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Following Flows V: Pool Cross-Pollination
In this week’s issue of State of the Network, we take a closer look at “0-hop” and “1-hop” addresses to follow the flow of funds between mining pools and miners, uncovering hidden links between entities in an effort to quantify the [...]
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TTD set, volatility TBD
With Ethereum’s final steps to PoS now engaged, how is the options market pricing in The Merge? This is a [...]
SOTM August 11-17, 2022
There's a rebellion brewing in the Ethereum ecosystem, and the stakes have never been higher. As the impacts of U.S. [...]
Mapping Account-based Blockchain Data to Virtual UTXOs
At its core, cryptocurrency utilizes complete transparency to help create trust between anonymous users. In comparison to traditional finance, analyzing [...]
SOTM August 4-10, 2022
In a whirlwind week of regulation, privacy protocol Tornado Cash has been swept into the eye of the storm. On [...]
Analyzing Recent Data Behind the Bitcoin Technology Stack
Earlier this year at the Bitcoin 2022 conference, Coin Metrics’ Lucas Nuzzi presented the following diagram showing a sample of some of [...]
WHAT IS GAS ON ETHEREUM, WHY IS IT NEEDED, AND HOW DO I GET SOME?
At the core of Ethereum's transaction fee market is the important concept of 'gas.' In this report, a theoretical explanation [...]
SOTM July 28-August 3, 2022
Web3 enthusiasts are heading for the hills as Slope wallet joins the chorus of crypto projects exploited in a series [...]
Ethereum After EIP-1559
As the upcoming merge with the Beacon Chain approaches, the upgrade to Ethereum’s fee market mechanism brought on by EIP-1559 [...]
SOTM July 21-27, 2022
Though the fabled 'Powell Pivot' remains just out of reach, markets are surging on less-than-hawkish rhetoric emerging from the Federal [...]