## कैस्पर (CSPR) क्या है?

30 मार्च, 2021 को मेननेट पर लॉन्च किया गया, कैस्पर पहला लाइव प्रूफ-ऑफ-स्टेक (PoS) ब्लॉकचैन है, जो कैस्पर सीबीसी स्पेसिफिकेशन से निर्मित है। कैस्पर प्लेटफॉर्म को ग्लोबल लेवल पर [ब्लॉकचेन टेक्नोलॉजी](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain), स्मार्ट कॉन्ट्रैक्ट्स और डैप्स को अपनाने को बढ़ावा देने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया है।

अपने फ्यूचर-प्रूफ आर्किटेक्चर के साथ, कैस्पर को यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया है कि प्लेटफ़ॉर्म लगातार अपने यूजर की विकसित आवश्यकताओं के अनुसार विकसित हो, और यह सभी पृष्ठभूमि के डेवलपर्स के लिए अधिकतम पहुंच योग्य हो। आधिकारिक श्वेत पत्र के अनुसार, कैस्पर को उद्यम और डेवलपर दोनों की जरूरतों के अनुरूप अनुकूलित किया गया है। कैस्पर का मिशन वेब3 के लिए एक नए युग की शुरुआत करना है, क्योंकि सहज ज्ञान युक्त, परस्पर जुड़ी सेवाओं की मांग पूरे मंडल में बढ़ती जा रही है। कैस्पर एडॉप्शन ट्रिलेमा को हल करके ऐसा करता है: एक ही ब्लॉकचेन प्रोटोकॉल के भीतर उद्यम-ग्रेड सुरक्षा, मापनीयता और डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड की पेशकश करता है।

### कैस्पर के संस्थापक कौन हैं?

#### मेधा पार्लीकर, सह-संस्थापक और सीटीओ

मेधा कैस्परलैब्स के सह-संस्थापकों में से एक हैं और इसके सीटीओ के रूप में कार्य करती हैं। उसने 80 के दशक की शुरुआत में अपने तहखाने में कंप्यूटर बनाने के लिए टेक्नोलॉजी के साथ काम करना शुरू किया। तब से, उसने पिछले दो दशकों में एडोबी, ओमनीचर, और आवलारा जैसे प्रमुख कॉर्पोरेशंस के लिए उत्पादन SaaS सॉफ़्टवेयर वितरित करने के लिए भेजा है। अपनी तकनीकी दक्षताओं के अलावा, मेधा की ताकत में उच्च कार्यशील तकनीकी टीमों का निर्माण और ग्राहकों की समस्याओं को हल करने वाले समाधान देने के लिए उन्हें प्रेरित करना शामिल है।

#### मृणाल मनोहर, सह-संस्थापक और सीईओ

मृणाल का एक कंप्यूटर प्रोग्रामर और एक वित्त पेशेवर दोनों के रूप में एक व्यापक करियर है। कैस्पर की स्थापना से पहले, मृणाल सागरर्ड कैपिटल में प्रिंसिपल और टेक्नोलॉजी/मीडिया/टेलीकॉम सेक्टर हेड, बैन कैपिटल में प्राइवेट इक्विटी एसोसिएट और बैन एंड कंपनी में एसोसिएट कंसल्टेंट थीं। ब्लॉकचैन उद्योग में अपने पेशेवर योगदान के अलावा, मृणाल 2012 से ईथीरियम, ब्लॉकस्टैक, बेसिस, मेकर, फाइल कॉइन और अन्य में सीड निवेशक के रूप में व्यक्तिगत रूप से इस क्षेत्र में निवेश कर रहा है।

### कैस्पर को क्या खास बनाता है?

कैस्पर ब्लॉकचेन तकनीक और प्रूफ-ऑफ-स्टेक (PoS) सर्वसम्मति पद्धति का एक अनूठा उपयोग है। अपने पूरी तरह से डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड दृष्टिकोण के कारण, यूज़ कैसेस के मामले में नेटवर्क बेहद बहुमुखी है। इतना ही नहीं, कैस्पर एक भविष्य-सबूत डिजाइन का दावा करता है, जिसमें अपग्रेड करने योग्य स्मार्ट कॉन्ट्रैक्ट्स और ट्रांज़ैक्शन के लिए अनुमानित गैस शुल्क है। इसके अतिरिक्त, कैस्पर ब्लॉकचेन ऊर्जा खपत के लिए एक नया मानक पेश कर रहा है, और [बिटकॉइन की तुलना में 136, 000% अधिक ऊर्जा कुशल है](https://blog.casperlabs.io/new-power-usage-report-shows-the-casper-networks-impressive-energy-efficiency-relative-to-other-blockchain-protocols)।

