2022 the year of the bear

Decred and the State Of The Market is brought to you by @Exitus , @Tivra and @DecredSociety and aims to look at current social, economic, and crypto news and how it relates to Decred.

As this is the last episode of the year, we’re taking the opportunity to discuss some of the big event and how they’ve impacted Decred and the space in general.

LIVE STREAM AGENDA:

Decred stats from year open to December 1st 2022:
Decred Price: Jan 1st $70, current $20
Decred Hash Rate: Jan 1st 349phs, current 66phs
Decred Staked Value: Jan 8,486,667 dcr (62%), current 9,538,011 dcr (65%)
Treasury Value: Jan 664,459 dcr, current 830,000 dcr

Decred year in review:
Jan – Decred Release v1.7 series, DCRDEX Release v0.4. Series
Jan – Politeia successfully proposed a new plugin architecture for Decred’s governance / web platform
May – Decred moved to version 9 of the protocol, which included 4 consensus votes / changes. Including: Decentralised Treasury Spending, Explicit Version Upgrades, Automatic Ticket Revocation and PoW/PoS subsidy split.
August – DCRDEX Release v0.5 series
November – New website with a stream lined approach for the Decred message

Crypto year in review:
For most, 2022 will be seen as the start of the bear cycle. Decred however was one of the first crypto project to start this downward trend in April 2021.

Jan (ongoing) – Saw an unprecedented amount of DeFi hacks and code exploits leading to people losing their funds in multisig protocol wallets

• Ronin Network: Loss – $620 million
• Wormhole Bridge: Loss – $320 million
• Nomad Bridge: Loss – $190 million
• Beanstalk Farms: Loss $182 million
• Wintermute: Loss $160 million
• Elrond: Loss – $113 million
• Horizon Bridge: Loss – $100 million
• Qubit Finance: Loss – $80 million
• and the list goes on – https://beincrypto.com/top-ten-defi-hacks-2022-hackers-daring/

Jan (ongoing) – Not so stable “Stablecoins” depeg

• HUSD, a stablecoin issued by Stable Universal Limited in conjunction with Huobi,
• Waves-backed stablecoin USDN
• UST (USTC)

May – Decred moves to majority proof of stake
May – Terra death spiral
June (on—going) – Zcash’s privacy transactions are spam attacked, taking the chain from 31 GB to over 170 GB
July – Celsius, one of cryptos first lending protocols files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
September – Ethereum moved to proof of stake (locks stakes coins for the foreseeable future
November – FTX files for chapter 11 bankruptcy,
December – BlockFi and Genesis on the verge of collapse or bailout

Looking forward to 2023

• What is the new Decred feature?
• DCRDEX v1
• Politeia plugins
• TinyWallet2
• Timestamp website improvements
• New content – Twitter Spaces, New video proposal, articles etc.
• And what would we like to see?