State of the Network’s 2024 Crypto Outlook
Digital assets rebounded sharply in 2023 as market conditions improved across the board and institutional interest accelerated alongside the impending launch of a spot Bitcoin ETF. Looking to 2024, there are a number of important developments on the horizon. In this issue of State of the Network, we offer our [...]
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Decoding the Digital Dollar (Preview)
Last week, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services convened to discuss proposed legislation, including H.R. 4766, or the "Clarity for [...]
Currents Shift After SEC v. Ripple Summary Judgment
In a significant development for the digital assets industry as a whole, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District [...]
State of the Network’s Q2 2023 Wrap-Up
We take a data-driven look at the most important events that impacted the digital assets industry from Q2 2023.
SOTM June 22-28, 2023
ARK Invest amends its spot ETF application, aiming to be the first issuer in the market. MicroStrategy purchases an additional [...]
Bitcoin & the Rest: Measuring the First Cryptocurrency’s Hold on the Market
Measuring bitcoin's dominance in the digital assets ecosystem.
SOTM June 15-21, 2023
Asset management giant BlackRock files an application with the SEC to offer a spot bitcoin ETF in the U.S. Institutional-focused [...]
State of the Network Foundations: Hashes
In this week’s State of the Network we return with our Foundations series, which presents various “technical” aspects of blockchain technology in an approachable [...]
The Signal & The Nonce
This paper introduces a methodology for determining the market share of every major Bitcoin mining machine, or ASIC, by analyzing [...]
The Signal & the Nonce, Reimagined
Adopting a new methodology, we present novel data to rethink some of Bitcoin’s most pressing issues including electricity consumption, miner [...]