Observations on Africa
An exploration of the African startup ecosystem
9 startup founders from Africa
On-ramp everybody
A breakdown of how on-ramp products work around the globe
6 founders that have built on-ramps
The Economics of Axie Infinity
A breakdown of how Axie Infinity’s token economics was designed to sustain itself
Written in collaboration with JX from Grants and Web3
A look at how grants are funding a new crop of startups within the Web3 ecosystem and how founders can position best to tap into them
Madhavan from Questbook
On airdrops
We did an exploratory piece on why sybil farmers exploit airdrops and why protocols turn a blind eye to them
Auri from Twitter - .
One click checkout buttons
A breakdown of account abstraction
Biconomy
Payments Pipelines
A sponsored deep dive on how Dex aggregators work
Paraswap
Aggregation theory and Web3
A breakdown of how aggregation theory by Ben Thompson applies to Web3
Krishna - Lead of BD at Quantstamp
Assessing Blockchain Bridges
An initial framework for valuing and ranking blockchain bridges
Socket
Birth of an ecosystem
A thesis for Ronin’s approach to building a Web3 native gaming ecosystem
Sky Mavis (creators of Axie Infinity)
On OEV
A breakdown of how oracle extractable value works
Jose from Spartan Labs