#4 What I Read This Week…

Chandan | web3 Research
2 min readApr 22, 2024

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Eigen layer, Tron, Railgun, Tokenizing RWA, Pendle, Intent Protocols….

First, let’s take a look at what I wrote this week:

https://mirror.xyz/iamchandan.eth/PC4cSuabC-0BmrgBcDnsmVlusNgczq1V20qOkA1Kop8

Restaking with any asset” has been on the Eigen layer roadmap from Day 1, This makes Karak network obsolete.

Subscribed

Dual Staking: secure a PoS network with two tokens (eigenlayer.xyz)

@0xSplits has seen hockey stick growth in Splits created on @base in February

Runes offer greater flexibility in their creation. The token standard can feature an open mint, fair distribution, or single address minting. BRC-20s are limited.

https://x.com/Delphi_Digital/status/1779887326971248778

List of zkVMs in the market right now

https://x.com/dhruvbodani/status/1779831169493717325

innovative on-chain experiments

https://x.com/MariaShen/status/1779850842582982714

Power law in action

the top 20 applications account for as much as 70–100% of Network activity

On Tron Cost per transaction is averaging 67 cents, which is significantly less than Ethereum L1 but higher than every L2 in the ecosystem, but we still seeing high usage of Tron for Tether payments.

Should we be taking Tron Seriously? | The DeFi Report

Intent-Based Architectures and Projects Experimenting with Them | by Bastian Wetzel | Medium

The Technical Ambitions of Filecoin (youtube.com)

Railgun is a better way of solving privacy than building layer2 https://x.com/eli5_defi/status/1767123551092633628

DApps lessons for web3 founders.

Why The Winners Won | Reverie

Tokenizing the future yield of an asset: Pendle & Alchemix

YT | Pendle Documentation

how gear works- leverage anything,

Gearbox Protocol — Leverage Any Asset (youtube.com)

Brief intro to Eigenlayer

EigenLayer — Leveraging Ethereum’s Security | DeSpread Reports

Intent protocols will eat the market share of bridges and spot Dexs.

https://x.com/Uniswap/status/1778434588739527090

https://x.com/shaundadevens/status/1780666974588092471

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Chandan | web3 Research
Chandan | web3 Research

Written by Chandan | web3 Research

Researching the frontier through on-chain data in Layer 1/2s, DeFi, and modular ecosystems.

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