HOW TO DELICATELY HANDLE BRC-20S AND ORDINALS WITHOUT HURTING BITCOIN
For months Bitcoiners have been bitterly debating the Ordinals phenomenon and the large amount of trading activity and congestion they brought to the chain.
How The Chainlink Platform Unlocks LST and LRT Adoption in DeFi
Liquid staking has become one of the largest sectors in DeFi, with over $44B in TVL. Restaking, and by extension liquid restaking, have also grown at an exponential rate, with restaking representing approximately $14.6B in TVL (of which $9.5B is in liquid restaking form).
State of Venus Q1 2024
Venus (XVS) is a decentralized finance platform built on the BNB chain, offering a robust money market protocol for the crypto community. At its core, Venus enables users to deposit various cryptoassets, which can then be borrowed. Venus employs a unique algorithmic approach unlike traditional financial systems, where central entities often set interest rates. The interest rates for borrowing and lending on Venus are dynamically adjusted based on a jump rate model and whitepaper rate model. These models leverage the utilization ratio, which is the proportion of deposited assets that have been borrowed.
State of Aptos Q1 2024
Aptos (APT) is a Layer-1 blockchain designed around the core tenets of scalability, safety, reliability, and upgradeability. Aptos was born out of Meta’s Diem and Novi projects, eventually launching in October 2022. Core developer Aptos Labs raised about $400 million in two 2022 private investor rounds.
Exploring Consensus With Parallel Proposals: The Difference Between PBFT and BBCA-Chain
Recent works [BBCA-Chain, Motorway, Cordial-Miners, Shoal, Mysticeti-C, Sailfish] debunk the belief that Block-DAG BFT Consensus protocols have to pay significant latency to achieve throughput scalability. They provide alternative ways for leveraging parallel transaction dissemination.
What would happen if Mr Beast launched a $BEAST token?
Hypercharging online brands with community tokens
Reth Execution Extensions
Reth is an all-in-one toolkit for building high performance and customizable nodes. We recently published our performance roadmap for improving Reth’s performance >100x, and Reth AlphaNet, our testnet rollup for pushing Reth’s modularity and extensibility to the limits.
BitVM – The first real path to Bitcoin Layer-2s
The recent approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs and bullish BTC price action have become a catalyst for heightened interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem. A myriad of projects aiming to improve Bitcoin’s scalability have been introduced in recent times, the most exciting of them being BitVM.
BitVM – The first real path to Bitcoin Layer-2s
The recent approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs and bullish BTC price action have become a catalyst for heightened interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem. A myriad of projects aiming to improve Bitcoin’s scalability have been introduced in recent times, the most exciting of them being BitVM.
State of Safe Q1 2024
With over $100 billion of assets stored in 8+ million deployed smart accounts, Safe is one of the go-to solutions for smart contract wallets. Previously called Gnosis Safe, Safe aims to create the standard for ownership with smart accounts.