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Decentralized Capital Markets Research & Articles: www.shoal.gg Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shoalresearch TG link: https://t.me/shoalresearch Website: Shoalresearch.xyz
Umbra Research: A Sandwich-Resistant AMM (July 2024)
This piece outlined a construction for the sandwich-resistant AMM, an AMM that prevents atomic sandwich attacks at the application layer.
> The sr-AMM extends constant-product AMMs by enforcing an invariant: no swaps get filled at a price better than the price at the beginning of the slot window.
Source: https://www.umbraresearch.xyz/writings/sandwich-resistant-amm
EigenLayer Introduces ELIP-002: Slashing
Second Improvement Proposal
> This proposal outlines an upgrade that strengthens the credible commitments AVSs can make to their users by penalizing (i.e. slashing) Operators for not properly running their services.
Source: https://x.com/eigenlayer/status/1867362734721102247
Anton: Morpho or Euler? Comparing Lending Hyperstructures
> Comparing their high-level features and different approaches
Source: https://mirror.xyz/emodev.eth/28BqhKqnvnxJJSGp1UFH0--tR2yp3GDBrUxnXLdGdSg
Arrakis Finance: The AMM Renaissance - How MEV Auctions and Dynamic Fees Prevent LVR
> Dynamic fees put a price on volatility, which makes it harder for arbitrageurs to profit.
> MEV auctions put a price on the right to capture MEV & use proceeds from the high bid to repay LPs
> Unichain is leading the charge with a chain-level solution for both.
> This piece explore why Arrakis is excited to build on Unichain and how they are tackling MEV
Source: https://x.com/ArrakisFinance/status/1867271789312979000
AssisterrAI Litepaper: The DeAI Gig Economy for Mixtures of Small Language Model (SLM) Agents
AssisterrAI provides a unified infrastructure pipeline to create, tokenize and distribute SLMs in a way that incentivizes all community contributions
> They provide no-code infrastructure for the development of SLMs catered to domain-specific use cases👇
Source: www.assisterr.ai/litepaper-assisterr.pdf
FXN: A Marketplace for Agents
FXN is a framework agnostic protocol enabling AI agents to securely share and monetize digital resources, regardless of their underlying implementation
> It enables AI agents to become both resource consumers and providers
Source: https://x.com/brodyadreon/status/1866537128202481932?s=46&t=ywALktyM5ZCyt-zigN5Big
Julian Ma: Introduction to MEV Mitigation
The post breaks down the development of out-of-protocol MEV mitigation along two axes:
> Application-specific or shared infrastructure
> Preventing or rebating MEV.
> It also presents novel arguments why Ethereum always needs in-protocol MEV Mitigation
https://mirror.xyz/julianma.eth/rcXa7B5y14tbfFWwOqSVHcNOzzmNKOG0EfZJAn_qom4
Source: https://x.com/_julianma/status/1866878447869452797?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
DePIN Ecosystem Map
Source: https://x.com/advait_peri/status/1866830989923656160?s=46&t=ywALktyM5ZCyt-zigN5Big
Hyperliquid Ecosystem
Source: https://x.com/fmoulin7/status/1867199815286730837
December 11th~ Rollup
🐚 Research and Ideation 💡
- Delphi Digital: Markets Year Ahead 2025
- Defi0xJeff: AI Agents - The Emerging Narratives Defining the Space (Part 1)
- Shoal Research: EigenLayer Unlocked - A Viable Path towards Frictionless dApps
- Pavel Paramonov: How MegaETH Works: Mechanism Design and Workflow
- crypblizz: Crypto Companions: The PET Ecosystem (MPC / FHE / TEE & ZK)
- zolo_hands: Classification of AI Projects & Popular Projects Overview
- Crucible Labs: A Dive into Bittensor’s Decentralized Training Subnets
- 2077 Research: Zero-Knowledge Proofs By Example
- Delphi Digital: Sector Performance Dashboard
🐚 New-s 📕
- MicroStrategy (MSTR) Expected To Be Added To Nasdaq 100 Later this Month: Bloomberg
- Trump's World Liberty Acquires Another $5m in ETH
- Brian Quintenz Become the leading candidate for CFTC Chair
🐚 Project Updates 🔔
- Circle x Binance Partners to Accelerate Global USDC and Crypto Adoption
- Kaito’s Yaps Points Program is Now Live
- Coinbase Has Added $PNUT to Listing Roadmap
- Virtuals Protocol Introduces Agent Sandbox
- SauceGG Rebrands as ChainPro
- Phantom Now Allows Users to Discover Pumpdotfun and Moonshot Tokens
- Cookie.Fun Now Auto-Lists Agents Built on Virtuals
- Nous Research Introduces Hermes 3 3B
- Omo X Thales: Pioneering Cross-Chain AI Agents With Lit Protocol And Shogun
- VANA Tokenomics
- CDP Builder Grants: AgentKit Edition
- Beam Ventures Plans to Launch the First Gaming-Focused Venture Fund in Abu Dhabi
Beam Ventures Announces Plans to Launch the First Gaming-Focused Venture Fund in Abu Dhabi
Beam has also announced:
> BeamAI for Gaming
> Beam L1 Chain
> Beam Nodes
Source: https://x.com/BeamFDN/status/1866754998354301128
Crucible Labs: A Dive into Bittensor’s Decentralized Training Subnets
A sector-based analyses of Bittensor Subnets, starting with decentralized training. The analysis reveals two distinct training implementations:
> Model Competition Networks (MCNs)
> Distributed Training Networks (DTNs)👇
Source: https://cruciblelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bittensor-Decentralized-Training.pdf
Classification of AI Projects & Projects Overview
> AI Layer1/Framework
> AI Launchpad
> AI Agent
> AI meme, and more
Source: https://x.com/zolo_hands/status/1866356112079163530
Andreessen Crypto Policy Lead Quintenz in Running for CFTC Chair
Brian Quintenz, head of crypto policy at a16z, has become the leading candidate for the position of chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Source: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/andreessen-crypto-policy-lead-quintenz-in-running-for-cftc-chair
Omo X Thales: Pioneering Cross-Chain AI Agents With Lit Protocol And Shogun
Through this partnership, Omo will enhance the Thales agent with powerful new capabilities: the Shogun SDK plugin and the Lit Protocol SDK plugin
Source: https://x.com/OmoProtocol/status/1866946398043693356
Eigen Foundation Commits 1% of EIGEN Supply to Protocol Guild
The Protocol Guild is a vital funding mechanism for Ethereum’s core Layer 1 R&D.
