Economics
DeFi Regulation: Practical Next Steps to Make the Industry Safer
How Decentralized Finance (DeFi) should be regulated is part of a broader debate about how we control technologies that operate…
Why Bitcoin is Surging and How This Rally Is Different from 2017 (Hint: It’s Who’s Buying)
Chainalysis Market Intel provides live data and insights on the cryptocurrency market. Read up and subscribe here to get our…
Bitcoin Mining is a Two-Part Competition
This blog post is a preview of our report on competition in Bitcoin mining. Click here to download the whole…
The Economic Impact of Ether Whales on the Market
Cryptocurrency was created to encourage decentralization. However, there is a high degree of wealth concentration among cryptocurrency holders: over 30%…
Understanding 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses and Economic Activity
The Bitcoin blockchain is vast and complex, forming a network of over 460 million cryptocurrency addresses. Yet only 37% of…
Bitcoin Investors and Speculators Hold Their Positions over the Summer
The cryptocurrency monetary aggregates have been updated for the summer months and show that the market continues to stabilize, in spite of price declines.
Tether: The First Experiment in Cryptocurrency Banking
As one of the first major stable cryptocurrencies to emerge, Tether saw explosive growth in trading volume over the past…
Bitcoin’s $30 billion sell-off
As reported by the Financial Times, we apply concepts of money supply to bitcoin to better understand the crypto-economy.
The Changing Nature of Cryptocrime
Cryptocrime is increasingly focused on the theft of Bitcoin as a highly valued financial asset.
Cryptocurrencies Cannot Die
Chainalysis analyzed the supply activity on the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash blockchain and found that profit motivated miners shifted up to 80% of their mining power from Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash.