Is This the End of OpenSea’s Dominance? OpenSea’s dominance as the most popular NFT marketplace has been staggering. Its closest competition, Magic Eden, typically sees less than 30% of Opensea’s monthly volume. Monthly NFT Sale Volume Distribution Across Platforms

Privacy Tokens are Struggling to Stay Exchange-Listed Centralised banking is anything but private. Banks are required by law to carry out KYC (know your customer) checks and abide by AML (anti money laundering) laws, which erode any possibility for customers to retain anonymity. …

Are L2’s the answer to Ethereum’s woes? When blockchains achieve a certain user-base, some aspects of their functionality can deteriorate. The obvious example is Ethereum. Vitalik Buterin’s initial aim for the project was to build an alternative to Bitcoin which could be faster and cheaper than its predecessor. Recently however…

December 2021 Update: It is now TOO EXPENSIVE to use UNI for anything other than very big transfers and the ‘fee-flippening’ has happened ages ago, viz;

On June 15th and 16th, Stacks Ventures showcased some of the most exciting developing projects on the Stacks blockchain. The demonstrations ranged from Gaming and Web 3 applications to mining and NFT protocols. …

Markets have once again tanked over the weekend with ETH down more than 30% over the past week. BTC too has fallen by almost 20% over the same period. The Federal Reserve announced on Friday that in order to curb rising inflation rates, it will be raising the central bank…

NFT Summer Could Be On The Horizon… When thinking of market conditions which foster innovation, a ‘bear’ market might not immediately jump to mind. Investors are more hesitant to place trust in developing platforms and development can slow during a crypto price squeeze. …

With markets looking uncertain, DeFi could be in for big changes… 2021 was an explosive year for the DeFi sector. Nansen estimated that the sector’s 2021 growth compared to 2020 was a 1,120% increase by TVL. Ethereum and marketplaces such as OpenSea enabled NFTs to achieve new heights of popularity and utility. …

Why Algorithmic Stablecoins Are Struggling to Stand the Heat Three weeks ago, we took a look at algorithmic stablecoin protocol Terra (UST) and the risks associated with the methods used to maintain price parity with the fiat currency they represent. Since then, crypto market conditions have not been favourable. Bitcoin…