The Crypto Masters Guide (TCMG)

The Crypto Masters Guide (TCMG)

Journey through the world of superfluid finance, on-chain analytics, & off-chain politics. Take a step closer to becoming the master of your digital financial life. Get ahead of the game… or get left behind!


Crypto Trees in a Web3 Forest: The Expansion of Industry with On-chain Infrastructure

10 Apr 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Andrey Didovskiy

Crypto gets a bad rep. In the heat of innovation and rapid expansion, we tend to get caught up ahead of our skis and lose the plot. Crypto is so much more than an industry of digital tokens; it is a paradigm shift in how society operates. A transfo...

The Paradox of Open Innovation - Chaos, Creation, and Collaboration

31 Mar 2025 13 minute read 1 comment Andrey Didovskiy

TL;DR- Tradeoffs of informational liberty invite chaotic consequences.- Collaboration results in exponential advancements.- Privatize Gains, Socializing Losses Philosophical at its core, open innovation is a socio-economic movement synonymous with...

Auctions and Price Discovery for Web3: Making Efficient Markets More Efficient

8 Mar 2025 8 minute read 0 comments Andrey Didovskiy

How much for that shiny digital gold?Depends; who’s asking and how much you got?    The foundation of commercial activity is trading (buying and selling).The foundation of trading is the dynamics between supply vs demand.And the foundation of suppl...

Dimensions of Demand in Crypto: Attention, Adoption, and Liquidity

18 Feb 2025 6 minute read 3 comments Andrey Didovskiy

Do you want to be in control of your finances or what?Do you want to have the freedom to access you money wherever, whenever you need it? Awesome!Have you heard about Dog Wif Nail Polish; its a new memecoin on solana… There is a single economic law...

The Crypto Puck: Time Preference and Emotions

11 Feb 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Andrey Didovskiy

After the highly anticipated arrival of America’s new crypto-loving leader, we thought that prices would just go up. New macroeconomic forces driven by a new political paradigm would be the fuel for new market participants to flood into crypto! But...

PA: The Kingdicator of Crypto Up, Down, and More than Meets the Eye

30 Jan 2025 7 minute read 2 comments Andrey Didovskiy

Being the single most important technical indicator when it comes to crypto (and financial markets in general); price action will help you build a mental model of the markets state and help your enemies outperform you. On the surface, PA (Price Acti...

Predicting Crypto 2025: Up, Up, and… Away?

11 Jan 2025 15 minute read 0 comments Andrey Didovskiy

As the world continues to burn in front of our very eyes (at least according to mainstream media), something transformative is happening in an evergrowing pocket on the outskirts of cyberspace. Riding on the tailwinds of 2024’s glory, the tectonic...

The Crypto Curve: Left, Right, and Center

31 Dec 2024 4 minute read 3 comments Andrey Didovskiy

Intelligence is a broad, relative, highly subjective variable that humans have yet to adequately quantify. Generally, if an organism is “alive” and “autonomous,” we classify it as intelligent life.Nowhere else does this abstract opaqueness materiali...

The Pulse of Web3: Rising Tides and Cyclicality in the Digital Economy

22 Nov 2024 13 minute read 0 comments Andrey Didovskiy

Like clockwork, 36 months after a debilitating bear market, we shake off the psycho-social anxieties of -90% drawdowns and blast out into all-time highs. Coupled and amplified by the highly favorable outcome of the US presidential elections, the cyc...

More Layer 1s Please - Infrastructure is Always in Demand

28 Oct 2024 5 minute read 1 comment Andrey Didovskiy

TL;DR - Industry is still tiny relative to its potential impact on the world economy- Too early to assume that winner has been chosen- L1s can produce sustained, long-term performance Just like nations have their own unique laws/regimes/currencies b...