Top investments of last week

Some big raises happened in the final week of March across all industries.

The Intersection of Crypto and AI

Blockchain's security features and AI's computational capabilities can create a more ethical and efficient framework for digital asset and information transfer. But it's not without costs.

Full article: https://www.simplicitygroup.xyz/blog/crypto-and-ai

Top gainers of the week (in top 500)

The industry is picking up traction, in particular #CoreDAO which grew from $870M market cap to $3Bn in the last week 🚀

Project Spotlight: Privasea

FHE is complex, but its biggest disadvantage is it is difficult to develop atop, a problem Privasea is comfortably solving.

Research Report - Top L2s

We explored the top 10 popular L2s on Ethereum and compared their activity, TVL, TPS, and much more.

We teamed up with Fashdele Research on this report and look forward to working together in the future to bring more research to our communities.

Top 5 Launches: 30 March - 5 April

Not as high as we've seen last quarter but a strong start to Q2 nonetheless 🚀

We looked at the most interesting eight L1s (either by popularity or clout) and compared them in our full report.

Here's what they're ranked in terms of Fully Diluted Market Cap, at a quick glance.

Full L1 report: https://news.1rj.ru/str/SimplicityGroup/243

Breaking Down the Top 5 Crypto AI Projects

AI and crypto are the hype of the town. We explore the top 5 AI projects in the space and why exactly people consider what they're building so “revolutionary”.

Full article: https://thoughts.simplicitygroup.xyz/p/top5-ai

"Wages haven't risen in 30 years."

Crypto may not be the most sane industry in the world but it sure as hell can help people change their financial situation better than TradFi ever will.

Full thread: https://twitter.com/Tim_Denning/status/1776552193929195577

Project Spotlight - Lunar Crush

Whilst the product is solid, the token looks like a rug pull. The reason is subpar economy design. Interesting case study.

Full post: https://twitter.com/SimplicityWeb3/status/1776996327559233962

Some huge rounds were closed last week.

We're eagerly awaiting for the week when we surpass 9-figure fundraising rounds, although that would mean the end of the bull market is close...

Advisory announcement

It's an absolute pleasure to join World of Dypians as advisors. From their impressive 55k+ DAU in closed beta, to the ease with which they've raised $2.2M already, it's pretty obvious this is already one of the best GameFi projects launching this year.

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Ethereum L2s are incredibly popular. We've done a full report on them, link below, but here's how they stacked up a week ago for active wallets.

Base and zksync are fighting for 1st, whilst Linea and Arbitrum are tied for 3rd.

Full report: https://news.1rj.ru/str/SimplicityGroup/253

Exploring Polyhedra

Polyhedra solves ZK's big problem of proof-generation with deVirgo. Or, in simpler terms, it raised $45M with latest round hitting $1Bn val. So, pretty good stuff.

Full article: https://thoughts.simplicitygroup.xyz/p/exploring-polyhedra

Max TPS over last 90 days (since 28/03) shows a very interesting thing...

Immutable alone has almost as much transactions as Base and Linea whilst having 5.5k wallets compared to their combined 660k.

Bots or gamers? Full L2 report.

WTF is ERC-404?

A merge between ERC-20 and ERC-721 seems to be obvious, alas, it comes with problems. Will DN-404 come to the rescue? Wait, what is DN-404?

Full article: https://thoughts.simplicitygroup.xyz/p/erc-404

Chains and DeFi are taking the winning spots over the last 7 days; maybe this is a sign of narratives shifting back to DeFi?

The world keeps changing; as entrepreneurs we have to adapt. Understand the game, play the game.