An overview of the current ReFi landscape on Solana, highlighting key players, trends, and ideas! — With global carbon markets surging to a record $851 billion in 2021 as per Refinitiv., it’s clear that carbon removal is on everyone’s minds. Big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Stripe are leading the way with a $925 million plan to capture carbon pollution. But that’s just the beginning…

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 lack of funding for digital public goods on the internet, because of no single governing entity or platform. Until…

A comprehensive analysis of the top layer 1 blockchains, featuring data-driven insights and forward-looking recommendations. — Blockchains are often compared to “cities” in the multi-chain world. 🏙. Similar to how there are multiple cities, each serving a specific niche yet generally sharing the same infrastructural traits, such as having hospitals and schools. More than 2 centuries ago, city mayors and governments, who laid up foundations for…

The problem with wallets & it’s not just about the friction — With tech companies like Instagram, Apple, Google, and many more, we have become used to their sleek interfaces and easy-to-use digital products which keep up us hooked on them. But if we look at crypto products now, they seem quite raw and not so intuitive to use. On Crypto Twitter…

$25 Billion — That’s the amount of capital that flowed through bridges at its peak in the month of March. If you consider blockchains as countries, the cross-chain flow of capital is going through their “FDI moment”. In the 1990s, the capital which was once restricted inside the countries began…

Until 2018, Blockchains had a major limitation — the DApps could only work with data already on the network. As bringing off-chain data reliably wasn’t an option, it couldn’t reliably bring off-chain data: the applications were not suitable for real-world use cases. So, how to make blockchains communicate with the…

In 2021, DAOs started picking up rapidly with a common narrative, that DAOs would be huge and every web3 organization or even Web2 company would eventually be DAOs. We saw every kind of DAOs from Social DAOs to DeFi DAOs to Investment DAOs to Service DAOs, getting built. This led…

This was my first time learning p5.js, here is the process of coming up with an emoji and making it through code. — Have you ever wondered if there was an emoji by combining 💎+ ❇️ + 🔹. I always did. That’s why I tried creating one. If you are following along, this is the 2nd week of learning Data visualization from India In Pixels(specifically from Ashris). Just like last week’s post on…

How I visualized my life on a data portrait using some Interesting elements. — Keeping the context Documenting every activity of yours in a day can be hard, but Interesting. Not that we get a huge kickback from documenting every action of yours obsessively, but the result always tells you something that we were not aware of before. I’ve been a fanboy of interesting and creative data…