Infrastructure

Market Impacts of Kraken’s SEC Settlement On the evening of February 8th, Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, took to Twitter to address rumors surrounding the SEC’s purported plan to restrict institutions from providing staking services to retail customers. This announcement had an immediate impact on the market, as Ethereum’s value plummeted by 6.5% within […]

Mo Shaikh (Co-Founder & CEO at Aptos) joins The Tie‘s Fundamental Value podcast to discuss layer 1s, real world use cases for crypto and accessibility of blockchain technology. Spotify Link Apple Podcast Link

Enabling Withdrawals Ethereum’s next hardfork, Shanghai, is anticipated in the late first quarter or early second quarter of 2023. Although several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) were initially considered for integration, including numerous EVM object format upgrades and EIP 4844, commonly known as Proto-Danksharding, these proposals were deferred until the subsequent hardfork, Cancun. At present, the […]

Securitization brought about the centralization of equity and fixed-income assets. Real-world asset tokenization emerged as a hot topic amid the crypto bear market in 2022, an approach poised to leverage public blockchain technology to unlock growth in capital market share for alternative assets.

For a technical introduction to MEV post-merge, check out our earlier report.  The State of MEV Censorship Not all validators explicitly and purposefully propose blocks built by MEV relays. Many propose vanilla blocks–or blocks selected from the mempool without overt consideration of ordering, and purely based on priority fees and block limits. For instance, Coinbase, […]

EigenLayer is pitched as a general-purpose marketplace for decentralized trust built on Ethereum. Essentially, introducing a method of internalizing modularity by redirecting trust within the Ethereum ecosystem. The core value proposition behind EigenLayer lies in its “restaking” service and Eigen data availability (EigenDA).

Introduction The traditional banking system has shortcomings: lack of ability to self-custody, costly remittances & settlement processes, and narrow financial inclusion. Stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) address these shortcomings and serve as stable, dollar-denominated digital currencies suitable for store of value and daily transactions.  A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency that’s price is tied […]

Your debit card does not hold your money. It only authorizes your bank account to send transactions to the banking system database. Similarly, your crypto wallet does not hold your coins. Instead, it holds the private keys to prove ownership of digital assets, which are stored on public blockchain networks. Private keys allow you to […]

Steve Kaminsky (Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects at Jump Crypto) joins The Tie‘s Fundamental Value podcast to discuss Jump’s crypto initiatives, contributions towards Pyth, and the importance of blockchain oracles. Spotify Link Apple Podcast Link