Scalability Summer: Our Quarterly Review for Q3

CoinDesk Research Presents its Latest Quarterly Report

CoinDesk Research presents its latest Quarterly Review, which analyzes the rise of alternative layer 1 blockchains among other key crypto market trends observed in Q3. Read Full Report Performance & Markets After a devastating end to Q2, the crypto market showed strength in the latter half of Q3. Bitcoin and ether ended the quarter up 25% and 32%, respectively, and stayed highly uncorrelated to other macro asset classes.  More On Markets ETH & Alt. Layer 1s Ethereum remained in the spotlight during a portion of Q3, with a successful London hard fork that upgraded the network's fee market. However, the demand for scalability fueled the growth of... ETH and More Bitcoin Two main themes dominated the quarter: Bitcoin's ability to shrug off legal crackdowns and political pressure from China, after initially ceding hashrate or computing power; and its capacity for scaling or expanding, through... Bitcoin Markets DeFi & NFTs NFT mania shocked the crypto industry during Q3, with a total of $10.7 billion in volume during the quarter. OpenSea managed to corner the market with the majority of Ethereum based trading happening... NFT Mania Regulation Cryptocurrency appears to have gone mainstream, after becoming a centerpiece in the Senate Infrastructure bill and the attention from Gensler's SEC. Regulators loomed over... More on Regs For full in-depth analysis, download the report.   Read Full Report Copyright © 2021 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.    250 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10003, USA You can manage your preferences here or unsubscribe from all CoinDesk email.