## Ankr (ANKR) คืออะไร?
 
 โดย Ankr เป็นโซลูชันที่ใช้ทรัพยากรที่ใช้ร่วมกันเพื่อมอบโซลูชันโฮสติ้งของโหนดของบล็อคเชนที่ง่ายและราคาไม่แพง ก่อตั้งขึ้นในเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2017 และในช่วงเวลาที่ออกสู่ตลาด บริษัทได้สร้างตลาดสำหรับบริการคลาวด์แบบคอนเทนเนอร์ผ่านการใช้ทรัพยากรที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
 
 ซึ่งจะทำให้นักพัฒนาและลูกค้าองค์กรสามารถปรับใช้โหนดของบล็อคเชนได้อย่างง่ายดายในราคาที่ถูกกว่ามากเมื่อเทียบกับผู้ให้บริการคลาวด์สาธารณะ
 
 ดังนั้น การโฮสต์โหนดบล็อกคเชนบน Ankr จะช่วยขจัดปัญหาการรวมศูนย์และจุดล้มเหลวเพียงจุดเดียวได้
 
 นอกจากนี้ บล็อคเชนสาธารณะยังสามารถมีส่วนร่วมในชุมชนและให้ความช่วยเหลือเพิ่มเติมแก่เครือข่ายของพวกเขา Ankr มีจุดมุ่งหมายที่จะสร้างแพลตฟอร์มโครงสร้างพื้นฐานและการตลาดสำหรับการใช้งาน Web3 ที่จะช่วยให้ผู้ให้บริการทรัพยากและผู้ใช้สามารถเชื่อมต่อกับเทคโนโล [บล็อคเชน](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) และการใช้งาน [DeFi](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-decentralized-finance)
 
 โปรดทราบว่าโครงสร้างพื้นฐานระบบคลาวด์ที่เป็นกรรมสิทธิ์ของ Ankr ทำงานอย่างอิสระเมื่อเปรียบเทียบกับผู้ให้บริการคลาวด์สาธารณะ และขับเคลื่อนโดยสมบูรณ์ผ่านศูนย์ข้อมูลที่กระจายตามภูมิศาสตร์เพื่อเพิ่มระดับความเสถียรและความยืดหยุ่น
 
 ### ใครคือผู้ก่อตั้ง Ankr?
 
 Ankr Network ก่อตั้งขึ้นในปี 2017 ที่ Berkeley University ในรัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย ในฐานะแพลตฟอร์มการคำนวณแบบกระจายที่ใช้ประโยชน์จากเทคโนโลยีบล็อคเชน โดยมีผู้ร่วมก่อตั้งได้แก่ Chandler Song ทำงานเป็นวิศวกรที่ Amazon Web Services และทำหน้าที่เป็น CEO ในขณะที่ Ryan Fang และผู้ร่วมก่อตั้งคนอื่น ๆ ทำงานเป็นวาณิชธนกิจที่ Morgan Stanley
 
 Chandler Song ได้แนะนำ Ryan Fang ให้รู้จักกับบิทคอยน์และบล็อคเชนในช่วงปี 2014 ซึ่งเขาได้พูดคุยกับเขาเกี่ยวกับการซื้อ 22 Bitcoin ด้วยกัน ในปี 2017 บิทคอยน์เหล่านั้นกลายเป็นเมล็ดพันธุ์ที่ให้เงินทุนแก่โครงการ Ankr
 
 พวกเขาได้รับทราบถึงศักยภาพของตลาดการประมวลผลแบบคลาวด์ในฐานะโครงสร้างพื้นฐานที่สามารถขับเคลื่อนนวัตกรรมระดับโลกได้ สิ่งนี้นำพวกเขาไปสู่ภารกิจในการสร้างคลาวด์ที่มีราคาถูกกว่าและมีการกระจายอำนาจ
 
 ### อะไรที่ทำให้ Ankr ไม่เหมือนใคร?
 
 เครือข่าย Ankr ถูกสร้างขึ้นเพื่อมอบโซลูชันบล็อคเชนใหม่ที่ใช้ประโยชน์จากพลังการประมวลผลที่ไม่ได้ใช้งานจากอุปกรณ์และศูนย์ข้อมูลโดยรวม
 
