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The Blast Airdrop Opp
Analysis The Blast Airdrop Opp Yes, it seems insane. But is there an opportunity? 1 day ago • 1 0
Is Solana Airdrop Season Here?
DeFi Is Solana Airdrop Season Here? New airdrops could pump some life into Solana's TVL 2 days ago • 6 0
10 Projects I Want Someone to Build on EigenLayer
Analysis 10 Projects I Want Someone to Build on EigenLayer Guest Post: Startups waiting to be built on EigenLayer 3 days ago • 5 0
What the Binance Judgment Means for Crypto
Analysis What the Binance Judgment Means for Crypto CZ is out, Binance is out billions, and crypto is ready to move on 1 week ago • 3 0
Polygon's 2023 Rebirth
Analysis Polygon's 2023 Rebirth Polygon is no longer just a partnerships play; it's a tech powerhouse 2 weeks ago • 6 1
Are We Expecting Too Much from Spot ETFs?
Analysis Are We Expecting Too Much from Spot ETFs? Hopes are high, but are they too high? 2 weeks ago • 1 1
Solana DeFi's Best Airdrop Opps
Citizen-only Analysis Solana DeFi's Best Airdrop Opps Trying to maximize your Solana exposure? Check out these protocols. 3 weeks ago • 10 0
A Magic Bullet for DeFi UX
DeFi A Magic Bullet for DeFi UX DeFi UX is broken, Intents can help 3 weeks ago • 4 2
Today in Markets: Sayonara Shorts
Citizen-only Analysis Today in Markets: Sayonara Shorts Bankless market analysis for November 6, 2023 3 weeks ago • 1 0
DeFi Narratives that Matter
Citizen-only DeFi DeFi Narratives that Matter Let's cut through the noise of DeFi hype 3 weeks ago • 5 0
Navigating Trades with Intent
DeFi Navigating Trades with Intent Decentralized exchanges rethink their future with intents 1 month ago • 3 1
The Bear Take on Bitcoin’s Pump
Analysis The Bear Take on Bitcoin’s Pump Analyst Jack gives a cautious read on up-only crypto market sentiment 1 month ago • 3 0
Bull vs Bear: UNI
Citizen-only Analysis Bull vs Bear: UNI Bankless unpacks the future prospects of Uniswap's native token 1 month ago • 5 0
Bull Market Character Classes: Expansion Pack
Analysis Bull Market Character Classes: Expansion Pack Level up your ambitions in the next bull market. 1 month ago • 4 1
David's Take: 5 Big Questions Facing Crypto's Future
Analysis David's Take: 5 Big Questions Facing Crypto's Future Unanswered questions ft. Superchains, LSTs, Solana and more 1 month ago • 9 0
Can Farcaster Make Crypto Social Happen?
Analysis Can Farcaster Make Crypto Social Happen? Crypto social is cooking up some new ideas 2 months ago • 0 0
Starknet's Onchain Gaming Oasis
Analysis Starknet's Onchain Gaming Oasis Crypto gaming is early and Starknet is racing for an early lead 2 months ago • 5 0
Leave Lido Alone
DeFi Leave Lido Alone Opinion: Concerns surrounding Lido's dominance are valid, but we shoul... 2 months ago • 0 0
Solana's Past, Present and Future
Analysis Solana's Past, Present and Future Where is Solana now... and where is it headed? 2 months ago • 1 0
The L2 Pivot
Analysis The L2 Pivot The competition settles on Ethereum 2 months ago • 3 0
Choose Your Bull Market Character Class
Analysis Choose Your Bull Market Character Class Get ready for the newest release of Crypto™ 2 months ago • 7 2
America vs. NFTs?
Analysis America vs. NFTs? Is the SEC coming for your NFT startup? 3 months ago • 1 0
Top 10 Rug Pulls
Analysis Top 10 Rug Pulls What to learn from the worst rugs of all time 3 months ago • 1 0
Decentralizing Today's Top L2s
Analysis Decentralizing Today's Top L2s Where Ethereum's most popular L2s still need to level-up 3 months ago • 2 0
Can friend.tech Go Mainstream?
