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Coin Prices

Cryptocurrency Prices, Charts And Market Capitalizations | CoinMarketCap

Top cryptocurrency prices and charts, listed by market capitalization. Free access to current and historic data for Bitcoin and thousands of altcoins.

Cryptocurrency Prices, Charts And Market Capitalizations | CoinMarketCap
Top 50 Cryptocurrency Prices, Coin Market Cap, Price Charts And Historical Data | Crypto.com

Explore top cryptocurrencies with Crypto.com, where you can find real-time price, coins market cap, price charts, historical data and currency converter. Bookmark the Price page to get snapshots of the market and track nearly 3,000 coins. Use the social share button on our pages to engage with other crypto enthusiasts.

Top 50 Cryptocurrency Prices, Coin Market Cap, Price Charts And Historical Data | Crypto.com
www.coingecko.com

Revenue

Token Terminal

Find and evaluate top dapps and blockchains based on protocol revenue. Protocol revenue is the share of fees/yield that go to the protocol's treasury or directly to its token holders through e.g. a burn mechanism (similar to a stock buyback).

Token Terminal

Defi

www.coingecko.com
DefiLlama - DeFi Dashboard

Chains

Chain TVL - DefiLlama

Avalanche

Avalanche Stats: C-Chain Activity

An analytics dashboard with charts and graphs for Avalanche platform metrics.

Avalanche Stats: C-Chain Activity

Solana

Metabase

Ethereum

Ethereum Archives

Charts focused on the Ethereum blockchain, with on-chain data for transactions, addresses, miner revenue and hash rate.

Ethereum Archives

Near

Stats

NFTs

www.coingecko.com
DefiLlama - NFT Dashboard
DefiLlama - NFT Dashboard

Fees

CryptoFees.info

There's tons of crypto projects. Which ones are people actually paying to use?

DAOs

Deep DAO - Insights for a Decentralized World

dao analytics insights for a decentralized world

Block Explorers

Solana

Solscan - The most intuitive Solana explorer

The user-friendly and real-time update Scanning Tool for the Solana Ecosystem. Track your $SOL and Solana-related tokens to get information on transactions, blocks and token details.

Solscan - The most intuitive Solana explorer

Mental Models

My Mental Model for the World of Crypto by @ttunguz

How does crypto work at the highest level? This is the mental model I've been using. There are six key categories of players. Asset acquirers - these include brokerages, custodial and non-custodial wallets, banks, asset managers, hedge funds, market makers, and lenders. They aim to acquire assets to plunge into the crypto ecosystem.

Ten Mental Models Required To Understand Bitcoin

"Higher-level behavior tends to emerge from the interaction of lower-order components." Bitcoin's rules are simple, but from these simple rules emerge complex systems and behaviors. "A small amount of specific phenomena causes a disproportionately large effect." Bitcoins immaculate conception caused it to be the largest and most successful digital currency.

Ten Mental Models Required To Understand Bitcoin

Newsletters

Free

Cup of NFT

Serving news from the NFT revolution every Wednesday 🍵

Cup of NFT
Forefront

The leading content and insights aggregator on social tokens, DAOs and Web3. The port of entry to social clubs and digital cities. The digital hub that unlocks infinite paths and roads to web3 creative playground.

Forefront
The Daily Ape

Posting stuff I find interesting here, feel free to share around! Frens share alpha. Tg @Darrenlautf https://twitter.com/Darrenlautf Disclaimer : Not financial advice, DYOR, Projects mentioned are not an endorsement/shill. Views are my own. If you have Telegram, you can view and join The Daily Ape right away.

The Daily Ape
Three quarks | David Phelps | Substack

Let's start with our supervillain: the wicked nerd-inventor Syndrome. A would-be superhero rejected by The Incredibles in their prime, Syndrome has vowed revenge. World destruction, perhaps? The slow psychological subordination of the masses to his iron grip? Well, no, not quite. Syndrome has something else in mind. He wants nothing less than to...

Three quarks | David Phelps | Substack
Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Strategy and investing, from big companies to small. Never boring.

Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Weekly Digest - Friends With Benefits

The FWB Digest is a weekly roundup of everything that went down in Friends with Benefits.

Weekly Digest - Friends With Benefits
The Daily Gwei

Daily commentary on the Ethereum ecosystem.

The Daily Gwei
The Defiant

The essential content platform about decentralized finance.