 เป็นแพลตฟอร์มที่ช่วยให้สามารถใช้เศรษฐกิจร่วมกันได้ ซึ่งลูกค้าสามารถเข้าถึงทรัพยากรได้ในอัตราที่ไม่แพงมาก ในขณะที่ยังช่วยให้องค์กรต่าง ๆ สามารถสร้างรายได้จากพลังการประมวลผลสำรองที่ไม่ได้ใช้งาน มีลักษณะเฉพาะในลักษณะที่เป็นฮาร์ดแวร์ที่เชื่อถือได้เป็นรายแรก ๆ และด้วยเหตุนี้จึงรับประกันความปลอดภัยในระดับที่สูง
 
 #### หน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง:
 
 ค้นหาข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับ [Bancor (BNT)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/bancor/)
 
 ค้นหาข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับ [Decentraland (MANA)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/decentraland/)
 
 เรียนรู้เกี่ยวกับคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีผ่าน [Alexandria](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/)
 
 อ่านโพสต์ล่าสุดของเราใน [CoinMarketCap blog](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog)
 
 ### มีเหรียญ Ankr (ANKR) หมุนเวียนอยู่กี่เหรียญ?
 
 อุปทานหมุนเวียนในปัจจุบันของ ANKR อยู่ที่ 6,496,232,711 เหรียญ อยู่ที่ปริมาณการซื้อขาย $49,811,009 USD เหรียญ Ankr มีอุปทานสูงสุด 10,000,000,000 เหรียญ
 
 โทเค็น [ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/erc20/) และ [BEP-2](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/bitcoin-bep2/) ใช้เพื่อจัดหาสภาพคล่องและใช่ในการซื้อขายแลกเปลี่ยน และจำเป็นต้องใช้โทเค็น Ankr ดั้งเดิมเพื่อเข้าถึงฟังก์ชันของบล็อคเชน
 
 ### เครือข่าย Ankr มีความปลอดภัยอย่างไร?
 
 Ankr ใช้โหนดการตรวจสอบในกระบวนการตรวจสอบความถูกต้องของบล็อก ดังนั้นจึงสามารถรับประกันได้ว่าคุณภาพของเครือข่ายจะยังคงอยู่และจะมีการลบผู้ไม่หวังดีออกจากระบบ
 
 เพื่อให้แน่ใจว่าระบบยังคงปลอดภัยและเลือกแต่ตัวแสดงที่ดีเท่านั้น Ankr ใช้ระบบตามความมีชื่อเสียง สิ่งนี้กรองตัวแสดงตามการมีส่วนร่วมของโหนด นอกจากนี้ การทดสอบประสิทธิภาพยังใช้เพื่อแจกจ่ายทรัพยากรการคำนวณที่แตกต่างกันอย่างเป็นธรรมตามปริมาณงาน
 
 Ankr ยังใช้ Intel SGX เป็นส่วนประกอบหลักอีกด้วย ซึ่งช่วยให้มีความปลอดภัยในระดับสูงจากการโจมตีของฮาร์ดแวร์และซอฟต์แวร์บางประเภท เนื่องจากการประมวลผลการดำเนินการเกิดขึ้นภายในตัวฮาร์ดแวร์เอง
 
 เมื่อเราพูดถึงข้อมูลนอกเชนและการประมวลผล มี Native Oracle System หรือเรียกสั้น ๆ ว่า NOS ที่ถ่ายโอนระหว่าง smart contract แบบ on-chain เช่นเดียวกับข้อมูลนอกเครือข่าย NOS นี้มีความปลอดภัยและมีการตรวจสอบสิทธิ์
 
 Data Source Security นั้นได้รับการจัดการผ่าน TLS 1.2,1.3 และ Perfect Forward Security หรือ PFS
 
 ### คุณสามารถซื้อ Ankr (ANKR) ได้จากที่ไหน?
 
 Ankr เป็นสินทรัพย์คริปโตที่สามารถพบได้ในตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตต่าง ๆ ตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตอันดับต้น ๆ สำหรับการซื้อ, ขาย และการเทรดของ Ankr (ANKR) รวมถึง:
 