Analysis Can friend.tech Go Mainstream? friend.tech blew up over the weekend; is SocialFi a thing now? 3 months ago • 0 0
David's Take: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding an MEV Bot
DeFi David's Take: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding an MEV Bot The 'offchain signed orders' meta 4 months ago • 1 0
5 Crypto Startups to Watch Right Now
Citizen-only Analysis 5 Crypto Startups to Watch Right Now VCs backed plenty of startups last month; here are the ones we're most... 4 months ago • 4 0
Stopping Bridge Hacks
Analysis Stopping Bridge Hacks Bridges keep getting hacked; how can we build them better? 4 months ago • 0 0
DeFi's Contagion Curveball
DeFi DeFi's Contagion Curveball $110 million in at-risk loans could trigger a nightmare liquidation ca... 4 months ago • 1 0
David’s Takeaways from EthCC 2023
Analysis David’s Takeaways from EthCC 2023 We're Ready. 4 months ago • 6 0
A World of Controversy for Worldcoin
Analysis A World of Controversy for Worldcoin WLD is live, but is this proof-of-personhood project worth supporting? 4 months ago • 1 0
FedNow or FedNever?
Analysis FedNow or FedNever? The Fed's tech push is a step towards further tyranny 4 months ago • 1 0
The Ethereum Q2 2023 Report
Citizen-only Analysis The Ethereum Q2 2023 Report Today, we dig into one not-so-simple question: How is Ethereum doing? 5 months ago • 11 0
Is XRP Doing Anything Interesting?
Analysis Is XRP Doing Anything Interesting? Has the investment thesis changed for XRP? 5 months ago • 0 0
The Winners and Losers of Today's XRP Judgment
Analysis The Winners and Losers of Today's XRP Judgment We unpack today's SEC v. Ripple Labs summary judgment 5 months ago • 3 0
What's Next for Liquid Staking?
Analysis What's Next for Liquid Staking? Cooking Up the Future of LSDs 5 months ago • 1 0
Do VCs Still Care About Crypto?
Analysis Do VCs Still Care About Crypto? We dig into Q2 crypto venture funding and pull out some particularly i... 5 months ago • 5 0
8 NFT Projects That Will Survive The Bear
Citizen-only Analysis 8 NFT Projects That Will Survive The Bear Our chief NFT analyst makes his picks 5 months ago • 4 0
Tracking the LayerZero Opportunity
Analysis Tracking the LayerZero Opportunity We unpack LayerZero: a protocol that wants blockchains to get cozier w... 5 months ago • 7 0
8 Early Tokens That We're Aping
Citizen-only Analysis 8 Early Tokens That We're Aping We asked team members and subscribers one simple question: what are yo... 5 months ago • 10 0
Zuzalu and Ethereum’s Infinite Frontier
Analysis Zuzalu and Ethereum’s Infinite Frontier David descends on Montenegro to learn about AI, longevity, decentraliz... 5 months ago • 3 0
Wall Street Wants Bitcoin
Analysis Wall Street Wants Bitcoin After an altcoin crackdown, institutions are ready to make their bets ... 5 months ago • 0 0
10 Altcoins That Will Survive The Bear
Citizen-only Analysis 10 Altcoins That Will Survive The Bear The ten altcoins our Senior Analyst is watching closely. 5 months ago • 10 1
Solana Isn't Dead, Yet
Analysis Solana Isn't Dead, Yet After catching SEC heat and getting delisted by Robinhood, SOL is in a... 6 months ago • 0 0
10 Bitcoin Buy Signals
Citizen-only Analysis 10 Bitcoin Buy Signals The hot BTC catalysts you should be watching 6 months ago • 2 0
Chasing 'Sticky' Liquidity
DeFi Chasing 'Sticky' Liquidity Projects are searching out more sustainable token models 6 months ago • 0 0
Sounding the Lido Alarm
Analysis Sounding the Lido Alarm Will the SEC's exchange attacks accelerate Lido stake centralization? 6 months ago • 0 0
The SEC Endgame
Analysis The SEC Endgame The SEC wants to regulate crypto... out of existence 6 months ago • 3 0
Why the SEC is Suing Binance
Analysis Why the SEC is Suing Binance The global crypto exchange is facing a stateside onslaught 6 months ago • 2 0
8 High-Potential Opportunities on Starknet
Citizen-only Analysis 8 High-Potential Opportunities on Starknet Don't miss out on any Ethereum L2 opportunities on Starknet. 6 months ago • 4 1
Stablecoins: 1 Year After Terra
Analysis Stablecoins: 1 Year After Terra What has the market learned one year after the UST fiasco? 6 months ago • 3 0
Is Lido Unstoppable?
