Walt Smith
Team at Messari
Walt Smith is a partner at Standard Crypto and was previously the executive director of Cyber Fund and the head of venture capital at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Grove City College.
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Amazing week for Blockworks. More enterprise and institutional inbounds than I have ever seen. Internally it's an all out sprint to integrate Messari and bring crypto the most powerful data and intelligence products this industry has ever seen. Let's go!
Introducing GOFR: the Galaxy Onchain Financing Rate. Institutions can now access onchain credit by facing Galaxy directly instead of DeFi protocols, borrowing at a single optimized rate blended across Aave, Morpho, Spark, Kamino, and more. No wallets. No private keys. No smart contracts. Galaxy
Very cool integration from our friends at Galaxy! Spark aims to deliver the best risk-adjusted yields in DeFi by combining RWA and crypto-backed lending. Spark Savings is built to serve as a highly liquid backing asset for products like this one. https://x.com/galaxyhq/status/2077038106444759181
The narrowest agent on Teneo returns more in one call than most agents do in five. The @MessariCrypto agent has one command and supports two coins. But details BTC hands back the full readout in a single request: price, market cap, dominance, 24h OHLC, ROI across 24h / 7d / 30d / 1y / YTD, supply,
DEXScreener Teneo Agent: Most data agents on Teneo answer a fixed question. Ask the Messari agent for BTC, you get a BTC readout. The @dexscreener Tokens Scraper doesn't answer a fixed question at all. It hands you a filter box. Two commands: 1) chainname (solana, ethereum, bsc, or chain/DEX
Buy a CLO yielding 7%, then loop it into 14 or 21%. @nomos_paradox tells @Steven_Ehrlich why Galaxy's first tokenized CLO is a bigger signal for DeFi than the headline number suggests. 💰 https://youtu.be/DY3javgBwEE
Spent the morning reviewing Blockworks x Messari combined products. Insane... Will be the most powerful crypto intelligence platform by 10x once fully integrated.
Spent the morning reviewing Blockworks x Messari combined products. Insane... Will be the most powerful crypto intelligence platform by 10x once fully integrated.
openUSD合作企业149家 支付金融科技36家包含visa、Mastercard、、stripe等 银行金融机构58家包含贝莱德、纽约银行等 科技平台企业11家包含谷歌等 值得我们关注的反而是最后的列表 加密web3生态44家 对的，这不仅仅是圈外机构，圈内一众顶级项目平台也都有参与。 其中包括coinbase、OKX、bybit、crypto.com、gemini等加密货币交易所 solana、polygon、aptos labs等头部公链 bitget wallet、meta mask、trust wallet等主流钱包 其中还有plasma、aave、morpho
据 CryptoQuant，CeFi 借贷市场自 2024 年第三季度以来首次出现季度收缩，规模环比下降 6% 至 233 亿美元。报告显示，Tether 虽回落 7%，但仍占据 CeFi 借贷市场 68% 份额。Nexo、Maple 和 Coinbase 是少数实现增长的借贷机构；Galaxy 和 Ledn 则承受主要去杠杆压力，规模分别下降 21% 和 19%。wublock123.com/news/cefi-lend…