## इलुवियम (ILV) क्या है?

इलुवियम एक ओपन-वर्ल्ड फैंटेसी बैटल गेम है जो एथेरियम ब्लॉकचेन पर बनाया गया है। इलुवियम को अक्सर एथेरियम पर पहले AAA गेम के रूप में जाना जाता है, इलुवियम कई तरह के संग्रह और व्यापारिक सुविधाओं के माध्यम से आकस्मिक गेमर्स और डेफी प्रशंसकों दोनों के लिए मनोरंजन का स्रोत प्रदान करता है।

इस परियोजना के बारे में अधिक जानने के लिए, [इलुवियम के](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-illuvium) हमारे डीप डाइव को देखें।

इलुवियम की दुनिया में इलुवियल्स के नाम से जाने जाने वाले जीव रहते हैं, जिन्हें ऐसे खिलाड़ी पकड़ सकते हैं जो उन्हें युद्ध में हरा देते है और बाद में उनको वापस स्वस्थ कर देते है। तब से, वे खिलाड़ी के संग्रह का एक वफादार हिस्सा बन जाते हैं और इलुवियम के ऑटो बैटलर गेमप्ले के हिस्से के रूप में अन्य साहसी लोगों से जूझते समय इसका उपयोग किया जा सकता है।

यह गेम ओपन-वर्ल्ड एक्सप्लोरेशन गेम और पीवीपी बैटल गेम के बीच एक फ्यूजन है। खिलाड़ी अपना समय खेल की दुनिया के विस्तार की खोज में बिता सकते हैं या शक्तिशाली जानवरों की अपनी टीम का निर्माण कर सकते हैं।

इलुवियम 2020 से विकास में है, और इसे सह-संस्थापकों सहित 40 से अधिक व्यक्तियों की एक विश्वव्यापी टीम द्वारा बनाया जा रहा है; सीरियल उद्यमी और शुरुआती क्रिप्टोक्यूरेंसी अपनाने वाले कीरन वारविक, और अनुभवी गेम डिजाइनर आरोन वारविक, जो भाई हैं। (और संयोग से जो DeFi प्लेटफॉर्म सिंथेटिक्स के सह-संस्थापक केन वारविक के भाई भी हैं)।

Illvium पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र के भीतर ILV टोकन के कई उपयोग हैं। यह खिलाड़ियों को उनकी इन-गेम उपलब्धियों के लिए पुरस्कृत करने के लिए उपयोग किया जाने वाला मुख्य टोकन है, खिलाड़ियों को इल्यूवियम वॉल्ट के अपने हिस्से के लिए पात्र बनाता है और इल्यूवियम विकेन्द्रीकृत स्वायत्त संगठन (DAO) के माध्यम से खेल के शासन में भाग लेने के लिए उपयोग किया जाता है।

### इलुवियम कैसे काम करता है?

हालांकि इलुवियम में ब्लॉकचेन-आधारित तत्व हैं, यह एक पूर्ण वीडियो गेम के समान है। इसे डाउनलोड करने योग्य डेस्कटॉप ऐप के माध्यम से एक्सेस किया जा सकता है, लेकिन इसके आस-पास कई सहायक DeFi एप्लिकेशन भी हैं - जिसमें यील्ड फार्मिंग और विकेन्द्रीकृत एक्सचेंज शामिल हैं।

खिलाड़ी इलुवियम के परिदृश्य में घूमते हैं, इलुवियल्स और अन्य खिलाड़ियों से जूझते हुए, quests और दैनिक चुनौतियों में भाग लेते हैं, और इसकी सांप्रदायिक कहानी में भाग लेते हैं। अपनी पूरी यात्रा के दौरान, वे इल्यूवियल्स को इकट्ठा करते हैं, जिनमें कई प्रकार की विशेषताएं होती हैं जो उन्हें उनकी दुर्लभता, उपयोगिता और वांछनीयता में परिवर्तनशील बनाती हैं। इनमे शामिल है:

* क्लासेज : एम्पाथ, फाइटर, गार्जियन, दुष्ट और साइयन।
* Affinities: वायु, पृथ्वी, अग्नि, प्रकृति और जल।

