1/ To wrap up Q3, we tracked down many of the top venture capital firms and hedge funds in crypto (e.g. @a16z, @AlamedaResearch, @fabric_vc) and recorded their liquid portfolios.

Our analysis shows that combined, 53 funds hold 228 unique assets across various sectors. The most commonly held assets by crypto funds Q3'21
2/ Of the top invested assets, @solana possesses the highest-circulating market cap (with BTC and ETH omitted).

@BreederDodo possesses the lowest circulating market cap of the top 15 fund-owned assets while @ArweaveTeam possesses the lowest circulating market cap of the top 5. Solana holds the highest market cap of top crypto fund inves
3/ Similar to Q2, venture investors clearly see large potential within the smart contract and DEX landscapes.

However, it’s worth noting that while file storage is a unique category, it has a strong market share compared to other niches. Smart contract platforms remain the most heavily invested ca
4/ Investing like a crypto fund – venture or hedge – has never been easier.

Get the full breakdown in the latest article from @masonnystrom messari.io/article/messar…

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18 Nov
1/ Listing assets across a variety of exchanges is time-consuming, and purchasing NFTs of the same collection from a variety of exchanges has been tedious, until now.

@genie_xyz seeks to solve this as an NFT aggregator, or as the team describes it, “The Metaverse’s Aggregator”.
2/ @genie_xyz offers two features, Genie Swap and Genie List.

Genie Swap enables anyone to buy or sell multiple NFTs across a variety of marketplaces in a single transaction.

Genie List enables users to batch list NFTs on a variety of marketplaces within the same transaction. Batch swap your NFTs across...
3/ To date, @genie_xyz has facilitated over 6,500 ETH (~$26M) in Swap volume, notable considering the protocol experienced significant volume while in beta.

Perhaps more interestingly is that Genie’s impressive swap volume comes from under 2,000 swaps. Genie has facilitated over ...
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11 Nov
1/ The largest DEX perpetual markets primarily focus on @ethereum.

However, a market for @solana perpetuals has grown, with @mangomarkets, @DriftProtocol, and @bonfida leading the way.

The Solana ecosystem now accounts for 0.8% collective volume-share, and is actively growing. DEX perpetual volumes in Et...
2/ The @solana ecosystem has grown significantly over the last month.

At the beginning of October, Solana accounted for roughly 5% of the non-@dydxprotocol DEX perpetual volume.

Fast forward to early November, the 7-day market share has grown just shy of 30%. Ecosystem perpetual volume ...
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9 Nov
1/ @ArweaveTeam has grown tremendously in the past few months.

On 10/16, the Blockweave – a blockchain-like structure designed to enable scalable, efficient on-chain storage – reached 20TB of data stored on the permaweb.

The first 10TB took 1,139 days, the second took only 87. Arweave data storage is gro...
2/ The catalysts of @ArweaveTeam's exponential growth can be narrowed down to three categories:

+ inexpensive NFT on-chain storage
+ Web3 dApps: social media, music and movie streaming, etc.
+ blockchain storage for layer-1 smart contract platforms Arweave ecosystem (Oct 2021)
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1/ As the @solana ecosystem continues to expand, NFT sales have exploded.

In just its 2nd month of NFT trading, Solana experienced a substantial increase in both the # of projects and trading volume.

By the end of September, total NFT secondary sales volume reached $500M. Solana September witness over $160 million in secondary NFT
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However, Ethereum NFT projects have several varieties.

If Solana wishes to truly vie for NFT dominance, it will have to support other types of projects beyond collectible pfp NFTs. Solana maintains competitive NFT stats compared to Ethereum
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+ Vaults
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+ Iron Bank
+ Special

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However, the second period of growth is noticeably different. Stablecoin counts in vaults actually declined from mid-September to mid-October. Yearn Top V2 Vault 2021 Growth
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+ The DeGenesis Event
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