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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin introduced innovative testing methods for decentralization and security in his blog, such as the "Walk Away Test" and the "Internal Attack Test." These methods aim to reduce reliance on centralized infrastructure and mitigate censorship risks. The "Exit Test" is a tool for assessing a project's dependence on centralization and has the potential to evolve into a risk rating standard, while the "Internal Attack Test" identifies system vulnerabilities by simulating attacks. This article will delve into these testing methods and their significance for decentralized projects, offering practical insights for blockchain developers and researchers.

This article analyzes current challenges in scientific research funding—including bureaucracy, uneven distribution of funds, and innovation bottlenecks—and explores how decentralized science (DeSci) can revolutionize research funding through blockchain technology and Web3 tools. The article highlights DeSci's core advantages: improved financial liquidity, lower funding barriers, and enhanced global scientific collaboration.

Allium is an enterprise-grade blockchain data platform that provides accurate, fast, and straightforward access to blockchain data across more than 40 blockchains. It supports a wide range of use cases, including accounting, auditing, stablecoins, staking, NFTs, and DEX trading. Allium focuses on delivering high-quality, secure, and scalable data solutions to meet the needs of enterprises.

Explore the causes behind the formation of Bitcoin empty blocks, their positive and negative impacts, as well as improvement strategies, to understand how miners balance efficiency and opportunity costs.

The DoubleZero protocol is an innovative decentralized framework designed to enhance the performance of distributed systems by optimizing data flow and increasing bandwidth to reduce latency. By integrating fiber optic links to build a synchronized network, it effectively filters spam, boosts bandwidth, lowers latency, and eliminates instability in communication. This article explores DoubleZero's network architecture, its operational mechanisms, and how it offers significant performance improvements for blockchain systems and other distributed networks, while also discussing its potential as a new economic model in the bandwidth and communication sectors.

The blockchain investment market is trending back towards community-based funding after going through phases of ICOs and VC-led private markets. This shift is occurring because there has been growing resistance to VCs investing at relatively low prices, then listing tokens at high valuations and selling them to retail investors.

Story recently unveiled Agent TCP/IP, a trustless framework that enables agents to autonomously trade data, content, and proprietary knowledge while collaborating based on their unique expertise. This report explores the key features of Agent TCP/IP and its broader implications.

Nexus is a project aimed at building an internet supercomputer based on verifiable computation. This article details the inspiration behind Nexus, its core team, technical features, security measures, and how to participate in the Nexus network via web interfaces or command-line tools.

DeSci (Decentralized Science) projects are an emerging concept and practice based on blockchain technology, aimed at transforming traditional scientific research and dissemination models through decentralization. The goal of DeSci is to address some key issues in the current scientific research field, such as high publication fees, lack of data transparency, disputes over research ownership, and the lack of trust in funding mechanisms among the public and scientists.

This post refers to in- and out-of-protocol mitigation techniques. With in-protocol MEV mitigation techniques, we mean mechanisms that are either part of the Ethereum protocol rules or that would require changing the Ethereum protocol rules. Out-of-protocol mitigation techniques are all mechanisms that are not in-protocol.

We introduce the concept of aICO (AI Initial Coin Offering): the idea that autonomous AI founders, programmed for accountability, can replace the chaos of human leadership with trustless, KPI-driven execution.

The key technology driving DeSci is decentralized storage, which has evolved from the IPFS protocol. It has been shown to be more cost-effective and secure than traditional centralized storage solutions, and the current implementations are relatively mature. Essentially, the infrastructure for DeSci is in place; now it just needs broader acceptance and adoption of decentralized storage concepts.

JLP supports various strategies, including leverage (up to 3x), delta-neutral hedging, and customizable exposure, allowing users to maximize yield while managing risk. JLP’s attractive features include premium arbitrage trading, which capitalizes on price fluctuations. Its flexibility makes it suitable for different investor preferences, from risk-averse to high-reward seekers.

This article explores the potential of Account Abstraction (AA), particularly its ability to enhance the blockchain user experience through programmable key management systems. The author analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of traditional key management methods (such as 12-word seed phrases) and new technologies like Passkeys, MPC, and cloud TEEs, proposing the integration of AA functionalities to enable key rotation, session keys, and multiple recovery mechanisms.

Should Academic Papers Really Be Behind a Paywall? Where Lies the Key to the Challenges in Academia? This article explores the potential for openness and progress in academia through the integration of Web3 and the recent discussions around the DeSci topic.