🚀 Today we launch Quatrefoil Data Services: building the institutional-grade benchmarks that will power the digital asset economy.
Press release: 👉https://t.co/WKG3EWa7JS
Led by CEO Finbarr Hutcheson, former President of @ICE_Markets Clear Europe and founder of ICE Benchmark Administration and COO Jason Hall, ex
@Bridgewater, they have some very, very big things brewing. ☕️☕️☕️
Quatrefoil is advised by "Crypto Dad" @giancarloMKTS.
CESR is the staking rate benchmark for Ethereum. It’s no surprise that the leading digital asset treasury companies are using it.
On @Sharplink Q2 earnings call, CEO @joechalom said the @galaxyhq/SharpLink yield fund would be measured against “the long-term incremental $ETH we can earn above the native $CESR staking rate.”
Real utility. Real rates. @QuatrefoilData
As activity returns to @Ethereum with new applications and the scale of institutional throughput, Ethereum’s staking rate benchmark, CESR, will play an increasing important role as a foundational tool to assess relative performance and power risk management solutions by unlocking a new class of derivatives.
$ETH has a staking rate benchmark.
And that staking rate benchmark is CESR “Caesar”.
But it’s more than a staking rate…
It’s the heartbeat of @Ethereum.
And that heart is starting to pump.
Activity and priority transaction fees are moving higher.
The sleeping giant is awakening.
@ethereumJoseph@fundstrat@BitMNR@Sharplink@joechalom
$ETH down 📉
CESR up 📈
ETH yield is back over 3%.
When price goes down and yield goes up…sounds like a bond, right?
But, $ETH yield works differently. It’s a combination of emissions and priority transaction fees.
So, it’s network activity that tends to drive day over day yield changes.
Sometimes that activity is broad market/macro driven.
Other times, it’s idiosyncratic.
This makes CESR a very interesting rate to trade, especially versus fiat rates like SOFR.
Source: @tradingview
From a principles perspective, I believe U.S. persons should be allowed to access markets without a regulator forcing an intermediary upon them.
Don't get me wrong, intermediaries will still offer important services for those who desire to use them.
My point is that they shouldn't be required. Levered, un-levered...doesn't matter. Let people (and institutions) decide for themselves. Btw, intermediaries don't work for free 💰💵
@milkeninstitute 2026 Global Conference is off to a terrific start. Despite any near term market volatility due to geopolitical stresses, markets are powering through. Optimism abounds. Capex is happening and will continue into future; it’s creating jobs and driving manufacturing. Jenny Johnson, CEO of @FranklnTempletn: “Capital will flow where governments get policies right…we’ve gotten those policies right in the U.S.”
$CESR remains elevated.
Stress across DeFi =
higher on chain activity =
higher priority transaction fees =
higher yield.
Good for validators.
Good for DATs that stake: @BitMNR@Sharplink@TheEtherMachine
Very big move in $CESR, the composite ether staking rate, by @QuatrefoilData.
It smashed through 3%, printing at 3.08%!
Anytime onchain activity picks up and there is a race for the exit or entrance, then priority transaction fees drive the yield higher.
Today’s activity unfortunately reflected the reach for the exit post the @KelpDAO hack.
From the Epstein files to BLS revisions, one thing is clear...the deterioration of trust is accelerating.
Last week, BLS admitted that the U.S. economy only added 181,000 jobs in all of 2025, down from the previously reported 584,000.
Yes, that's 400k+ "ghost jobs".
Then, there's CPI where shelter costs remain the largest contributor, while @truflation has shown housing cooling for months.
What numbers should we trust?
We are going to have a special guest on @bitsandbips who will unpack this today...
I can't wait.