अपने वर्ग और आत्मीयता के माध्यम से इसकी सबसे महत्वपूर्ण विशेषताएं हैं, प्रत्येक इल्यूवियल में बड़ी संख्या में अतिरिक्त विशेषताएं हैं जो युद्ध में अपनी ताकत निर्धारित करने में भी मदद करती हैं, इनमें से कुछ में शामिल हो सकते हैं: हमले की क्षति, हमले की गति और जंगलीपन। इलुवियल जीत के साथ मजबूत होते हैं, इन-गेम आइटम के साथ बढ़ाया जा सकता है और एक विशेष "आरोही" रूप में अपग्रेड किया जा सकता है - जो एक ही बार में दो समानताएं से लाभान्वित होता है।

प्रत्येक इलुवियल को एक अद्वितीय नॉन-फनजेबल टोकन (NFT) द्वारा दर्शाया जाता है और बाहरी एक्सचेंज प्लेटफॉर्म और गैस-मुक्त इलुविडेक्स (इस पर बाद में और अधिक) पर स्वतंत्र रूप से कारोबार किया जा सकता है। उन्हें अधिक शक्तिशाली रूपों में भी जोड़ा जा सकता है, और सामान्य, होलोग्राफिक और डार्क होलोग्राफिक वेरिएंट में आते हैं जो काफी दुर्लभ हैं।

खेल में विभिन्न प्रकार की राजस्व धाराएँ होंगी, जो ज्यादातर वस्तुओं की इन-गेम खरीदारी, क्राफ्टिंग घटकों, सौंदर्य प्रसाधन और शार्प क्योरिंग से प्राप्त होती हैं। इस राजस्व का 100% ILV बायबैक सिस्टम के माध्यम से ILV टोकन रखने वालों को पुरस्कार के रूप में वितरित किया जाता है।

### क्या बनता है इलुवियल को सबसे अलग?

अधिकांश अन्य ब्लॉकचेन-संचालित खेलों के विपरीत, इलुवियम में पूरी तरह से 3D वातावरण है, जिसमें 100 से अधिक अद्वितीय इलुवियल इसके विभिन्न क्षेत्रों में बिखरे हुए पाए गए हैं। प्रत्येक इलुवियल को विश्व स्तरीय कलाकारों की एक टीम द्वारा डिज़ाइन किया गया है, जो यह सुनिश्चित करता है कि यह बड़े बजट के खुदरा खेलों के आदी खिलाड़ियों के लिए अपील करे।

इसके अलावा, इसमें कई विशेषताएं हैं जो इसे अन्य ब्लॉकचैन-सक्षम गेम और AAA खिताब दोनों से अलग करने में मदद करती हैं। इनमे शामिल है:

* लेयर-2 एकीकरण: हालांकि इलुवियम एथेरियम द्वारा सुरक्षित है, यह Immutable X (IMX) पर बनाया गया है - एक लेयर-2 समाधान जिसे एनएफटी कार्यक्षमता के साथ स्केल अनुप्रयोगों में मदद करने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया है। Immutable X (IMX) की क्षमताओं का लाभ उठाकर, इलुवियम सुनिश्चित करता है कि खिलाड़ी अपने एनएफटी को शून्य गैस शुल्क और व्यावहारिक रूप से तत्काल लेनदेन अंतिम रूप से मिंट और व्यापार कर सकते हैं। IMX का उपयोग करते समय खिलाड़ी हमेशा अपनी संपत्ति की कस्टडी बनाए रखते हैं।
* IlluviDEX: इलुवियल में एक अंतर्निहित विकेन्द्रीकृत विनिमय (DEX) प्लेटफ़ॉर्म है जिसे उचित रूप से IlluviDEX नाम दिया गया है। इसका उपयोग Illuvium संपत्तियों के अविश्वसनीय रूप से आदान-प्रदान के लिए किया जा सकता है, जिसमें Illuvial NFT भी शामिल है। प्रत्येक बिक्री से 5% शुल्क काटा जाता है और ILV स्टेकर्स के लिए रिवार्ड पूल में फ़नल किया जाता है।
* उपज खेती: कुल 3 मिलियन ILV - अधिकतम आपूर्ति (10 मिलियन) के 30% के बराबर - इलुवियम यील्ड फार्मिंग कार्यक्रम के लिए आवंटित किए जाते हैं। ये तीन साल की अवधि में तरलता में योगदान करने वाले उपयोगकर्ताओं और विभिन्न साझेदार इनाम योजनाओं के माध्यम से वितरित किए जाएंगे।

