DeFi Technologies has surged over 3,400% in the past 12 months, dwarfing the gains of BTC, ETH, & SOL combined.
However, a recent promotional campaign has raised critical questions about the transparency & motivations behind this rally.
$DEFTF $DEFI.NE
In
@twobitidiot
's Crypto Thesis For 2022 he mentioned that the MVRV ratio from
@coinmetrics
is great indicator of when to buy and sell:
"Whenever MVRV hits 3 tends to be a good time to take gains. (Sell a kidney or a newborn to buy when MVRV falls below 1)"
We are now at .942
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@DanielGKuhn
for
@CoinDesk
.
Daniel writes about Katie Ananina, the founder of Plan B Passport.
Ananina works primarily with Bitcoiners to obtain legal residency status in their choice of tax-haven nations.
Tomorrow $COIN posts Q4 earnings. And while you'll find a much more robust prediction from
@CoinbaseDuck
&
@kunalgoel
, if you want the quick & dirty, rounded numbers, lot of assumptions prediction you can find it here.
TLDR: we predict a $COIN beat.
Galaxy Digital $GLXY in their Q3 earnings reported that their "Average Marginal Cost to Mine" $BTC was <$0 due to "effective power management strategy."
.
@CoinGecko
recently released their new report for Q2 2019. 🦎
As always, there's tons of fresh information, data, infographics and easy to read crypto material.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@gladstein
.
Financial experts and policymakers have continuously pounded the narrative that Bitcoin is bad for the planet.
Alex Gladstein shows why they are blinded by their financial privilege.
📍Our most-read article of the week from Ben Hunt of
@EpsilonTheory
. He went in on the this whole Libra thing.
Here is the best counter argument to everything you've heard about Libra being good for $BTC.
Check out our inaugural interview with
@ClayCollins
(CEO of
@NomicsFinance
). In this exclusive sit-down, we talk about Nomics' goal to become a Yahoo! Finance for cryptoasset investors, and how they are doing things CoinMarketCap is too afraid to do.
📍Our most-read article of the week comes from
@CoinMetrics
.
Many crypto analysts felt the recent $BTC selloff was mainly driven by new market participants and institutions fleeing to cash...
CoinMetrics dug into the data to see if this was the case.
Lessons learned, stress dealt with, and wisdom gained.
In this essay
@cz_binance
, founder and CEO of the beloved
@Binance
exchange, recaps everything that occurred in the past two weeks.
Circle Invest (
@circleinvest
) to reward customers with free crypto assets:
Here’s how it works:
📱Download Circle Invest (iOS and Android)
💰 Make your first investment
💬 Tweet about it
🎁 Sit back and wait for your free crypto asset
If
@novogratz
is so confident in suggesting buying $GLXY shares to others, why isn’t he pulling the trigger on his own company?
Perhaps he's saving up capital for a splashy announcement.
📍 When we share an article from
@DavidJN79
, it almost feels destined to become our most-read article of the week.
David writes about why “blockchain, not Bitcoin” is incorrect, and works to identify several drivers of this narrative.
Circle Files for an IPO... Again
To give some backdrop, it’s worth noting that this isn’t Circle’s first attempt at a public listing.
Attempt
#1
came in July 2021 when the company planned to go public through a SPAC merger with Concord Acquisition Corp. at a $4.5 billion
"We’re not a blockchain company, we’re not a crypto company; we are a traditional API company. We’re a data company. First and foremost what we provide is our market data API." -
@ClayCollins
on
@nomicsfinance
📌 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@La__Cuen
.
Many bitcoin believers donated crypto to initiatives in Venezuela, often holding up the nation as the pinnacle example of the technology’s potential.
The truth is much more nuanced.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from Dan Kahan for
@DefiantNews
.
The year is 2023. Blockchain technology has reached unprecedented heights. DeFi is mainstream.
And then the US government makes the "inevitable" announcement...
Ethereum Classic is starting to out perform ETH. Once ETC is added to Coinbase there should also be quite a bit of buying. After consolidating for the last year, if the lower boundary of the ETC-USD trend channel continues to remain intact, $ETC could be 20x by the end of 2019.
If
@novogratz
is so confident in suggesting buying $GLXY shares to others, why isn’t he pulling the trigger on his own company?
Perhaps he's saving up capital for a splashy announcement.
📍 Our most-read article this week comes from
@celiawan2
.
The Winklevoss twins and
@Gemini
just acquired their first startup.
Nifty Gateway allows users to purchase non-fungible tokens from crypto games using credit and debit cards.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@hkuppy
.
Harris Kupperman thinks $BTC is a massive ponzi scheme.
While you may disagree, investors shouldn't overlook his primary thesis:
The effect of $GBTC on the price of Bitcoin is paramount.
