Crypto Research

Venture capital is in its second straight week of infrastructure and NFT/metaverse funding in a week that saw $932 million in capital being invested in startups. As is typical, infrastructure projects continued to draw the most attention, with eight funding rounds raising $530 million. NFT/metaverse continued its revival trajectory to raise $180 million across three projects, DeFi only had one seed round to raise $5 million, and CeFi also had...

Dynamic Earn Rate NFT Genesis Mint 1/69 ANCHOR INTRODUCES UPDATE TO EARN RATE CALCULATION Two issues ago, I wrote about Anchor Protocol, a dynamic savings platform that leverages money market demand and diversified staking rewards to pay out attractive stablecoin yields. Much has developed since - as they say, one week in the depths of DeFi feels like one year in real life. Acknowledging how the macro environment has affected...

Meeting minutes from the March FOMC meeting were released today. The Fed’s posture leaned decisively hawkish as they introduced the prospect of QT starting as early as May.Despite the resurgence of macro headwinds, the bullish trend upwards for realized cap continued this week, indicating renewed demand for bitcoin.We revisit our LFG model from last week and adjust inputs for LFG’s recent purchasing activity.Staked ETH continues to march higher as confidence...

VENTURE CAPITAL DEALS zkLend is an Ethereum-based crypto money market similar to Aave and Compound, but will use zero-knowledge rollups to allow users to borrow and lend liquidity without broadcasting identifying information to the Ethereum chain. The project raised $5 million in a seed round led by Delphi Digital with participation from Starkware, Three Arrows Capital, and Alameda Research, among others. zkLend is working to launch its retail lending product,...

WEEKLY RECAP It was another week of green candles across the crypto ecosystem as bitcoin flirted with its 200-day moving average for the first time in several months. Like last week, the more speculative sectors outperformed the prior 7-days, with the once-beleaguered DeFi sector continuing to turn some heads. _Source: Messari_ Below we examine some of the reasons we think that this relief rally mirrors those seen in late 2021...