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Coinbase's recent weekly report suggests the U.S. economy may have peaked in Q2 '24, which may discourage retail investors from further investing in crypto or stocks. The report talks about key recession indicators like a rising unemployment rate and an inverted Treasury yield curve amidst expectations of a September Fed rate cut.
The SEC has terminated its investigation on the Stacks blockchain and parent company Hiro and will not pursue legal action. Stacks performed the first SEC-qualified token offering in 2019, initially classifying its token as securities before transitioning to a decentralized network.
Forma aims to co create Solana Economic Zones that build bridges between the web3 economy and Nations' economies to help both prosper exponentially. The first ever Solana Economic Zone will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and will have a month-long assembly for founders, builders, investors, and policy makers to work together.
MakerDAO is set to launch an open competition to invest $1 billion in tokenized U.S. Treasury products, attracting interest from major players like BlackRock's BUIDL, Ondo Finance, and Superstate. This move is expected to significantly boost the $1.8 billion tokenized real-world asset market.
Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, has a new book that explains capital allocation and how it can be revolutionized using crypto and blockchain. It dives into mechanisms for funding and coordination, including quadratic rounds and retroactive grants, and explains the incentives to make these systems work. The 270-page book is available for free.
This article discusses the challenges and potential solutions related to intent-based protocols in decentralized finance, particularly the need for more solvers to execute user intents efficiently. It highlights the current barriers to entry for solvers, such as staking requirements and high operational costs, and explores emerging solutions like ERC-7683 for standardizing intents and platforms like Khalani for solver collaboration to address these issues and avoid centralization.
Vitalik Buterin's EthCC keynote explained Ethereum's strengths, areas of improvement, and future vision for the ecosystem. Going forward, the Ethereum base layer could be anything from a minimal proof verifier for L2s to a high-performance Solana-like L1, though Buterin sees being the L2 base layer as the focus. Ethereum's staking is extensive and decentralized, and solo staking is further improving. There are risks around socially recovering from 51% attacks and preventing censorship, and L2s need to incorporate more trustless verification via light clients and zero-knowledge proofs.
Much criticism has been put towards governance tokens that do not accrue value or pay dividends. Uniswap's UNI has not paid dividends or collected fees yet. However, the token has a multi-billion dollar market cap and the protocol has a 70% DEX market share, generated $820 million in fees distributed to LPs, and has over 500k DAUs. Though some stocks do not pay dividends and have high valuations yet still earn revenue, some protocols do not collect any fees for their treasury or token holders, so the value of pure governance rights and the potential of a future fee switch is the basis for its worth.
Consumer crypto dapps can be categorized by their go-to-market focus as either degen, crypto-savvy, or mainstream-oriented.
Germany's crypto wallet balance reached zero after the government transferred all of its remaining bitcoin to various exchanges and market makers.
This thread shares ten new tools for crypto analysis, portfolio tracking, and onchain data.
On June 22, CoinStats detected unauthorized access to its infrastructure, resulting in the theft of approximately $2.2 million in cryptocurrency from 1,590 CoinStats Wallets.