Decrypting Crypto

Decrypting Crypto

Here I decrypt crypto topics, trends and tech.


Friend or Frenzy? Inside the Hype Machine Powering Friend.Tech's Meteoric Rise

22 Aug 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Arhat

Friend.Tech has firmly established itself as a leading topic of discussion in crypto Twitter, seeing meteoric growth over the past few days. The revolutionary SocialFi platform enables users to invest in tokenized shares of influencers, with share pr...

The Interoperability Arbitrage: Cross-Chain Infrastructure as Asymmetric Upside

18 Aug 2023 10 minute read 1 comment Arhat

A few days ago, I wrote an introduction piece on Chainlink's CCIP. I want to dive deep into the multichain infrastructure of what web3 represents and how we, as users, can build and benefit from this infrastructure.  Cross-chain infrastructure repres...

The SOL Hidden Tax: Stake-Weighted Secrets of Solana

14 Aug 2023 3 minute read 4 comments Arhat

Solana has built-in advantages for major stakeholders that few people recognize. Let's break this down: First, Turbine prioritizes delivering transactions to validators with more staked SOL. Simply put, the more SOL you stake, the faster you get key...

Bridging Blockchains: The Ingenious Design of Chainlink's CCIP

12 Aug 2023 2 minute read 5 comments Arhat

I wanted to touch base on Chainlink's CCIP and the components that make up the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. There are 3 key components: Committing DON for proving message existence Executing DON for transferring messages ARM for security a...