Research

Convergence: A New Governance Paradigm in DeFi

Convergence aims to be a “Governance Blackhole” where they accrue governance rights across various protocols to optimize both the underlying yield generated and the routing of liquidity.

May 22, 2023

Yaoher Pang

Opside: A Game-Changing Rollup-As-A-Service

Opside uses a combination of Proof of Stake (PoS) and Proof of Work(PoW) consensus mechanisms and provides Web3 developers with the functionality to generate zkEVM application chains with a single click.

May 22, 2023

Henry Zhang

Smooth Labs: Revolutionizing Blockchain Infrastructure

Smooth Labs, an innovative blockchain infrastructure startup, recently secured $2 million in seed funding to revolutionize Layer 2 networks and application- specific blockchains with their high - performance module, Smooth.In this report, we will explore the challenges Smooth aims to address, how it works, and the promising team behind this groundbreaking project.

March 21, 2023

Zihao Chen

DeFi Meets TradFi — The Integration and Challenges Faced

What are the challenges behind integrating DeFi and CeFi? This article explores the trends that lead to DeFi integrations with real world use cases, and speculates on some possibilities for industry players to explore.

November 24, 2022

Cathy He (NGC Team); Bybit Research Team

The Decentralized Machine Economy: an upcoming trillion-dollar market

With smart devices and machines providing an ever-growing supply of data, there comes a massive opportunity in combining it with blockchain. We explore some of the potential opportunities in the machine economy and talk about MachineFi and IoTeX, which are key projects building in this area.

June 1, 2022

Rick Yan