The Defiant
OurNetwork | Spencer Noon | Substack

About the editor: Spencer Noon is co-founder of Variant Fund. Founders should reply to this email to get in touch. Editor's Note This week's newsletter features our students from OurNetwork Learn, Web3's first learn-to-earn data program.

OurNetwork | Spencer Noon | Substack
30,000 Feet

30,000 Feet: A weekly newsletter exploring ideas and trends in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry

30,000 Feet

Paid

Nansen - Surface the Signal in Blockchain Data

Nansen analyzes 100M+ labelled Ethereum wallets and their activity. So you can separate the signal from the noise in blockchain data.

Nansen - Surface the Signal in Blockchain Data
Delphi Digital

Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms.

Delphi Digital
Crypto Research, Data, and Tools

Get ahead of the curve with industry leading market intelligence covering 100+ top protocols. Try Enterprise For Free Crypto Theses for 2022 Key trends, people, companies, and projects to watch across crypto, Bitcoin and Ethereum, with predictions for 2022 Join 120,000+ professionals and investors who read daily insights from the most experienced research team in crypto.

Crypto Research, Data, and Tools

Landscape

Web3 Stack

Single Chain (Flat)

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Layer 1s

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Explainers

General

Money, blockchains, and social scalability

A wide variety of media, from oral language itself, One of the most knowledgeable observations of the price network produced by markets and money can be found in Friedrich Hayek's essay, clay, paper, telegraph, radio, and computer networks, have served to communicate offers, acceptances, and the resulting deals and prices, as well as performance monitoring and other business communications.

Money, blockchains, and social scalability

Decentralization vs Centralization

Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think

If you've spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you're familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes like this: in the beginning, the web was "truly decentralized." Against all odds, the World Wide Web won against the corporatist designs of companies like Microsoft, and cyberspace became the territory of hobbyists and hackers.

Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think

Protocols

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Layer 1s

blog.coinbase.com
Fat Protocols | Union Square Ventures

Here's one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) produced immeasurable amounts of value, but most of it got captured and re-aggregated on top at the applications layer, largely in the form of data (think Google, Facebook and so on).

Fat Protocols | Union Square Ventures
Layer-1 Platforms: A Framework for Comparison

The Block Research was commissioned by Algorand to create Layer-1 Platforms: A Framework for comparison, which provides a "look under the hood" at seven platforms: Algorand, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Cosmos, Ethereum/Ethereum 2.0, Polkadot, and Solana. We assess their technical design, related ecosystem data, and qualitative factors such as key ecosystem members to get an understanding of how they differ.

Layer-1 Platforms: A Framework for Comparison
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Layer 2s

An Overview of Ethereum's Layer 2 Ecosystem

Demand for Ethereum blockspace is currently at an all-time high, with common transactions like executing a trade on Uniswap frequently costing over $100 in gas. Efforts to scale Ethereum have been the subject of active research and development for years, and while layer 1 scaling may still be years away, layer 2 scaling may be approaching a major inflection point.

An Overview of Ethereum's Layer 2 Ecosystem

Rollups

A Non-Technical Introduction to Rollups

Author: Benjamin Simon June 1, 2021 Let's begin with a metaphor. Imagine that we are back in middle school math class. Our teacher, cruel as only middle school math teachers can be, hands us a list of one hundred long division problems, each with very large numbers.

A Non-Technical Introduction to Rollups

Tokens

Ethereum

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Solana

Solana Summer

🎧 To get this essay straight in your ears: listen on or Apple Podcasts Today's essay, the whole thing, is brought to you by... Solana Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! We're breaking some Not Boring rules here today, and I want to explain why. Thus far, I've only done Sponsored Deep Dives on Thursdays, never Monday.

Solana Summer
Why we are bullish on Solana

Not investment advice. Solana is an ultrafast, low latency, high performance blockchain with smart contract functionality. Using an innovative approach to timekeeping called Proof of History, Solana can achieve subsecond global state finality and transaction throughput of over 50k tps without compromising decentralization or security.

Why we are bullish on Solana

Avalanche

Why I'm so Bullish on Avalanche AVAX.

The largest DEX currently deployed on Avalanche is Pangolin which has seen enormous growth since it's launch just a month ago with volumes in excess of $600 million and over $240 Million Liquidity.

