Kyle is a Research Analyst at Coin Metrics, where he leverages Coin Metrics’ network and market data to study foundational and novel topics in the crypto ecosystem. He produces data-driven insights in the weekly State of the Network newsletter and other long-form research content. Prior to joining Coin Metrics, he worked in economic consulting and studied economics and mathematics at Boston College.
By Coin Metrics|2022-09-27T12:14:01-04:00September 27, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, Parker Merritt, State of the Network|
Analyzing some of the most important data points and stories in the mining industry from Q3 2022.
By Coin Metrics|2022-09-23T16:05:08-04:00September 20, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
Walking through Coin Metrics’ new staking-related Ethereum metrics released alongside The Merge.
By Coin Metrics|2022-09-23T15:10:34-04:00September 15, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
At 2:43 AM Eastern Time at block 15537393, Ethereum’s Proof-of-Work era came to an end, ushering in a new age of Proof-of-Stake Ethereum. In this special update, we share what we saw on the ground at the time of The [...]
By Coin Metrics|2022-09-23T15:10:26-04:00September 13, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, State of the Network|
Coin Metrics is excited to continue providing data-driven coverage of The Merge, Ethereum’s imminent protocol upgrade. In this piece, we explain the differences between slashing and penalties, and how transaction finality assumptions change post-Merge.
By Coin Metrics|2022-09-23T15:10:18-04:00September 8, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, State of the Network|
Ethereum moved one step closer to The Merge Tuesday with the activation of Bellatrix, a network upgrade to Ethereum’s Consensus Layer (CL), also known as the Beacon Chain. This upgrade prepares the CL to include Ethereum users’ transactions from the Execution [...]
By Coin Metrics|2022-09-23T15:09:53-04:00August 30, 2022|Kyle Waters, Lucas Nuzzi, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
As part of Coin Metrics' support for Ethereum’s major network upgrade, we are excited to be releasing a new data-driven research report explaining the essential features of The Merge and its implications for the future of Ethereum’s security, economics, and [...]
By Coin Metrics|2022-08-16T13:46:13-04:00August 16, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, State of the Network|
At its core, cryptocurrency utilizes complete transparency to help create trust between anonymous users. In comparison to traditional finance, analyzing on-chain data provides an enormous advantage in metric creation. Some blockchains like Bitcoin use something called an unspent transaction output [...]
By Coin Metrics|2022-08-16T13:03:02-04:00August 9, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, State of the Network|
Earlier this year at the Bitcoin 2022 conference, Coin Metrics’ Lucas Nuzzi presented the following diagram showing a sample of some of the key projects pushing the Bitcoin ecosystem forward.
By Coin Metrics|2022-08-16T13:03:41-04:00August 2, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
As the upcoming merge with the Beacon Chain approaches, the upgrade to Ethereum’s fee market mechanism brought on by EIP-1559 has had nearly one full year to develop and for participants to habituate to the new conditions. In recognition of [...]
By Coin Metrics|2022-08-16T13:04:56-04:00July 26, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
Blockchains are well known for offering a degree of pseudo-anonymity to transactors. But even though individual transactions might not be all that revealing, the collective behavior of blockchain users can be informative in understanding broader usage patterns. One example of this [...]
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