My takeaways on the $ETH ecosystem arms race after looking at the last 30 days of onchain data:
β³ π @base (high DeFi/low stables activity) is the undisputed home of degens and retail
β³ πΈ @0xPolygon (outsized stables/low DeFi) has the most advanced consumer economy that isn't just speculative activity/trading
β³ π¦ @arbitrum (high DeFi/high stables) is establishing itself as the early L2 winner for institutional DeFi
Active DeFi Users:
Base-2.6m
Ethereum-1.7m
Arbitrum-1.4m
Polygon-1.2m
Are we witnessing NFT lendingβs breakthrough moment? πΏ
This question is fresh on my mind as last week NFT lending protocols surpassed $1 billion in cumulative borrow volume, a major milestone.
Itβs still early but user growth also looks good: protocols in the category have now crossed 50k total users and at a rate that is accelerating. However, there are just 7,073 unique users overall when addresses are de-duped across protocols.
Short, medium, and long-term predictions for Canto's newest feature: Contract Secured Revenue (CSR)
For the initiated, CSR is new experimental mechanism that diverts some % of @CantoPublic's L1 transaction fees to developers when users interact with their smart contracts.
As @jessewldn, @Derekmw23 and myself wrote in our blog post last week, CSR is a new way for web3 developers to boostrap, sustain, and grow protocols β one that is a direct function of something people use.
Read this 𧡠to go from 0 to 100 on stablecoin designs and risk π
First, what are stablecoins?
A stablecoin is a crypto asset whose price is "pegged" to the reference price of a reserve asset. The most popular reserve asset for stablecoins is one US dollar.
Stablecoins have a combined marketcap of more than $170B. A look at the market prices of the top 10 stablecoins on CoinGecko and we can see that not all of them are functioning properly. Why is that the case?