Reports

Bitcoin turned in its best monthly performance since December 2020, entering the month around $43,800 and finishing at $61,300, for a 40% increase during October. The main highlight of the month was the resoundingly successful launch of ProShares futures-based Bitcoin Strategy ETF.

With Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years set to go live in November, we explore what Taproot means for the network and its users. 

Years in the making, a U.S. Bitcoin ETF has finally been approved. We examine the pros and cons of its futures-based construction and look at what may come next.

Venture fundraising by crypto companies continues to accelerate, driven by investment in centralized financial applications, infrastructure providers, and, more recently, NFTs.

After a 7x increase in NFT volumes from July to August, volumes, though still elevated, fell considerably in September. In this week’s Chart of the Week, we examine which projects have been driving this year’s growth before decomposing volumes into the number of wallets, sales per wallet, and

After double-digit percentage increases in both July and August, Bitcoin gave some back in September, falling 7% after entering the month around $47,000 and ending around $44,000. Poor performance was mainly concentrated around two events.

First conceived as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, Bitcoin and the technology it’s built upon is in process of changing humanity as we know it. In our first long-form version of our Chart of the Week series, we walk through a semi-technical, yet accessible explanation of how Bitcoin works.

With the recent launch of Arbitrum and incoming full deployment of Optimism, we review Ethereum scaling solutions and the momentum behind rollups in this week’s Chart of the Week.