Blockchain

Reviewing Tether's ten-year history, discussing its impact on the stablecoin market and its future important role in global finance.

This article explores how blockchain protocols achieve value accumulation through transaction fees, MEV, and token issuance, as well as the trade-offs between incentivizing validators and maintaining protocol security.

This article reviews the development of DeFi, analyzes the key drivers behind the DeFi Summer, explores current trends in DeFi regarding technology, user adoption, institutional participation, and macroeconomic policies, and discusses how these factors may signal the resurgence of DeFi.

This article discusses the concept of finality in blockchain, analyzing how different blockchain systems achieve finality, along with the underlying principles and challenges involved.

This article reviews various new token issuance methods that emerged during the 2023-2024 cycle, including points, public and private sales, KOL round financing, Bitcoin runes, TON play-to-earn games, memecoins, and community/social tokens. It also provides a brief analysis of their respective developments and trends.

This article analyzes the legal risks and operational challenges of Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization projects through case studies. It points out that even with real assets backing them, RWA projects may still face the risk of failure due to market uncertainty and operational issues. The author offers practical advice on how to avoid legal risks in the RWA sector, including avoiding short-term behaviors, ensuring the separation of funds, and focusing on actual operations.

We have many precedents and inspirations to understand moats in traditional markets, but we lack a corresponding framework to explain the structural differences in crypto applications. This article aims to bridge this gap by gaining an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements that constitute a sustainable moat and identifying a few applications that can sustainably capture value.

A new framework called based rollups is gaining attention as a new approach for scaling rollups. Read on to learn what based rollups are, how they work, and how they compare to other types of rollups.

This article delves into the features, functionality, and role of the EOS blockchain within the cryptocurrency space. Developed by Block.One, EOS is a decentralized platform designed to offer high scalability, efficiency, speed, and environmentally friendly attributes, supporting the development of smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps). The article provides a detailed explanation of EOS's Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism, the utility of EOS tokens, and the components of the EOS ecosystem. It also discusses the crucial role of EOS RAM as a key resource and how the exSat project leverages EOS's technological advantages to enhance Bitcoin's scalability. Furthermore, the new EOS token economic model, featuring a fixed supply and quadrennial halving cycle, aims to bring stability and sustainability to the EOS ecosystem.

Soneium is a next-generation blockchain ecosystem created by Sony and Startale. It aims to merge Web3 technology with everyday internet services to promote the widespread adoption of blockchain. This article offers an in-depth look at Soneium’s background, vision, and ecosystem, focusing on how it improves the developer experience, supports innovative projects, and lowers users' barriers to exploring blockchain.

This article introduces the hybrid cryptocurrency trading platform Blum, which aims to provide a gamified user experience through a Telegram mini-program, simplifying crypto trading. It details Blum’s background, team, project vision, and future plans, with a special focus on its point system and community interaction mechanisms. Additionally, it explains how users can earn points by participating in mini-games and community activities.

Attracting over 10,000 participants to stake 1,000 BTC within just three hours, will Babylon ignite a BTCFi Summer? This article will analyze the workings of Babylon, its core technologies, its ecosystem landscape, and the challenges it faces.

XYO is an innovative DePIN project that connects the physical and digital worlds by building a decentralized location information oracle network. It emphasizes data sovereignty, provenance, and retention, providing users with control over their own data. XYO's core application, COIN, has been widely used globally, demonstrating users' demand for decentralized geoinformation sharing. Despite facing competition from traditional GPS systems, XYO continues to improve its ecosystem through the "Build the Future" initiative and xyOS operating system, showing promise in creating value in fields such as autonomous driving, logistics, and inventory management. This article delves into XYO's technical architecture, application scenarios, and investment value.

The best five wallets compatible with the Zksync network are the Zksync lite wallet, Clave, Argent X, MetaMask, and Trust wallet.

MEV-Boost heavily relies on centralized participants like relays. Paradigm has proposed an alternative architecture that enables direct, privacy-preserving communication between builders and proposers. This is based on a novel, non-interactive form of "silent" threshold encryption, which can utilize the existing BLS keys of validators.