इनोवेटिव करेक्ट-बॉय-कंस्ट्रक्शन (सीबीसी) कैस्पर स्पेसिफिकेशन नेटवर्क की एक उल्लेखनीय विशेषता है। यह स्पेसिफिकेशन सभी एंटरप्राइज लेवल्स पर ब्लॉकचेन सेवाओं को तेजी से अपनाने की अनुमति देता है। PoS सर्वसम्मति पर भरोसा करके, कैस्पर स्केलेबिलिटी और डेटाबेस मैनेजमेंट सोलूशन्स सुनिश्चित करता है। कैस्पर और CSPR टोकन, कैस्परलैब्स के वर्षों के शोध का परिणाम हैं।

इसके अलावा, कैस्परलैब्स, कैस्पर नेटवर्क पर निर्माण करने वाले संगठनों के लिए एंटरप्राइज-लेवल सेवाएं और समर्थन प्रदान करने के लिए मौजूद है, ठीक उसी तरह जैसे रेड हैट लिनक्स इकोसिस्टम के भीतर संगठनों के निर्माण का समर्थन करता है। एडोबी,आवलारा और गूगल जैसे एंटरप्राइज़ सॉफ़्टवेयर संगठनों में टीम के अनूठे अनुभव को चलाने के लिए धन्यवाद, कैस्परलैब्स विशिष्ट रूप से कैस्पर को वास्तविक ब्लॉकचेन के रूप में उन्नत करने के लिए तैयार है, जो कि वेब 3 वातावरण में निर्माण करना चाहते हैं, लेकिन अधिक समर्पित की आवश्यकता है। ओपन-सोर्स, डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड एप्लीकेशन से जितना संभव हो सके समर्थन के स्तर।

### कितने Casper Coins (CSPR) कॉइन प्रचलन में हैं?

CSPR की प्रारंभिक सर्क्युलेटिंग सप्लाई निम्नानुसार है:

* 400M CSPR को [कॉइनलिस्ट](http://coinlist.co/casper) पर कैस्पर की पब्लिक सेल के स्वतंत्र रूप से कारोबार किए गए किश्त से जारी किया गया।
* लगभग 183 मिलियन CSPR एक्सचेंजों को लिक्विडिटी के रूप में प्रदान किया गया
* अब तक जारी किए गए टोकनों को आवंटित किए जाने का अनुमान है। यह नंबर वास्तविक समय में अपडेट होता है क्योंकि सिग्निओरेज जारी किया जाता है।

CSPR के अतिरिक्त भाग विभिन्न इकोसिस्टम प्रतिभागियों द्वारा आयोजित किए जाते हैं, जिनमें वैलिडेटर नोड ऑपरेटर, कैस्पर फाउंडेशन, टीम और सलाहकार, डेवलपर प्रोत्साहन के प्रभारी डीएओ और कैस्परलैब्स एजी शामिल हैं, जैसा कि नीचे दिए गए चार्ट में दिखाया गया है।

### कैस्पर नेटवर्क कैसे सुरक्षित है?

कैस्पर नेटवर्क अपनी नेटवर्क सुरक्षा के लिए PoS सर्वसम्मति तंत्र पर निर्भर करता है। PoS नोड सत्यापनकर्ताओं का चयन करने के लिए टोकन स्टेकिंग पर निर्भर करता है, जो सर्वसम्मति को अत्यंत बहुमुखी और स्केलेबल बनाने की अनुमति देता है। बिटकॉइन ब्लॉकचेन द्वारा उपयोग किए जाने वाले प्रूफ-ऑफ-वर्क ([PoW](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-work-pow)) सर्वसम्मति के विपरीत, PoS को सत्यापन करने और चेन में नए ब्लॉक जोड़ने के लिए बड़ी मात्रा में विद्युत या कंप्यूटिंग शक्ति की आवश्यकता नहीं होती है।

