what's Castle Labs?
Castle Labs is a crypto research and media firm focused on delivering in-depth analyses, newsletters, and insights into the DeFi and broader blockchain ecosystem. They produce the "Castle Chronicle," a weekly publication covering market trends, project breakdowns, and emerging protocols, often highlighting innovations in perpetual trading, wallet integrations, and layer-2 solutions. Their content emphasizes practical evaluations of crypto tools and strategies, drawing from hands-on research to guide traders, developers, and investors. Castle Labs engages the community through Twitter discussions, giveaways for crypto projects, and collaborations with protocols like Arbitrum and Hyperliquid, positioning themselves as a go-to source for evergreen crypto intelligence without promoting speculative hype.
Castle Labs' Boros protocol article recently received public recognition and praise for its quality.
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x.com/castle_labsPublished an article about Boros protocol that received public recognition and praise from a crypto community member for its quality and educational value.
Integrated Self Protocol to provide ZK-based proof of humanity and identity verification for applications.
Scaled the core team in 2025.
Closed and executed significant contracts in 2025.
Releasing a 100+ page end-of-year report in collaboration with OAK Research and Hazeflow on December 19, 2025.
Collaborates with Harmonix Fi on analyzing HyperEVM primitives and capital formation mechanisms for sustainable DeFi ecosystems.
Castle Labs released a deep dive report on Rust, C, and C++ adoption on Arbitrum via Stylus in collaboration with RedStone.
Castle Labs schedules an end-of-year conversation with the team and friends for December 17th at 5 pm UTC.
Team publicly confirms official 6-member roster and issues security warning about potential scammers impersonating Castle Labs for fraudulent fundraising activities.
Castle Labs branding appears on Milady Maker NFTs as neck tattoos.
Castle Labs publishes "Founder Corner: Building a Castle Brick by Brick" by @francescoweb3 as featured content.
Castle Labs is actively hiring researchers for the team.
Castle Labs publishes research report on OpenEden covering RWA tokenization, $EDEN utility, $USDO adoption, and upcoming institutional-grade yield products.
Team member represents Castle Labs at EFDevcon in Argentina for 10 days.
Analysis of DRIP incentive program effectiveness on Arbitrum being released today at 3 pm UTC.
Ranks top 10 on Arbitrum weekly leaderboard with upcoming content planned for Variational, Ostium Labs, Ostrich HQ, and USDai Official over the next couple months.
Podcast appearance with Blocmates completed with more Castle Labs x Blocmates collaborations expected.
Castle Labs leads the "new ideas and protocols" domain for Arbitrum grants, offering up to $50k for new projects building on Arbitrum.
Telegram-based Solana trading bot launching $AQUA token September 3, 2025, with QuillAudit-verified tokenomics and partnerships with Meteora, Dialect, and InsightX.
Co-hosting Arbitrum Day event at ETH Milano conference.