Photo by Sumeesh Nagisetty on UnsplashHodler, academic researcher, or suspicious act investigator, we are all facing the ever-increasing transaction data problem no matter who you are. Therefore, a capable DeFi data analytic tool can empower us in three ways:It reveals the transaction structures behind the complexity of addresses, tokens, and trades.It presents the intrinsic substance of smart contracts, which you can use to foretell the future behaviours of certain actors.It manifests associ...

Photo by Sumeesh Nagisetty on UnsplashHodler, academic researcher, or suspicious act investigator, we are all facing the ever-increasing transaction data problem no matter who you are. Therefore, a capable DeFi data analytic tool can empower us in three ways:It reveals the transaction structures behind the complexity of addresses, tokens, and trades.It presents the intrinsic substance of smart contracts, which you can use to foretell the future behaviours of certain actors.It manifests associ...

Photo by Quantitatives.io on UnsplashWhy Chris Anderson is Wrong About Human Behaviour DataWhen talking about human behaviour data, Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, once said, “Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves”. He is right about the fidelity part. But the numbers can not speak for themselves. 1.98 trillion USD, this is the market cap of the crypto m...

Photo by Quantitatives.io on UnsplashWhy Chris Anderson is Wrong About Human Behaviour DataWhen talking about human behaviour data, Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, once said, “Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves”. He is right about the fidelity part. But the numbers can not speak for themselves. 1.98 trillion USD, this is the market cap of the crypto m...

Photo by Mae Mu on UnsplashIn 2018, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, warned the crypto world about a specific arbitrage: Sandwich. The arbitrage would have significant consequences, such as marketing manipulation. You can find a more elaborate explanation here. Traditionally, sandwich arbitrages are challenging to monitor and detect due to their complex nature. Thanks to the flashbots project and its team’s great endeavour, sandwich arbitrage has walked out of the dark forest and bec...

Photo by Mae Mu on UnsplashIn 2018, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, warned the crypto world about a specific arbitrage: Sandwich. The arbitrage would have significant consequences, such as marketing manipulation. You can find a more elaborate explanation here. Traditionally, sandwich arbitrages are challenging to monitor and detect due to their complex nature. Thanks to the flashbots project and its team’s great endeavour, sandwich arbitrage has walked out of the dark forest and bec...

TLDR: The history of web search engines will replay in the DeFi universe regarding myriad data processing. Computer-enabled platforms like EigenPhi will prevail over human-tagging approaches, just as Google dominated Yahoo!.We Need to Make Crypto Transactions Safe, Reliable, and ApproachableIn Three things Web3 should fix in 2022, Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the daily Tech newsletter Platformer, pointed out the first one should be: to make crypto transactions safe, reliable, and a...

TLDR: The history of web search engines will replay in the DeFi universe regarding myriad data processing. Computer-enabled platforms like EigenPhi will prevail over human-tagging approaches, just as Google dominated Yahoo!.We Need to Make Crypto Transactions Safe, Reliable, and ApproachableIn Three things Web3 should fix in 2022, Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the daily Tech newsletter Platformer, pointed out the first one should be: to make crypto transactions safe, reliable, and a...