By Coin Metrics|2023-03-27T11:19:38-04:00August 24, 2022|Parker Merritt, State of the Market|
"Code is law" means more than ever before as crypto companies face a host of new regulatory requirements. In a continued campaign against OFAC-sanctioned wallets, decentralized exchange Uniswap blocked 253 addresses from the website's frontend as part of "ongoing risk [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-27T11:19:43-04:00August 17, 2022|Parker Merritt, State of the Market|
There's a rebellion brewing in the Ethereum ecosystem, and the stakes have never been higher. As the impacts of U.S. sanctions against the Tornado Cash smart contract continue to set in, several community members have raised the alarm about the [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-27T11:19:49-04:00August 10, 2022|Parker Merritt, State of the Market|
In a whirlwind week of regulation, privacy protocol Tornado Cash has been swept into the eye of the storm. On Monday, the U.S. Treasury levied unprecedented sanctions against the ETH-based mixing service, claiming the smart contract helped launder "more than [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T16:59:13-04:00August 9, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, State of the Network|
Earlier this year at the Bitcoin 2022 conference, Coin Metrics’ Lucas Nuzzi presented the following diagram showing a sample of some of the key projects pushing the Bitcoin ecosystem forward.
By Coin Metrics|2023-04-06T16:20:00-04:00August 5, 2022|Alex R. Mead, General Research|
At the core of Ethereum's transaction fee market is the important concept of 'gas.' In this report, a theoretical explanation of the need for gas from a computational theory perspective is given and how it is realized on Ethereum. We [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-27T11:19:54-04:00August 3, 2022|Parker Merritt, State of the Market|
Web3 enthusiasts are heading for the hills as Slope wallet joins the chorus of crypto projects exploited in a series of black hat attacks. On Tuesday, a string of SOL users discovered their funds were missing, pointing fingers at major [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T16:59:35-04:00August 2, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
As the upcoming merge with the Beacon Chain approaches, the upgrade to Ethereum’s fee market mechanism brought on by EIP-1559 has had nearly one full year to develop and for participants to habituate to the new conditions. In recognition of [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-27T11:20:00-04:00July 27, 2022|Parker Merritt, State of the Market|
Though the fabled 'Powell Pivot' remains just out of reach, markets are surging on less-than-hawkish rhetoric emerging from the Federal Reserve. As the troubling trend of runaway inflation persists, the central bank took Wednesday as yet another opportunity to raise [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T17:00:04-04:00July 26, 2022|Kyle Waters, Matias Andrade, Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
Blockchains are well known for offering a degree of pseudo-anonymity to transactors. But even though individual transactions might not be all that revealing, the collective behavior of blockchain users can be informative in understanding broader usage patterns. One example of this [...]
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