Technology

Within the bustling realm of Bitcoin's Layer2 arena, Merlin stands out with its multi-billion dollar TVL, attracting considerable attention. Web3 enthusiast and founder Faust delves into Merlin Chain’s technical framework, offering an interpretation of its publicly disclosed documents and the thought process behind its protocol design. This analysis aims to provide readers with a clear understanding of Merlin's operational workflow and its security architecture.

Understand Data Availability and how it impacts Blockchain transaction verification.

Arkham serves as an advanced cryptocurrency analysis platform and data tracking dashboard, delivering thorough market insights and trading data to aid users in monitoring on-chain activities of blockchain entities. At its heart lies the Ultra AI address matching engine, capable of associating on-chain addresses with real-world identities, thus providing real-time data processing and extensive blockchain coverage. Additionally, Arkham introduces its token system, ARKM, accessible through its Intel Exchange market, where users can trade on-chain data intelligence. The platform's Profiler tool further provides deep dives into transaction histories and asset holdings, bolstering users’ ability to make informed decisions. Despite Arkham’s utility in tracking cryptocurrency events, it has also sparked discussions around privacy and security concerns.

Ethereum’s shift to a rollup-centric roadmap induced explosive growth in modular scaling designs, eliminating gas fees over $100 and unlocking new application designs. However, it also faces a new problem of state fragmentation. The article analyzes the two major directions of scaling and explores their mechanisms.

EigenDA is a RaaS market that provides acceleration services, reducing the barriers to Rollup deployment. It is a data availability network designed to enhance the throughput and reduce the cost of Rollup protocols. This article will uncover the process of deploying Rollup using EigenDA.

As Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technologies advance, ZK-Rollup is set to claim a substantial market share in the evolving market for Ethereum expansion. The text delves into Lumoz's proactive approach to addressing the challenges and demands ZK-Rollup faces, highlighting its role as a frontrunner and leader in this sector. This leadership has catalyzed the development of several emerging ETH Layer 2 and BTC Layer 2 projects and established a pioneering position in ZK mining.

The article delves deeply into the commercial necessity of combining AI with Web3, emphasizing the importance and challenges of distributed computing power services. It pays special attention to the IO.NET project, a distributed AI computing power platform, aiming to incentivize the convergence of AI computing power through a token model, providing flexible, rapid deployment, and low-cost AI computing services. The article analyzes the product logic, team background, and financing situation of IO.NET, and it also forecasts its potential market value. Additionally, the article discusses the development trend of the distributed computing market and possible influencing factors.

With the rapid penetration of modular blockchains into L2, the maturity of various RaaS tools, and the implementation of the Cancun upgrade, the barrier to entry for building L2s has been significantly lowered, and technology is no longer the main obstacle to constructing Rollups. As a leading ZK-focused RaaS, Lumoz has great potential for success in the near future.

The article discusses the progress of the Arweave AO Hyper-Parallel Computer's self-testing network a month after its launch. As an essential part of the Arweave ecosystem, AO has attracted over 3,000 developers for its construction and resulted in numerous applications based on AO. The launch of AO has led to Arweave being viewed as a potential competitor to Ethereum and even considered as the computational layer for AI. The article provides a detailed introduction to AO's network profile, ecosystem projects, development tools, and significant events, including the release of the technical document Cookbook, the launch of the test network token $CRED, online hackathons, and the AO memecoin introduced by the community. The development of AO brings new possibilities to the blockchain world, especially in AI applications.

ShdwDrive platform is a high-performance cloud storage platform developed by GenesysGo, fully supported by a decentralized network of operators, employing the Proof of History (PoH) consensus mechanism to ensure block order through a time series.

There is heated debate about Layer3, with some highlighting the applications of on-chain arbitrage and Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology, while others focus on the AVS staking and reward-punishment mechanisms of Eigenlayer. The significance of Layer3's expansion lies in its autonomous characteristics, which can achieve interoperability and a trusted environment between multiple chains through ZK technology and reward-punishment economic mechanisms. Therefore, Layer3 should be customized based on application scenario needs, rather than simply being stacked and extended.

The Discreet Log Contract (DLC) is an oracle-based contract execution scheme that integrates DLC channels with the Lightning Network and expands DLC to allow the updating and execution of continuous contracts within the same DLC channel. With technologies such as Taproot and BitVM, more complex off-chain contract validations and settlements can be implemented within the DLC, while minimizing oracle trust through the use of OP challenge mechanisms.

This article provides a detailed explanation of distributed validator technology and its operations. It highlights that the core of this technology depends on five key components to ensure the security and resilience of validator operations. The article also discusses use cases, system risks, and introduces a revolutionary solution to enhance the security and operational efficiency of blockchain validators.

Including transactions in a purely first-come-first-served fashion encourages spam and may block high-value transactions from ordinary users. This article tackle this problem by propose a new fee mechanism on Solana.

Decentralized Science (DeSci) has emerged. This is a new concept in the world of Web3. The main goal of DeSci is to achieve fair and equitable funding, creation, review, storage, and dissemination of scientific knowledge through establishing public infrastructure and using Web3 tools (including NFTs, smart contracts, DAOs, etc.). Finally, the article points out that although DeSci offers a new research model, its development still faces many challenges, such as the quality of research projects and how to improve the governance system of DAOs, which can be solved based on further effort and innovation.