The headline numbers for DeFi weren't pretty in Q3 - and Kinji Steimetz isn't here to deny that. But there were some bright spots - and an honest take on Unichain.

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Ask Messari Copilot "What are the most popular games on the Ronin chain in 2024?"

In 2021, Ronin’s flagship game, Axie Infinity, propelled Web3 gaming into the global spotlight. But when the broader crypto market crashed in 2022, Axie’s highly inflationary token design was exposed, and users abandoned Axie Infinity, and to a large extent, Ronin itself.

But recently, Ronin has made something of a comeback. 

3 New games - Pixels, Apeiron and Wild Forest have each shown strong growth in the past several months - reminiscent of the early days of Axie Infinity. 

So the question is - what has Ronin learned from the Axie experience? And what outside factors may contribute to the success - or plateau - of Ronin’s rebirth?

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Bringing you insights and stories from specialist teams providing consulting, risk advisory, treasury management, strategic finance, and everything crypto protocols need.

Today's guest is Anil Lulla from Delphi Digital.

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In Q2 of 2024, Tether reported a Net Income larger than Visa, MasterCard and Goldman Sachs - and with only 125 employees. Stablecoins are one of the primary crypto use cases that have ascended the realm of mere speculation.

And as you’d expect, there are a number of challengers - and they’ve had a good year too.

So Andrew Dyer dove deep into the year stables have had - and can now give an update on the major categories of stablecoins, the protocols rising within them, their design choices, and the tradeoffs they face in attempting to breach Tether’s moat.

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Introducing The Protocol Services Podcast with Jack Purdy!

Bringing you insights and stories from specialist teams providing consulting, risk advisory, treasury management, strategic finance, and everything crypto protocols need.

Today's guest is Adrian CV from Steakhouse Financial. ADCV tells stories about

• Steakhouse's approach to financial advisory,
• the practical applications that show why it makes more sense to run financial infrastructure on chain, and
• his view on the future of financial advisory.

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Like much of crypto, it’s been hard to paint a clear picture of Base this year. The Coinbase-developed layer 2 launched with high expectations, and by many metrics has certainly met them. 

But if you listen to Crypto Twitter, you may hear a much different story. You’ll often hear things like “the apps are dead!”, and “all of its volume is driven by memecoins”. 

Sunny Shi thinks Base is doing just fine - and can tell you how its leading exchange, Aerodrome, is driving some huge progress.

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One of the fundamentally unique pieces about crypto business models is the concept of token unlocks - or, the idea that rewards for contributions to the project, while fixed in total number, become available in large unlocks of sections over time.

But there’s still a fair amount of inconsistency in how these unlock schedules are designed - and therefore what behavior surrounds unlock events.

So, with several large token unlocks coming up in the rest of 2024, Andrew Dyer dove deep into the historical performance of token prices around unlocks - both large and small - and can now tell you, at least historically, the impact of markets around token unlock events.

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Home internet ISP's like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T typically charge about 100x more for home internet access than what they buy it for wholesale. But due to a number of incumbent advantages, no competitor has been able to undercut them significantly on price in a material way. But as Dylan Bane explains, a new protocol called DAWN is using DePIN principles to try.

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Last week in Jackson Hole, US Fed Chair Jerome Powell gave the clearest indication yet that the Fed would decrease rates at its upcoming meeting in September. Crypto has seen a lot of development since the last decreasing rate environment, and many hope that a new rate direction will usher in crypto's next bull market.

But as Kinji Steimetz explains, it may not be that simple for RWA's - fundamentally RWA's are likely to look less attractive in a lower Fed rate environment, but there are still 3 key paths to growth.

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Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding.
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Polymarket has been growing at a breakneck pace ever since coverage of the US election heated up - but that’s not a surprise. 

Traffic, search engineer interest, volumes, will almost certainly drop after the election is over. But by how much?

Sunny Shi dove deep into Polymarket and can now tell you how strong their non-politics volumes are performing, where volumes might settle after the election, and what the risks are that might wipe away all of this summer’s success.

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• (02:36) - Polymarket's Explosive Growth

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DePIN has been one of the fastest growing narratives in crypto over the last 12 months. Fundraising volumes so far this year are nearly 4x what they were for all of 2023, and total market cap is up 5x compared to last year. But details on key data points like revenue and DePIN ecosystem growth can be hard to consolidate, so it can be hard to know what is real progress vs. what is hype. So Dylan Bane dove deep and now can give an update on revenue, Layer 1 traction, and what's next for DePIN.

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