Six weeks ago, I made one of the biggest decisions of my Web3 journey. I enrolled with @AnalyticSages to become a blockchain data analyst and researcher. This isn’t one of those posts filled with glow-ups and shiny highlights. I won’t sugarcoat it. This has been the hardest thing I’ve done since leaving university in 2014. I thought English would be the only language I’d ever worry about in terms of syntax and etymology. Little did I know SQL had other plans for me — plans that almost drove me crazy 😂. But somewhere along the way, through resilience and determination, I started falling in love with the process. What felt impossible at the beginning slowly became clearer. I found myself querying blockchain databases, extracting insights, and even building dashboards. It’s been an intense but rewarding journey, and I’m grateful for the lessons along the way. Today, I reached an important milestone. For my capstone project, I published my first on-chain research report on Medium titled: “Balancer Analytics Report: Insights into On-Chain User Behavior.” In the report, I analyzed user behavior and pool preferences within @Balancer, focusing on how users interact with its multi-token liquidity pools with customizable weights. Big thanks to Analytic Sage for creating an environment with exceptional teachers who make complex things easier to understand. And if you made it this far, here’s something I want you to remember: Fear will stop you faster than failure ever will. Start the journey. Figure things out along the way. Link to the Medium Report: medium.com/@realdandy4life/b… Link to my Dune Dashboard: dune.com/cryptopanda01/balan… Data tribe: @AnalyticSages Data platform: @Dune Report Platform: @Medium

Alpha for the week: I’ve been monitoring a few tokens, and here’s one on my watchlist. @Lombard_Finance’s token, $BARD has bottomed at $0.1006, and currently trading at $0.1071. If you yapped about the project during Kaito season, you’d know how grounded the team is. Plus, they’re still shipping. Not financial advice, but I thought I’d share my watchlist. Do your own research and run it against your own bias. GM legends🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 May we win big this week. Amen.

Happy new week, fams! 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 what’s your hot take on the current market conditions? which season are we in? It feels like nothing is happening at the moment. 👀 are we still in the bear market? have we entered the bull market already? or is the market simply consolidating and accumulating? i’d appreciate your market analysis and sentiments. have a productive week! 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾🚀

A baby doesn’t wake up one morning and start running. I’m sure you’d be scared to the bone if you witnessed that. 😅 It takes phases of sitting, crawling, falling, standing, walking, to eventually get to running. Growth rarely happens in one giant leap. Maple’s journey tells a similar story. When @maplefinance started in 2019, the idea was simple: bring institutional credit onchain while combining the risk discipline of traditional finance with the transparency of crypto. Seven years later, the milestone scorecard is impressive: → $25B+ in loans originated → $4.8B in assets under management → 150+ businesses financed → $100M+ in yield distributed to lenders The business has grown significantly, you’d agree, so it makes sense that the brand has to grow with it. But this isn’t Maple changing its story. It’s Maple growing into the story it has been building all along. The new brand puts the idea front and centre: Capital should be activated. Capital sitting still can’t build businesses, provide liquidity or generate productive yield. Maple wants to put that capital to work through an open, onchain financial infrastructure that brings lenders, borrowers and fintechs into the same ecosystem. The scale of the story is what changes. Now, the roll out has begun. What do you think of Maple’s new direction? 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

New week. Refueled drive. Same goal to win. GM legends. As God lives, may all your efforts yield positive results.🙏🏽🤲🏽 Happy new week, fams.