Crypto pundits have warned investors on media coverage that the ongoing bearish markets could linger for quite a long time. Again, it does not mean you cannot earn a profit during this period of time. Investors just need to be more cautious. Here are a few indexes, often called on-chain analysis you should look into before pouring more into crypto during this time. 

CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) are being talked about by an increasing number of people as a way for governments to improve on fiat money. But what does this development mean for crypto investors?

Ethereum 2.0 will see the Ethereum blockchain switch from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, enabling many improvements to the network's functionality but before that, let’s take a look at the Ethereum Foundation and their recently released report.

1. ● Why Should We Take a Look at the Ethereum Foundation Treasury Report?
   

2. ● The EF Spending in 2021
   

・STEPN is the first project to effectively bring to life a functioning Move-to-Earn concept, finishing 4th out of 500+ projects at the Solana Ignition Hackathon 2021. Stepn is a web 3 lifestyle app with Social-Fi and Game-Fi elements. Players can make earnings by walking, jogging, or running outdoors.

・Users equip themselves with NFTs in the form of Sneakers. By walking, jogging, or running outdoors, users will earn game currency, which can either be used in-game or cashed out for profit.

・The game gained its fame on January 20 with the completion of a $5 million seed round, which was led by Sequoia Capital India and Folius Ventures, with Solana Ventures, Alameda Research, Spark Digital Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Sfermion and others participating.

Robinhood APP added support for the $SHIB caused a hype on April 12, however the SHIB price is now corrected. It seems that the hype is over, but what’s next? Actually, there’s more.

1. ・SHIB : THE METAVERSE
2. ・Sophisticated SHIB Eco’s System

As Facebook announced its mega rebranding plan with a new company name “Meta”, everyone was FOMOing about why on earth Metaverse was that important for Facebook and how our lives may be affected by the sci-fi glossaries such as Metaverse, NFT, GameFi, AR, VR. 

Metaverse is not a new word for sure. A compound word formed by the prefix meta, meaning beyond and universe, Metaverse depicts a universe where reality intertwines with virtuality with the help of blockchain-based technology. It combines social media, gaming, augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to create a virtual environment that people can access via the internet.

Sounds too jargon-layden? Read up this article, through which we are trying to decode Metaverse. Before that, let’s start from the very beginning-Snow Crash.

Story Starts from a Quarrel among Super Rich Guys…

One of the biggest news stories in the crypto circle this week: technology entrepreneurs are feuding about Web3 or Web3.0. Tesla’s Elon Musk, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong and Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss were all down in the battlefield and even led to an unfollowing spree on social media. Forget about what they argued. What is the new-age internet, WEB3 all about? 

Chainanalysis published a report saying that the number of decentralized exchanges(DEX) is growing faster than “any other type of cryptocurrency exchange.” The DEXs has doubled to around 205 from Q1 2019 to Q3 2021 while the still popular CEXs has only risen 20% to 120. 

Everyone in the circle senses that DEXs have gained a lot of popularity in recent years. The respective 24H trade volume on top three DEXs, Uniswap, dYdX and PancakeSwap are comparable to the prominent CEXs, such as FTX, Coinbase and Kraken. 

We know that CEXs and DEXs take different approaches to buying and selling digital assets. However, they do share a lot of similarities. Both of them offer order books (AMM for DEXs), a trading venue, a matching system and security functions. 

A DEX works as a dApp on a blockchain though and users don’t rely on intermediary organization. The orders solely depend on self-executing smart contracts. DEXs are under a non-custodial framework which means users need to take care of their wallets and private keys themselves. It sounds pretty risky but there are multiple reasons behind the DeFi frenzy. 

The concept of a DAO challenges the traditional norms and revolutionizes our ways of life. It is still in early development but more and more DAOs have been founded with various purposes. Before you jump to comment on DAOs future workabilities, you’d better know how many kinds are there for now.