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Centralized crypto exchanges are the most important black box of the crypto ecosystem. We all use them, we have a love-hate relationship with them, and we understand very little about their internal behavior. At IntoTheBlock, we have been heads down working on a series of machine learning models that help us better understand the internal of crypto exchanges. Recently, we presented some of our initial findings at a highly oversubscribed webinar and I thought it would be elaborate further in some of the ideas discussed there. There are several factors that contribute to the difficulty of understanding the behavior of centralized crypto exchanges.

Despite being one of the backbones of the crypto market, we know very little about how centralized crypto exchanges work. At IntoTheBlock, we have been doing some work using machine learning models to understand the internals of crypto exchanges. Next week I am going to present some of those ideas in a new webinar. You can register for it here.