 [Upbit](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/upbit/)
 
 [Bithumb](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/bithumb/)
 
 [Houbi Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/huobi-global/)
 
 [Digifinex](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/digifinex/)
 
 [Bittrex](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/bittrex/)
 
 [Uniswap (V2)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/uniswap-v2/)
 
 จำนวนการแลกเปลี่ยนในการซื้อขาย Ankr มีสภาพคล่องที่เหมาะสมสำหรับโทเค็น Ankr และอาจจะไม่มีความคลาดเคลื่อนที่มากเกินไปในคำสั่งบล็อกขนาดใหญ่
 
 นี่คือ [คำแนะนำทีละขั้นตอนที่](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/) จะสอนคุณเกี่ยวกับคริปโตและวิธีในการซื้อเหรียญแรกของคุณ
 
 นี่คือบทความอื่น ๆ ที่คุณอาจสนใจ:
 
 * [คริปโตฟอเซ็ต (Crypto Faucet) คืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-crypto-faucet)
 * [บัตรเดบิตคริปโตคืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-crypto-debit-cards)
 * [Web 3.0 คืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-web-3-0)
 * [การฟาร์มผลตอบแทนคืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-yield-farming)
 * [การให้ยืมคริปโต (Crypto Lending) คืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-crypto-lending)

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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.

The Graph

Chiliz is the leading digital currency for sports and entertainment by the eponymous Malta-based FinTech provider. It operates the blockchain-based sports entertainment platform Socios, which enables users to participate in the governance of their favorite sports brands. Multiple fan tokens by Socios.com are an example of that. For sports clubs and associations, fan tokens offer a way of connecting with their fans and unlocking new revenue streams.

For instance, fans can participate and influence club-related decisions through surveys and polls, such as messages the captain should wear on his armband. The company aims to bridge the gap between being an active and a passive fan. Chiliz has developed partnerships with some of the biggest sporting institutions in the world: FC Barcelona, Manchester City, Juventus Turin, and Paris Saint-Germain. It also boasts partnerships with the UFC and gaming organizations. By purchasing CHZ, fans get access to various fan tokens and literally have a stake in their club.

Chiliz

Harmony is a blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of decentralized applications (DApps). The network aims to innovate the way decentralized applications work by focusing on random state sharding, which allows creating blocks in seconds.

According to the project’s website, Harmony is expected to introduce cross-shard contracts and a cross-chain infrastructure by the end of 2021.

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Enjin Coin is a project of Enjin, a company that provides an ecosystem of interconnected, blockchain-based gaming products. Enjin's flagship offering is the Enjin Network, a social gaming platform through which users can create websites and clans, chat, and host virtual item stores.

Enjin allows game developers to tokenize in-game items on the Ethereum blockchain. It uses Enjin Coin, an ERC-20 token, to back the digital assets issued using its platform, meaning that items can be bought, sold and traded with real-world value.

Enjin Coin was first announced in July 2017, and it launched on the Ethereum mainnet in June 2018.

Enjin Coin (ENJ) is a digital store of value used to back the value of blockchain assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Every asset minted with the Enjin Platform contains ENJ, a minting resource which is locked inside NFTs and removed from circulation. Minting blockchain assets with ENJ provides a variety of benefits to creators and users:

Infuses them with a reserve value

Ensures their transparency and scarcity

Gives them instant liquidity

Provides utility in games and apps

Anti-inflationary

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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Zilliqa is a public, permissionless blockchain that is designed to offer high throughput with the ability to complete thousands of transactions per second. It seeks to solve the issue of blockchain scalability and speed by employing sharding as a second-layer scaling solution. The platform is home to many decentralized applications, and as of October 2020, it also allows for staking and yield farming.

Development work officially started on Zilliqa in June 2017, and its testnet went live in March 2018. A little over a year later, in June 2019, the platform launched its mainnet.

The native utility token of Zilliqa, ZIL, is used to process transactions on the network and execute smart contracts.

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Ocean Protocol

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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Theta Network

LRC is the Ethereum-based cryptocurrency token of Loopring, an open protocol designed for the building of decentralized crypto exchanges.

