Antoine Le Calvez is Lead Blockchain Data Engineer at Coin Metrics where he is working on network data products. Antoine has been analyzing blockchains since 2014 when he created p2sh.info (now txstats.com). Prior to joining Coin Metrics, he worked at Blockchain.com.
Understanding Total Value Locked (TVL)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has become one of the industry’s most vibrant topics, with dozens of new projects launching on a monthly basis. DeFi applications essentially enable the creation of financial contracts that are automatically executed. Broadly speaking, these contracts facilitate the issuance, lending, trading, and management of cryptoassets.
Recent
Assessing the Long-Term Fallout from Crypto’s Black Thursday
On March 12th 2020, now called “Black Thursday,” Bitcoin’s price dropped by nearly 50%, one of its largest drops since [...]
The BitMEX Liquidation Spiral
Analyzing How Crypto’s Nascent Market Structure Held Up During the Crash In the previous issue of State of the Network, [...]
In Search of an Elusive BCH Jackpot
The Miner’s Dilemma: In Search of an Elusive BCH Jackpot “I thought for a long time whether to write here. [...]
Re-examining Four of the Largest Bitcoin Hacks
When cryptoasset exchanges get hacked and large monetary amounts get stolen, news tends to spread fairly quickly. However, articles tend [...]
Investigating the Failed Stellar Inflation Experiment
Each blockchain has a unique process for issuing new supply. For some, like Bitcoin, the full issuance schedule and final [...]
Ranking Crypto Assets by Auditability
In Medieval times, landed estates’ accounts were read out loud to a person charged by the local ruler to ensure [...]