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Quick Take

• Solana is a blockchain platform designed for high throughput and decentralized applications

• Solana advocates argue that one of the benefits to its network is that it can scale without breaking composability or the need for sharding, whereas, with Ethereum, layer-2 solutions and sharding will break or at least limit the composability of smart contracts

• In total, The Block has identified 90 projects and companies across 11 different verticals currently expanding on its ecosystem.

Quick Take

• Since their initial launch in 2016, perpetual swaps have exploded in popularity. 
• Protocols enabling perpetual swaps in DeFi have the potential to increase capital efficiency, improve market transparency, and enable permissionless market access.
• Providing adequate market depth and performance without compromising decentralization can be achieved through a variety of trade-offs which will be explored in this report.

Tidal Finance, the yet-to-launch Polkadot-based decentralized insurance protocol, has raised $1.8 million in a private token sale round.

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Cboe files for bitcoin ETF, reigniting VanEck’s journey to launch such a product in the US.

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Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) ended the month of February with the highest monthly volume on record, according to data gathered by The Block. 

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Total Ethereum mining revenue reached $1.37 billion in February — a new record, according to data from The Block.

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Amid skyrocketing mainstream interest in crypto, Goldman Sachs is revving the engines back up on the bitcoin desk it first launched in 2018.

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Bitcoin mining total revenue surpassed $1.36 billion in February, breaking the previous all time in December of 2017. 

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Attorney General Letitia James also warned New York investors that the cryptocurrency market carries ‘extreme risks’

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Macro veteran Jurien Timmer says bitcoin is like digital gold and some investors could start thinking about adding it to their portfolios.

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