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Movers & Shakers May 2023
Coin Metrics is committed to building the crypto economy on a foundation of truth, providing authentic and accurate data with the highest standards of clarity and precision. With this mission in mind, we are proud to share our May edition [...]
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SOTM March 23-29, 2023
The SEC stole the show for weeks, but the CFTC just fired the biggest shot yet in the crusade to [...]
State of the Network’s Q1 2023 Mining Data Special
In our 200th issue of State of the Network, we share a special report on Bitcoin Mining Data for Q1 [...]
SOTM March 16-22, 2023
Just as the tides of monetary tightening go out, banks find themselves deep underwater. Credit Suisse is Europe's early warning— [...]
An Introduction to Liquid Staking
In this issue of State of the Network, we discuss the need for liquid staking — which allows users to [...]
How Uniswap V2 Swaps Work
A walk through the inner workings of the Uniswap V2 decentralized exchange (DEX), including the function of automated market maker [...]
SOTM March 9-15, 2023
Banking confidence looks bottomless following a flurry of institutional implosions. Between Friday's FDIC seizure of Silicon Valley Bank and Sunday's [...]
FDIC Takeover of Silicon Valley Bank: Assessing the Impact on Stablecoins
Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB) was taken over by the FDIC on Friday morning following a bank run that drained their [...]
Trusted Exchange Framework 2.0
Centralized exchanges are a vital part of the crypto ecosystem but vary widely in quality across several use-cases. In order [...]
SOTM March 2-8, 2023
Once hailed as the gateway to mass adoption, institutions have been no silver bullet for crypto's liquidity woes. After losing [...]
Special Insights
The Rise of NFTs
Since the dawn of the Internet people have been creating content and sharing it online. From videos, to music, to memes, the web is full of digital objects. But for most of the Internet’s history there hasn’t been a way [...]
The Crypto Futures Data Primer
Derivatives are complex investment products, often used as part of advanced trading strategies. Understanding futures fundamentals can give you deeper insight into market dynamics and price movement. In this piece we explore the basics of crypto futures data. In particular, [...]
On-Chain Indicators
Bitcoin represented (among other things) a huge step forward in terms of financial data transparency. Since all transactions are publicly recorded on-chain, a whole new set of fundamental indicators is available to crypto investors. We take a look at some [...]