Analysis Is Lido Unstoppable? The liquid staking giant is getting bigger and concerns are mounting 6 months ago • 1 0
ETH Power Balancing
Analysis ETH Power Balancing How Ethereum could shake up block building to protect the network. 6 months ago • 0 0
Why is Everyone Mad at Ledger?
Analysis Why is Everyone Mad at Ledger? Ledger looks to recover the narrative. 7 months ago • 5 0
Will Rollups Ever Decentralize?
Analysis Will Rollups Ever Decentralize? The Tech Speeding Up the 'Progressive Decentralization' of Rollups 7 months ago • 5 0
Why the Devs Want to Burn More ETH
Analysis Why the Devs Want to Burn More ETH MEV-Burn: The Next Big Ethereum Upgrade 7 months ago • 4 0
EigenLayer: the Harbinger of Restaking
Analysis EigenLayer: the Harbinger of Restaking "Restaking lets ETH stakers go from Ethereum monogamy to network polya... 7 months ago • 9 0
Tokenizing Our Desires
Analysis Tokenizing Our Desires Has Web3 altered our brains? 7 months ago • 2 0
Coinbase Rallies the Troops
Analysis Coinbase Rallies the Troops How Coinbase is fighting back against U.S. regulators. 7 months ago • 2 0
ETH Withdrawals One Week Later
Analysis ETH Withdrawals One Week Later A retrospective on how the Ethereum ecosystem is handling the Shapella... 8 months ago • 3 0
Where Does Ethereum Go Next?
Analysis Where Does Ethereum Go Next? The Ethereum upgrades you should keep an eye on post-Shapella. 8 months ago • 8 0
5 Bullish Crypto Market Signals
Analysis 5 Bullish Crypto Market Signals The market data making us ask, 'are we back?' 8 months ago • 7 0
Analyzing ETH’s Big Week
DeFi Analyzing ETH’s Big Week How did crypto markets react to Shapella? 8 months ago • 6 0
How Shapella Pushes Ethereum Forward
Analysis How Shapella Pushes Ethereum Forward Withdrawals are arriving, what's next? 8 months ago • 4 0
Everything You Need to Know About Shapella
Analysis Everything You Need to Know About Shapella We unpack the Shanghai + Capella upgrades and their nested opportuniti... 8 months ago • 11 0
How Arbitrum Beats Optimism
Analysis How Arbitrum Beats Optimism Arbitrum's token launch appears to be a game-changer in the L2 Wars. 8 months ago • 3 0
Bitcoin is Dominating
Analysis Bitcoin is Dominating As another financial crisis looms, BTC is now the flight-to-safety. 8 months ago • 3 0
The Fed Did This
Analysis The Fed Did This The banking crisis started with the Fed's biggest blindspot. 9 months ago • 4 0
Is DeFi Too Reliant on Banks?
DeFi Is DeFi Too Reliant on Banks? TradFi bank runs are leading to DeFi headaches. They shouldn't be. 9 months ago • 2 0
How a Few Banks Lost Everything All at Once
Analysis How a Few Banks Lost Everything All at Once A complete rundown on the market chaos and what it means for the futur... 9 months ago • 6 0
Withdrawals are Coming!
Analysis Withdrawals are Coming! We break down the potential impacts of ETH’s next big upgrade. 9 months ago • 12 0
Bankless Token Ratings | March 2023
Citizen-only Token Bible Bankless Token Ratings | March 2023 What does Bankless think about ATOM, OP, FXS, UNI and GFLY? 9 months ago • 26 1
What’s New with ZKs?
