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Every Tuesday at 07:00 UTC, the CryptoWorlds research desk publishes a free weekly report covering on-chain flows, governance, market structure, and protocol design across 38 chains. The archive below is open to everyone — no paywall, no email gate.

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LATEST ISSUES
JUST PUBLISHED 2024-11-12 · ISSUE #241

L2 Capital Rotation: Smart-Money Wallets Pivot From Mainnet to Base, Arbitrum, and Scroll

Aggregate stablecoin supply on Ethereum L2s crossed $4.1B last week, with 62% of new issuance settling on Base. We trace 2,400 labeled wallets across 14 protocols to map where treasury desks and market makers are repositioning ahead of the Q1 ETF review window.

  • Capital flows
  • L2 ecosystem
  • Stablecoins
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PUBLISHED 2024-11-05 · ISSUE #240

Governance Watch: 14 Active Proposals Across Compound, Aave, Uniswap, and MakerDAO

Two Aave proposals (AIP-XXX and AIP-YYY) would meaningfully change risk parameters on the V3 Ethereum market — we model the impact on liquidation thresholds under three volatility regimes.

  • Governance
  • DeFi
  • Risk
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PUBLISHED 2024-10-29 · ISSUE #239

NFT Floor Drift: Two Outlier Collections Flagged as Possible Wash Activity

Across 22 tracked collections, two mid-cap NFTs show volume-to-floor ratios above 6.0σ from their 90-day baseline. We publish the on-chain wallet clusters behind the suspected patterns.

  • NFTs
  • Forensics
  • Market structure
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ARCHIVE

Browse 240+ Reports — Filterable by Year, Chain, and Topic

Every report is free to read. No paywall, no email gate on archived content. Use the filters below to narrow the archive; selection is purely visual — all 240+ issues remain reachable from the bottom of the page.

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CHAIN
TOPIC
#238 · 2024-10-22 SOL

Solana DEX Volume Crosses Ethereum Mainnet for Third Consecutive Week

Orca, Raydium, and Phoenix aggregate to $11.4B weekly volume. We decompose the flow between bot, retail, and treasury desks and compare fee revenue trajectories.

  • DeFi
  • Market structure
#237 · 2024-10-15 ETH

Restaking Risk Map: 18 AVS Operators, $8.9B in Cumulative Restaked ETH

We model correlated slashing risk across EigenLayer's top operators and identify three operator clusters with shared infrastructure dependencies.

  • DeFi
  • Risk
  • L2s
#236 · 2024-10-08 BTC

Ordinals Inscriptions Activity Slows 41% QoQ, but BRC-20 Market Depth Holds

A structural look at why inscription throughput has decoupled from speculative token volume on Bitcoin mainnet.

  • NFTs
  • Market structure
#235 · 2024-10-01 Base

Base Builder Index: 312 Active Contracts, $340M Monthly Gas Spend

Quarterly index of contract deployments, retention rates, and gas concentration among the top 20 deployers on Coinbase's L2.

  • L2s
  • DeFi
THE RESEARCH DESK

A 47-Person Analyst Team Operating Across Three Continents

The weekly note is one output of a much larger research operation. The numbers below describe the scope of the desk and the audience that has trusted our work since the first issue in March 2020.

240+ Reports published since March 2020 Every Tuesday, 07:00 UTC, with no skipped weeks
1.8M Aggregate subscribers across email and RSS Doubled from 870K in 2022 to 1.8M in Q3 2024
38 Blockchains covered in the weekly data pull Including L2s from day-one mainnet: Base, Arbitrum, Scroll, Optimism
47 Engineers, researchers, and on-chain analysts Operating from Singapore, Lisbon, and Buenos Aires
Editorial references and integrations
WHAT WE COVER

Six Recurring Pillars, Rotated Weekly Across the Desk

Each weekly issue is anchored to one primary pillar, with secondary cross-references in the other five. The taxonomy below is the editorial backbone the desk has used since 2020.

01

Market Structure

Exchange volumes, derivatives open interest, basis spreads, funding-rate regimes, and venue concentration across CEXs and DEXs.

52 issues since 2020
02

On-Chain Flows

Smart-money wallet rotation, exchange inflow and outflow, stablecoin supply changes, and bridge volume across the 38 chains we index.

48 issues since 2020
03

Governance

Active proposals across Compound, Aave, Uniswap, MakerDAO, Curve, and the L2 DAO ecosystem, with modeled impact on protocol parameters.

44 issues since 2020
04

Protocol Design

Deep dives into mechanism changes, fee switches, oracle configurations, and restaking primitives as they ship to mainnet.

36 issues since 2020
05

NFTs & Digital Goods

Floor-price drift, wash-activity forensics, royalty enforcement, and the convergence (or divergence) of NFT markets with fungible token markets.

31 issues since 2020
06

Stablecoins & Regulation

Reserve composition, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction policy tracking, and the on-chain footprint of major fiat-pegged and commodity-pegged tokens.

29 issues since 2020
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Every issue is published simultaneously as HTML (with live, clickable on-chain transaction links), as a print-ready PDF, and as raw CSV data tables for the figures referenced in the report. The CSV bundle is linked from the appendix of each issue.

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