Why I'm so Bullish on Avalanche AVAX.

Classics

Articles

Crypto Reading

A list of worthwhile posts about cryptocurrency.

Crypto Reading
How to Learn About Crypto: A Reading List for Newbies

With all the hype around it, crypto had always been on my list of "Things I Need to Know About Because They Seem Relevant (and Everyone's Talking About Them)," but whenever I'd crack my knuckles and try to dive head-first into the sea of articles out there, I was left feeling confused.

How to Learn About Crypto: A Reading List for Newbies
Article Summary: Trading the metagame By Cobie

Classic Episodes

Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant - The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (#542)

"What the smartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." - Chris Dixon "Denying and pushing back against NFTs and crypto is basically saying: 'We're not going to have a collectively owned future.

Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant - The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (#542)
Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More (#506)

"If code scripts machines, media scripts human beings." - Balaji Srinivasan Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the co-founder of Earn.com ( acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl ( acquired by Myriad), Teleport ( acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.

Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More (#506)

Canons

The Digital Economy Canon - Section 2: Top 10 Newsletters

Newsletters are one of the best ways to be updated about the latest news in the Web3 world and deep-diving into specific subjects. We're excited to come up with this new section of the Forefront Digital Economy Canon this week, bringing you the top ten best Web3 newsletters.

The Digital Economy Canon - Section 2: Top 10 Newsletters
The Digital Economy Canon - Section 1: Podcasts

During a bike ride or while cooking, podcasts are an excellent way to dig more into the Web3 space in a not-so-engaging way. There are some short-format podcasts, some long-format, some technical, some fun, some discussing the future of this space, and some concerning the past.

The Digital Economy Canon - Section 1: Podcasts
DAOs, A Canon - Future

What is (and isn't) a DAO? Why do DAOs matter? How do DAOs fit into web3, crypto, the creator economy, future of work, and many other areas? Inspired by our NFT Canon earlier this year (and original Crypto Canon), we've culled the below list of resources for those seeking to understand, build, and otherwise get involved with these "decentralized autonomous organizations" - which represent the future of community, coordination, work...

DAOs, A Canon - Future
Crypto Canon - Andreessen Horowitz

Here's a list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It's organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts - followed by specific topics such as governance; privacy and security; scaling; consensus and governance; cryptoeconomics, cryptoassets, and ...

NFT Canon | Future

The NFT Canon is a go-to resource for artists and creators, developers, corporations and institutions, communities and other organizations seeking to understand or do more with non-fungible tokens.

NFT Canon | Future

Who To Follow On Twitter

My friend, Emerson Spartz, curated this list of people to follow on Twitter, and I check it several times per week.

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Books

Book Summary & Highlights: Token EconomyBook Summary & Highlights: Token Economy
  • How to DeFi: Beginner
  • DeFi and the Future of Finance

Blogs

Multicoin

Investment Theses

Explorers

Solscan: The Front Page In SolanaRender: Rendering The Metaverse

Solana Protocol

  • The Separation of Time and State
  • Technical Scalability Creates Social Scalability

Podcasts

Podcasts

CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data

Leader in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, blockchain, DeFi, digital finance and Web 3.0 news with analysis, video and live price updates.

CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data
Modern Finance - MoFi

BACON Coin - Fractionalizing Home Loans on the Blockchain with Karl Jacob of LoanSnap On this episode, Kevin talks to LoanSnap co-founder and CEO Karl Jacob about how consumers can invest in and receive yields formerly reserved by big banks and governments.

Modern Finance - MoFi
unchainedpodcast.com
Acquired Podcast

Every company has a story. Acquired goes behind the scenes of the biggest tech IPOs and acquisitions of all time. Hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal.

Acquired Podcast
Uncommon Core

UCC is an acclaimed cryptocurrency blog and podcast, hosted by Su Zhu, the CEO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, a crypto researcher and writer.

Uncommon Core
The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry
The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry
Episodes - Colossus

Colossus® is the premier destination for investors, founders, and operators to learn the world's best information on business building and investing. We're mapping the world's best business and investing information. Join us in the search at Colossus.

The Solana Podcast

Welcome to The Solana Podcast hosted by Anatoly Yakovenko. This podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in both blockchain and technology, our team, and community developers. If you are interested in appearing on the podcast please email ross@solana.com.

The Solana Podcast

Funds

Multicoin