### sILV क्या है?

इल्यूवियम में एक अद्वितीय यील्ड फार्मिंग इनाम प्रणाली है, जिसमें उपज फार्म के माध्यम से अर्जित सभी ILV पुरस्कारों को वापस लेने से पहले एक वर्ष की अवधि के लिए लॉक कर दिया जाता है।

हालांकि, स्टेकर्स के पास अपने आईएलवी पुरस्कारों को सेकेंडरी इन-गेम केवल एसआईएलवी के रूप में जानी जाने वाली संपत्ति में परिवर्तित करके अनलॉक टाइमर को छोड़ने का विकल्प होता है। अपने पुरस्कारों को sILV के रूप में दावा करके, उपयोगकर्ता sILV के बराबर USD प्राप्त करते हैं, और इन-गेम आइटम खरीदने के लिए अपने पुरस्कार खर्च कर सकते हैं।

SILV को खेल से वापस नहीं लिया जा सकता है और इसका प्रतिनिधित्व ब्लॉकचेन-आधारित संपत्ति द्वारा नहीं किया जाता है।

### इलुवियम की तुलना एक्सी इन्फिनिटी से कैसे की जाती है?

हालाँकि, इलुवियम और एक्सी इन्फिनिटी दोनों में संग्रहणीय इन-गेम चरित्र हैं, जिन्हें लड़ा जा सकता है, व्यापार किया जा सकता है और अपग्रेड किया जा सकता है, इन क्रिटर्स के आसपास के खेल की दुनिया का दायरा कुछ अलग है।

एक तरफ, इलुवियम एक 3D रोल-प्लेइंग गेम है जिसमें धीरे-धीरे प्रकट होने वाली कहानी और बड़े पैमाने पर, खुले, अन्वेषण योग्य परिदृश्य है, जबकि Axie Infinity एक अत्यधिक लोकप्रिय, विचित्र 2D गेम है जिसमें आराध्य क्रिटर्स को Axies के रूप में जाना जाता है जो पोकेमॉन की याद दिलाते हैं। इन Axies को ब्रीड, लड़ाई और व्यापार में काम किया जा सकता है। अभी के लिए, बात करने के लिए कोई कहानी विधा नहीं है।

Illuvium और Axie Infinity दोनों में एक मजबूत gamified DeFi तत्व है, जिसका अर्थ है कि कोई भी खेलते समय वास्तविक ईथर (ETH) दांव पर लग सकता है - क्योंकि कुछ Illuvials और Axies खुले बाजार में महत्वपूर्ण रकम प्राप्त कर सकते हैं।

Axie Infinity के विपरीत, जो प्रत्येक व्यक्ति Axie का उत्पादन करने के लिए संपत्ति के यादृच्छिक वर्गीकरण का उपयोग करता है, इलुवियम के Illuvials पूरी तरह से अद्वितीय हैं। हर एक में कस्टम आर्टवर्क और कुछ नएपन की सुविधा है ताकि यह सुनिश्चित किया जा सके कि वे विशिष्ट हैं और उनके गुणों और क्षेत्र से संबंधित विशेषताओं को सहन करते हैं।

दोनों खेलों में स्पष्ट रूप से कुछ समानताएं हैं, लेकिन इलुवियल को मुख्य रूप से पारंपरिक गेमर्स के लिए लक्षित किया जाता है, जिनके पास क्रिप्टोकरेंसी और एनएफटी के साथ अनुभव हो सकता है या नहीं भी हो सकता है, जबकि एक्सी इन्फिनिटी ज्यादातर क्रिप्टो सेवी के लिए अपील करेगा।

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Enjin's "melting" functionality allows users to destroy their blockchain assets at any time to retrieve the ENJ value from within.

