambique to be empowered and participate? She’s not looking to day trade and purchase a Lamborghini. She might be looking…

DAOs should memorialize their cooperative structures in legal entities that protect members from liability, the authors say in this research piece.

After 30 years n gestation, the metaverse is finally emerging with citizens, economies, currencies, and millions of users.

DAOs would be wise to register as legal entities to minimize unlimited liability risks, Mark Lurie writes in this opinion piece.

The problem of aggregation, where rational actions at the individual level lead to an irrational outcome at the collective level is prevalent in macroeconomics and financial markets.

Many DAOs and DAO members are facing growing pains when it comes to measuring and scaling work within DAOs.

On-Chain Markets Update by IntoTheBlock Uniswap v3’s concentrated liquidity improved capital efficiency, but also amplified the risks of impermanent loss. Here is the breakdown of the profitability of liquidity providers and how it could potentially be improved.  Recently an interesting paper was published by the Bancor team related to impermanent loss when providing liquidity on…

This research piece explains NEAR, a smart contract protocol that uses a sharded public Proof-of-Stake blockchain.