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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What Is a Blockchain-Agnostic Protocol?
Beginner

What Is a Blockchain-Agnostic Protocol?

This article explores blockchain-agnostic protocols, introducing their main benefits and how they work.
Dec 26, 2023
David's Take: 5 Big Questions Facing Crypto's Future
Beginner

David's Take: 5 Big Questions Facing Crypto's Future

This article summarizes some major unresolved issues in the cryptocurrency field, including superchains, LST, Solana, etc., and shares personal perspectives.
Dec 26, 2023
 "Does the Team's Activity Really Relate to Cryptocurrency Prices?"
Intermediate

"Does the Team's Activity Really Relate to Cryptocurrency Prices?"

This article uses statistical data to analyze the relationship between Github activity and market performance during four crypto bull and bear cycles.
Dec 26, 2023
A Guide to ZK Coprocessors for Scalability
Beginner

A Guide to ZK Coprocessors for Scalability

This article reviews the definition and significance of coprocessors, and how to use the Bonsai ZK coprocessor architecture to expand applications.
Dec 26, 2023
Wedge is the Founder's Edge
Intermediate

Wedge is the Founder's Edge

This article introduces a new concept called "Wedge," suggesting that successful projects often start from modest ideas, but the "adjacent possibilities" allow them to discover and assimilate new markets during their development.
Dec 26, 2023
Top Web3 Privacy Challenges & How to Overcome Them
Intermediate

Top Web3 Privacy Challenges & How to Overcome Them

Despite web3’s groundbreaking potential and its achievements so far, security and privacy are thus two key challenges it must overcome to succeed fully. While promising work is already underway to this end, web3’s fundamental tenets — decentralization, trustlessness, and user autonomy — don’t sit well with the current privacy/security landscape. There’s a need for novel methods to address web3’s privacy challenges. Thankfully, the web3 ecosystem itself unlocks the tools necessary to make robust yet user-centric privacy systems a reality.
Dec 26, 2023
 The History and Future of Social Division of Labor: From the Corporation to the DAO to the SO-DAO
Intermediate

The History and Future of Social Division of Labor: From the Corporation to the DAO to the SO-DAO

The purpose of this article is to explain the importance of the development of organizational models in the economy, and the new driving force that self-organization (SO-DAO) brings to the social economy.
Dec 26, 2023
How to Build a Decentralized Data Flywheel for Large Models
Intermediate

How to Build a Decentralized Data Flywheel for Large Models

This article discusses how to build a data flywheel for large model applications built on a Web3 infrastructure that unifies the value of personal data and public data, enabling collaboration and achieving mutual benefits among users, suppliers, and platforms.
Dec 26, 2023
Emerging Digital Assets: Value Discovery and Proposition in the Digital Economy
Beginner

Emerging Digital Assets: Value Discovery and Proposition in the Digital Economy

This article explores how AI technology and Web3 technology are leading the creation and discovery of new assets and their value. It presents the characteristics of the digital economy (digitalization, networking, intelligence, innovation, and data-driven), as well as how to achieve the unity of personal and public value, decentralized collaboration, and innovative diversity.
Dec 26, 2023
Modular Blockchain: A New Perspective on Functional Layer Controversies and DA Economics
Advanced

Modular Blockchain: A New Perspective on Functional Layer Controversies and DA Economics

The article introduces the origins, definitions, and design principles of modular blockchains, also leading to a discussion on the data availability layer through an analysis of the execution layer, and finally introduces Celestia and execution layer, and finally introduces finally.
Dec 26, 2023
ROWS #3: decentralized social media part. 1, the Fediverse
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ROWS #3: decentralized social media part. 1, the Fediverse

This article offers an extensive introduction to the historical evolution, project standards, and business models of federated social networks. It specifically uses Mastodon as an example to discuss the project's strengths and weaknesses, and to illuminate the differences between it and the native protocols of Web3.
Dec 26, 2023
Storage proofs: Achieving state awareness across time and chains
Advanced

Storage proofs: Achieving state awareness across time and chains

This article explains how to use proof of storage for information transmission and data processing, and applies it in areas such as cross-chain governance, cross-chain lending, and multi-chain oracles.
Dec 26, 2023
Shared sequencers for Starknet and Madara app chains
Advanced

Shared sequencers for Starknet and Madara app chains

The article explains how shared sequencers increase inter-chain composability and efficiency, and facilitate decentralization.
Dec 25, 2023
Scaling Wars: An Overview of L2 Stack in On-Chain Gaming
Beginner

Scaling Wars: An Overview of L2 Stack in On-Chain Gaming

This article offers a guide to the foundational infrastructure of full-chain gaming, analyzing the challenges on-chain games face at Layer 1, elucidating how Rollups optimize gaming experience, and provides various projects as practical application references.
Dec 25, 2023
A Brief Intro to Coprocessors
Intermediate

A Brief Intro to Coprocessors

This article explores coprocessor solutions and alternatives, and interprets the three major use cases that coprocessors can unlock.
Dec 25, 2023
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