Tech Deep Dives

The crypto industry is rapidly changing — that’s what makes it so much fun, but it can become easy to get lost in the whirl of new technologies. CMC’s tech deep dives are here to help.
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What Is Decentraland? Features, Tokenomics
Real estate investment is a difficult process — but not in the metaverse!
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
4m
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What Is IPFS?
While blockchain is also a distributed and decentralized protocol, IPFS has much broader goals — read more to see how IPFS plans to decentralize the internet.
By Emi La Capra
1yr ago
7m
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What Is Polygon? The Ultimate Guide to the Polygon Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a deep dive into the Polygon ecosystem, one of the leading layer-2 ecosystems with over 19,000 DApps.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
11m
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Technical Walkthrough of EIP-1559
What even is EIP-1559? Take a dive into the technicalities of the Ethereum fee market mechanism upgrade — and how it will affect Ethereum's supply.
By Ernesto Frontera
1yr ago
9m
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What Is Starkware? The Ultimate Guide to the Starkware, StarkNet and StarkEx Ecosystem [Updated]
CoinMarketCap takes a look at the Starkware ecoystem — comprising of the permissionless StarkNet and permissioned StarkEx layer-two scaling solution for Ethereum.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
11m
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What Is ZKSync? The Ultimate Guide to the ZKSync Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a look into an Ethereum layer-two zero-knowledge rollup scaling solution — zkSync, its upcoming zkSync 2.0 update, token airdrop and ecosystem of DApps.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
7m
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What Is NEAR Protocol? A Guide to the NEAR Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a deep dive into NEAR Protocol, a highly-capable layer1 blockchain designed to host powerful decentralized applications. Read more!
By Daniel Phillips
1yr ago
9m
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What Is Solana? The Ultimate Guide to the Solana Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a look at Solana, the resurgence of the layer-1 blockchain post-FTX, and an overview of some of the most exciting protocols in the ecosystem.
By Decentralized Dog
1yr ago
9m
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What Is Optimism? The Ultimate Guide to the Optimism Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy looks at one of the top layer-2 blockchain — Optimism and its DApp ecosystem, including its roadmap and highly anticipated OP token airdrop.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
9m
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What Is Arbitrum? The Ultimate Guide to the Arbitrum Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a look at one of the top layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum, its ecosystem and a token airdrop in the near future.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
9m
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What Is Trust Wallet? Features and Tokenomics
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Trust Wallet, one of the most popular hot wallets for cryptocurrencies.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
4m
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What Is Everscale? Features and Tokenomics
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Everscale, a fast, secure, and scalable layer-one blockchain that can process up to millions of transactions per second.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
4m
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What Is Klaytn? Features and Tokenomics
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Klaytn, an enterprise-grade blockchain for the metaverse.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
1yr ago
4m
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What Is KuCoin Community Chain (KCC)? A Low-Cost Competitor to Ethereum
KuCoin Community Chain, or KCC Chain, is a public blockchain being developed by the KuCoin community.
By Daniel Phillips
1yr ago
6m
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UST Downfall Brings Record Volumes to Curve: IntoTheBlock
Following the recent events, IntoTheBlock analyzes the market behavior during the time of crisis using trading volume data of the market-leading DEX for stablecoins on-chain trading.
By Pedro Negron
1yr ago
3m
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Staking and Savings on Crypto.com - Everything You Need to Know
From Crypto Earn to Crypto.com VISA cards, this guide covers all the popular staking and saving opportunities offered by the exchange.
By Will Kendall
1yr ago
10m
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Are Algorithmic Stablecoins Dead Already? A Full Breakdown of the Terra Crash
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a look at the rise, and fall, of algorithmic stablecoins — and what the future holds for this stablecoin model.
By Daniel Phillips
1yr ago
11m
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What Is Concordium? The Research-Backed Blockchain With Layer-1 ID
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that uses a first-of-its-kind digital identity layer to power the first wave of regulatory-compliant dApps.
By Daniel Phillips
1yr ago
6m