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Hey, everyone! I want to introduce you to Mint Chain, an L2 solution built on Optimism Stack. Initiated by the NFTScan Labs team (nftscan.com) and MintCore, Mint Blockchain is dedicated to advancing innovation in NFT standards and the mass adoption of NFT assets in real-world business scenarios, unleashing the actual value of the NFT market. The guys have already developed the NFT Scan platform (https://www.nftscan.com/) that supports 21 chains and tracks more than 200+ marketplaces. Mint Blockchain is now at the stage of fundraising and searching for potential partners. If you sense potential synergy, drop me a DM @Lutalex95 Official Links ⬇️ - Website: https://mintchain.io - Platform: https://www.nftscan.com/ - Twitter: https://x.com/mint_blockchain - Twitter (NFT Scan): https://twitter.com/nftscan_com - Discord: https://discord.gg/mint-blockchain - Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/mintchain.eth - GitHub: https://github.com/Mint-Blockchain

Year in Review: 21 Events That Shaped Crypto World in 2023 1. USDC Depeg: How a Bank Fall Shook DeFi Backbone 2. Ethereum Shapella Upgrade: The Emergence of LSTfi 3. Ripple Win-ish: The SEC Security Saga 4. Multichain Multihack: The Bridge Exploit Threat 5. CZ Steps Down as the Binance CEO: The End of an Era 6. Crypto Spot ETF: The Race Between BTC & ETH 7. Major Steps in Sequencer Decentralization of the L2 Stack Read the whole 2023 summary by RedStone & Safaryclub 🎄🎉 ⬇️ https://blog.redstone.finance/2023/12/28/year-in-review-21-events-that-shaped-crypto-world-in-2023/

Predictions for 2024 in 1 picture Crypto market reports for 2024 from Hashed, Coinbase, Messari, VanEck, a16z, Pantera, Nansen, Spartan, Bitcoin Suisse were combined into 1 table depending on the crypto industry. https://t.me/cryptogoodreads/757

Historical photo 2019 Paradigm invests ~$1 million in Uniswap as the lead investor in its seed round. 2023 - Uniswap has facilitated ~$1.6 trillion in trading volume & paid ~$2.9 billion in trading fees to LPs. Two Uniswap contracts consume ~15% of all blockspace on Ethereum https://x.com/tokenterminal/status/1733919663560511625?s=20

The latest compilation of research this fall. See you in winter! 🍂 General ➖ CoinShares: Digital Asset Bi-Weekly Digest ➖ Binance: Decoding Cross-Chain Interoperability ➖ ConsenSys: Ethereum Builder Highlights & Insights from Devconnect 2023 ➖ ConsenSys: Stablecoin bill is a ‘no-brainer’ — Consensys director on US legislation ➖ Cointelegraph: New Crypto Exchange Standards ➖ Galaxy: Top Stories of the Week - 11/24 Market ➖ CoinGecko: US Regulators v Crypto: $12.4B in Largest Settlements DeFi ➖ Glassnode: Twists and Turns Tokens & currencies ➖ CoinGecko: AI Tokens Surge Up to 80% As OpenAI Fired & Rehired Sam Altman ➖ SSRN: The Bitcoin Volume-volatility Relationship: a High Frequency Analysis of Futures and Spot Exchanges Blockchains & networks ➖ 4pillars: Why did dYdX choose to launch its own chain instead of continuing with a Layer 2 solution? ➖ CoinMarketCap: What Is Layer-2 Blast? The Rewards System That Sparked Controversy ➖ SSRN: Bitcoin’s Achilles Heel - Transition from Block Rewards to Transaction Fees GameFi & NFTs ➖ CoinGecko: Is GameFi Dead? 3 in 4 Projects Have Failed ➖ SSRN: Valuing Digital Art: On Non-fungible Tokens, Blockchain Hypes, and the Creation of Scarcity

