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Analyst Spotlight Tether (USDT) Overview
Discover why Tether (USDT) is the leading stablecoin in Coin Metrics’ latest analysis, highlighting its deep liquidity, peg stability, and

Stablecoin Sector Analysis
Stablecoins—digital assets designed to maintain a stable value, typically pegged to the U.S. dollar—have rapidly evolved from niche trading tools

Analyst Spotlight Solana Overview
Solana’s focus on high transaction throughput and cheap fees has allowed developers to deploy products that may not have been

Tracking Exchange Wallets
In this week’s State of the Network, we discuss how to track crypto asset exchange balances on public blockchains as well

SOTM November 24-30, 2022
Disgraced crypto kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried continues to command the spotlight, airing apologies for FTX’s failure on a variety of primetime

A Look at Stablecoins and Other On-Chain Derivatives
Crypto market participants continue to recalibrate following the abrupt shocks emanating from FTX’s woes. As we have covered in recent editions of State

A Front-Row Seat to FTT’s Collapse
Our analysis of Binance’s markets render a dramatic scene of the events leading to the catastrophic devaluation of FTT.

SOTM November 10-16, 2022
“We got overconfident and careless.” One week post-FTX implosion, ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried turns to Twitter to plead his case. Sam

Using On-Chain Data to Investigate the Fall of FTX
In a shocking turn of events, FTX suffered an unexpected downfall. In this State of the Network issue, we use on-chain data

SOTM November 3-9, 2022
RIP to FTX after SBF reports funds are MIA. Once praised as crypto’s quintessential success story, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Introducing datonomy™: A Digital Assets Taxonomy
More than a decade has passed since bitcoin was launched as crypto’s first digital currency. The digital asset ecosystem has

SOTM October 27-November 2, 2022
Twitter officially entered a new era under the helm of Elon Musk last week as the Tesla and SpaceX founder

Through the Blockchain and Beyond: Combining On-Chain and Off-Chain Data with Coin Metrics Charting Tools
At Coin Metrics, we recently announced new market data capabilities in our charting tools, including exchange and exchange-asset pair metrics.

SOTM October 20-26, 2022
Decentralization diehards are dancing with the devil, with yield and regulation pushing protocols towards the temptation of trusted third parties.

Understanding Crypto Asset Scarcity Through the Data of Forked Blockchains
In the age of digital technologies, copy-paste, and open-source code, the great innovation encoded in Bitcoin and in later crypto