Crypto Research

AVALANCHE (AVAX) is a next-generation smart contracts platform that’s structured as a publicly-owned crypto network protocol. Ava Labs supports the Avalanche protocol in its mission to build a high-performing, secure, and energy-efficient cryptonetwork for decentralized applications ("dApps"), novel financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains. Using its innovative technology approach, the Avalanche protocol is creating a new crypto-native economy for frictionless real-world and digital asset exchange, composable financial application primitives and derivatives,...

Ava Labs is building the Avalanche protocol which expects to deliver the highest performance, most secure, and most energy efficient general-purpose cryptonetwork for highly decentralized applications, novel financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains. Using its innovative Avalanche consensus mechanism, the protocol hopes to create a new digital crypto-native economy for frictionless real-world and digital asset exchange, composable financial application primitives and derivatives, Web 3.0 privacy-focused data and social applications, and...

IOTA (MIOTA) is an alternative Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platform, which uses the “Tangle”, a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), to enable applications primarily for the Internet of Things (IoT). IOTA is scheduled to undergo a two-part protocol upgrade, IOTA 1.5 (Chrysalis) and IOTA 2.0 (Coordicide) (Slide 2), aimed at implementing a series of major DLT technology advancements to improve network functionality and achieve greater decentralization. If successful, the upgrade could...

At the beginning of Q4, we released our report Horizen: Web 3.0 Platform Targeting Big Tech Super App Disruption. Horizen (ZEN) is a next-generation internet platform structured as a cryptonetwork that gives users control over their online data with its blockchain cloud computing platform for money, messages, media, and third-party decentralized applications. During the quarter, the ZEN token appreciated 145%, benefited by a 70% gain in Bitcoin, new partnership deals...

Flexa: On a mission to make digital assets universally spendable _AMP digital collateral token designed to decentralize risk in payment transactions_ _KEY SLIDES FROM THIS REPORT..._ FLEXA: ON A MISSION TO MAKE DIGITAL ASSETS UNIVERSALLY SPENDABLE (SLIDE 1)... FLEXA COMPANY OVERVIEW (SLIDE 2)... FLEXA’S PAYMENT NETWORK FACILITATES LOW-COST AND FRAUD RESISTANT PAYMENTS (SLIDE 5)...  AMP COLLATERALIZATION: MAKING FLEXA PAYMENTS FRAUD RESISTANT (SLIDE 7)...   CAPACITY: FLEXA’S DECENTRALIZED APPLICATION (“DAPP”) FACILITATING AMP STAKING...

FOR A FULL COPY OF THIS REPORT IN PDF FORMAT PLEASE click this link. ZILLIQA RESEARCH PTE. LTD. (“THE COMPANY”) is the software and services company behind development of the Zilliqa DLT Network. The Singapore-based Company was founded in 2017 and is focused on refining Zilliqa’s DLT technology and deploying the platform with a focus on financial services applications in the ASEAN (“Association of Southeast Asian Nations”) region. ZILLIQA (ZIL)...

For a full copy of this report in PDF format, click this link. HORIZEN (ZEN) (“Horizen”) is a next-generation internet platform structured as a publicly traded Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) cryptonetwork that was launched in Q2 2017. Horizen gives users control over their online data with its blockchain cloud computing platform for money, messages, media, and third-party decentralized applications (“DApps”). Web 3.0 decentralized internet alternatives like Horizen have the potential to...

For a full copy of this report in PDF format, CLICK THIS LINK. BITWISE ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. (“Bitwise” or “Company”) is a San Francisco-based specialist asset manager founded in 2017. The Company pioneered the first and largest cryptocurrency index fund and is a rising-star provider of liquid, low-cost crypto funds. Bitwise is moving to have its flagship Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund and Bitwise Bitcoin Fund publicly tradable. Comparable products...

IOTA IS AN ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY (DLT), WHICH USES “THE TANGLE”, A DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH OR DAG, TO IMPLEMENT FAST, FEELESS AND SECURE DECENTRALIZED TRANSACTION CONFIRMATIONS, PRIMARILY FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT). _Should IOTA become adopted as standard_, _the network could grow to $700 Billion in value_, which translates to a 20% share of an eventual  $3.3 trillion DLT market. As they work towards standardization, IOTA continues building...

By Thomas J. Lee, June 18, 2019 Tuesday’s announcement by Facebook (FB) that it is developing Libra, a new crypto currency, could, in hindsight, could come to be seen as an inflection point for crypto currencies, and a real disruptor to fiat money.   It’s been clear that technology would eventually target financial services for disruption given the sheer opportunity, roughly some $8 trillion.  Libra, a crypto currency project, is...