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FIGURE: PEPE TRYING TO GET AN UNCOLLATERALIZED LOAN ZERO-TO-ONE (Z2O) SERIES Given the decentralization and transparency benefits of blockchains, many have pointed to DeFi as crypto’s ‘killer use case.’ After all, finance today is built along opaque and slower traditional finance rails ripe for disruption by distributed ledger technology. Sobering up from the highs of the bull market of ‘21, however, DeFi advocates are now left wondering: ‘How much of...

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EARNINGS REVISITED Below is a chart that is both slightly jarring and fairly intuitive at the same time. The jarring aspect is obviously the rapid ascent of the expected terminal fed funds rate over the past six months. The intuitive part is that bitcoin does not like tightening monetary conditions and has steadily declined in direct opposition to the expected terminal rate. Note that we are using the futures market...

Funding pulled back this week, declining from $659M to $191M, with the number of deals declining from 24 to 18. Once again, infrastructure was the most heavily funded segment of the week – receiving nearly 75% of all funding at $142M. One of the most notable trends this year has been how, although crypto prices have declined, VCs are not slowing down on their crypto infrastructure investments. The segment typically...

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