Base and Aerodrome with Sunny Shi | The Story

09/18/24 • 13 min

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Like much of crypto, it’s been hard to paint a clear picture of Base this year. The Coinbase-developed layer 2 launched with high expectations, and by many metrics has certainly met them.

But if you listen to Crypto Twitter, you may hear a much different story. You’ll often hear things like “the apps are dead!”, and “all of its volume is driven by memecoins”.

Sunny Shi thinks Base is doing just fine - and can tell you how its leading exchange, Aerodrome, is driving some huge progress.

Declutter Your Browser. Use Messari Lite as your customized crypto news feed.

(00:00) - Hire with Hirechain
(00:40) - Intro
(01:58) - Mainnet is Coming!
(02:38) - Base and Aerodrome

Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus)
Written and Produced by Steve Bichimer
Based on "A Valuation of Aerodrome", by Sunny Shi (https://x.com/defi_monk)

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Like much of crypto, it’s been hard to paint a clear picture of Base this year. The Coinbase-developed layer 2 launched with high expectations, and by many metrics has certainly met them.

But if you listen to Crypto Twitter, you may hear a much different story. You’ll often hear things like “the apps are dead!”, and “all of its volume is driven by memecoins”.

Sunny Shi thinks Base is doing just fine - and can tell you how its leading exchange, Aerodrome, is driving some huge progress.

Declutter Your Browser. Use Messari Lite as your customized crypto news feed.

(00:00) - Hire with Hirechain
(00:40) - Intro
(01:58) - Mainnet is Coming!
(02:38) - Base and Aerodrome

Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus)
Written and Produced by Steve Bichimer
Based on "A Valuation of Aerodrome", by Sunny Shi (https://x.com/defi_monk)

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Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference.

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The Impact of Token Unlocks on Markets with Andrew Dyer | The Story

One of the fundamentally unique pieces about crypto business models is the concept of token unlocks - or, the idea that rewards for contributions to the project, while fixed in total number, become available in large unlocks of sections over time.

But there’s still a fair amount of inconsistency in how these unlock schedules are designed - and therefore what behavior surrounds unlock events.

So, with several large token unlocks coming up in the rest of 2024, Andrew Dyer dove deep into the historical performance of token prices around unlocks - both large and small - and can now tell you, at least historically, the impact of markets around token unlock events.

Get 20% off your ticket to Messari Mainnet with code "messaripod" at https://events.messari.io/mainnet2024

Declutter Your Browser. Use Messari Lite as your customized crypto news feed.

(00:00) - Hire with Hirechain
(00:40) - Intro
(02:07) - Mainnet is Coming!
(02:47) - Token Unlocks and the Markets

Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus)
Written and Produced by Steve Bichimer
Based on "Don't Look Down: Navigating Markets Around Token Unlocks", by Andrew Dyer (https://x.com/0xSynthesis1)

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Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference.

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Adrian CV (Steakhouse Financial) | The Protocol Services Podcast with Jack Purdy

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Introducing The Protocol Services Podcast with Jack Purdy!

Bringing you insights and stories from specialist teams providing consulting, risk advisory, treasury management, strategic finance, and everything crypto protocols need.

Today's guest is Adrian CV from Steakhouse Financial. ADCV tells stories about

Steakhouse's approach to financial advisory,
the practical applications that show why it makes more sense to run financial infrastructure on chain, and
his view on the future of financial advisory.

https://messari.io/protocol-services