In 2020, the average daily trading volume of the entire cryptocurrency market fluctuated in the approximate range of $50-$200 million. Most of that trading is conducted on centralized cryptocurrency exchanges — online platforms operated by private companies that store users’ funds and facilitate the matching of buy and sell orders.

Such platforms have a number of downsides common to all of them, so a new type of exchange — decentralized— has emerged to try to alleviate these disadvantages. However, fully decentralized exchanges are not without their own flaws.

Loopring’s purported goal is to combine centralized order matching with decentralized on-blockchain order settlement into a hybridized product that will take the best aspects of both centralized and decentralized exchanges.

LRC tokens became available to the public during an initial coin offering (ICO) in August 2017, while the Loopring protocol was first deployed on Ethereum mainnet in December 2019.

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Holo is a peer-to-peer distributed platform for hosting decentralized applications built using Holochain, a framework for developing DApps that does not require the use of blockchain technology. The goal of Holo is to serve as a bridge between the broader internet and apps built using Holochain, offering an ecosystem and marketplace in which DApps are easily accessible, as they are hosted on the internet by Holo network participants.

The Holo network will be facilitated using a token called HoloFuel, which is actively being tested and will act as an accounting system to pay hosts for their services. In 2018, the project minted an ERC-20 token, HOT — also known as HoloToken — as an "IOU" that will be redeemable for HoloFuel upon launch.

Holo is still in development and is expected to launch for open alpha and beta testing by 2021.

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Algorand is a self-sustaining, decentralized, blockchain-based network that supports a wide range of applications. These systems are secure, scalable and efficient, all critical properties for effective applications in the real world. Algorand will support computations that require reliable performance guarantees to create new forms of trust.

The Algorand mainnet became live in June 2019, and was able to handle almost 1 million transactions per day as of December 2020. Algorand transaction metrics can be viewed here. Algorand initial coin offering (ICO) was held in June 2019, with the Algorand price of $0.24 per token.

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Nervos Network (CKB) is an open-source public blockchain ecosystem. Its goal is to create a peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto-economy network where users can access a wide range of provably secure blockchain services and capabilities.

The Nervos mainnet launched in November 2019 with a novel dual-layer architecture. There’s a base layer where the consensus mechanism operates and smart assets are stored, and a computation layer where transactions are processed.

The base layer, also known as the Common Knowledge Base, has its own cryptocurrency called CKByte (CKB). It uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism and drives the Nervos ecosystem. It is used to pay miners for keeping the network safe, managing network resources, and letting users store things on the network.

The Nervos Network allows developers to create decentralized applications (dApps) that can operate on various blockchain systems. Any of the network layers can be used to run both decentralized apps and smart contracts.

Nervos Network

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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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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Starting as an open-source project in 2017, IoTeX has built a decentralized platform whose aim is to empower the open economics for machines — an open ecosystem where people and machines can interact with guaranteed trust, free will, and under properly designed economic incentives.

With a global team of over 40 research scientists and engineers, IoTeX has built their EVM-compatible blockchain from scratch using the innovative Roll-DPoS consensus and launched in 2019 April, which has been running by 100+ delegates worldwide and has processed more than 10 million transactions already. On top of the IoTeX blockchain, the team has built the essential blocks of infrastructures to connect with Ethereum, BSC, and Heco blockchains such as ioPay wallet (https://iopay.me/) and ioTube bridge (https://iotube.org/), which serve ten thousands of users. IoTeX helps EVM-based DApps scale without concerning expensive gas fees!

Besides, middleware such as Decentralized Identity, Confidential Computing, and Secure Hardware has been built on top of the IoTeX blockchain. This has enabled the creation of self-sovereign devices such as Ucam, and real-world data oracles like Pebble. Ucam (https://ucam.iotex.io/) has been deployed to over 3000 households (http://iott.network/). Meanwhile, Pebble has been launched to more than 300 developers initially, and enables innovative Dapps to connect the physical world with the crypto world, such as real-world NFTs, weather derivatives and machine learning-as-mining.

