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 HODL
Beginner

What Is HODL

HODL is a popular term in the cryptocurrency community, and it is also the spiritual pillar to help people get through bull and bear markets.
Dec 15, 2022
What is Axie Infinity?
Beginner

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, which uses PoA, was developed.
Dec 14, 2022
What is Lido?
Beginner

What is Lido?

Lido is a protocol that provides staking services and allows users to stake cryptocurrencies to get rewards without a minimum threshold and lockups.
Dec 14, 2022
What is Yearn Finance (YFI)? How does it open up a DeFi yield aggregation era?
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What is Yearn Finance (YFI)? How does it open up a DeFi yield aggregation era?

Yearn.finance is a decentralized smart financial product built on Ethereum. It implements algorithms to shift assets between different smart contracts to attain the highest yields. Yearn.finance launched the YFI token in July 2020. Its price soared from $3 to $30,000 within one month, which rapidly attracted a large number of investors. Its founder, Andre Cronje, is a South African fintech developer. He created Yearn.finance when he realized that different DeFi applications offer different yields. Users flocked to Yearn.finance soon after it was launched. Its market cap reached $1.5 billion by September 2020. Data shows that its total value locked in the network exceeded $6 billion at its peak in November 2021. How did the craze sweep the whole crypto space? How does it work? Let’s explore.
Dec 14, 2022
What is TRON?
Beginner

What is TRON?

TRON is a public chain project created by Justin Sun in 2017. It ranks among the top based on its efficient network, scalability and extremely low transaction fees. When we talk about TRON, the first keywords related to it might be Justin Sun, TRC-20, and DPoS. But as a public chain with top market cap and extensive application scenarios, there is much more worth knowing, including its consensus mechanism, economic model, history, and its founder.
Dec 14, 2022
What Are Blockchain Bridges and How Do They Work?
Beginner

What Are Blockchain Bridges and How Do They Work?

Blockchain bridges are specific protocols whose function is to connect two blockchains creating the possibility of transferring assets from one network to another
Dec 14, 2022
What Is The Byzantine Generals Problem
Beginner

What Is The Byzantine Generals Problem

The Byzantine Generals Problem is a situational description of the distributed consensus problem.
Dec 14, 2022
Everything you need to know about Blockchain
Beginner

Everything you need to know about Blockchain

What blockchain is, its utility, the meaning behind layers and rollups, blockchain comparisons and how different crypto ecosystems are being built?
Dec 14, 2022
What is DApp?
Beginner

What is DApp?

DApp is the abbreviation for Decentralized Application. DApps are the actual providers of various services (such as Defi, NFT, and so on) in the crypto world. The blockchain ecosystem is diverse and complex, with many DApps, public chains, and other projects.
Dec 05, 2022
What is Bankless DAO?
Beginner

What is Bankless DAO?

Bankless DAO, launched by the crypto media outlet Bankless founded in 2019, is one of the most well-known DAOs in the crypto space. Now, Bankless has grown from a centralized media organization to a paradigm of decentralized community cooperation.
Nov 23, 2022
All About Tornado Cash
Beginner

All About Tornado Cash

Tornado Cash is an industry-leading coin mixer that enables anonymous transactions. On August 8, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it would sanction Tornado Cash, roiling the community. On August 8, U.S. local time, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC) announced the sanctions against the mixed currency protocol Tornado Cash, roiling the community. This event is expected to be a watershed in the growth of DeFi, and even the entire crypto industry. Then, what is Tornado Cash? How does it work? How did it become the target of sanctions by the US government? You’ll find all the answers to these questions in this article.
Nov 21, 2022
What is ICP?
Intermediate

What is ICP?

Developed by the DFINITY Foundation, Internet Computer (IC) is a blockchain service provider with a grand vision. It aims to become a basic computing service facility in the entire blockchain field. Similar to the blockchain versions of AWS (Amazon Cloud Computing Service) and Azure (Microsoft Cloud Service Platform), the Internet Computer (IC) provides solutions for all network services and cloud computing needs. If it is able to keep developing in the long term, it will be capable of bringing huge innovation to the crypto industry.
Nov 21, 2022
What is Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)?
Beginner

What is Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)?

Derivatives are born due to demand. It is speculation or risk aversion. Choosing the appropriate crypto derivatives allows you to get twice the result with half the effort.
Nov 21, 2022
What is Polkadot?
Beginner

What is Polkadot?

Polkadot is currently a remarkable project in the blockchain field. With the gradual advancement of the Ethereum upgrade, Polkadot's performance and architectural advantages have suffered a lot, but it remains one of the most powerful competitors in terms of public chain infrastructure. If Bitcoin represents blockchain 1.0 which has opened up the crypto world, and Ethereum represents blockchain 2.0 which has promoted technology applications. In that case, when it comes to blockchain 3.0, it is surely represented by the popular cross-chain project - Polkadot (DOT). Polkadot neither loads smart contracts nor runs blockchain programs, but tries to establish an intermediate chain (Relay Chain) that can connect to other public chains and allows them to achieve reliable Interchain Message Passing (ICMP). The "Father of Polkadot'' Gavin Wood intended to use Polkadot to realize the interconnection between different public chains, thereby making it the Internet of blockchains. ## Polkadot’s team The major organizati
Nov 21, 2022
What Are Asymmetric-key Algorithms
Beginner

What Are Asymmetric-key Algorithms

Asymmetric-key Algorithms are algorithms that can encrypt and decrypt information.
Nov 21, 2022
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