Macro Trends

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) regularly released by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) causes fluctuations in the venture capital market. This article explains to readers in detail what CPI is, its composition and calculation, and what impact it will have on inflation and the stock market?

Placeholder researcher Mario Laul believes blockchain has made impressive progress in financial use cases, but other types of applications have struggled. He outlined the current development priorities of blockchain and predicted its future development direction.

This article delves into the security challenges faced by the current market, exploring the security risks accompanying the rapid growth of Web3 users. By analyzing security solutions proposed by companies like Goplus, we further understand how to support the widespread application of Web3 from aspects of compliance and security.

This article discusses UTXO isomorphic binding (UIB) technology and believes that this is a major innovation in the BTC ecosystem. The key lies in solving the BTC network expansion problem.

In the crypto field, the United States is indeed the global center. Well-known top applications and institutions such as Ethereum, UniSwap, Binance, Coinbase, DCG, and a16z are either born in the United States or headquartered there, establishing extremely close ties with the country.

This article will explore the future development of AI and cryptocurrency, as well as explore investment opportunities, through seven modules: computing power cloud, computing power market, model assetization and training, AI Agent, data assetization, ZKML, and AI applications.

The report provides compensation data for the cryptocurrency industry, showing that compensation and equity are higher at U.S. companies than at international companies, with founder pay increasing as companies raise more capital but equity ratios declining. Most companies adjust compensation based on local market rates or geographic tiers, with international companies preferring to pay in cryptocurrencies.

The article analyzes the challenges and potential impacts facing Ethereum spot ETFs. The approval of Ethereum spot ETFs could increase investment and liquidity in the US stock market, positively affecting prices and setting a precedent for other PoS-based cryptocurrencies. However, concerns from the SEC regarding Ethereum's centralization, security, and market manipulation pose obstacles to approval. Additionally, the article discusses the impact of Japan's bank interest rate adjustments on the cryptocurrency market, as well as the differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum in market liquidity and price stability.

Nansen, Lookonchain, and Dune Analytics are leading projects in the crypto data analysis space, providing users with in-depth on-chain data analysis and playing an indispensable role in the development of blockchain technology. This study will delve into the characteristics of these three platforms and their significance for the development of blockchain technology.

BlackRock has launched an on-chain tokenized fund, legitimizing on-chain real world asset industries and paving the way for other institutions to take similar actions. This article introduces some outstanding projects leading the RWA market (such as Mantra, Ondo Finance, etc.), and what elements are indispensable!

After a year of silence, the Layer1 public chain Core Chain has recently regained market attention due to its impressive surge. Core's exponential growth is attributed to the demand from Bitcoin miners and the emergence of BTCFi narrative.

In 2024, we will witness the arrival of a cryptocurrency “super cycle,” not only due to the cyclical effects of economic factors but also based on the fusion of the traditional financial world with decentralized finance, propelling the cryptocurrency market into an unprecedented growth stage. The “Value Network Effect” (VNE) will become a new standard for measuring the influence of cryptocurrency assets.

Why are cryptocurrency exchange founders like SBF and CZ constantly facing money laundering allegations? How do cryptocurrency mixers like Bitcoin Fog and Tornado Cash facilitate money laundering? How do virtual asset service providers avoid suspected money laundering transactions and meet compliance requirements? Today, we will explain it all.

Public goods are a fundamental concept in Western economics concerning the collective well-being of society and the market. In Web3, this concept entails being adequately non-excludable and non-rivalrous.

AI x Crypto encompasses multiple subfields, including AI Agents, decentralized computing, data, oracles, ZKML, FHEML, coprocessors, Memes, generative art platforms, and gaming applications.