The Enjin blockchain ecosystem aims to offer software products that make it easy for everyone to develop, trade, monetize, and market with blockchain.

Founded in 2009, Enjin has roots in the gaming industry, with the company’s first product, a gaming community platform called the Enjin Network, growing to 20 million users over the course of a decade.

In 2017 following an ICO, Enjin established itself as a leading blockchain ecosystem developer, building a suite of software products that enable anyone to easily mint, manage, trade, distribute, and integrate blockchain assets.

Enjin’s co-founder Witek Radomski wrote the code for one of the first ever non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and is also the co-author of the ERC-1155 Ethereum token standard.

Built on top of an on-chain infrastructure, the Enjin ecosystem enables game developers and businesses of all sizes to use tokenized digital assets as part of their acquisition, retention, engagement, and monetization strategies. The Enjin ecosystem is fueled by Enjin Coin (ENJ), a cryptocurrency used to back the value of blockchain assets.

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Launched in 2011 by Pixowl, The Sandbox is a blockchain-based virtual world allowing users to create, build, buy and sell digital assets in the form of a game. By combining the powers of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the Sandbox creates a decentralized platform for a thriving gaming community.

According to the official whitepaper, the Sandbox platform’s main mission is to introduce blockchain technology in mainstream gaming successfully. The platform focuses on facilitating a creative “play-to-earn” model, which allows users to be both creators and gamers simultaneously. The Sandbox employs the powers of blockchain technology by introducing the SAND utility token, which facilitates transactions on the platform.

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Ultra is a publishing platform and ecosystem for video games and video game content. Ultra’s mission is to do away with the current monopoly held by publishing platforms like Steam and provide new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers. Ultra promises a solution that is more equitable to players and developers alike. Players can benefit from immediately playable games, earn UOS by using the platform, and access platform-exclusive games. At the same time, developers benefit from access to more effective marketing tools and the potential for 20% higher sales revenue.

Besides content and game publishing, Ultra offers a demand-side and service-side platform for advertisers, the opportunity for players to resell their used games, and a platform-exclusive app.

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Axie Infinity is a blockchain-based trading and battling game that is partially owned and operated by its players.

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

Inspired by popular games like Pokémon and Tamagotchi, Axie Infinity allows players to collect, breed, raise, battle and trade token-based creatures known as Axies.

These Axies can take various forms, and there are more than 500 different body parts available, including aquatic, beast, bird, bug, plant and reptile parts. Parts from each type class come in four different rarity scales: common, rare, ultra rare and legendary — and Axies can have any combination of body parts, making them highly variable and often rare and unique.

Each Axie is a non-fungible token (NFT) with different attributes and strengths and can be entered into 3v3 battles, with the winning team earning more experience (exp) points that are used to level up an Axie's stats or evolve their body parts. These Axies can be bred together to produce new and unique offspring, which can be used or sold on the Axie marketplace.

The Axie Infinity ecosystem also has its own unique governance token, known as Axie Infinity Shards (AXS). These are used to participate in key governance votes and will give holders a say in how funds in the Axie Community Treasury are spent.

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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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Seedify.fund(SFUND) Seedify is a blockchain gaming-focused incubator and launchpad that empowers innovators and project developers through access to funding, community and partnership building, and a full support system to help drive the future of gaming and blockchain. Its ecosystem also includes an NFT launchpad for gaming and metaverse assets, along with the industry's first gaming-and-metaverse-asset-centric NFT marketplace, Seedify NFT Space.

Featuring an IGO launchpad with a tiered allocation mechanism, Seedify enables $SFUND holders to stake their tokens and earn staking rewards while gaining access to quality, procured blockchain gaming projects through private sales and initial game offerings. The launchpad's tier system consists of nine tiers. Tier 1 uses a lottery-based allocation process, while tier 2 to 9 participants enjoy guaranteed allocation.

Along with IGOs, stakers can also participate in initial NFT offerings (INOs) and initial metaverse offerings (IMOs) on Seedify's NFT Launchpad. Additionally, staking $SFUND, gives holders the opportunity to receive tokens from the projects that have been selected and supported by Seedify's incubation program.

