11:1 The Return Of The King It’s common sense that relays drop during a hard bear market, as people stop checking their wallets daily and shift to copium tweeting instead. Pocket was affected by this, dropping nearly 100MM in daily relay totals during the worst of the downturn, but as the markets stabilized (and cross Read More

10:1 A Global Market Meltdown So, did you hear the one about the inflation hedge getting smashed by global market downturns driven in part by…inflation? Bitcoin’s beatdown was a reminder that the institutional money that everyone predicted would eventually go hard on the granddaddy of digital currency is well and truly here…which also means that Read More

No post this week as we hang in Miami with the Pocket crew. See you next Sunday.

08:1 This Is Not The Big Announcement The speculation continues around the announcements being teased by the Pocket team over the last couple of weeks, with most folks suggesting that a mainstream CEX listing is part of the mix. While the team has remained extraordinarily mum about the whole thing (much to my chagrin), many Read More

07:1 Billions and Billions Served Here’s a little crazy nugget for those of you who have been following this blog from the beginning: we’re now at the point where we’re completely nonchalant about the fact that we noderunners are serving up over a billion relays a week. Stop for a second and think about the Read More

It’s going to be a tiny update this week, because it’s been Christmas, and we should all take a little break from thinking about crypto every now and then. The XMas 5K giveaway was pretty damn fun, and huge congrats to the winner, Joel: I wanna give a shot out to @LeaksBlockchain for turning me Read More

05:1 Bridging The Gap The wPOKT team announced this week that primary development of the wPOKT bridge has been completed, and is now in QA. The team is currently evaluating blockchain auditing firms to run aggressive security testing ahead of the planned LBP launch. Along the way, they’re inviting the community to participate in the Read More

04:01 Wen bridge? It was another banging growth week for Pocket with 1.1BN relays processed after an AWS outage prompted a number of Harmony users to switch to the Pocket RPC endpoint, and the xDAI version of Dark Forest sending a huge burst of traffic through. ETH, Fuse, and Poly rounded out the top five Read More

03:1 Pocket Network Growth After a week of declining relays around Thanksgiving (who knew that people don’t play with their dapps all day while hanging out with family?), the network was chugging like a freight train this week, pushing out 834MM relays and minting 7.4MM $POKT. Perennial top placers Harmony, Eth, and Fuse were the Read More

02:1 Harmony Updates The Pocket engineering team successfully deployed an update this week to all public RPC endpoints to provide the “stickiness” required for the public Harmony endpoint outlined in last week’s update. According to Pocket’s weekly recap on Friday, this will also address some Metamask errors that had been reported, which means if you Read More