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 AladdinDAO (ALD)?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into AladdinDAO (ALD), a project which promotes DeFi startups and allows its community members to profit from their crypto investment.
By Hassan Shafiq
2yr ago
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What Is Ethereum Chain Token (ECT)?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Ethereum Chain Token (ECT), a project that aims to empower the crypto community using a reward mechanism.
By Jinia Shawdagor
2yr ago
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What Is SafeMoon (SAFEMOON)?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a community-driven DeFi protocol, SafeMoon.
By Jinia Shawdagor
2yr ago
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What Is 1inch Network (1INCH)?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a DEX aggregator protocol, named 1inch Network (1INCH), that helps its users in finding the most profitable platforms among different blockchain networks.
By Jinia Shawdagor
2yr ago
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Deep Dive by Flipside Crypto: Exploring the World of Polygon DApps
One of the most exciting parts of the Polygon ecosystem is its wide array of available DApps. Learn more with this deep dive.
By Brendan Murray
2yr ago
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What Are CryptoKitties?
These adorable digital felines were around long before NFTs went mainstream — overwhelming the Ethereum blockchain when they launched in 2017.
By Leo Jakobson
2yr ago
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A Deep Dive Into Skynet
Contributor: Decentralized storage and DeFi are still the buzzwords of the day — what's Skynet's role in all this?
By Marcin Swieczkowski
2yr ago
6m
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What Is Livepeer?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a decentralized video streaming infrastructure
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
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Oracles: The All-Seeing Eyes That Guide Crypto Networks
Contributor: Smart contracts are hungry for data. Some can be executed with on-chain data, but others need to be fed reliable data sources from outside of their network. This is where an oracle com...
By DIA
2yr ago
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NFTs and Crypto Games: A Deep Dive by Seascape
Contributor: Seascape takes a deep dive into the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in gaming.
By Charmika Stewart
2yr ago
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What Is a Decentralized Payment Network and How Do They Work?: А Deep Dive by Hermez
Contributor: Hermez Network takes a deep dives into the pros and cons of decentralized payment networks.
By Jeff Prestes
2yr ago
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What Is Data Availability?
Contributor: When blockchains begin to scale, they often run into the data availability problem — we break down exactly what that is here.
By Mustafa Al-Bassam
2yr ago
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A Dive Into Bitcoin Futures
Futures are a financial instrument that allows two people to agree on the price of an asset at some point in the future — hence, futures.
By Gerald Chee
2yr ago
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What Is Clover Finance?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into an intuitive blockchain infrastructure that seeks to reduce efforts and costs for developers.
By Kevin Dwyer
2yr ago
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Optimistic Rollups for the Rest of Us
Contributor: Optimistic rollups are a mouthful, and a pretty technical concept for even the most crypto savvy. Let's see if we can break it down here.
By John Adler
2yr ago
5m
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What Is Basic Attention Token?
Basic Attention Token aims to solve the problem of online advertising, putting both choice (and money!) back into the hands of the consumer.
By Andrey Sergeenkov
2yr ago
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A Dive Into Wash Trading
CoinMarketCap's Head of Research explains why wash trading bugs him so much, and how measuring liquidity can even the playing field.
By Gerald Chee
2yr ago
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What Is BarnBridge?
BarnBridge is a DeFi protocol designed to help hedge yield sensitivity and asset price volatility. Learn everything you need to know about BarnBridge in this tech deep dive.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
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