Source: https://x.com/eigenfoundation/status/1867283577093902802
How Warden Oss Club Stopped Millions in Crypto Theft Using “Identicon TX”
https://github.com/Wardens-OSS-Club/tx-identicons
Source: https://x.com/xyz_remedy/status/1867253178040819788?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
Austin Adams: Tokenize/acc
"We believe that onchain decentralized exchanges are the definition of 'bona-fide internet exchange' and that the future of finance will be built on them."
> How early internet entrepreneurs revolutionized financial markets, the (sad) state of public offerings in the US, & how financial markets needs to change
https://aada.ms/pdfs/tokenize_acc.pdf
Source: https://x.com/austinadams10/status/1867243011375018268?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
Vana: Deep Dive into DataDAOs on Vana
Data DAOs are entities that put groups of users in direct control of their data, aggregating data around specific use cases that can then be monetized to organizations to train AI models👇
Source: www.vana.org/posts/datadao-deepdive
Decentralised Co: Using Chains, Taming Minds
This article explore the intersection of crypto and AI, and how the age of sentient AI agents is rewriting the rules of human-AI coexistence.
Source: https://www.decentralised.co/p/using-chains-taming-minds
2077 Research: The Tornado Cash Judgment: A Turning Point for Privacy and Decentralization
The ruling states that immutable smart contracts cannot be sanctioned as “property.”. Therefore, OFAC lacks the legal authority to impose sanctions in this case.
> This article delve into the judgment’s significance and its implications for privacy & decentralization.
Source: https://x.com/2077Research/status/1866550395058975220
Galaxy: Michael Saylor on BTC at $100K and the Future of MicroStrategy
Michael talks about:
> MSTR strategy
> Strategic bitcoin reserve
> Gold's failure
> MSFT pitch
> Bitcoin development, and more
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87vco0jHvo
TPan: The AI Agent Cambrian Explosion pt. 2
Overview of interesting developments with AI agents, including updates on Virtuals, Music, Pondhub, aethernet x Clanker, aixbt, Zerebro, and more
Source: https://tpan.substack.com/p/346-the-ai-agent-cambrian-explosion
Placeholder: Is it Time to Move Beyond Solidity? [April 25, 2024]
“Solidity developers struggle because its execution environment doesn’t scale easily out of the box, lacks fundamental security features, and imposes unintuitive programming paradigms”
> This article explore the advantages of the Move programming language as it offers a more secure, scalable, and user-friendly alternative to Solidity for smart contract development.
Source: https://www.placeholder.vc/blog/2024/4/25/is-it-time-to-move-beyond-solidity
Delphi Digital: Sector Performance Dashboard
Track sector-specific project performance across multiple timeframes
Source: https://members.delphidigital.io/data/apps/sector-performance?refDate=2023-12-31&endDate=2024-12-11
2077 Research: Zero-Knowledge Proofs By Example
This piece breaks down everything to know about ZKPs
Source: https://x.com/2077Research/status/1866240669465075807
Coinbase Developer Platform Introduces December CDP Builder Grants: AgentKit Edition
> $30k in grants. 10 winners.
> Any onchain app using AgentKit qualifies.
Source: https://x.com/coinbasedev/status/1866927673592971737?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
$VANA Tokenomics
> Total Supply: 120,000,000 $VANA
> Community: 44.0% (No cliff, 36mo unlock)
> Ecosystem: 22.9% (No cliff, 48mo unlock)
> Float at TGE: 28.5%
Source: https://x.com/withvana/status/1867038751979081923?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
OKX to List $GOAT for Spot Trading
> Opening at 10:00 am UTC, Dec 12, 2024
Source: https://x.com/okx/status/1867087257091416329
Crypto Donation Rules: Mandatory BTC 'Appraisals
Source: https://twitter.com/punk9059/status/1866890861046333479?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA