The Block Research reviewed the key social media metrics for the three biggest crypto hype cycles of 2021.
The Block Research examined the geographic regions NFT projects are based on their launch dates to provide an overview of their operations.
Of the 44 darknet markets analyzed by The Block Research, approximately 92% offer support for bitcoin.
The Block Research examines the growth of blockchain-related citations in scholarly journals using data from Google Scholar for 2021.
2021 has been an active year for U.S. crypto regulation. In addition to adding crypto-related tax amendments to its trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, U.S. regulators have been ramping up their enforcement efforts against crypto companies. One of the biggest crypto-related actions this year was BitMEX’s $100 million settlement with the CFTC and FinCEN for failing to […]
The lifeblood of a cryptocurrency exchange is trading volumes and the most common way these exchanges attract trading volumes is through asset listings. The more tradable cryptocurrencies an exchange supports, the bigger audience of traders it can attract. An example of this can be seen in Coinbase’s support of SHIB tokens in June, just in […]
During The Summer of DeFi in 2020, many decentralized exchanges like Uniswap benefited from their “selling picks and shovels” approach for meeting the demands of DeFi token traders. With the rebirth of the NFT market, the success of the picks and shovels strategy is no different. Starting in August, NFT marketplaces have regularly produced billions […]
Due to their nature, NFTs are often limited in accessing the growing DeFi ecosystem open to many fungible tokens. For example, while you can use ETH as collateral to take out loans or generate yield through staking, NFTs have very limited options in DeFi. The two new protocols mentioned in this piece are attempting to […]
DeFi Digest is a series that summarizes recently launched projects and applications that The Block's research team found interesting.
The Block has updated a 2020 analysis on bitcoin mentions in DOJ press releases as a proxy for bitcoin-related crime trends
In this piece, The Block Research provides a guide on how to find, analyze and interact with non-fungible token projects.
Genie Labs: NFT Liquidity Aggregator Creating liquidity pools for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is difficult to near impossible due to the nature of NFTS — that is, they are not identical, so you can’t pool two NFTs together and offer them up as having similar value like you can with your average ERC-20 token. This liquidity concentration issue […]
The Block Research provides a fresh look at trading fees on the world's top crypto exchanges.
The Block Research's latest Company Intelligence report focuses on Chainalysis.
The Block Research digs into ConsenSys for its latest company intelligence report.
JellyFi: Zero-collateral lending and borrowing Undercollateralized lending and borrowing is a service that many DeFi projects have been attempting to offer. Because of the anonymous nature of DeFi, there are limited repercussions for malicious actors if they default on undercollateralized loans from protocols. As such, the largest DeFi lending protocols are all overcollateralized, which makes […]
The Block Research examines the current state of the Bitcoin network's global mining pool ecosystem.
This week's DeFi Digest explores Alkimiya Protocol and Pawn.Fi.
This week's DeFi Digest from The Block Research explores Lemma and Spectral.
Bitso is a Mexican cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2014. Despite its dominance in Mexico and its presence in the greater Latin America region, Bitso is not a well-known brand in the U.S. and Europe. This is unsurprising as the exchange has historically focused its business and marketing efforts on growing its footprint in Latin America […]
