The Backdrop Earlier this August, the decision by the US treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to add Tornado Cash to its sanction list has put the question of censorship resistance firmly into the spotlight. To remove themselves from any criminal liability, RPC service providers Alchemy and Infura…

The Future of Permissionless Oracles Why do we need a permissionless oracle? Oracles are one of the key components of web3 infrastructure stack that act as a bridge between on-chain and off-chain worlds. Various forms of off-chain data such as market price feeds, exchange rates, weather information and more can be queried by oracles to…

Bixin Ventures is thrilled to announce our strategic investment into Aptos as part of a broader fundraising round announced by the team in late July, led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, with further participation from Apollo, Griffin Gaming Partners, Franklin Templeton, Superscrypt, Circle Ventures and continued support from a16z…

Founded in 2020, Structure.fi introduces traditional assets to the blockchain in the form of tokens. It is a centralized trading platform that offers 24/7 trading of cryptoassets, US stocks and ETFs across the globe with fractional trading support on a clean, intuitive mobile UI rarely seen in Web3 applications. Through…

For creators & developers; building for the next billion Web3 users On 8 September 2022, Mysten Labs announced the closing of a $300 Million Series B funding round led by FTX Ventures at a $2 Billion valuation, with participation from ourselves, Bixin Ventures, alongside other investors such as A16Z, Jump Crypto, Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures etc. …

Look around Twitter feeds and crypto publications, and the names Sui and Aptos feature heavily. What is the deal with these new high throughput layer 1 blockchains and why are they attracting investments from the likes of a16z, FTX, Multicoin and co? …

Overview of the ecosystem Solana’s astronomical growth can be attributed to its positioning as an ultrafast and low-cost blockchain for its users. The DeFi vertical has attracted the most attention with top tier ecosystem protocols such as Marinade Finance, Serum, Raydium, Mango Markets accumulating a total of $2.5B …

Stablecoins are the cornerstone of the entire DeFi and crypto ecosystem. As opposed to the relatively volatile general cryptocurrency market, stablecoins aims to help investors preserve their funds. …

As the DeFi ecosystem continue to mature, the derivatives market is one standout category that has seen tremendous growth in recent times. As of the writing, the current TVL for DeFi derivatives market is $3.33b. The most popular financial product in the derivatives space is undoubtedly the perpetual swap contracts…