Covering the forces shaping frontier AI, protocols, and global macroeconomic capital.
Venture Capital & Enterprise Strategy Analyst
Claire Duval chronicles the financing trajectories of high-growth technology companies from seed to liquidity. Her writing frequently breaks major venture fundings, M&A developments, and boardroom restructuring.
The Ethereum Layer-2 ecosystem has crossed $80 billion in total value locked across Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, and Starknet, with Coinbase's Base network emerging as the highest-throughput chain by daily transaction count.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs issued by BlackRock and Fidelity have collectively absorbed $1 trillion in cumulative net inflows since their January 2024 launch — making them the fastest-growing ETF products in financial history, surpassing gold ETFs' entire 20-year inflow record.
The Bank of Japan's historic rate normalization — the first since 2007 — triggered a violent unwinding of the yen carry trade in August 2026, causing Bitcoin to flash-crash 22% before recovering. Institutional traders are now stress-testing crypto exposure against JPY/USD correlation risk.