Committed to bringing the opportunities offered through blockchain gaming and the play-to-earn model to billions around the globe, the Seedify team has established key relationships with numerous VCs and industry peers, to build an extensive support network for blockchain gaming and metaverse startups.

Interested game industry innovators submit their project proposal to the Seedify

Seedify acts as a launching pad for blockchain games and the disruptive play-to-earn gaming model. The gaming industry is gradually entering a new era — previously gamers may spend large sums of money on in-game items with no direct monetary benefits. However, they are now able to make money by earning in-game item non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and tokens, which is facilitated by the play-to-earn revolution.

Blockchain technology has not only opened up more opportunities for gamers and game developers, but it has also offered additional forms of benefits like transparency, ownership, incentive models and digital ownership through NFTs.

The team behind the Seedify project are pursuing a global goal: to acquaint gamers with the blockchain and increase the rate of technology adoption, attract a huge number of users, create more jobs and financial benefits.

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Avalanche is a layer one blockchain that functions as a platform for decentralized applications and custom blockchain networks. It is one of Ethereum’s rivals, aiming to unseat Ethereum as the most popular blockchain for smart contracts. It aims to do so by having a higher transaction output of up to 6,500 transactions per second while not compromising scalability.

This is made possible by Avalanche’s unique architecture. The Avalanche network consists of three individual blockchains: the X-Chain, C-Chain and P-Chain. Each chain has a distinct purpose, which is radically different from the approach Bitcoin and Ethereum use, namely having all nodes validate all transactions. Avalanche blockchains even use different consensus mechanisms based on their use cases.

After its mainnet launch in 2020, Avalanche has worked on developing its own ecosystem of DApps and DeFi. Different Ethereum-based projects such as SushiSwap and TrueUSD have integrated with Avalanche. Furthermore, the platform is constantly working on improving interoperability between its own ecosystem and Ethereum, like through the development of bridges.

Avalanche

RenderToken (RNDR) is a distributed GPU rendering network built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, aiming to connect artists and studios in need of GPU compute power with mining partners willing to rent their GPU capabilities out. Conceived in 2009 by OTOY, inc. CEO Jules Urbach and launched in 2017, RNDR held its first public token sale in October of that same year, followed by a private sale period lasting from January 2018 – May 2018, wherein a total of 117,843,239 RNDR were sold at a price of 1 RNDR = $0.25 USD equivalent of token.
During the private sale period, early adopters were onboarded onto the RNDR Beta Testnet, where beta node operators and artists worked collaboratively with the RNDR team in building and testing the network, up until its public launch on April 27th 2020.

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Injective (INJ) is a blockchain built for finance. It is an open, interoperable layer-one blockchain powering next-generation DeFi applications, including decentralized spot and derivatives exchanges, prediction markets, lending protocols, and more.

Injective uniquely provides powerful core financial infrastructure primitives that applications can leverage, including a fully decentralized MEV-resistant on-chain orderbook. In addition, all forms of financial markets such as spot, perpetual, futures and options are fully on-chain. The decentralized cross-chain bridging infrastructure is compatible with Ethereum, IBC-enabled blockchains, and non EVM chains such as Solana.

Injective also provides a next-generation, highly interoperable smart contract platform based on CosmWasm, with advanced interchain capabilities. Injective is custom built with the Cosmos SDK and utilizes Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, providing instant transaction finality with the ability to sustain lightning-fast performance (25,000+ TPS).

The Injective ecosystem includes 100+ projects and over 150,000 community members globally. Injective is backed by a group of prominent investors such as Binance, Pantera Capital, Jump Crypto and Mark Cuban.

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Decentraland (MANA) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications.

In this virtual world, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.

Decentraland was launched following a $24 million initial coin offering (ICO) that was conducted in 2017. The virtual world launched its closed beta in 2019 and opened to the public in February 2020. Since then, users have created a wide range of experiences on their parcels of LAND, including interactive games, sprawling 3D scenes and a variety of other interactive experiences.

