Messari Daily Brief March 5, 2021: Building an Analyst Army ,Part 2

I don't know about you, but I've got whiplash trying to keep up with the daily pace of developments in crypto so far this year. In prior bull runs, it felt like everything took turns hitting their mini-hype cycles. Now, everything is exploding all at once: DeFi, stablecoins, layer1 interoperability and scaling solutions, privacy, web3 apps, NFTs.

Everything.

It's one of the reasons we're building an analyst army at Messari, and opening up our research platform to new contributors. We've admitted a ton of new folks to the community in recent weeks, and will be continuing to accept community analyst applicants on a rolling basis. So if you know how to ELI5 a hidden gem asset, or do a crypto valuation model, or put together a sector comps table, we'd encourage you to apply and help us keep up with the absolutely torrid pace we've witnessed so far this year.

Crypto's pace and Messari's pace show no signs of abating. Builders welcome.

Devs. Analysts.

Headlines that matter:

• INTEL: Yearn, Cover, Solana, LOOM, Kyber, UMA, Polkadot (+ 20 updates)
• Goldman survey shows 22% of respondents expect $100k BTC... (The Block)
• ...while JPM survey shows only 11% of institutional clients invested in crypto (The Block)
• BitMEX adding new trading services and custody (CoinDesk)
• GBTC discount at 12% after biggest drop ever (The Block)
• Pumping Iron (Arthur Hayes)
• Founder of ICO backed by Floyd Mayweather gets eight years in prison (Bloomberg)
• MicroStrategy purchases another $10m BTC (Michael Saylor)
• Daily Shade: Tech companies as necessary evils