कैस्पर करेक्ट-बाय-कंस्ट्रक्शन (CBC) कैस्पर स्पेसिफिकेशन को भी नियोजित करता है, जो बीजान्टिन फॉल्ट टॉलरेंस (BFT) एप्लीकेशन के लिए एक उन्नत दृष्टिकोण का उपयोग करता है। कैस्पर के एंटरप्राइज-ग्रेड आर्किटेक्चर ने कई सुरक्षा ऑडिट पूरे किए हैं, हाल ही में जनवरी 2021 में ट्रेल ऑफ बिट्स के साथ, जिसमें शून्य उच्च गंभीरता के परिणाम मिले और पुष्टि की कि कैस्पर ने "सुरक्षा स्वच्छता का उचित उपयोग दिखाया।"

### आप कैस्पर कॉइन (CSPR) कहां से खरीद सकते हैं?

[CSP](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-stablecoin) एक्सचेंजों की बढ़ती संख्या पर ट्रेडिंग के लिए उपलब्ध है, वर्तमान में कई स्टेबल कॉइन ट्रेडिंग जोड़े उपलब्ध हैं। [हुओबी ग्लोबल](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/huobi-global/) वर्तमान में CSPR ट्रेडिंग के लिए सबसे सक्रिय प्लेटफार्म है, और अन्य उपलब्ध एक्सचेंजों में शामिल हैं:

* [OKEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/okex/)
* [Gate.io](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/gate-io/)
* [कॉइनलिस्ट प्रो](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/coinlist-pro/)
* [ZB](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/zb-com/)

यहां कुछ अन्य लेख दिए गए हैं, जिनमें आपकी रुचि हो सकती है:

* [Crypto Faucet क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-crypto-faucet)
* [क्रिप्टो डेबिट कार्ड क्या हैं?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-crypto-debit-cards)
* [वेब 3.0 क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-web-3-0)
* [यील्ड फार्मिंग(Yield Farming) क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-yield-farming)
* [क्रिप्टो ऋण(Crypto Lending) क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-crypto-lending)
* [मेटावर्स क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-the-metaverse-an-overview-and-a-deep-dive-of-the-top-metaverses)
* [फैन टोकन क्या हैं?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-fan-tokens)
* [नौसिखिया कैचअप: NFTs का A-Z](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/newbie-catchup-the-a-z-of-nfts)
* [ऑटोमेटेड मार्किट मेकर्स क्या हैं?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-automated-market-makers)
* [क्रिप्टो ETF क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-crypto-etf)

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2. Casper made a significant presence at #Consensus2024 in Austin!
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The goal of Hedera’s hashgraph is to increase the speed of transactions. Moreover, the network is also focused on high-volume operations: micropayments, data integrity and tokenization.

Like the EVM, the Hedera network maintains a virtual machine that writes smart contracts in the Solidity programming language. On top of that, Hedera offers a set of built-in KYC and AML checks.

From a technical point of view, Hedera is a form of distributed ledger technology. It is a hashgraph, or consensus algorithm, where users agree on the order in which transactions should be performed. However, Hedera is not exactly a blockchain. It has its own distinctiveness and works differently. With hashgraph, all transaction branches are merged, no block equivalent is thrown away, and each is used to reach consensus.

One of the most noticeable features of the network is the Gossip-about-Gossip protocol. According to Dr. Leemon Baird, Hedera's inventor, within the system nodes randomly transmit data about themselves to other nodes via hashgraph using the Gossip protocol. Soon, all nodes in a cluster become familiar with each other. Then a certain data structure is formed. It consists of a payload of transactions, a timestamp, a digital signature, and hashes to the previous structures.

HBAR is Hedera's native token that powers applications on the Hedera network. HBAR is utilized to pay for network services, transaction fees, in-app payments and micropayments. Developers can pay network fees with HBAR tokens, namely: work with smart contracts, file storage and currency exchange. HBAR is used to incentivize and pay network nodes.

