1/ CLOBs have been TradFi's backbone for decades, but on-chain they create new problems: latency arbitrage, MEV, toxic flow, and higher costs for traders.

The ecosystem needs better market structures.

Enter: Dual Flow Batch Auctions (DFBA). 2/ Every DeFi exchange design has evolved around blockchain constraints. AMMs unlocked permissionless trading but introduced slippage and sandwich attacks. Batch auctions addressed MEV but fragmented liquidity and slowed execution.

1/ Block safety guarantees vary from chain to chain—impacting protocols that utilize bridges.

Our team has written a series of blog posts to explain core concepts for finality.

Here’s our first entry: jumpcrypto.com/bridging-and-f… 2/ The need for a concept like finality arises from a fundamental problem in decentralized, distributed systems.

If there’s no authority to provide ground truth, how can we be certain if/when our view of the state is consistent with the rest of the network?

1/ With the Merge hours away, there are a lot of questions about what exchanges will be doing.

Here’s a list that may help you navigate this exciting moment in crypto’s history.

But keep in mind, the information below may change rapidly. Each exchange should be consulted. 2/ Binance plans to suspend deposits and withdrawals on September 15th at 00:30 UTC for ETH/ERC-20. Support for forked tokens will be evaluated. If there is a forked token, it will be credited at a 1:1 ratio.

.@jump_ is excited to be a part of the @InjectiveLabs funding round to support the growth of its interoperable blockchain and growing ecosystem of financial dApps.

jumpcrypto.com/injective-rais… 1/5 Injective's blockchain is optimized for DeFi applications and institutions alike with plug-and-play modules (on-chain order book, binary options, derivatives, etc.) that developers can use to build sophisticated financial dApps easily. 2/5

Security Stack-Up: How Bridges Compare

Bridges are a big target in terms of security, as they present a quadratic risk surface.

2022 has been a banner year for bridge exploits, with over $2 billion lost to hacks.

jumpcrypto.com/security-stack… 1/9 Without a deeper focus on security, it is inevitable that more exploits and losses will occur.

For that reason, bridges need to be configured to work securely under the worst conditions. 2/9

1/ Custody – Why it matters and what are the options? 2/ Any asset in web3 needs to be custodied (real word) somewhere.

In other words, there's a private key (or group of private keys), that has control over access to funds.

1/ The calm of crypto winter brings its own advantages.

Among them is the chance for builders to build sustainable tokenomics, and move away from 8000% APYs, non-productive lockups, and other models designed only for the short term.

We explain how… 2/ Tokenomics, of course, covers all sorts of topics — initial supply, treasury size, etc. But today we're focused on defining two core principles and building the right framework.

1/ Over the last few weeks, we at Jump Crypto have been studying the UST depegging and have three key observations. 2/ First, the episode was triggered by a combination of trades in the UST/3CRV pool during a seventy-five minute window on Saturday, May 7.

New Markets, Efficient Markets: A @jump_ analysis

Today, we’re studying financial returns for new tokens. After all, this is one way in which crypto is special: low barriers for someone to access new launches. In particular, we want to understand: are markets for new crypto tokens efficient or not? Are there systematic and predictable returns in the historical data?

Surprisingly, markets are pretty efficient!

Yield Farming: A thread 🧵 Since DeFi summer, yield farming has become a past time for apes, degens, and serious crypto investors  
 
While some of the stigma associated with rug pulls remains, we would like to understand the fundamental exchange of value that yield farming entails

Allow us to re-introduce ourselves... At our core, we’re developers and crypto natives.

Which is why we felt it was time to update our look to reflect just that.

🤝 Partner Spotlight: @PythNetwork 🔮 When it comes to DeFi, data can make or break a project.

Enter: Pyth Network

1/12 There has been some confusion surrounding Solidly’s weekly emissions schedule. Our team dove into the code, here’s what we found 👇 tl;dr The vast majority of emissions will be distributed over the coming few months, leading to a much quicker convergence to the tail emissions value of 0.2%.