Analysis What’s New with ZKs? Zero-knowledge proofs are game-changing. Here’s where the ZK scene i... 9 months ago • 6 0
The New Stablecoin
DeFi The New Stablecoin A new breed of app-specific stablecoins could be just what DeFi needs. 9 months ago • 7 0
Open Season on OpenSea
Analysis Open Season on OpenSea Blur’s momentum post-airdrop shows this marketplace fight is just ge... 9 months ago • 2 0
How Financial Advisors See Crypto in 2023
Analysis How Financial Advisors See Crypto in 2023 2022 was a rough one, but what do financial advisors think about cryp... 9 months ago • 0 0
5 Things I Learned at StarkWare Sessions
Analysis 5 Things I Learned at StarkWare Sessions Can't make it to every crypto conference? Don't worry, Bankless brings... 10 months ago • 0 0
The State of Optimism
Analysis The State of Optimism L2 season is upon us... how is Optimism doing? 10 months ago • 5 0
Coinbase Stock Won’t Stop
Analysis Coinbase Stock Won’t Stop What's driving the recent $COIN rally? 10 months ago • 2 0
The Promises of Blockchain Gaming
Analysis The Promises of Blockchain Gaming Gaming will be big for crypto. Decentralization will be huge for gamer... 10 months ago • 2 0
What’s Going On With Aptos?
Analysis What’s Going On With Aptos? We unpack the VC-adored L1 blockchain's recent token pump. 10 months ago • 24 1
Ethereum's Economic Engine
Analysis Ethereum's Economic Engine Ethereum is the world’s first self-maintaining financial system. Tha... 10 months ago • 52 0
Arbitrum is Mooning 🚀
DeFi Arbitrum is Mooning 🚀 It's L2 season, and we're analyzing Arbitrum's market dominance. 10 months ago • 41 0
Why This Rally Is Different
Analysis Why This Rally Is Different Markets are pumping, but does this rally have legs? 10 months ago • 1 0
How Is Polygon Doing It?
Analysis How Is Polygon Doing It? It seems just about everyone is partnering with Polygon, we unpack why... 11 months ago • 4 0
State of Ethereum Report — Q4 2022
Analysis State of Ethereum Report — Q4 2022 An overview of Ethereum performance across the protocol, DeFi, L2s and... 11 months ago • 2 0
Anatomy of the DCG Dumpster Fire
Analysis Anatomy of the DCG Dumpster Fire We dig into the cascading struggles of DCG, Genesis and Barry Silbert. 11 months ago • 4 0
Bankless Token Ratings | January 2023
Citizen-only Analysis Bankless Token Ratings | January 2023 What does Bankless think about SAND, INDEX, FXS, and DYDX? 11 months ago • 15 0
What Will Cause The Next Bull Run?
Analysis What Will Cause The Next Bull Run? Here are the key areas to keep an eye on. 11 months ago • 19 0
Onchain-ing Everything with RWAs
Analysis Onchain-ing Everything with RWAs Real World Assets are coming, is DeFi ready? 11 months ago • 42 0
The Future Of Liquid Staking
DeFi The Future Of Liquid Staking The sector is pumping, but can anyone catch Lido? 12 months ago • 2 0
The Biggest Crypto Moments of 2022
Analysis The Biggest Crypto Moments of 2022 It was a wild year. We break down the heroes, villains and wins. 12 months ago • 0 0
5 DeFi Metrics Surging Post-FTX
Analysis 5 DeFi Metrics Surging Post-FTX Your bags may be suffering, but these five on-chain DeFi metrics are u... 12 months ago • 0 0
The Perks of Decentralized Perps
DeFi The Perks of Decentralized Perps Perpetual Futures DEXs are hot. Here are the protocols you need to kno... 12 months ago • 0 0
5 On-Chain Signals That We've Bottomed
DeFi 5 On-Chain Signals That We've Bottomed November was rough. Are things up-only from here? 1 year ago • 0 0
Is Solana Dead?
DeFi Is Solana Dead? The L1 has fallen on hard times -- can it bounce back? 1 year ago • 0 0
Is CZ Too Powerful?
Analysis Is CZ Too Powerful? Binance's post-FTX market dominance is impressive -- and concerning 1 year ago • 0 0
Genesis is in Trouble
Analysis Genesis is in Trouble With bankruptcy looming, we unpack how business got bad for Barry 1 year ago • 2 0
Insights From the FTX Implosion
Analysis Insights From the FTX Implosion SBF isn’t answering our calls, so let’s look for some answers on-c... 1 year ago • 35 0