The primary economic implication of the emerging Solana technology advancements is a fundamental transformation in the network’s capacity to host global financial activity, specifically, high-frequency trading and complex financial derivatives directly on-chain. The goal is to reach one million transactions per second (TPS), a sufficient level to handle the…
This article assesses the success of different staking-based security mechanisms using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. We evaluate Bitcoin staking, Cosmos' Interchain Security, and Ethereum restaking.…
The DoubleZero protocol introduces tech concepts for improving the performance of distributed systems like Solana. Here is an overview of the economic implications for both the DoubleZero network itself and the Solana ecosystem.…
The recent MakerDAO governance attack sparked debate around governance transparency and decentralization…
This is the first part of our research into staking primitives, and Interchain Security, Ethereum restaking, and Bitcoin staking in particular.…
A recent panel discussion on the intersection of AI and decentralization brought the term "the agentic economy". Here's a summary of the key points.…
In this article, we summarize the learnings from the Columbia Crypto Economics Workshop that took place at the beginning of December.…
A recap of everything we learned during our participation in the Namada's Dry Run.…