Report on the NFT market on the Base blockchain. The report analyzes the NFT market performance and major NFT collections. Key takeaways: - Base ranks 9th among the top NFT blockchains in terms of total trading volume (TTV) exceeding $71 million. More than 40k NFT contracts and over 84 million assets have already been created on the blockchain. - AlienSwap and OpenSea marketplaces account for 99.06% of all TTV. - The top 10 NFT collections are currently seeing a decline in trading volume, but there are some collections that stand out from the rest and attract attention by commemorating anniversaries - Most of the collections on the Base are for anniversaries or the MEME movement, but this is just the beginning of a blockchain development that could grow into a new trend Source: NFTScan

Is November Hacker Month? In just 20 days, 5 major hacks occurred, with funds exceeding $290M. Details: ⬇️ https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1727613424933412868?s=20

Blast has reached $230 Million in TVL and 37,131 community members within 48 hours How Blast works ⬇️ AUTO REBASING Users transact in ETH. Dapps are built around ETH. Blast was designed from the ground up so that ETH itself is natively rebasing on the L2. L1 STAKING Blast only became possible this year following Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade. ETH yield from L1 staking, initially Lido, is automatically transferred to users via rebasing ETH on the L2. T-BILL YIELD Users who bridge stablecoins receive USDB, Blast’s auto-rebasing stablecoin. The yield for USDB comes from MakerDAO’s on-chain T-Bill protocol. USDB can be redeemed for USDC when bridging back to Ethereum. The Blast team announced an airdrop in May 2024, for users who bridge assets Available invites for bridge: blast.io/9GBEL blast.io/RN935 blast.io/W5ZFX blast.io/ZPTYI blast.io/GHVKR blast.io/XCAU6 blast.io/RA2F6

Wannabe L2 Blast bursts onto scene promising high ETH yield — in 3 months A new Ethereum layer-2 rollup, announced Monday, has already attracted $125 million in total value locked (TVL), but there’s a twist: It doesn’t yet exist. (updated) The promised network, Blast, would launch as an optimistic rollup in February 2024, but its backers immediately began soliciting deposits into a smart contract “bridge.” The announcement touts Blast as "the only Ethereum L2 with native yield for ETH and stablecoins," meaning it taps into Ethereum staking yield by directing all ETH to Lido and uses DAI to tap MakerDAO’s growing US Treasury bill yield through its Dai Savings Rate (DSR), currently at 5%. Blast’s development team, led by pseudonymous Blur co-founder Pacman, raised $20 million from venture capital firms Paradigm and Standard Crypto, joined by a motley crew of angel investors and crypto influencers. Source: Blockwords

AAVE V2 USDT+USDC Liquidity vs FED Fund Rate 2 Significant drop in liquidity post Terra & FTX Sep 2022: - FED raises 75bps from 2.33% to 3.08% - USDT & USDC liquidity dropped by $1B (-55%) Jul 2023: - FED raises 25bps from 5.08% to 5.33% - USDT & USDC liquidity dropped by $380M (-33%) Stablecoin rates in DeFi became less attractive from a risk and reward perspective as they were also offering a similar rate. With the recent bullish sentiment in crypto, the demand for leverage has spiked, which could increase the supply and borrowing rate. Let's see if the stablecoin liquidity and supply rate in lending protocols will go back up Source

Overview of the Arbitrum ecosystem by Stacy Muur Arbitrum: The traders' chain (💙,🧡) ❯ DEXes lock 60% of Arbitrum TVL. ❯ Major industry players i.e. PancakeSwap and APX (fka ApolloX) expand to Arbitrum. ❯ STIP and $ARB staking proposal fuel the excitement. Arbitrum DEX wars are coming. Report by Stacy Muur ⬇️ https://x.com/stacy_muur/status/1725521392647688258?s=20

