Steven Zheng

Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle was launched with the goal of creating a platform to allow consumers and merchants to interact with digital currency payments — primarily bitcoin at that time. Since its inception, Circle has undertaken multiple adjustments to its core business, from growing into a digital currency banking platform to […]

In this week's DeFi Digest, The Block's Steven Zheng explores MEV projects.

Founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini was marketed as a regulatory-friendly cryptocurrency exchange.  As described in Ben Mezrich’s book Bitcoin Billionaires, unlike the early supporters of bitcoin who had libertarian and anti-establishment political leanings, “Cameron and Tyler also knew that government regulation would come; and unlike many in the room, they believed […]

This week's DeFi Digest explores Fractional and Risk Harbor.

Company Overview 2020 saw an acceleration of large financial institutions and payment companies expanding their support for cryptocurrency and blockchain services. Powering the backend infrastructure of many of these expansion efforts is Paxos, a firm that, until more recently, shied away from the media spotlight that other crypto firms like Coinbase and Binance have basked […]

As the cryptocurrency industry continues to grow, communications between industry leaders and lawmakers will be increasingly important. Due to the novelty and technical aspects of the industry, securing the attention of lawmakers and regulators and providing research and education helps in the creation of sensible laws that many cryptocurrency firms operate under. In the U.S., […]

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.