PRISM RESEARCH

Data essays, written with our own terminal.

Long-form, source-linked writing on market microstructure, stablecoin flows, MEV, and on-chain credit. Every chart is reproducible in PRISM.

2026 · 06 · 24MARKET STRUCTURE

Where the liquidity actually lives after the L2 migration.

Mapping order-flow between Ethereum mainnet and the top four rollups since the March cutover.

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2026 · 06 · 11STABLECOINS

USDC and USDT are not the same instrument anymore.

Redemption behavior, treasury composition, and the widening credit spread between the two majors.

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2026 · 05 · 28MEV

Priority-fee auctions after EIP-7623 — one quarter in.

How searchers, builders, and validators split the pie under the new fee mechanics.

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2026 · 05 · 09ON-CHAIN CREDIT

The quiet growth of tokenized private credit.

$4.2B across seven venues — who's lending, who's borrowing, and at what real yield.

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2026 · 04 · 22MARKET MAKERS

Reading a market maker's inventory from the outside.

A methodology note on inferring desk positioning from public wallet clusters.

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2026 · 04 · 03GOVERNANCE

Voter concentration in the ten largest DAOs, revisited.

Nakamoto coefficients, delegate rotation, and the quiet return of whale voting.

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2026 · 03 · 18SOLANA

What the Firedancer switchover did to fee revenue.

Six weeks of block-space data, split by application vertical.

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2026 · 02 · 27RESTAKING

The restaking overhang is smaller than it looks.

Netting duplicated collateral across the top five AVS operators.

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2026 · 02 · 06METHODOLOGY

How we score entity labels — and how we retire them.

The confidence model, the review cadence, and every false positive from Q4.

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