September 22 is a huge day for Cardano as the community has widely anticipated the launch of Vasil hard fork. This upgrade will enrich smart contract capabilities, increase Cardano’s throughput and reduce costs. Adaverse, our Cardano ecosystem accelerator, are well-positioned for the hard fork to drive massive adoption in the Cardano ecosystem. Why Vasil Hard Fork matters? i) Massive improvement in Plutus Plutus is Cardano’s native smart contract language. Following the Vasil upgrade, it will...

September 22 is a huge day for Cardano as the community has widely anticipated the launch of Vasil hard fork. This upgrade will enrich smart contract capabilities, increase Cardano’s throughput and reduce costs. Adaverse, our Cardano ecosystem accelerator, are well-positioned for the hard fork to drive massive adoption in the Cardano ecosystem. Why Vasil Hard Fork matters? i) Massive improvement in Plutus Plutus is Cardano’s native smart contract language. Following the Vasil upgrade, it will...

From the history of crypto, the bear market is a usually good time to filter out malicious actors and allows us to research and spot long-term opportunities. In this article, we identify 5 trends that can be the potential catalysts for next bull run, namely:ZK-rollup (StarkWare and zkSync)AptosCosmos Hub 2.0CelestiaSocialFiZK-rollupRollups are a powerful new layer-2 scaling paradigm, and are expected to be a cornerstone of Ethereum scaling in the short and medium-term future. Compared to opti...

From the history of crypto, the bear market is a usually good time to filter out malicious actors and allows us to research and spot long-term opportunities. In this article, we identify 5 trends that can be the potential catalysts for next bull run, namely:ZK-rollup (StarkWare and zkSync)AptosCosmos Hub 2.0CelestiaSocialFiZK-rollupRollups are a powerful new layer-2 scaling paradigm, and are expected to be a cornerstone of Ethereum scaling in the short and medium-term future. Compared to opti...

Ethereum activated The Merge on Sep 15The Merge is completed on Sep 15, marking a new era of Ethereum as a Proof-of-Stake blockchain. Our incubatee Aspen Digital is proud to present Ethereum The Merge — A Fundamental Analysis on the impact post-Merge, with both short and long term views of Ether going forward. The report will cover the main impact on Ethereum post-Merge, includingEther economics (Deflationary)Staking and the rise of LIDOMining (ETHPoW & ETHPoS)Environmental, Social and Govern...

Ethereum activated The Merge on Sep 15The Merge is completed on Sep 15, marking a new era of Ethereum as a Proof-of-Stake blockchain. Our incubatee Aspen Digital is proud to present Ethereum The Merge — A Fundamental Analysis on the impact post-Merge, with both short and long term views of Ether going forward. The report will cover the main impact on Ethereum post-Merge, includingEther economics (Deflationary)Staking and the rise of LIDOMining (ETHPoW & ETHPoS)Environmental, Social and Govern...

The topic of Just-in-time liquidity was a hot topic at DuneCon — as the concept is said to enhance liquidity for liquidity providers (LP) and improve a DEX’s competitiveness. Our portfolio company, iZUMi Finance, has recently launched a JIT liquidity dashboard on Dune analytics, which will be elaborated in our analysis below.What is JIT Liquidity?Just-in-time liquidity refers to the LP strategy whereby the LP performs the following steps:LP observes a pending sizable swap transaction in the p...

The topic of Just-in-time liquidity was a hot topic at DuneCon — as the concept is said to enhance liquidity for liquidity providers (LP) and improve a DEX’s competitiveness. Our portfolio company, iZUMi Finance, has recently launched a JIT liquidity dashboard on Dune analytics, which will be elaborated in our analysis below.What is JIT Liquidity?Just-in-time liquidity refers to the LP strategy whereby the LP performs the following steps:LP observes a pending sizable swap transaction in the p...

TL;DRDigiDaigaku has decent potential as the next Blue-Chip NFTsProven execution record of Limit Break, consistent increase of Blue-chip NFT folders, lack of visible selling pressure and rising popularity of Web 3.0 community, are the favourable factors for DigiDaigaku’s future success.Potential wash trading activities are one notable risk since the NFT’s launch, as seen in the transaction spike in August 29.IntroductionThere are thousands of NFT collections in the cryptocurrency industry. Ho...

TL;DRDigiDaigaku has decent potential as the next Blue-Chip NFTsProven execution record of Limit Break, consistent increase of Blue-chip NFT folders, lack of visible selling pressure and rising popularity of Web 3.0 community, are the favourable factors for DigiDaigaku’s future success.Potential wash trading activities are one notable risk since the NFT’s launch, as seen in the transaction spike in August 29.IntroductionThere are thousands of NFT collections in the cryptocurrency industry. Ho...