Hedera Hashgraph has a decentralized governance system that is set apart. All critical decisions about pricing policy, software updates, and wealth management are made by the Governing Council.

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LCX is available for trading on a growing number of exchanges, with cryptocurrency and stablecoin pairs currently available.

Coinbase offers 3 trading pairs pairs with LCX/USD, LCX/USDT and LCX/EUR, while Kraken also offers 2 trading pairs with LCX/EUR and LCX/USD. Uniswap (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/uniswap/) offers an Ethereum (ETH) trading pair; LCX/ETH. LCX Exchange offers a variety of trading pairs including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC) options.

Stellar (XLM) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized network created in 2014 by The Stellar Development Foundation or Stellar.org. The network officially launched in 2015 with the purpose of connecting the world's financial systems and ensuring a protocol for payment providers and financial institutions. The platform is designed to move financial resources swiftly and reliably at minimal cost. Stellar links people, banks, payment processors and allows users to create, send and trade multiple types of crypto.

The basis of the network is its native digital currency - XLM or Lumens. XLM acts as an intermediate currency for operations and is also used to pay transaction fees. How it works: the protocol converts money in a few seconds, first into XLM, and then into the requested currency.

The Stellar payment protocol is based on distributed ledger technology -- an open-source development, community-owned and distributed by community. The crypto asset of the Stellar platform helps with cross-border transactions, overcoming the problems of high fees and slow procedures. XLM is more focused on assisting individuals transfer money than they are with institutions. Thus, Stellar offers access to financial systems, and people can send money at low cost and promptly around the world.

Moreover, Stellar serves as a decentralized exchange and marketplace, with a built-in order book that tracks ownership of Stellar assets. Platform users can manage buy/sell orders, as well as select and set their preferred assets in settlements. XLM is a built-in coin that helps reduce transaction fees.

The network maintains a high level of security.  XLM holders must have at least one token in order to remain active on the network. This nuance performs a global goal - the execution of network transactions efficiently and with minimal time costs. Plus, Lumens offers protection against flood attacks by making microtransactions too expensive for hackers with no chance of profit, which keeps Stellar Network safe from serious threats.

The target audience of Stellar is the inhabitants of developing countries, ordinary users who are provided access to the global economy through fast, simple and inexpensive transactions. Stellar Network makes extensive use of Lumens to produce live convection as well as to send cash in multiple currencies; currency is sent from one peer, and the recipient can receive the amount in another currency. This feature is beneficial when a transaction is made between currencies without widely traded pairs.

Support for multi-currency transactions is another competitive advantage of Stellar, and the ability for cross-currency transactions has only enhanced processes with foreign operations. Moreover, stable speed and low transaction costs are a privilege that users receive.

This functionality is powered by a development called Anchors (a bridge between different currencies and the network), which simplifies the exchange within the network and helps speed up the whole process.

In summary, the benefits of Stellar (XLM) include:

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Flare is an EVM-based layer 1 aiming to make blockchain more useful by giving developers decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet. This enables new use cases and monetization models, while allowing dapps to serve multiple chains through a single deployment.

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Cronos (CRO) is the native cryptocurrency token of Cronos Chain — a decentralized, open-source blockchain developed by the Crypto.com payment, trading and financial services company.

Cronos Chain is one of the products in Crypto.com’s lineup of solutions designed to accelerate the global adoption of cryptocurrencies as a means of increasing personal control over money, safeguarding user data and protecting users’ identities. The CRO blockchain serves primarily as a vehicle that powers the Crypto.com Pay mobile payments app.

In the future, Crypto.com plans to expand the reach of the CRO platform to power its other products as well.

CRO went live in November-December 2018.

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Founded in 2017, Chainlink is a blockchain abstraction layer that enables universally connected smart contracts. Through a decentralized oracle network, Chainlink allows blockchains to securely interact with external data feeds, events and payment methods, providing the critical off-chain information needed by complex smart contracts to become the dominant form of digital agreement.

The Chainlink Network is driven by a large open-source community of data providers, node operators, smart contract developers, researchers, security auditors and more. The company focuses on ensuring that decentralized participation is guaranteed for all node operators and users looking to contribute to the network.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Chainlink.

