Archive - tldr

Is Crypto Dead? Analyzing Transactions #'s

In the midst of this winter, let’s look at transaction counts on Bitcoin and Ethereum since their inception. Summary: In 2022, there were 93M…

May 26, 2023 •

April 2023

Flashback Friday: how does ChainLink work under the hood?

To me, Chainlink has always been a prominent yet somewhat mystifying player in the crypto space. So today, let’s review their original whitepaper…

Apr 28, 2023 •

Is crypto dead? Looking at DAUs across 5 L1's

In the midst of this bear market, I believe it’s more important than ever to have a grounded and long-term view of the industry. Today, let’s look at…

Apr 7, 2023 •

March 2023

What is account abstraction and why are people talking about it now?

On March 1 2023, ETH developers announced that EIP-4337 (Ethereum Improvement Proposal 4337) was deployed. This proposal allows for Account Abstraction…

Mar 20, 2023 •

February 2023

tldr: what's ReFi and what's the use case?

Usually, I break down the technology or data behind a crypto project, but today let’s discuss a term - ReFi. ReFi stands for regenerative finance, the…

Feb 27, 2023 •

Where is the NFT market now relative to pre-2020?

Largely, the NFT story lately has been no story at all. Feeling as though the general zeitgeist has moved on from NFTs, I was curious about what the…

Feb 13, 2023 •

January 2023

How much adoption is the lightning network getting? [2023]

We’re going to dive into data around its growth

Jan 27, 2023 •

KPIs and Metrics Defi Projects Must Track

For TLDR in 2023, in addition to technical concepts explained simply, we’re adding topics around how to operate in crypto. After a tumultuous 2022, it’s…

Jan 13, 2023 •

December 2022

Explained Simply: Lightning Network (for scaling Bitcoin)

For the last tldr of 2022, let’s go back to the beginning with Bitcoin, and more specifically, Lightning Network, one of the most prominent attempts to…

Dec 16, 2022 •

Arweave (where your Instagram NFTs will be stored) explained

There was a time when the most exciting November news in crypto was that Meta announced that Instagram’s digital collectibles will be stored on Arweave…

Dec 2, 2022 •

November 2022

tldr FTX fiasco: a chronological explanation from the set up to the fall

→ Is for clarifications and speculations (as of date of publication, most of the truth is still unknown. Sources are linked, many of which are…

Nov 21, 2022 •

What is ENS and how does it work? (simply)

What is ENS? It’s a naming system mapping human-readable names like “mary.eth” (not my actual address) to machine-readable identifiers like Ethereum…

Nov 4, 2022 •

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