Analytics from IntoTheBlock about the state of the ecosystem Optimism Number of Holders ➖The Optimism token $OP currently has 978k holders, the highest on the network. ➖Worldcoin (WLD) follows closely with 788k holders, indicating a strong community. ➖Projects like Synthetix (SNX), Velodrome (VELO), and others show lower holder counts, suggesting room for growth and potential for increased network effects as they continue to develop and scale. Holder Profitability ➖Worldcoin's (WLD) takes the lead here, with 59.36% of holders in profit. ➖Velodrome (VELO) and Optimism (OP) holders have a profitability of 40.82% and 39.26% respectively, an interesting area where holders may be evaluating the timing for realizing gains or reinvesting. ➖The rest of the projects depict a more challenging environment, with fewer holders in profit. Transaction volume ➖Optimism (OP) leads the transaction volume with $41.1 million. ➖Synthetix (SNX) follows with a significant gap at $13.6 million. ➖Worldcoin (WLD) shows $8.8 million, with lesser but still notable transaction volume. ➖The rest, including Kwenta (KWENTA) and Sonne Finance (SONNE), contribute smaller amounts to the overall volume, with $0.7 million and $0.2 million, respectively. Whale concentration ➖Extra Finance (EXTRA) has the highest whale concentration at 96.96%, indicating a significant proportion of the token is held by a small number of addresses. ➖Velodrome (VELO) follows closely with 96.2% whale concentration. ➖Other notable tokens with high whale concentration include Sonne Finance (SONNE) at 88.49%, Worldcoin (WLD) at 86.18%, and Beethoven X (BEETS) at 80.3%. ➖Optimism's native token (OP) shows a whale concentration of 68.58%, which is lower relative to other tokens in the ecosystem but still substantial. ➖Synthetix Network Token (SNX) displays the lowest concentration at 52.23%, suggesting a broader distribution among holders. Thread with infographics ⬇️ https://x.com/intotheblock/status/1722218827738734877?s=20

Hey, builders! I am advising at Promethium Finance Promethium is a lending and borrowing optimizer that's always on the hunt for the best rates, rebalancing your deposits and refinancing your loans, so you are always getting more on your lending positions and spending less when borrowing. Simulations and tests results We are looking for potential partners in several directions: ⬇️ 1) Using the project for our strategies, these can be Lendings, DEXes, vaults with a sustainable yield model; 2) Listing of Promethium Finance strategies on other platforms. These could be Yield protocols, Yield aggregators, DAPP Stores, and others. If you are building in the Arbitrum ecosystem and feel potential synergies - drop me a DM 🫡 @Lutalex95

Consolidated analytical report from NFTScan on the state of the NFT market on the Ethereum network as of November 2023. The report mentioned such indicators as dynamic of trading volume, market interests, blue chip trading interests and others. Ethereum chain is the top 1 chain in the NFT space, its NFT assets reached $150 million, with more than 275k NFT contracts and $87 billion of total trade volume (TTV). If we summarize the TTV of next 15 chains we can see, that it is only 7.3% of Ethereum’s TTV. In NFT Marketplace direction Ethereum’s chain shows the same results: the biggest number of available platforms for NFT trading. ERC-20 seems very solid in the NFT market. After macroanalysis, let's dive into the microstructure of Ethereum's NFT environment. More information in thread ⬇️ https://x.com/nftscan_com/status/1721942106644857180?s=20

Hey, builders! I am advising at Promethium Finance Promethium is a lending and borrowing optimizer that's always on the hunt for the best rates, rebalancing your deposits and refinancing your loans, so you are always getting more on your lending positions and spending less when borrowing. Simulations and tests results We are looking for potential partners in several directions: ⬇️ 1) Using the project for our strategies, these can be Lendings, DEXes, vaults with a sustainable yield model; 2) Listing of Promethium Finance strategies on other platforms, these could be: Yield protocols, Yield aggregators, DAPP Stores and others. If you are building in Arbitrum ecosystem and fee the potential synergies - drop me a dm 🫡 @Lutalex95

