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In late 2019, Smith + Crown published a report on issues of fairness related to token distribution mechanisms. A key takeaway identified in this research was the significant extent to which a project’s choice of token distribution mechanism reflected its priorities regarding incentivizing certain initial contributions and ongoing user behaviors. In the two years since,...

Key Takeaways The Ethereum DeFi ecosystem has demonstrated strong growth, though highly concentrated in the lending and crypto-collateralized stablecoin sectors. While many cite Total Value Locked as evidence that all of DeFi is growing, a closer observation reveals that this metric is skewed by the importance of collateral and staking by design in the most...