2/ Looking at monthly active developers since launch, Etheruem again leads the pack.
But the Polkadot ecosystem is clearly showing impressive developer traction.
There is also a noticeable spike in monthly active developers working on Cosmos in 2021 versus prior years.
3/ Full-time developers on Near skyrocketed in 2021, surpassing Cardano and Tezos.
Avalanche and Terra appear to be following a similar trajectory.
4/ The @ElectricCapital team found that Polkadot, Solana, Near, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and Terra have faster initial ecosystem growth than Etheruem.
Not surprising given the explosion in Web3 adoption over the past year.
Note that some of these are EVM-compatible.
5/ Why does being EVM-compatible matter?
The EVM-compatible layer 1s are growing faster than Etheruem.
Network effects in action.
6/ DeFi developers nearly doubled in 2021, growing to ~2,600 from 1,500.
Roughly ~1,000 of those are full-time developers.
Remarkable given the current $260 billion of TVL in DeFi (Source: @DefiLlama)
7/ Overall, 2021 was an incredible year for Web3.
In total, the industry now has more than 18,000 active developers building the future of the internet.
Still, that’s only 50% of the developers employed by Amazon and a small fraction of the 26.9 million developers worldwide.
8/ Massive kudos to the team at @ElectricCapital for publishing the 2021 Annual Web3 Developer Report.
📑👇 Check out the link below for the full report and a great breakdown by Electric Capital’s @MariaShen.
In 2024... Bitcoin will set a new all-time high, the spot bitcoin ETF will be the most successful ETF launch of all time, Coinbase’s revenue will double, and more…
Here are 10 Crypto Predictions for 2024 by the team at @BitwiseInvest
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Prediction #1: Bitcoin will trade above $80,000, setting a new all-time high.
There are two major catalysts that will help get us there: the anticipated launch of a spot Bitcoin ETF in early 2024 and the halving of new bitcoin supply around the end of April.
Prediction #2: Spot bitcoin ETFs will be approved, and collectively they will be the most successful ETF launch of all time.
Within five years, we estimate spot bitcoin ETFs could capture 1% of the $7.2 trillion U.S. ETF market, or $72 billion in AUM.
DeFi applications produce revenue, just like traditional financial institutions. The revenue generally comes from charging users a fee for transacting on the application.
Over the past two years, the top ten DeFi apps (by market cap) generated ~$5B in revenue.
3/ PROFIT
Some applications are already channeling part of their revenue to token holders in the form of dividends or buy-backs.
When evaluating DeFi apps, understanding how much profit exists for token holders—and how the profit is distributed—is an important nuance.
In our newest research piece, @Anais_Rchl, @GayatriPC_, & I explore Staking as a Service (STaaS), an emerging crypto sector poised for growth.
- The Merge & why people stake crypto assets
- Staking as a Service & the growth of STaaS providers
- The outlook for STaaS
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Ethereum's transition to Proof-of-Stake is reshaping the crypto economy, pushing the idea of staking front and center in investors' minds.
Long-term ETH holders who choose to stake now have the potential to earn a 4-8% yield on their position through staking.
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So, what is staking?
Staking involves making a financial commitment to a blockchain in its native asset to secure the network. It's a fundamental component of blockchain infrastructure because of the security and decentralization it provides.
1/9 Is it ideal that more than 40% of the blocks created on #Ethereum in the hours following #TheMerge belong to just two staking service providers: Lido (DeFi) and Coinbase (CeFi)? No
2/9 First, it makes sense that the largest staking service providers have the advantage early on, particularly in the hours & days following Ethereum’s transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS)...
3/9 After all, most stakers experiencing issues during the transition to PoS will be the individual stakers running their own validators, not the prominent service providers with full-time teams & resources dedicated to staking operations.