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Cryptocurrency research and trade recommendations by @Crypto_Briefing.
May 5, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
Are we about to see DeFi Summer in 2021?

Thread 👇 1/ Last year’s ‘DeFi summer’ ignited a macro bullish trend in crypto. Following the launch of @compoundfinance governance token, the development of DeFi building blocks exploded.

There’s hints of another DeFi wave developing for 2021.
Apr 21, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
Is high transactions-per-second good? Not necessarily. Sometimes, high throughput creates a new set of issues.

Thread 👇 1/ Ethereum has an ever-growing file, a 'state'. Full nodes have to keep hundreds of gigabytes of the state data. The cost of doing so keeps going up every year, pricing node operators out of the network. If this trend goes too fast, the network becomes less decentralized. Image