The non-fungible token (NFT) market has been surprising us with not only new creative digital arts but also sky-rocketing prices. Everyone wants to find the next Crypto Punks, Chromie Squiggle or Fidenza before the price goes out of reach for most of us. …

Given the recent surge in NFT sales and prices, especially in generative NFTs such as those from Art Blocks, it would be interesting to see if the number of sales and the price of a collection can be predicted. This article makes use of some simple statistical & machine learning…

Since its launch on January 10th 2022, LooksRare has been dominated by wash traders trading zero-royalty NFTs to gain trading rewards. I’ve written an article on CoinTelegraph to analyse the details of some wash trades (Dune dashboard can be found here). …

Terra’s UST depeg first started on Curve Finance and soon became visible in the 3pool. UST defender failed to close the gap between UST and DAI/USDC/USDT (75%-25%) on May 8th, the gap has since widened to 99%-1% while UST price drops to sub $0.1. Depeg contagion has spread over to…

The non-fungible token (NFT) market has been booming since the summer of 2021. As NFT prices sky-rocketing, the number of hacks targeting NFTs is also increasing. In the 2022 Crypto Crime Report published by Chainalysis, it is highlighted that the value sent to NFT marketplaces by illicit addresses jumped significantly…

New protocols are launching everyday on different networks in the crypto space and the trend is likely to continue through this year. But does new protocol launch always add value to the network and stimulate user activity and engagement? My recently published article on Cointelegraph here focuses on Terra chain…

ApeCoin ($APE) — the governance token of the well-known NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was listed yesterday on Mar. 17. The price in the first few minutes were very volatile. Data shows vast APE price discrepancies ranging from $8 to $214 at centralized exchanges, but how likely is…

Impermanent loss is one of the most recognised risks for investors when providing liquidity to Automated Money Market (AMM). …

Recently the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected another proposal for a Bitcoin spot exchange traded product (ETP) — The attempt made by Cboe BZX Exchange on January 25 to list the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Trust as a Bitcoin ETP. Crypto investors still hope that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will approve spot-based BTC ETP one day, but data shows they have good reason not to.