Blockchain

Blockchain is the underlying technology for almost all cryptocurrencies. It is a distributed ledger jointly maintained by decentralized nodes around the world. Blockchain is hailed as "the trust machine", enabling trustless peer-to-peer payments. Blockchain will become the infrastructure for the next generation of the Internet - Web 3.

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A Whirlwind Tour of Chain Abstraction
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A Whirlwind Tour of Chain Abstraction

鏈抽象化旨在簡化與鏈上金融互動的複雜性,將這些複雜性隱藏起來,讓終端用戶和開發者免於面對這些問題,鏈抽象的目標是讓開發者能夠快速、安全地建立鏈無關的應用程序,這些應用程式可以無縫地在所有 rollup 上運行,而無需擔心底層的執行複雜性,其願景是讓用戶能夠與去中心化應用程式交互,而不需要理解其背後的加密概念。其目的是消除所有技術複雜性,提供直覺的用戶體驗。
7/15/2024, 7:29:58 AM
State of Crypto+AI 2024
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State of Crypto+AI 2024

This article provides an in-depth analysis of 67 Crypto+AI projects, categorizing them from the perspective of Generative AI (GenAI), and explores how cryptocurrency supports AI and its associated benefits.
7/15/2024, 5:40:31 AM
Exploring SocialFi: Solana Actions & Blinks vs. Ethereum Farcaster & Lens
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Exploring SocialFi: Solana Actions & Blinks vs. Ethereum Farcaster & Lens

Solana and Dialect have jointly introduced the new Solana concept "Actions and Blinks," which enables one-click swap, voting, donations, minting, and other functions via a browser extension. This allows various operations and transactions to be executed efficiently, ensuring network consensus and consistency through time synchronization and sequential recording. The strategy is compared to Ethereum's Farcaster protocol and Solana's approach.
7/15/2024, 5:32:19 AM
Seven Emerging Trends in Crypto
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Seven Emerging Trends in Crypto

This article explains that the cryptocurrency market is on the verge of significant changes. Despite current price volatility, the underlying mechanisms continue to operate, bringing new trends and opportunities.
7/14/2024, 6:38:50 PM
What is SatoshiVM? All You Need to Know About SAVM
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What is SatoshiVM? All You Need to Know About SAVM

SatoshiVM is a decentralized Bitcoin ZK Rollup Layer 2 solution that employs the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) for off-chain computations like smart contracts and decentralized finance.
7/14/2024, 3:50:14 PM
AI x Crypto - Promises and Realities
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AI x Crypto - Promises and Realities

AI+Crypto is one of the most notable frontier areas in the recent cryptocurrency market. This includes decentralized AI training, GPU DePINs, and censorship-resistant AI models. The main issue with AI training lies in the need for high-speed communication and coordination between GPUs, as neural networks require backpropagation during training. Introducing a decentralized network can significantly slow down the process due to increased network latency and bandwidth. This article also organizes solutions to the current challenges and provides examples of how the integration of cryptocurrency and AI can add significant value.
7/13/2024, 3:24:26 PM
Cryptonomicon: How it Heralded the Rise of Bitcoin
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Cryptonomicon: How it Heralded the Rise of Bitcoin

"Cryptonomicon" presents rich historical and technical details, attracting lots of readers while highlighting the importance of cryptographic technology in ensuring information security and personal privacy. Neal Stephenson and Bitcoin Foundation co-founder Peter Vessenes jointly founded Lamina1, aiming to create a truly open metaverse. By providing robust technical infrastructure, it allows users to seamlessly switch between different virtual worlds, enjoying a consistent digital experience and laying a solid foundation for the evolution of the Web3 ecosystem.
7/13/2024, 3:15:26 PM
Bluefin: Building High-Performance Sui DeFi (TGE Soon)
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Bluefin: Building High-Performance Sui DeFi (TGE Soon)