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Verasity is an open-ledger ecosystem designed to fight advertising fraud, provide open access to infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, and reward users for watching video content. Verasity also provides payment solutions and a rewarding staking ecosystem with 15% yields guaranteed through to April 2024.

Powered by a mix of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Verasity is building the most powerful advertising ecosystem in the world through VeraViews; developing an open-access payments platform through VeraWallet, the VeraCard, and VeraPay; and enhancing the attention economy through its patented Rewarded Video module.

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VeChainThor (VET) is a versatile enterprise-grade L1 smart contract platform whose origins began in 2015. VeChain is known as a pioneer of real-world enterprise applications, and built a distributed platform powered by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, NFC chips and blockchain to help various industries solve data-related challenges.

VeChain solves major blockchain adoption hurdles. The platform uses an intelligent two token model, VET and VTHO, separating the protocol's Store of Value and gas fee payment mechanisms, ensuring costs can be kept low and stable. Fee delegation allows smart contracts to pay gas fees on behalf of business users, and an advanced transaction model allows data to be packaged more efficiently while ensuring finality of data.

VeChain is focused on delivering a wave of incentive-based sustainability dApps through its new platform, VeBetterDAO, working closely with Boston Consulting Group to achieve adoption across enterprise and individual users, and helping  onboard the next billion users to Web3 over the coming decade.

From supply chains to sustainability, VeChain has continuously demonstrated its leading role as a driver of blockchain in business, and is dedicated to its role as a pioneer of driving real world adoption of blockchain technology.

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Launched in 2021, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is an open-source, permissionless and decentralized technology. Benefits of the XRP Ledger include its low-cost ($0.0002 to transact), speed  (settling transactions in 3-5 seconds), scalability (1,500 transactions per second) and inherently green attributes (carbon-neutral and energy-efficient). The XRP Ledger also features the first decentralized exchange (DEX) and custom tokenization capabilities built into the protocol. Since 2012, the XRP Ledger has been operating reliably, having closed 70 million ledgers.

Mina Protocol is a minimal “succinct blockchain” built to curtail computational requirements in order to run DApps more efficiently. Mina has been described as the world’s lightest blockchain since its size is designed to remain constant despite growth in usage. Furthermore, it remains balanced in terms of security and decentralization. The project was rebranded from Coda Protocol to Mina in October 2020.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Mina Protocol.

The Mina network has a size of only 22 KB, which is miniscule when compared to Bitcoin’s 300 GB blockchain.

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Verge is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and blockchain that seeks to offer a fast, efficient, decentralized payments network that improves upon the original Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. It includes additional privacy features including integrating the anonymity network Tor into its wallet, called vergePay, and providing the option of sending transactions to stealth addresses.

The project describes itself as community-driven, relying on volunteers and priding itself on being open source.

Verge was first launched in October 2014 as DogeCoinDark, a fork of Peercoin (PPC). In February 2016, it was renamed Verge in order to rebrand for easier mass-market adoption and to distinguish itself from Dogecoin (DOGE), with which it has no direct connection. The project is now based on the Bitcoin source code.

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Kaspa is a proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency which implements the GHOSTDAG protocol. Unlike traditional blockchains, GHOSTDAG does not orphan blocks created in parallel, rather allows them to coexist and orders them in consensus. The Kaspa blockchain is actually a blockDAG. This generalization of Nakamoto consensus allows for secure operation while maintaining very high block rates (currently one block per second, aiming for 10/sec, dreaming of 100/sec) and minuscule confirmation times dominated by internet latency.

The Kaspa implementation includes a lot of cool features such as Reachability to query the DAG's topology, Block data pruning (with near-future plans for block header pruning), SPV proofs, and later subnetwork support which will make future implementation of layer 2 solutions much easier.

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The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying data for networks like Ethereum and IPFS, powering many applications in both DeFi and the broader Web3 ecosystem. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph and the decentralized network will be launching later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks coming soon.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of The Graph.

To date, over3,000 subgraphs have been deployed by thousands of developers, for DApps like Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, AAVE, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack, Decentraland and many others. The Graph usage has been growing at over 50% MoM and hit over 7 billion queries during the month of September 2020.

