Dive deep into the state of Solana 1/1 art market, ft. projects like Exchange.Art, Collector.sh, DRiP, Mallow.Art, 21DAO, LeDAO, and more! Traditional Fine Arts is a massive ‘elitist’ market, with a gross of $64 billion in 2019. Investments in fine artwork have yielded annualized returns of approximately 7% over the…

Understanding the upcoming bill and its implications through our musings on stablecoins. — The world ran on dollars. The eurodollar, which refers to the offshore US dollar outside the supervision of U.S. banking regulations, emerged in the 1960s due to global energy trades settling in the U.S. dollar as a result of Bretton Woods. Not only did businesses use dollars, average citizens in…

Exploring why and how CBDCs can be issued on a public blockchain like Solana and the path to getting there. — Over 80% of central banks are exploring the possibility of directly issuing digital money on decentralized ledgers, a.k.a. central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). While most CBDC initiatives are still in the research and testing phase, privately-issued stablecoins are arguably the only web3 product vertical that has found product-market fit, with…

$16 Trillion — that’s an estimate of illiquid assets that will be tokenized as per BCG by 2030. Bringing Real-World Assets (RWA) like real estate, bonds, equities, and other assets on-chain shows signs of early product-market fit in DeFi. We are seeing the first wave of the RWA boom, led…

Reasons for plethora of stablecoin issuances in 2023–24 and how stablecoin issuers can go multi-chain using Wormhole, taking HSBC as an example! From the UST collapse to USDT’s controversial backings to the USDC De-peg fiasco — stablecoins have been questioned and tested over time. Yet, they have managed to be…

Understanding Solana Pay, exploring potential use cases, and designing a Go-To-Market strategy for Solana Pay. — From its earliest days, the Crypto ecosystem has imagined a rapid, simple, and low-cost means of payment in everyday life. Reasons like high price volatility & gas fees, low transaction throughput, and clunky UX with a missing app layer have put blockchain payments out of reach for the masses. This…

An in-depth analysis of Gitcoin and why a Gitcoin-style grants program for the Solana ecosystem is a golden opportunity! $500 Billion+ of value has been created by Open Source, the digital public good. Open-source developers create economic value but are under-compensated. This mismatch between value and compensation is due to a…

FTX’s crash didn’t just vanish SBF’s $32 Billion but also shook the core of Solana DeFi. The Project Serum, which was used by numerous DeFi protocols was also at risk, potentially questioning the future of Solana DeFi. That’s when the community stepped up to save Solana DeFi and created OpenBook. …

A deep dive into the Eclipse building on one of the hottest themes of “appchains”, the modular blockchains, and a sneak peek into what’s ahead for Eclipse. 2022 was a year, many ‘popular’ dApps announced to move from a general-purpose chain to an app-specific chain. It began with Defi Kingdoms…