Nifty Apes and Double Protocol

November 17, 2022, 9:51AM EST • 6 min read Quick Take Searching for Alpha is a series that summarizes under-the-radar protocols that The Block Research team finds interesting.  This week’s findings wi...

August Blockchain Funding Recap

September 12, 2022, 12:45PM EDT • 10 min read Quick Take Last month slightly more than $1.8 billion was allocated across 143 venture deals Venture funding in the blockchain sector has fallen for five ...

The State of Crypto Gaming

August 25, 2022, 9:54AM EDT • 11 min read Quick Take The market capitalization of the top 50 GameFi tokens declined by over 60% between January and August 2022, roughly equivalent to the decrease in t...

Initial Look at Game Design

August 16, 2022, 10:02AM EDT • 10 min read Quick Take Illuvium is a digital collectible card game (CCG), similar to the classic Pokémon game. Illuvials are Pokémon-like creatures that can be discovere...

‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ $2.9 Million NFT Gets $277 Bid At Auction

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (Photo by Burhaan Kinu/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Hindustan Times via Getty Images OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK CoinDesk reported: “A non-fungible...

Why NFTs Are Harder To Value And Trade Than Cryptocurrencies

The non-fungible token (NFT) market has been booming since last summer. NFT’s historical sales volume has reached $41 billion, most of that since last August, up from just $74 million at the beginning...