
The Expanding Business Model of Blockchains
Selling blockspace is no longer a defensible business for blockchains.
Castle Labs' broadest research lane is market structure: where liquidity sits, which venues capture flow, how capital moves across public and private markets, and what the data says before the narrative catches up. This is the home for our market maps, tokenisation work, exchange and venue analysis, volatility coverage, and macro-to-onchain research. It serves readers who need to understand not just what happened, but what changed in the structure of the market.
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Selling blockspace is no longer a defensible business for blockchains.

The Birth of Bitcoin-Native Finance: Turning Idle BTC into Productive Capital

Since the beginning of the year, crypto protocols have cumulatively made $7.42 billion in revenue.

Private Today, Durable Tomorrow

This article is an excerpt from our research on The Renaissance of Onchain Options, mapping the expansion of options (and prediction markets) as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them, published in collaboration with BlockScholes.

The growth of RWAs has led to over $32 billion of assets flowing onchain.

A Gap Analysis with Interviews from Rysk, Derive, Panoptic, and GammaSwap.

This article is an excerpt from our research on The Renaissance of Onchain Options, mapping the expansion of options (and prediction markets) as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them, published in collaboration with Block Scholes.

In the last 18 months, Prediction markets (PMs) grew from roughly $2 billion in monthly volume to more than $30 billion, scaling rapidly from a niche category to a mature ecosystem.

Mapping the growth of RWAs in DeFi

PropAMMs are all about onchain execution

Over the last couple of years, since the launch of Bitcoin ETFs, BTC has become an increasingly institutionalised and legitimised asse.