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SOTM Sept 21-27, 2023
Welcome to our 140th issue of State of the Market, where we provide an overview of crypto market activity from September 21 - 27, 2023. A bipartisan Congressional group urges the SEC to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF, with the regulator delaying [...]
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DeFi’s Double-Edged Sword (Preview)
In our new special insights report, we zoom into DeFi lending markets to illuminate their unique features and risks, particularly [...]
SOTM July 27-Aug 2, 2023
Welcome to our 132nd issue of State of the Market, where we provide an overview of crypto market activity from July 27 [...]
Movers & Shakers August 2023
Coin Metrics is committed to building the crypto economy on a foundation of truth, providing authentic and accurate data with [...]
Decoding the Digital Dollar
Stablecoins have quickly grown from a nascent segment of the digital assets ecosystem to a $100 billion+ market. Stablecoins already [...]
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 [...]
SOTM July 20-July 26, 2023
In our 131st issue of State of the Market, we provide an overview of crypto market activity from July 20th - July [...]
From Orange Groves to Orange Gold
How crypto assets are to be regulated in the United States is a contentious battleground with high stakes implications for [...]
From Orange Groves to Orange Gold (Preview)
Today we are excited to be releasing a sweeping new report that offers a methodology to translate the existing legal [...]
SOTM July 13-July 19, 2023
In our 130th issue of State of the Market, we provide an overview of crypto market activity from July 13th - July [...]
Special Insights
What is MEV Anyway?
The concept of MEV has sparked a significant amount of interest and concern in the blockchain community, and this paper aims to shed light on what it is and why it matters. We will begin by examining the fundamental principles [...]
Monitoring DeFi Biggest Risk
This report covers one of the biggest risks in DeFi — the rise of a new development paradigm that introduces single points of failure to many DeFi applications. We begin by examining DeFi’s potential to change how financial products are [...]
Mapping out The Merge
After years of research and development, The Merge will transition Ethereum to Proof of Stake fundamentally changing the network’s security and economics, and realizing the most significant upgrade since its 2015 launch.