Decentraland uses two tokens: MANA and LAND. MANA is an ERC-20 token that must be burned to acquire non-fungible ERC-721 LAND tokens. MANA tokens can also be used to pay for a range of avatars, wearables, names, and more on the Decentraland marketplace.

Decentraland (MANA) is a decentralized virtual world platform with software based on the Ethereum blockchain, where users create, test and monetize content. In short: users buy virtual plots of land as NFTs with MANA tokens on the Decentraland platform. Progress in the game depends only on players themselves, their efforts and their imagination.

The digital platform is completely owned by its users. Within the Decentraland metaverse, participants can explore the virtual world, purchase plots of land that can be monetized, create works of art, own non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and take part in a decentralized autonomous organization of the platform Decentraland DAO. Due to the DAO, the community influences the development vector of the project.

In addition, users have access to interactive applications, in-world payments and peer-to-peer communication. The 3D world resonates with many participants as Decentraland has many applications, both entertainment for gamers and business for investors.

Two types of tokens called MANA and LAND govern operations in Decentraland. They also allow users to interact with the platform.

MANA is the official currency of Decentraland. It’s an ERC-20 standard token that powers the Decentraland platform. With MANA, users can purchase plots of LAND, as well as pay for in-game items and services.

MANA gives its holders the right to vote in Decentraland DAO. MANA can be purchased on a cryptocurrency exchange or by selling collectibles on Decentraland Marketplace. The owner of tokens converts them to wrapped MANA, or wMANA, and then commits them to the DAO. One wMANA equals one vote. MANA can be exchanged for fiat currency and other digital assets.

As for LAND, it’s a non-fungible token (NFT) based on Ethereum (ETH). It is used to track ownership of land parcels aka digital real estate. Like MANA, LAND is part of the protocol and confers voting rights, but LAND does not need to be fixed in the DAO. One LAND is equal to two thousand votes.

Players choose what to do with their land. Owners store tokens in crypto wallets and buy necessities with MANA tokens on the Decentraland Marketplace. Moreover, on the marketplace, participants can manage or exchange LAND tokens (priced in MANA). Holders use the marketplace to transact or transfer in-game items. All transactions are conducted, regulated and registered via the Ethereum blockchain.

Decentraland combines an online gaming space and blockchain technology. All control over the rules is given to the players, and token holders vote on in-game and organizational policies. The original goal was to form a decentralized virtual reality, but in practice, Decentraland has turned into a massive NFT market.

A special role in Decentraland is assigned to NFTs, such as collectibles, virtual equipment and real estate (LAND). However, for new players who want to join the universe and seize NFTs, the entry barrier will be high.

The Decentraland protocol is built on three levels using Ethereum smart contracts. On the consensus layer, the ownership of LAND is tracked and managed. The land content layer displays the content of the Decentraland virtual world. Finally, on the real-time layer, participants interact with each other.

The platform was co-founded by two blockchain experts, Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, in 2015. Officially it was launched a year later and became available only in February 2020, gradually turning from a 2D experiment into a full-fledged 3D world.

To sum up, Decentraland is a decentralized game and a 3D virtual reality platform where players own lands and create limitlessly. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) software is at the core, and governance is in the hands of the community. Through the native token MANA, players participate in any proposals for managing and improving the ecosystem, the auction system, and the in-game policy.

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Arweave is a decentralized storage network that seeks to offer a platform for the indefinite storage of data. Describing itself as "a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets," the network primarily hosts "the permaweb" — a permanent, decentralized web with a number of community-driven applications and platforms.

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

The Arweave network uses a native cryptocurrency, AR, to pay "miners" to indefinitely store the network's information.

The project was first announced as Archain in August 2017, later rebranding to Arweave in February 2018 and officially launching in June 2018.

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Fantom is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) smart contract platform providing decentralized finance (DeFi) services to developers using its own bespoke consensus algorithm.

Together with its in-house token FTM, Fantom aims to solve problems associated with smart-contract platforms, specifically transaction speed, which developers say they have reduced to under two seconds.

The Fantom Foundation, which oversees the Fantom product offering, was originally created in 2018, with the launch of OPERA, Fantom’s mainnet, coming in December 2019.

