Perspectives, analysis, and product updates from the Blockworks team.
The neglected bridge
Risk Management
After four years of nine-figure bridge hacks, the only cross-chain primitive with a clean record is the one nobody calls a bridge.
Macauley Peterson ·
Veda: Data Dashboard Primer
Dashboard Primers
Veda enables protocols, applications, exchanges, and fintech platforms to offer transparent, accessible yield products directly to their users.
Jack Mandin ·
Blockworks valued at $192M in latest fundraise, bets on rolling up fragmented data industry
Blockworks Update
Blockworks has raised a Series A extension, co-led by ParaFi and Reciprocal Ventures, with participation from 20+ of our customers and a group of operators we deeply admire.
Blockworks ·
New identity, same conviction
Product Update
Introducing a refreshed brand identity to reflect the new era of Blockworks
Reid Hannaford ·
Aerodrome Finance: Data Dashboard Primer
Dashboard Primers
The protocol is preparing a major architectural upgrade that will merge Aerodrome and Velodrome into a unified cross-chain DEX and introduce MEV internalization as a new revenue stream
Nick Carpinito ·
DeFi built the CLO. It forgot to build the Rating Agency.
DeFi Credit Risk
We do not have a bad debt problem in DeFi lending. We have a measurement problem.
Anastasiia ·
Ethena Gold Basis Trading Portfolio Performance Analysis
Risk Management
This report provides a quantitative characterisation of perpetual futures funding rate dynamics for tokenised gold (PAX Gold PAXG and Tether Gold XAUT) and their relationship to Ethena's existing BTC and ETH basis book. It is an analytical contribution to the Risk Committee's broader consideration of gold backed instruments, offering the empirical foundation on which portfolio and risk decisions can rest.
Blockworks Advisory ·
Leverage in Prediction Markets, Part One
Prediction Markets
Four models are emerging to bring leverage to prediction markets, each taking a different approach to jump risk, and liquidation design, but all share a structural dependency on the CLOB venue architecture underneath.
Darren Mims ·
Investor Relations for the Onchain Era
Product Update
Investor relations, rebuilt for onchain businesses with real-time data, standardized disclosures, and a more efficient path to investor trust
Blockworks ·
The Crypto Native Guide to Investor Relations
Protocol strategy
Investor relations is the function responsible for helping the market understand an asset, its strategy, and its potential. It's the bridge between the issuer and the market.
Michael Ippolito ·
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