Messari
@MessariCrypto
research team members disclosed their crypto holdings that represent >5% of their portfolios. Here are the results, as of 11/4/21… with a couple of interesting findings 🧵👇👇
What if there was a way to get all the benefits of holding stablecoins while also receiving the yields you could get in US Treasuries. Enter projects like
@BackedFi
Read about
@helium
– it's better than WiFi, and cheaper than cellular.
Nestle and Lime Scooters are even early investors into this 6-year old startup, shares
@rhhackett
. 🎈🎈🎈
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@Cooopahtroopa
for
@BanklessHQ
.
Social tokens are starting to gain traction.
Despite investor concerns, there could be potential in these newfound fan tokens.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
Daniel Phillips and
@stephengraves
.
They take a look at the companies who are stockpiling $BTC — both on behalf of investors as funds, and as a reserve asset.
A new report by
@OVioHQ
reveals that
#London
blockchain firms have raised over $500m in equity funding since 2013, and that the UK capital is the preferred European hub for blockchain startups.
Last year,
@mariogabriele
wrote an amazing profile of
@SBF_FTX
and
@FTX_Official
.
In one section, Mario explored FTXs acquisition of Blockfolio for $150mm and how FTX could potentially ROI in 2 days!
With that in mind let's compare it to SBFs $480mm investment into Robinhood...
Bitcoin just cracked the $50k barrier again. But this time feels different. Why?
In our latest post, we compare today's catalysts vs. the drivers back then... when $BTC first reached $50k in Feb 2021.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@nlw
.
Whittemore responds to Bloomberg's
@TheStalwart
, giving us 6 legitimate reasons why 2020 has been a GREAT year for $BTC.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@KyleTorpey
for
@LongHashData
.
The Bitcoin Dominance Index (BDI) is one of the most popular data points in the crypto asset market.
Kyle, however, feels there are many problems associated with the BDI.
📍 Our most read article comes from
@_ericelliott
.
He responds to
@nlw
's questions on the next "alt season," while also giving away some of his favorite "alts" that have much lower risk than the majority.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@mikemcg0
.
In Michael McGuiness' latest long read he explores his reasoning behind why he believes ETH may be a superior store of value to BTC.
📍 Our most-read article of the week comes from
@SquishChaos
.
They published a massive 79-page report on why Ether will offer the best risk-adjusted return of any asset for the next 18 months.
The remittance market (the sending of capital between two countries) is a large (~$600B) market that many in crypto are trying to disrupt.. but so far, none have have.
@mccannatronhris
writes about how crypto companies can address this growing market.
A new report from
@OVioHQ
reveals that London blockchain firms have raised over $500M in equity funding since 2013, and that the UK capital is the preferred European hub for blockchain startups.
The one and only Nathaniel Whittemore (
@nlw
) recently published his latest Narrative Watch edition, highlighting:
1. The Return of Token Sales
2. Ethereum Competition
3. Governance
4. Fair Launches vs. Dev Incentives
5. Fund Consolidation
Brave Browser Crosses 25 Million Daily Active Users
@brave
's CEO
@BrendanEich
, noted that the number was a new all-time-high and was up 4% from December.
We’ve got some HUGE news to share with you.
For the very first time, we’re doing a giveaway... and it just went live! 🎉
We're giving away $100 of bitcoin ($BTC). Check out the details below ⬇️
Thanks
@nathanielpopper
for this great write-up on Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’, featured on our newsletter this week.
“When he purchased $4 million in real estate, two Maseratis and two powerboats, we decided it was time to get to the bottom of it.”
?
Featured in today's newsletter, from the great minds at
@AbraGlobal
and
@unbankd_co
“Code Meets Money” is a cryptocurrency explainer created in the style of a graphic novel 📖
Don't miss this one 👇
We write a newsletter we are pretty proud of... so you should probably subscribe to ours at if you haven't already.
But we have to admit,
@bgilliam1982
at
@Blockworks_
sure does make us envious some days.
This week's macro note discusses whether Nvidia bulls are as early as pumpkin spice in August or as late as Halloween pumpkins in November
Subscribe and ... well, you still won't know. But you'll have some easy-on-the-eyes charts to finish your week with
Check out this fully interactive chart cryptocurrency from
@thetokenanalyst
.
They even include a visual graphic of the flow of Bitcoin between exchanges during 2019 (so far).
Volume inflation has been a problem in the crypto space over the last couple of years.
@CoinMarketCap
has attempted to create a solution.
They've rolled out a new ranking system for their market pairs, as well as introducing a new Confidence indicator.
Thanks
@Najvasol
for this great post on the vision of
@SpankChain
, featured in our newsletter this week.
“From casual conversations from the team, it’s clear these (wildly) talented people choose to be here—and could just as easily work [elsewhere].”
Write a crypto focused newsletter? Let's chat. Coinsnacks wants to expand its offerings for its 60k+ readers and is looking to partner with some great writers. DM us.
📍Our most-read article comes
@alexrkonrad
, who breaks down Andreessen Horowitz's latest moves.
It's now looking like the firm is gearing up to do things in the crypto world that its peers aren’t willing to touch yet.