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Synthetix is building a decentralized liquidity provisioning protocol that any protocol can tap into for various purposes. Its deep liquidity and low fees serve as a backend for many exciting protocols on both Optimism and Ethereum. Many user-facing protocols in the Synthetix ecosystem, such as Kwenta (Spot and Futures), Lyra (Options), Polynomial (Automated Options), and 1inch & Curve (Atomic Swaps), tap into Synthetix liquidity to power their protocols. Synthetix is built on Optimism and Ethereum mainnet. The Synthetix Network is collateralized by SNX, ETH, and LUSD, enabling the issuance of synthetic assets (Synths). Synths track and provide returns on the underlying asset without requiring one to directly hold the asset. This pooled collateral enables an array of on-chain, composable financial instruments backed by liquidity from Synthetix. Some of the most exciting upcoming releases from SNX are Perps V2, which hopes to enable low-fee on-chain futures trading through the usage of off-chain oracles, and Synthetix V3, which aims to rebuild the protocol to achieve its earliest goal, being a fully permissionless derivatives protocol. Learn more about Synthetix on their blog or by joining the SNX Discord.

The platform aims to broaden the cryptocurrency space by introducing non-blockchain assets, providing access to a more robust financial market.

Synthetix

Reserve Rights (RSR) is an ERC-20 token that will serve two main purposes for the Reserve Protocol: overcollateralization of Reserve stablecoins (RTokens) through staking and governing them through proposing & voting on changes to their configuration.

The Reserve Rights (RSR) token was launched in May 2019 following a successful initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Huobi Prime platform.

Reserve Rights

Basic Attention Token, or BAT, is the token that powers a new blockchain-based digital advertising platform designed to fairly reward users for their attention, while providing advertisers with a better return on their ad spend.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Basic Attention Token.

This experience is delivered through the Brave Browser, where users can watch privacy-preserving adverts and receive BAT rewards for doing so. On the other hand, advertisers can deliver targeted ads to maximize engagement and cut down losses due to ad fraud and abuse.

The Basic Attention Token itself is the unit of reward in this advertising ecosystem, and is exchanged between advertisers, publishers and users. Advertisers pay for their advertising campaigns in BAT tokens. Out of this budget, a small portion is distributed to advertisers, while 70% is distributed to users — whereas the intermediaries that typically drive up advertising costs are cut out of the equation to improve cost-efficiency.

Basic Attention Token launched in 2017 following one of the fastest sell-out initial coin offerings (ICOs) of all time, with the platform raising a total of $35 million in under a minute. Since then, it has rolled out its attention-based advertising experience to users in most countries through its Brave Rewards program.

As of November 2020, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada had the most active advertising campaigns.

Storj, pronounced as “storage,” is an open-source cloud storage platform. Basically, it uses a decentralized network of nodes to host user data. The platform also secures hosted data using advanced encryption.

In a white paper published in December,2014, Storj was first introduced to the world as a concept. It was to be a decentralized peer-to-peer encrypted cloud storage platform.

Two years later, an updated white paper was published. Here, a decentralized network  — connecting users who need cloud storage space with those who have hard drive space to sell — was described. The platform was launched in late 2018.

People with hard drive space and good internet connectivity can participate in the network. They become a unit in the network, called a node. Space providers are rewarded by Storj tokens.

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Amp is an open-source, decentralized protocol that provides collateral as a service. Amp is described as the new digital collateral token offering instant, verifiable assurances for any kind of value transfer. Using Amp, networks like Flexa can quickly and irreversibly secure transactions for a wide variety of asset-related use cases.

The project, which launched in 2020, aims to provide a fast, efficient, and secure transaction platform. It claims to solve a number of network problems, including slow confirmation times, price volatility and broad adoption.

Amp claims to offer a straightforward but versatile interface for verifiable collateralization through a system of collateral partitions and collateral managers.

Collateral partitions can be designated to collateralize any account, application, or even transaction, and carry balances which are directly verifiable on the Ethereum blockchain.

Collateral managers are smart contracts that can lock, release and redirect collateral in these partitions as needed in order to support value transfer activities.

Amp supports a wide variety of use cases for collateralization, and also introduces the concept of predefined partition strategies, which can enable special capabilities such as collateral models through which tokens can be staked without ever leaving their original address.