Things We're Reading - December 2021

We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Here are some posts we thought were highlights from the past two weeks.


The writing is a bit crass but this is the sentiment among crypto natives

https://wrongalot.substack.com/p/boomers-vs-online-tribes

Fascinating profile on a full time DeFi trader

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-cohen-defi-trader-co-120035433.html

Follow-up to the analysis last time about an interesting metaverse project

https://godelives.substack.com/p/merit-circle-long-term-value

Twitter thread with highlights from the crypto congressional hearing

https://twitter.com/CroissantEth/status/1469048148974788616

Blog about the free banking era and the parallels to crypto/web3

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/07/19/why-central-bankers-invoke-free-banking-to-attack-stablecoins/

Also below is a report from the research group 'Messari'. It is almost 200 pages long and extremely thorough. My suggestion is go to the table of contents and find an area you are interested in rather than trying to read the whole thing