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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Semi-fungible Token Landscape Overview
Intermediate

Semi-fungible Token Landscape Overview

This article discusses new standards in the semi-fungible token field, such as ERC-404, TinySPL, and Asteroids, and their role in promoting new models of digital economy and asset forms. The article evaluates the performance of these standards in enhancing asset interoperability, binding assets with identities, scalability, cost efficiency, and simplifying user experience. At the same time, it points out the challenges faced by ERC-404 tokens, including lack of formal review, security risks, and market acceptance issues.
May 16, 2024
Freely Search for the Next Crypto Hotspot in the Wave of Memes.
Intermediate

Freely Search for the Next Crypto Hotspot in the Wave of Memes.

As an innovative cryptocurrency trading platform focusing on the creation and trading of memecoins, Pump.Fun provides a unique and attractive market environment by combining the interactivity of social media and the financial technology of cryptocurrencies, encouraging more users to enter into the decentralized financial field through a low-barrier to participation, exploring and create digital currencies based on pop culture and internet meme.
May 16, 2024
Understanding WeTEE in Three Minutes
Intermediate

Understanding WeTEE in Three Minutes

Decentralized confidential cloud computing services ensure the decentralized nature of cloud computing and maintain data security and privacy, but more crucially, they also enable broader DePIN business logic. Using token incentives to reduce the cost of cloud computing services, anyone requiring low-latency and high-computational power services can opt to deploy on WeTEE, receiving a generic cloud computing solution comparable to traditional cloud services. Users and developers from any public blockchain ecosystem can utilise WeTEE's confidential cloud computing services, thereby helping WeTEE become a foundational infrastructure for AI+Crypto driven by the entire blockchain, directly capturing the value of computational demand across the network.
May 16, 2024
Can the Japan Web3 Market take the Global Lead?
Intermediate

Can the Japan Web3 Market take the Global Lead?

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Japan's Web3 industry, including the details of Japan's Web3 promotion policy, its impact on local Web3 ecosystem players, and identifying the exact changes that have resulted. Additionally, the report explores business opportunities in the Japanese Web3 market, assessing potential short-term gains and long-term growth prospects.
May 16, 2024
Binius, a Highly Efficient Proof System
Advanced

Binius, a Highly Efficient Proof System

Vitalik Buterin provides a detailed introduction to Binius, a highly efficient proof system based on binary fields. The article first reviews the concepts of finite fields and arithmetization, explaining how SNARK and STARK proof systems work by converting program statements into polynomial equations. Vitalik points out that although Plonky2 has proven that using smaller 64-bit and 31-bit fields can significantly improve the efficiency of proof generation, Binius further enhances efficiency by operating directly on zeros and ones, taking advantage of the features of binary fields. Binius uses multivariate polynomials to represent computational traces and employs a series of mathematical tricks, including the concept of hypercubes and Reed-Solomon encoding, to construct proofs. Vitalik believes that the direct computational ability of binary fields and operations on bits are key to Binius's efficiency.
May 16, 2024
10 Eigen AVS Ecosystems Worth Watching
Beginner

10 Eigen AVS Ecosystems Worth Watching

EigenLayer is an innovative project that introduces Active Verification Services (AVS) by re-staking ETH, allowing Ethereum's security and trust foundation to be leased to other systems. EigenLayer users protect other systems by re-staking their ETH and may be at risk of stake slashing. AVS are systems that require distributed verification semantics. They use EigenLayer to enhance the security and functionality of the network. The article introduces 10 Eigen AVS ecological projects worthy of attention, including EigenDA, AltLayer, Omni, Lagrange, Aligned Layer, Hyperlane, Witness Chain, Eoracle, Drosera and Ethos. These projects cover areas such as data availability, rollups re-staking, cross-chain interoperability, modular oracle networks, security incident response protocols, and the security of the Cosmos chain.
May 15, 2024
Movement Labs: Innovating Blockchain with Move-Based Infra
Beginner

Movement Labs: Innovating Blockchain with Move-Based Infra

Movement is a modular framework for building and deploying Move-based infrastructure and applications. It uses M1 and M2 technologies to achieve compatibility with EVM and connect the mobility of Move and EVM ecology. As a permissionless blockchain, M1 uses the Snowman consensus protocol, while M2 is the first Move Layer-2 on Ethereum, supporting Sui Move, Aptos Move and EVM. The design of Move language focuses on security, improving the security of smart contracts through linear ownership and immutability of resources. Movement Labs has received US$41.4 million in financing to promote the innovative application of Move language in blockchain technology.
May 14, 2024
Exploring the EIP-7702 Proposal: Vitalik's Ultimate Solution for the Account Abstraction Dilemma?
Beginner

Exploring the EIP-7702 Proposal: Vitalik's Ultimate Solution for the Account Abstraction Dilemma?

Vitalik Buterin has proposed EIP-7702, which could be one of the most significant changes in Ethereum's history. EIP-7702 aims to improve account abstraction, allowing smart contracts to be used as accounts, thereby enhancing functionality and security. It is highly compatible with EIP-4337, which has been widely adopted on platforms like Polygon. EIP-7702 achieves the temporary delegation of EOAs (Externally Owned Accounts) to smart contracts by temporarily populating the contract code field of an EOA with smart contract code, without the need for a hard fork. This could transform how users interact with Web3 applications.
May 14, 2024
How Will the Market Move Next? 7 Tips for Not Losing Money During a Bull Market
Beginner

How Will the Market Move Next? 7 Tips for Not Losing Money During a Bull Market

The article provides some investment strategy suggestions, encouraging long-term holders to focus on fundamentals, while those seeking short-term gains can explore speculative opportunities.
May 14, 2024
 Inscribing & Etching: Is Still Worth Participating in the Trendy Rune Projects?
Beginner

Inscribing & Etching: Is Still Worth Participating in the Trendy Rune Projects?

This article explores the difference between Inscription and Rune. The inscription uses Segregated Witness and Taproot technology to "inscribe" content on the Bitcoin network. In contrast, Rune uses Etching to bind balances to UTXO, so Rune is technically more efficient, with lower transaction costs and without blocking the Bitcoin network.
May 14, 2024
What is Unizen?
Beginner

What is Unizen?

Uncover how Unizen optimizes transactions with its revolutionary technology and how its partnership with Coinstore is set to reshape the DeFi marketplace.
May 14, 2024
What is DeFi?
Beginner

What is DeFi?

Traditional finance relies heavily on centralized institutions, but DeFi brings innovation by harnessing blockchain technology. Today, DeFi is a worldwide financial system open to all, offering various services from lending to trading, yield farming, and insurance.
May 14, 2024
Friend.Tech’s Evolution and Challenges
Intermediate

Friend.Tech’s Evolution and Challenges

This article will delve into the new mechanism of friend.tech V2 and the token $FRIEND, explore any vulnerabilities it has gone through or is still going through, and discuss whether this business model is sustainable. Also, how the brand new feature Clubs works and its impact.
May 13, 2024
Comparison between Babylon Protocol and EigenLayer
Intermediate

Comparison between Babylon Protocol and EigenLayer

This article provides an in-depth analysis and comparison of the different approaches and unique architectural aspects of the EigenLayer and Babylon projects in improving blockchain network security and providing additional rewards for users.
May 13, 2024
The Future of Execution Environments
Advanced

The Future of Execution Environments

Benjamin Funk, the researcher of the crypto investment institution Archetype, attributes the execution layer's bottleneck to inefficient state access and computation. He has evaluated the design choices made by integrated and modular execution environments in achieving higher performance and expanding the range of on-chain applications.
May 13, 2024
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