The new research of this week 🙌🏻 General ➖ Crypto.com: Friend.Tech ➖ Crypto.com: Alpha Navigator: Quest for Alpha [October 2023] ➖ Crypto.com: Research Roundup Newsletter [October 2023] ➖ CoinGecko: Real World Assets: Tokenized US Treasuries ➖ Galaxy: Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call #121 ➖ Galaxy: Top Stories of the Week - 11/3 Market ➖ CoinGecko: Market Share of Centralized Crypto Exchanges, by Trading Volume ➖ SSRN: MicroStrategy, Bitcoin, Corporate Finance, Shareholder Value ➖ Binance: Monthly Market Insights - November 2023 ➖ Glassnode: The Capital Waterfall ➖ Glassnode: The Tightening of Supply DeFi ➖ SSRN: Decentralised Finance (DeFi): a critical review of related risks and regulation ➖ SSRN: Key Elements of an Effective DeFi Framework Tokens & currencies ➖ CoinGecko: Top Bitcoin Mining Companies, by Bitcoins Owned ➖ CoinGecko: Canada Leads Spot Bitcoin ETFs With 48% of Assets Worldwide ➖ SSRN: Price Discovery and Long-Memory Property: Simulation and Empirical Evidence from the Bitcoin Market ➖ SSRN: Beyond Bitcoin: A Statistical Comparison of Leading Crypto and Fiat Currencies and Their Impact on Portfolio Diversification ➖ Binance: Memecoin (MEME) Blockchains & networks ➖ 4pillars: Monolithic Blockchain Report (October, 2023) ➖ CoinGecko: Largest Layer-2 Solutions ➖ Coinbase: Weekly: Breakpoint Bias GameFi & NFTs ➖ Simetri: Alphaverse: Airdrop Thaw

Chainlink showed an example of tokenizing a Tesla car as a dNFT. "Imagine if every Tesla was tokenized as a dNFT with real-time metadata update showing its service record, mileage, accident history, market value, and more. All current and future owners would have onchain access to verifiable vehicle histories." https://twitter.com/chainlink/status/1721182330470232457

How many users are in profit or loss according to the IntoTheBlock platform Ethereum In profit - 62.71.%% Out of money - 32.53% ARB In profit - 53,28% Out of money - 39.99% OP In profit - 48.8% Out of money - 45.08% LIDO In profit - 34.66% Out of money - 58.46% Link In profit - 49.5%; Out of money - 47.38%; Curve In profit - 6.63% Out of money - 90.26%; UNI In profit - 13.32%; Out of money - 83.95%; Sushi In profit - 8.72% Out of money - 85.54% 1INCH In profit - 7.47% In losses - 92.89% Since our last review, the number of addresses in profit has increased significantly thanks to the "Uptober rally" For any address with a balance of tokens, ITB identifies the average price (cost) at which those tokens were purchased and compares it current price. If Current Price > Average Cost, address is “In the Money.” If Current Price < Average Cost, address is “Out of the Money.” This is not an accurate indicator because data from centralized exchanges and seed/private purchases is not considered ; however, this tool reflects the market trend quite well.*

What is Aleo Blockchain? Aleo, a layer-1 blockchain, combines Zero-Knowledge (ZK) cryptography with programmable smart contracts, providing a robust foundation for secure online transactions. A zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a method of proving the validity of a statement without revealing anything other than the validity of the statement itself. The Aleo blockchain runs on the LEO programming language Leo is a Rust-inspired statically typed programming language built for writing private applications. The core aim of this endeavor is to allow developers to make use of zero-knowledge proofs in their applications in as simple a manner as possible - it achieves this by minimizing cryptographic knowledge requirements. For developers: Aleo has launched a grant program and if you are a builder, you can submit your project here apply Here you can check out projects and tools working on Aleo ⬇️ https://github.com/howardwu/awesome-aleo Aleo is backed by: SoftBank Vision Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Slow Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Tiger Global Management, Placeholder, Vision Fund 2, Kora Management and others. Mainnet launch Q1 2024 Useful links: ⬇️ What is Aleo What is ZK Proof Aleo grants Aleo funding information

Hey, Builders! I am excited to announce that I have joined the Swing Aggregator team as a BD Manager! Swing is an all-in-one developer-friendly cross-chain solution that integrates 60+ Bridges & DEXes. Swing is backed by well-known VCs: Republic Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, Skynet EGLD Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Ascensive Assets, and others. Supported chains, bridges and DEXes ⬇️ https://developers.swing.xyz/ If you want to integrate cross-chain solution into your DAPP, drop me a dm @AlexLutAl 🫡