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With the Dencun upgrade, Ethereum aims to boost its transaction processing power significantly, potentially enabling over 100,000 transactions per second. This is a monumental improvement and a crucial step for Ethereum to support global adoption.

Cryptocurrencies that adopt the Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism, such as Bitcoin, come with an important economic attribute called halving. This mechanism automatically adjusts the output of tokens at regular intervals.

Recently, ViaBTC Capital invested in an innovative DeFi project called NAVI protocol, the one-stop liquidity protocol built on Move, which offers easy to use lending/borrowing.

The BTC ecosystem is a community-based network encompassing complex and rapidly evolving technologies and applications centered around the adoption and development of Bitcoin.

Automated Market Makers (AMM) no longer rely on traditional buyers or sellers in the financial market, but instead, keep the ecosystem liquid through liquidity pools.

As the catalyst for infant ecosystems, launchpads offer a wide range of services, including financing, liquidity provision, and market promotion. Today, we will delve into BeLaunch, a Sui-based launchpad project that will soon issue tokens.

Aptos and Sui are derived from Facebook’s Diem blockchain project. Although the Diem project collapsed later, it left behind the Move language. Four of the co-founders formed Mysten Labs on their own and began building Sui.

CoinGecko API and CoinMarketCap API are two major crypto data providers. Unlike APIs provided by exchanges that focus primarily on trading, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap offer more comprehensive and diverse data and information.

2022 is an extraordinary year for the crypto industry, and it is also a year of struggle for both institutions and users. For CoinEx, 2022 was also a special year.

In Web2 (the traditional Internet), websites acquire the data of their users and send it to centralized Internet companies. From a technical perspective, these companies can treat that data any way they see fit, and it is hard to prevent data leaks, despite the constraints of laws and regulations. For most users, keeping personal data private is a major challenge. Although we regard personal privacy as a major asset, existing infrastructures in cyberspace fail to ensure the safety of such assets. Moreover, when talking about the disruptive applications of Web 3.0 and the transformations it could bring, a major topic is that Web 3.0 can help users fully control their private information.

ZKX offers many unique features. Meanwhile, after dYdX left StarkWare, ZKX has been given more opportunities, including rich ecosystem functions enabled by the combination of StarkWare and StarkNet, more outstanding and valuable token functions, and user-sharing capacities. At the same time, the project is also the focus of multiple sectors, including Layer2-StarkWare, ZK-rollups, and top decentralized derivatives trading. This means that it could evolve into a hit project in the StarkWare ecosystem.

StarkWare, founded in 2018, is currently building a scaling solution for Ethereum using ZK-STARK (Zero-Knowledge Scalable Transparent Arguments of Knowledge) validity proofs. StarkWare’s Vision: Bring massive scalability to Ethereum while preserving L1 security, permissionless interactions, and decentralization.

After the liquidity mining boom recedes, the token economy and DeFi protocols are left in chaos. Good cryptos have been "mined, withdrawn, and sold", and DeFi has gradually lost its popularity after failing to promise an alluring yield. Liquidity mining did draw attention, but did not pave a path for sustainability. Finding the next considerable, stable source of yield has become an important topic for DeFi to tide over hard times from crypto winter to DeFi summer.

According to whattomine data, the computing power of the whole Ethereum network still stood at 840 Th/s on September 14, and more than one million mining machines were still operating on the eve of the Ethereum merge, most of which were GPU mining machines. Although these mining machines can no longer mine Ethereum, this does not mean that they are leaving the industry.

Today, we will check out the native projects on Aptos, a public chain “born with a silver spoon in its mouth”.

Avalanche, founded by Ava Labs in New York in September 2020, attempts to improve scalability without compromising speed or decentralization.

It has been more than a year since the NFT boom in 2021. According to NFTGO, the market cap of NFTs peaked at $36.8 billion in March 2022. As the market later cooled, the trading volume and market cap of NFTs started to shrink. This crypto novelty expanded its influence beyond the crypto community and fostered a huge market, which also gave rise to the combination of NFTs and DeFi. The market has witnessed the appearance of NFT lending platforms, NFT aggregators, and NFT derivatives markets, which constitutes the second debut of DeFi Lego enabled by NFTs. However, one wonders whether these products were built to meet real market demands and if they have created a false proposition that lacks any value for market participation. Today, we will dive into whether NFT-fi is a feasible trend and if it will earn market recognition.

In the summer of 2021, Axie Infinity provoked strong market excitement with its groundbreaking Play-To-Earn model. The success of Axie popularized the concept of GameFi and attracted a large crowd of developers and investors to join the GameFi craze, which triggered the appearance of multiple GameFi projects. In an effort to replicate the success of Axie, these latecomers transplanted the model onto other public chains.

The Avalanche ecosystem has flourished since August 2021. At the moment, the TVL of Avalanche has exceeded $10 billion, making it the fourth largest public chain after Ethereum, BSC, and Solana.

Privacy is a label that has been attached to the crypto sector since the birth of Bitcoin. One of the most prominent features of the mainstream blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum is that all transaction records are completely open and verifiable. Additionally, each user’s address is independently generated through a random algorithm, and because this mechanism is completely random, all addresses are inherently anonymous. This anonymity is what used to be at the center of privacy discussions in the early days of the blockchain industry. Apart from anonymous addresses, some simple solutions have been created to enable more private transactions. Back in the early days, most privacy-focused projects built their solutions around the issue of anonymity and used complex cryptography to obfuscate transaction details, thereby protecting users’ privacy while enhancing transaction security. Simply put, when an old address has been divulged, users could transfer their assets to a new address. These privacy-preserving projects only offer services such as CoinJoin, cutting off the direct connection between the old and new addresses.