The Graph has a global community, including over 200 Indexer Nodes in the testnet and more than 2,000 Curators in the Curator Program as of October 2020. To fund network development, The Graph raised funds from community members, strategic VCs and influential individuals in the blockchain community including Coinbase Ventures, DCG, Framework, ParaFi Capital, CoinFund, DTC, Multicoin, Reciprocal Ventures, SPC, Tally Capital and others. The Graph Foundation also successfully completed a public GRT Sale with participation from 99 countries (not including the U.S.). To date as of November 2020, The Graph has raised ~$25M.

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In a nutshell, Cosmos bills itself as a project that solves some of the “hardest problems” facing the blockchain industry. It aims to offer an antidote to “slow, expensive, unscalable and environmentally harmful” proof-of-work protocols, like those used by Bitcoin, by offering an ecosystem of connected blockchains.

The project’s other goals include making blockchain technology less complex and difficult for developers thanks to a modular framework that demystifies decentralized apps. Last but not least, an Interblockchain Communication protocol makes it easier for blockchain networks to communicate with each other — preventing fragmentation in the industry.

Cosmos’ origins can be dated back to 2014, when Tendermint, a core contributor to the network, was founded. In 2016, a white paper for Cosmos was published — and a token sale was held the following year. ATOM tokens are earned through a hybrid proof-of-stake algorithm, and they help to keep the Cosmos Hub, the project’s flagship blockchain, secure. This cryptocurrency also has a role in the network’s governance.

Cosmos

SingularityNET is a blockchain-powered platform that allows anybody to easily "create, share, and monetize" AI services, thanks to its globally-accessible AI marketplace.

Through the SingularityNET marketplace, users can browse, test and purchase a huge variety of AI services using the platform’s native utility token — AGIX. Moreover, the marketplace represents an outlet AI developers can use to publish and sell their AI tools, and easily track their performance.

With the benefits of LLMs and generative AI are increasingly exciting, their limitations are also becoming increasingly apparent. The convergence of structured knowledge with neural networks is emerging as the key to overcoming their shortcomings.

Uniquely positioned at the heart of this convergence, SingularityNET will prioritize the integration of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and comprehensive Neural Symbolic tools for LLMs, with the goal of empowering developers to create the next generation of AI systems on the SingularityNET Platform.

SingularityNET is strategically positioned to become the Knowledge Layer of the Internet, leading the evolution of the emerging AI landscape while also laying the foundations for the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) of tomorrow.

The team behind SingularityNET pioneered the development of an AI known as Sophia, which is described as the "world's most expressive robot". SingularityNET’s goal is to enable Sophia to be able to fully understand human language, and continue developing “OpenCog” — an AI framework that is hoped to eventually achieve a state known as “advanced general intelligence,” i.e. human-level artificial intelligence (or beyond).

The platform was first announced in 2017 and completed an initial coin offering (ICO) in December the same year, raising $36 million in just one minute.

SingularityNET

Gala is a web3 ecosystem powered by a layer-1 blockchain (GalaChain) built to power the Gala entertainment ecosystem that originally included Gala Games, Gala Music and Gala Film. More recently however, GalaChain has opened its doors to external developers and projects from any applicable industry, providing open source developer resources to simplify the process.

On a mission to empower users and creators across multiple industries throughout the world, Gala’s goal is to become the first billion user blockchain in the world. Innovators can extend the benefits of web3 to their users and communities more easily than ever before by leveraging open source tools like the GalaChain SDK and Creator Portal.

By elevating their ideas to web3 through GalaChain, developers can create custom tokens, smart contracts, reward opportunities and node networks for their communities and projects. Assets built on GalaChain can also be bridged to other blockchains, such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and more. Developers who wish to learn more about getting involved with GalaChain are welcome to reach out via GalaChain.com.

The core of GalaChain is powered by its DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) of Founder’s Nodes, whose operators earn daily $GALA rewards for actively providing resources to the ecosystem and enjoy governance voting rights on certain core Gala decisions. In addition to the Founder’s Node network’s foundational workload, individual projects can also create Node networks on GalaChain with more specific workloads.

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