Steven Zheng

As the most prominent U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase is often viewed as the poster child of the burgeoning cryptocurrency industry. The Block Research presents a company profile dive into the exchange.

Company Overview Few cryptocurrency exchanges have as rich of a history as Bitstamp. As one of the largest and oldest exchanges in the industry, Bistamp has survived multiple hacks, regulatory scrutiny and the extreme price volatility commonly associated with cryptocurrencies. Established in 2011, Bitstamp is headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices in the United Kingdom and […]

The Block's Steven Zheng explores Zora, uVOL, Ruler Protocol and Ribbon Finance in this week's DeFi Digest.

In this piece, The Block Research analyzes activity on peer-to-peer bitcoin markets.

This week's DeFi digest explores rollup migrations and WRAP LP.

The Block takes a look at some of the recent trade volumes around DeFi tokens.

The Block examines the growth of blockchain-related citations in scholarly journals using data from Google Scholar.

This week's DeFi Digest explores Siren, uGas, and the future of Yam.

Over the past week, we saw a slew of merger-like activity announced by Yearn.Finance (Yearn) starting with Pickle Finance and ending, at the time of this writing, with SushiSwap. Of course, unlike the typical mergers and acquisitions seen in traditional markets, there are no purchases of assets and offers to the acquiree. Instead, Yearn’s actions […]

This week's DeFi Digest dives into BadgerDAO and SynLev.

This week's DeFi Digest examines three projects: 88mph, Charm and Primitive.

In this week's DeFi Digest, The Block Research looks at hedge contracts from yEarn and Whiteheart.

The Block analyzed press releases from the CFTC and SEC to gauge the growth in enforcement actions that involve cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Here's what we found.

In this week's DeFi Digest, The Block Research takes a look at Atomic Odds and a cluster of new projects on Keeper.

The Block Research digs into two DeFi projects for this week's digest: Split Protocol and Stoploss Protocol.

Dark Forest: Gaming with zkSNARKS Dark Forest is a real-time strategy game built on Ethereum with an interesting feature made possible by zkSNARKS:  incomplete information. Incomplete information games are those in which no players have complete knowledge of the gaming environment. Poker is a good example: players don’t know what cards their opponents are holding. An […]

Adjusted on-chain volume Total adjusted on-chain volume, which is a proxy for economic throughput, saw an increase of 18.4% in September, a 31-month high. The increase was primarily the result of Ethereum’s on-chain volumes. Bitcoin’s on-chain volume decreased by 4% (from $80.9 billion to $77.7 billion) while Ethereum’s increased by 60.1% (from $43.7 billion to […]

The Block Research has compiled its third-quarter breakdown of Bitcoin network and market data.

This week’s DeFi by The Block Research looks at Alpha Homora and Shell Protocol.

Today's DeFi Digest looks at Mask Network and Marqet.