Here’s what happened this month with JBlock! 6/1: After the markets have calmed down a bit, things are back as normal. Currently out of all algo pegs and mainly in the burrow farm using Aurora+ interest arbitrage right now. Things are going smoothly. 6/15: How this is going to be…

Adding to our series of different ecosystem analyses, today we’re focusing on one of the most popular chains as of late: Near. Near is a decentralized application platform focusing on usability and uses proof-of-stake (PoS). It is smart-contract capable and uses sharding technology to achieve scalability, more on that later…

Today, in our deep dive series into L1/L2 chains, we’ll explore Solana. What is Solana Solana is a highly active open source project that is a permissionless, and high-speed layer-1 blockchain. Solana was created by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former executive at Qualcomm, in 2017. The project aims to scale throughput…

I’m a firm believer the future of crypto is multichain. In this article, we’ll do a deep dive into one of the most popular networks, Avalanche. Intro to Avalanche (Avax) Avalanche was created due to the growing popularity of DeFi applications and the blockchain. These high levels of growth have…

Starting off this month, we just saw the price of FTM drop like 40% in the last two days, much of which is due to Roosh’s death spiral liquidations on Scream. Due to this, the Tomb peg has recently dropped to 0.90 ftm, and currently sits at 0.96. Playing the…

In an ever-changing crypto world, the buzz around crypto regulation is omnipresent. This article will look at areas where legislation is lacking and others where the law has set out well-defined rules. Cryptocurrency Crime and Tax Evasion Recently, U.S. legislators have included cryptocurrency in bipartisan infrastructure bill talks. There is…

What is MEV? MEV is a measure of the profit that a miner can make through their ability to include, exclude, or reorder transactions within the blocks they produce. To understand how this works, we must first understand how ethereum transactions occur on the blockchain. When buying ethereum on the…

As we’re sure many have realized, a popular topic recently in the crypto space has been NFTs. These non-fungible tokens have captured the interest of crypto novices and experts alike and have transformed many from rags to riches. An exciting sector of NFTs has been Music NFTs. What are Music…

Recently there has been a lot of talk on L2 solutions on Ethereum, a lot of which has been around Optimism. This article will explain Optimism’s concepts and address some of the benefits and challenges associated with these ideas. What is a L2? Layer 2 scaling is used to help…