This article details the origin and development of the Pepe cryptocurrency. Pepe originated from the popular "Sad Frog" internet meme and quickly gained popularity after launching its token in April 2023. Its success stems from multiple factors: a strong marketing team, stories of early investors getting rich, investors' FOMO psychology, and support from mainstream exchanges. Pepe's rapid rise reflects the crypto market's enthusiasm for meme coins and raises questions about its future development. The article concludes by posing a thought-provoking question: as its market cap grows, is Pepe still controlled by a small group of people?

Arbitrum has become a blockchain with the largest total value locked (TVL) among all Ethereum Layer 2 solutions. So what are the advantages? As the leading blockchain of the Layer 2 solution "Optimistic Rollup", do you know the difference between its technology and ZK Rollup? Let's find out these answers in this article.

Tokenization records ownership of traditional or real-world assets on a blockchain, creating digital versions of these assets. The process has four steps: identifying the asset, issuing and managing tokens, distributing and trading tokens, and ongoing asset servicing. Benefits include better capital efficiency, wider access, lower operational costs, improved compliance, and reduced infrastructure costs. Challenges include technical readiness, high implementation costs, market maturity, regulatory uncertainty, and industry coordination. Despite these, the first wave of tokenization is starting, with examples like stablecoins and tokenized U.S. Treasuries showing its potential.

In the current cryptocurrency market, despite the poor performance of altcoins, the DeFi sector is gradually showing its long-term investment value. According to recent market analysis, although the DeFi sector has lagged behind Ethereum and the overall market average in growth over the past year, it still holds potential to attract investor attention again.

Get to know what is Cryptopia and its native token, $TOS.

This article outlines various mechanisms and implementation strategies for designing loyalty programs, highlighting their advantages, challenges, and future development trends. It aims to help builders and projects in the Web3 space understand the importance of loyalty programs and their role in driving sustainable growth.

This article explores how NFT royalties work, analyzes the pros and cons of existing blacklist and whitelist models, and proposes two new design methods—the whitelist combined with a staking mechanism and the "right of recapture" mechanism. These methods aim to ensure fair compensation for creators while enhancing the composability and user experience of NFTs.

Gate Research Institute's daily market review and outlook covers Bitcoin and altcoin market trends, macro capital flows, on-chain metrics analysis, updates on hot projects, token unlock information, and key industry conferences, providing comprehensive analysis and forecasts for the cryptocurrency market.

This article first introduces the functioning and risks of re-staking, mentioning Mellow Finance's new solution. It analyzes the strategic collaboration between the two and its impact on Lido. Finally, it summarizes the current market situation and offers future prospects.

This article introduces the technical principles and application scenarios of Solana Blinks and explores its potential and challenges for mass adoption in Web3. It provides a detailed analysis of Blinks' implementation and future development from various aspects such as operation methods, security, and cross-platform applications.

The RWA track still has significant growth potential in the future. However, it faces regulatory uncertainty, technical challenges, and liquidity issues. The modular RWA L2 network Plume Network, which aims to simplify deployment and lower the entry barriers for traditional financial participants, has garnered widespread attention. This article explores how the project leverages technological innovation and ecosystem development to provide tailored, one-stop services for the RWA track. It also delves into the specifics of the testnet incentive activities, offering insights into the future development opportunities and challenges for Plume Network and the RWA track.

The core structure of the Babylon Protocol is the Babylon blockchain, which is a POS blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK and compatible with Cosmos IBC. It enables data aggregation and communication between the Bitcoin chain and other Cosmos application chains. Users can lock Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network to provide security for other POS consumption chains while earning staking rewards. Babylon allows Bitcoin to leverage its unique security and decentralization features to provide economic security for other POS chains.

Doubler is a protocol that uses the Martingale strategy to separate cost and income, achieving low buy and high sell. It increases the win rate for users who prefer risk while offering U-based investors a strategy with lower risk and similar high returns as bullish options and leverage, but with more flexible trading terms. By introducing market positive externalities, it gains extra income for the pool and aggregates market liquidity to counter high volatility, meeting the needs of risk-loving users for high returns under lower risks than traditional options and leverage markets.

Master Protocol is an interest rate swap market and points accelerator aimed at solving BTC Layer 2 liquidity issues. This article gives an in-depth overview of the three main products of Master Protocol and provides a step-by-step guide for participating in airdrop activities, including NFT staking, trade mining, and the invitation system.

Gate Research's Weekly Market Review and Outlook covers Bitcoin and altcoin trends, macro liquidity, on-chain indicators, hot project updates, token unlock information, and key industry events, providing comprehensive analysis and predictions for the cryptocurrency market.