As the top trading platform in the Sui ecosystem, Bluefin relies on its efficient transaction processing speed, transparent on-chain security mechanism and user-friendly operating interface to provide users with a derivatives + spot multi-variety trading experience, while building ecological infrastructure facilities on the Sui network and create a decentralized financial ecosystem. Through its innovative application layer design, Sui's technical advantages are fully demonstrated. Not only does it have significant advantages in transaction speed and cost, it also further promotes the popularity and application of the Sui ecosystem.
7/13/2024, 2:55:08 PM
Holoworld: Connecting Virtual and Reality with AI Bots, a Fresh AI Perspective in the Web3 Space
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Holoworld: Connecting Virtual and Reality with AI Bots, a Fresh AI Perspective in the Web3 Space

AI technology's rapid iteration and practical applications continuously landing are driving the prosperous development of the Web3 + AI track. Holoworld AI deepens the integration of AI and Web3, aiming to address these issues, and promoting the sustained growth of the Web3 market. By providing foundational development kits, user-friendly programming environments, rich SDKs, and development tools, Holoworld significantly lowers the deployment threshold for AI models in terms of technology.
7/13/2024, 2:39:11 PM
Overview of Tokens Related to the U.S. Election
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Overview of Tokens Related to the U.S. Election

Which tokens are associated with the U.S. election? What does MAGA stand for? What are the Trump-themed tokens? What is the PEOPLE token? What is ConstitutionDAO's purpose? How are the election and Meme tokens connected?
7/12/2024, 9:37:22 AM
What is Axie Infinity?
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What is Axie Infinity?

Axie Infinity is a leading GameFi project, whose dual-token model of AXS and SLP has deeply shaped later projects. Due to the rise of P2E, more and more newcomers were attracted to join in. In response to the rocketing fees, a special sidechain, Ronin, wh
7/12/2024, 9:35:04 AM
VeChainThor, A Versatile Enterprise-Grade L1 IoT Platform
Intermediate

VeChainThor, A Versatile Enterprise-Grade L1 IoT Platform

This article is a comprehensive guide to VeChainThor, detailing its various features and characteristics as an enterprise-grade L1 distributed IoT platform. It covers its applications in areas such as anti-counterfeiting, supply chain management, asset management, and customer experience.
7/12/2024, 9:31:08 AM
ORA: Ethereum’s Trustless AI
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ORA: Ethereum’s Trustless AI

在區塊鏈和人工智慧的交匯點上,ORA 正在開闢新的前沿,透過結合 AI、豐富的資料來源和任意規模的運算能力,不僅打破了智慧合約的限制,更賦予了開發者們創新空間。文中詳細介紹了 ORA 的核心技術和產品,包括零知識機器學習、Optimistic 機器學習以及樂觀隱私保護人工智慧,了解更多 ORA 如何推動鏈上 AI 的發展。
7/12/2024, 3:28:08 AM
MEV Landscape in the Parallel Execution Era
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MEV Landscape in the Parallel Execution Era

This article explores the potential of establishing robust miner extractable value auction infrastructure on Monad, drawing valuable insights from Flashbots on Ethereum and Jito Network on Solana. MEVA plays a crucial role in optimizing block production, mitigating external influences, and enhancing system stability, significantly promoting the resolution of scalability issues and aligning the incentive mechanisms of network participants.
7/11/2024, 2:38:24 PM
An Evaluation Framework for Governance Tokens
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An Evaluation Framework for Governance Tokens

Governance tokens are typically defined as tokens that grant holders voting rights on certain project parameters, which may include implementing product updates, fee/income generation, and business development decisions. The article introduces the role of governance tokens in cryptocurrencies, substantiating their existence, and reveals two key features required for governance tokens: control over economic value and reliability of control. Governance tokens are a complex and controversial topic among crypto investors, with opinions ranging from “novel innovation” to “mostly unnecessary”. We fall closer to the former opinion and believe that a well-structured governance token can add significant value to a project.
7/11/2024, 9:54:03 AM

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