Growth Risks Emerge, Near-Term Volatility Warrants Attention🚨

Growth risks are mounting as recent U.S. employment data challenges the inflation narrative and signals a potential slowdown.

With crucial CPI data due Thursday, near-term volatility risks are elevated despite a brighter 2026 outlook.

#Binance Research breaks down key indicators to watch ⬇️ 1/ Several recently released U.S. employment indicators have broadly deteriorated, challenging the prevailing narrative of long-term inflation and raising concerns about future economic growth.

We recently published our findings on Decentralized Science (“DeSci”). Let’s revisit the challenges in traditional science research and how DeSci could be a solution.

Read on to learn about our key findings below 🔽 2/ Background

The scientific research process faces significant challenges, particularly in translating basic research into practical applications. This has led to the “Valley of Death”, where 80-90% of research projects fail before reaching human trials.

What happened in the crypto markets last week?

#Binance Research’s Weekly Alpha 🧵👇 1/ Macro/TradFi

A Russian State Duma member proposed a national Bitcoin reserve to counter economic sanctions and ensure financial stability.

What happened in the crypto markets last week?

#Binance Research’s Weekly Alpha 🧵👇 1/ Macro/TradFi

President-elect @realDonaldTrump has confirmed Paul Atkins’ nomination as the next US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman.

Binance Research’s new half-year report broken down:

Topic 1: #Bitcoin 👇🧵(0/8) 1/ Bitcoin has had a good first half, and its dominance has been rising, now upwards of 55%. Fundamental metrics, including market cap, trading volume, transactions, hash rate, Lightning Network capacity, and others, have continued to improve....

Atomicals Protocol provides a simple way to organize digital objects on the Bitcoin network. What is it and what makes it special?

A quick overview 🧵 1/ What is the Atomicals Protocol?

The Atomicals Protocol is a protocol for minting, transferring and updating digital objects for UTXO blockchains such as Bitcoin. Through Atomicals, users can create and transfer both fungible and non-fungible tokens on the Bitcoin network.

As we head into a new week, let’s recap the last few days. The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro/TradFi

The London Stock Exchange is gearing up to introduce a market for exchange-traded notes (“ETN”) for #Bitcoin and #Ethereum, targeting May 28 as the proposed date.

As we head into a new week, let’s recap the last few days. The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro/TradFi

#Bitcoin's market cap soared past US$1.4T earlier this week, exceeding silver's value and making it the world's eighth most valuable asset at one point.

ERC404 has taken the crypto sphere by storm. What is it and how does it work?

A short thread on the basics 🧵 1/ What is #ERC404?

ERC404 is an unofficial, experimental token standard that aims to combine the characteristics of fungible tokens and NFTs. Note that it has not gone through the usual Ethereum Improvement Proposal (“EIP”) process.

1/ Rollups are the most popular types of #Ethereum L2 scaling solutions. A number of major rollups have launched solutions that make it possible for developers to launch new rollups based on their tech. Examples include @arbitrum Orbit chains, @optimismFND OP Stack chains, etc. 2/ Rollup-as-a-service (“RaaS”) providers help users deploy and maintain their own rollups. To facilitate this, they provide a range of solutions and services, from rollup management to no-code deployment.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro / Tradfi

@jpmorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network has gone live. It is a blockchain-based collateral settlement application that enables their clients to utilize tokenized assets as collateral.

The #NFT space has enjoyed renewed growth and interest since 2022, as new models seek to unlock liquidity within these assets through “NFTFi”. What are some of the latest developments and how are they faring?

Let’s dive into the NFT Marketplaces and Lending sectors.
🧵👇 1/ NFT Marketplaces

Existing marketplaces such as @opensea adopt the auction and marketplace models where users trade individual NFTs. However, more recently, we witnessed the emergence of Leveraged Trading and #AMMs where users can be exposed to NFTs without direct ownership.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

Inflation rate in the UK remained high at 10.1% in March, exceeding expectations of 9.8%. This was largely driven by energy prices, which increased 40.5% year-on-year.

The emergence of layer-2s, ordinals, and technical upgrades are all serving to transform the Bitcoin network.

In our latest #Binance Research report, we take a closer look into what is potentially a new era for Bitcoin.

Some takeaways ⬇️ 🧵 1/ Despite smart contract Layer-1s consistently taking the headlines, Bitcoin has retained its dominant position atop the #crypto market cap charts.

1/ Real estate, stocks, carbon credits, and other financial assets are coming to DeFi.

In one of our latest #Binance Research reports, we explore the world of Real World Assets (“RWAs”) 💰🔒

Some takeaways ⬇️ 🧵
research.binance.com/en/analysis/re… 2/ Real World Assets (“RWAs”) are assets that exist off-chain, but are tokenized and brought on-chain to be used as a source of yield within DeFi.

RWAs can represent both tangible and intangible assets such as real estate, #stocks, #cars, or almost any other store of value.

1/ 2022 was a defining year for crypto, which will shape the industry for years to come.

We compiled every influential event and key highlights of 2022 in one comprehensive report.

A #Binance Research thread on the key takeaways ⬇️ 🧵
research.binance.com/en/analysis/fu… 2/ L1s had an eventful 2022. Notable events include Ethereum’s transition to PoS 🐼, BNB Chain gaining market share 📈, and new L1s such as Aptos coming to market and Sui launching its testnet 🆕.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

Non-farm payrolls are set to have increased by 200,000 last month, according to a consensus forecast compiled by Bloomberg. The slowdown in November is a further sign that demand for new workers is easing amid the Federal Reserve’s historic efforts to cool the economy.

Cross-chain communication is key to a multi-chain future and contributes to DeFi composability. How does the interoperability landscape look and what are the pros and cons of existing solutions?

A thread 🧵👇 1/ The existence of numerous L1s has contributed to the fragmentation of liquidity and siloed ecosystems. For the multi-chain thesis to play out, interoperability between protocols needs to improve.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

Is a pivot on the horizon? Not yet, but one can hope. Minutes from the Federal Reserve meeting documented that it would “soon be appropriate” to reduce the pace of rate increases as officials evaluate the economic impact of recent measures.

With one of the world’s largest sporting events approaching this Sunday, we took a look at how crypto has been involved with the World Cup.

Here are some notable finds: A thread 👇🧵
#WorldCup2022 1/ Earlier this year, FIFA announced a partnership with Algorand as their official blockchain platform for the World Cup. Algorand will “assist FIFA in further developing its digital assets strategy.”

fifa.com/about-fifa/pre…

We published our Crypto Industry Map recently which provides an overview of the #crypto ecosystem. We explored 4 verticals in the first edition: #Infrastructure, #DeFi, #NFT, and #GameFi.

Below are some interesting finds from our Infrastructure Map: A thread 👇 1/ Scalability and Fairness: As L1s see increasing adoption, more projects aim to make blockchains more scalable by batching transactions off-chain and fairer by implementing efficient distribution of Maximal Extractable Value.