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name: crypto-industry-trend-briefing-generator
description: "Generates a structured crypto industry trend briefing covering market developments across DeFi, exchanges, custody, and protocols, with each trend scored for partnership relevance, roadmap implications, and a recommended action. Use when preparing a recurring market intelligence briefing to inform partnership decisions, roadmap prioritization, or strategy reviews in crypto and fintech."
argument-hint: "[focus-segments] [time-window]"
allowed-tools: ["Read"]
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# Crypto Industry Trend Briefing Generator

## Purpose
Produce a decision-ready trend briefing that turns scattered crypto market developments into a prioritized set of trends — each scored for partnership relevance and roadmap impact, with a recommended action — so strategy and partnerships teams can move from "what's happening" to "what we should do about it" in a single document.

## When to Use
Invoke this skill when the user asks to:
- Prepare a weekly, biweekly, or monthly crypto market trend briefing
- Summarize recent developments in DeFi, exchanges, custody, or specific protocols
- Identify market shifts that could affect partnership or BD targets
- Translate industry news into roadmap or product implications
- Build a recurring intelligence document for a strategy or leadership review
- Assess whether a recent market event (a launch, regulation, exploit, or raise) warrants a strategic response

## Inputs Required
Before starting, collect:
- **Focus segments**: Which areas to cover — DeFi, centralized exchanges, custody, L1/L2 protocols, stablecoins, RWAs, etc.
- **Time window**: The period the briefing covers (e.g., last 7 days, last month)
- **Company context**: What the user's company does and where it sits in the stack
- **Strategic priorities**: 2–4 current goals (e.g., expand custody partners, launch on a new chain, grow stablecoin volume)
- **Existing partners/competitors**: Named entities to watch and flag in coverage
- **Source material**: Any links, headlines, or notes the user wants synthesized (optional)
- **Audience**: Who reads the briefing — BD team, product, or executive leadership

If source material isn't provided, work from the user's stated developments and clearly label any general industry context as background rather than fresh news.

## Instructions

### Step 1: Scan and Cluster by Segment
Organize the period's developments into the requested focus segments. For each segment, identify the 2–4 most consequential developments. Filter aggressively — a briefing is a prioritization tool, not a news roundup. Drop anything that doesn't plausibly touch the user's strategic priorities, named partners/competitors, or market structure.

Use these segment lenses to ensure complete coverage:
- **DeFi**: protocol launches, TVL shifts, new primitives (lending, perps, restaking), yield trends, exploits
- **Exchanges**: listings, regional licensing, fee/structure changes, volume migration, new product lines
- **Custody**: institutional custody moves, qualified-custodian developments, MPC/wallet infrastructure, regulatory custody rulings
- **Protocols (L1/L2)**: upgrades, throughput/fee changes, ecosystem incentives, bridge and interop developments
- **Cross-cutting**: regulation, stablecoin policy, major raises, M&A, macro flows

### Step 2: Profile Each Trend
For every trend that makes the cut, build a standardized entry:
1. **Trend title**: One-line, specific (not "DeFi is growing")
2. **What happened**: 2–3 sentences of factual summary
3. **Why it matters now**: The structural shift or signal behind the headline — not a restatement of the news
4. **Named players**: Entities involved, flagging any of the user's partners or competitors
5. **Partnership relevance**: High / Medium / Low — with one sentence of reasoning tied to the user's priorities
6. **Roadmap implication**: Whether and how this should influence product or BD sequencing
7. **Recommended action**: A concrete next step — investigate, monitor, initiate outreach, deprioritize, or no action

### Step 3: Score and Rank
Rank all profiled trends into a priority order using two axes:
- **Strategic relevance**: How directly it touches the user's stated priorities and watched entities
- **Time sensitivity**: Whether a window is opening or closing (a partner being courted, a standard being set, a competitor moving first)

Surface the top 3 as "Act This Cycle" — trends warranting a decision or owner this period. Everything else goes into "Monitor."

### Step 4: Synthesize the Strategic Read
Write a short synthesis above the trend list that answers: What's the single most important shift this period, and what does it mean for us? Name one specific partnership opportunity and one specific risk surfaced by the period's developments.

### Step 5: Define Watch Items
List 3–5 forward-looking items to track into the next briefing — pending decisions, expected launches, regulatory deadlines, or competitor moves that haven't fully resolved.

## Output Format
- **Structure**: Strategic read at the top → priority-ranked trend entries grouped into "Act This Cycle" and "Monitor" → watch items
- **Length**: 800–1,200 words
- **Format**: Structured document — short synthesis prose up top, then standardized trend entries as labeled blocks; a summary ranking table is encouraged
- **Sections**: Strategic Read → Act This Cycle (top 3) → Monitor (remaining trends) → Watch Items
- **Tone**: Sharp internal analyst — concise, opinionated on what matters, no crypto hype, no price speculation

## Quality Checklist
Before delivering output, verify:
- [ ] Every focus segment requested by the user is covered or explicitly marked as no notable activity
- [ ] Each trend entry includes all 7 profile fields (title, what happened, why it matters, named players, partnership relevance, roadmap implication, recommended action)
- [ ] Partnership relevance is rated High/Medium/Low with reasoning tied to the user's stated priorities — not generic
- [ ] Exactly 3 trends are elevated to "Act This Cycle" and each carries a concrete recommended action
- [ ] The strategic read names one specific opportunity and one specific risk
- [ ] No price predictions or token-shilling language appears anywhere

## Notes
- The value is in the "why it matters now" and "recommended action" fields — a briefing that only summarizes news has failed; it must drive a decision
- When a development involves a named competitor moving on a partner the user is courting, treat time sensitivity as high regardless of headline size
- For recurring use, keep the structure identical period to period so readers can scan it the same way each time and track how "Monitor" items graduate into "Act This Cycle"
- If the user provides no fresh source material, be explicit about it and shorten the briefing rather than padding with stale background

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