"Over the past ten years, there have been over 3.1 billion blockchain transactions in total. Significantly, we crossed the 1 billion aggregate transactions per year threshold in 2019. In fact, more than 37% (>1.1 billion) of all blockchain transactions in history occurred in 2019."
Ethereum
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"Here’s the FinOps stack we’re commonly using (and, in our experience, works extremely well)."
"TL DR; What the Internet did to data, Ethereum will do to finance. As a result, Ether will be the best risk-adjusted investment this decade."
"Most transactions have an event log, but those event logs can be hard to read."
"Unfortunately, being naive doesn’t reduce risk, nor will it remain an acceptable excuse as time goes on. If we want to have a ‘coming of age’ story rather than a ‘fall flat on our face’ story, we cannot rely on being adorable to get away with the risky business we engage in."
"Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack."
"A technical overview of Ethereum’s emergent Optimistic Rollup ecosystem"
"On 02/15, we have provided a transaction-level recap on the bZx hack that recently captures various headlines in DeFi-related tweets and media. There are quite a few misunderstandings circulating around about the nature of this particular hack."
"The following blog post is an analysis of 2019 data with the goal of sharing actionable insights for Ethereum users. Sources of the data are the block explorer, website analytics, and lists compiled by Etherscan"
"Fast forward to 2020. Ethereum is as slow as ever, and yet it has survived all the so-called Ethereum killers. Ethereum 2.0’s launch date keeps receding further into the future, and Plasma seems to have disappeared entirely with many development groups shuttering operations."
"In this visual essay, we try our best to explain Merkle trees from first principles. The only assumption we make is that you have a basic understanding of what blockchains are, and that you’re familiar with the concept of a binary tree."
"Do the space cat’s claims have merit? Let’s take a closer look, starting with the big one."
"Messari made an interesting observation last week. The amount of value moved with these stablecoins now exceeds the amount of value moved using ETH on Ethereum."
"Ethereum began as a blank canvas."
"In my last blog post, I said that tornado is a fantastic building block that will let some clever developers build a much more private Ethereum wallet. In this post I’m going to describe the wallet I’d like to use."
"A bullish case for ETH as economic bandwidth powering a trustless economy"
"Tensions between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities have steadily risen over the years. I’m not entirely sure why this is, but my pet theory is that it has something to with the confluence of bear-market-blues, impatience with technical progress, and unusual weather patterns."