Fantom is an open-source decentralized smart contract platform for DApps and digital assets that was created as an alternative to Ethereum. Fantom has the goal of overcoming the limitations of previous generation blockchains and balancing three components: scalability, security and decentralization. The project offers a set of tools to simplify the process of integrating existing DApps, as well as a detailed staking reward system and built-in DeFi instruments.

Fantom is a Layer-1 blockchain that uses a scratch-built consensus mechanism and independent consensus layer, Lachesis, to facilitate DeFi and related services on the basis of smart contracts. Lachesis provides security for other layers as well, including Opera, Fantom's EVM-compatible smart contract chain. The long-playing mission of the project is to “grant compatibility between all transaction bodies around the world.”

One of Fantom's key strengths is its performance and efficient transaction processing, namely thousands of transactions per second, where transactions are settled in 1-2 seconds, and the cost is fractions of a cent per transaction. As a result, Fantom provides higher scalability but at a lower cost.

The ecosystem is based on two main technologies: Lachesis protocol and Opera.

The Lachesis protocol is the core consensus layer that secures the Fantom network by providing both transaction speed and security.

Lachesis is an aBFT consensus engine that uses a directed acyclic graph (DAG) algorithm. How it works: network data can be processed at different times, and the network filters the participants, allowing only one third, which are allocated due to erroneous or malicious behavior, without compromising network processes.

Fantom's Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism maintains the efficiency of the entire network, its design provides security at maximum speed. Fantom developers emphasize that the PoS mechanism is a leaderless phenomenon — there are no leaders of blocks and participants, and anyone can join (or leave) the network of nodes at a convenient moment.

The key qualities of Lachesis are: asynchronous, leaderless, Byzantine fault-tolerant, and near-instant finality.

As for Opera, it's an application development layer or Fantom's mainnet deployment platform, permissionless and open-source hosting DApps. Thanks to EVM integration and support for the Solidity programming language, Fantom has a full set of smart contract capabilities, which allows users to seamlessly interact with Ethereum platforms while maintaining the advantage of Fantom's transaction efficiency.

The Fantom Foundation concluded that removing block leaders improves network security, so Opera uses a PoS model and leaderless validators (validators do not determine which blocks are valid).

In addition to being a fast, secure and cheap payment platform that enables to make fast and secure payments at minimal cost, Fantom also features on-chain governance where users vote with FTM tokens (one token equals one vote). Of the features: users have the right to express the degree of agreement / disagreement on a scale from 0 to 4.

FTM is the native utility in-house PoS token of Fantom that powers the ecosystem and is applied for payments, network fees, staking, and governance. FTM forms the backbone of transactions, and allows fee collection and staking activities, along with the user rewards the latter represents.

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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.

Founded in 2017 and launched via IEO on Binance in March 2019, Fetch.AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) lab building an open, permissionless, decentralized machine learning network with a crypto economy. Fetch.ai democratizes access to AI technology with a permissionless network upon which anyone can connect and access secure datasets by using autonomous AI to execute tasks that leverage its global network of data. The Fetch.AI model is rooted in  use cases like optimizing DeFi trading services, transportation networks (parking, micromobility), smart energy grids, travel — essentially any complex digital system that relies on large-scale datasets.

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The $BEAM token serves as the native crypto asset for the Beam network, a gaming network empowered by the Merit Circle DAO. Beam is an ecosystem where gamers and developers come together to shape the future of the gaming industry. One of its core components is the Beam SDK, which is a flexible software development kit that enables game developers to choose between a variety of tools that can be used to fuel and structure their in-game blockchain elements.

To interact with Beam, $BEAM is required. This is the native crypto asset used within the Beam network to pay for transactions. This not only includes transfers of assets but also involves all interactions with smart contracts on the Beam network, facilitating a seamless, immersive gaming experience.

Besides functioning as a gas token that fuels the Beam network, $BEAM is the heart of the governance of the Merit Circle DAO. This decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) was brought to live in early 2021 to revolutionize the gaming industry. The $BEAM token allows its holders to participate in governance of this DAO.

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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.