## Immutable X (IMX) คืออะไร

[Immutable X](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/immutable-x/ico/) กำหนดตำแหน่งตัวเองเป็นโซลูชันการปรับขนาด [เลเยอร์ทู](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/layer-2) [แรกสำหรับ NFTs](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/non-fungible-token) บน [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/ethereum/) จากข้อมูลของ Immutable X บล็อคเชนของมันนั้นสามารถขจัดข้อจำกัดของ Ethereum เช่น ความสามารถในการปรับขนาดที่ต่ำ ประสบการณ์ของผู้ใช้งานที่ไม่ดี การขาดสภาพคล่อง และประสบการณ์ของนักพัฒนาที่ล่าช้า ในทางกลับกัน ผู้ใช้จะได้รับประโยชน์จากการซื้อขายในทันทีและความสามารถในการปรับขนาดได้มหาศาล ในขณะที่ไม่ต้องเสียค่าธรรมเนียม gas สำหรับการขุดและซื้อขาย NFT โดยไม่กระทบต่อความปลอดภัยของผู้ใช้หรือสินทรัพย์ เพื่อให้บรรลุเป้าหมายนั้น Immutable X ถูกสร้างขึ้นด้วย STARK [zk-rollups](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/zero-knowledge-rollups) ซึ่งเป็นเทคโนโลยีที่ Vitalik Buterin ถือว่า Ethereum เป็น "all-in on"

ด้วยเทคโนโลยีนี้ ผู้ใช้จะสามารถสร้างและแจกจ่ายสินทรัพย์ เช่น โทเค็น [ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20) และ [ERC-721](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-721)ได้ในในปริมาณมหาศาล Chris Clay เกม Ddrector of Gods Unchained ซึ่งเป็นโครงการที่สร้างบน Immutable X อยู่แล้ว ระบุว่า Immutable X อนุญาตให้ Gods Unchained นำระบบ meta ใหม่ที่เป็นไปไม่ได้ในก่อนหน้านี้ ด้วยเหตุนี้ Immutable X มุ่งหวังที่จะสร้างประสบการณ์การใช้งานในระดับโลกสำหรับผู้ใช้และนักพัฒนา

### ใครคือผู้ก่อตั้ง Immutable X

Immutable X ก่อตั้งโดย James Ferguson เผู้ประกอบการ Forbes 30 Under 30 ซึ่งก่อนหน้านี้เคยเป็นผู้นำทีมพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ที่บริษัทอีคอมเมิร์ซมูลค่าพันล้านดอลลาร์ และ Robbie Ferguson ซึ่งเป็นน้องชายของเขา ซึ่งเป็น Thiel fellow และผู้ประกอบการ Forbes 30 Under 30 ด้วยเช่นกัน

ทีมงานประกอบด้วยสมาชิกมากกว่า 100 คนจากภูมิหลังที่แตกต่างกัน เช่น บล็อคเชน, FAANG, การเงิน, fintech และผู้ให้คำปรึกษาด้านการจัดการ มันระดมทุนรอบ Seed ในปี 2018 และ Series A ได้มูลค่า 15 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐในเดือนกันยายน 2019 นักลงทุนรวมถึง "ขาใหญ่" ในการลงทุนบล็อคเชนบางส่วน เช่น Coinbase, Naspers, Nirvana Capital, Apex Capital Partners, Continue Capital และ Galaxy Digital

### อะไรที่ทำให้ Immutable X ไม่เหมือนใคร

Immutable X ได้ประโยชน์จากการเป็นหนึ่งในโซลูชันเลเยอร์ 2 ตัวแรกที่ใช้ zk-rollups และมุ่งเน้นที่ NFT เท่านั้น ด้วย zk-rollups ที่มีความสำคัญมากขึ้นในฐานะโซลูชันการปรับขนาด โครงการพบว่าตัวเองนั้นล้ำหน้าในส่วนของการพัฒนาในระบบของ Ethereum Immutable X มีโอกาสดีที่จะกลายเป็น "NFT blockchain" ค่าเริ่มต้นในอนาคต หากสามารถทำธุรกรรมได้เร็วกว่า 9,000 tps ตามที่ได้สัญญา

องค์ประกอบสำคัญในการบรรลุสัญญานี้คือเลเยอร์นามธรรมของ API ต้องขอบคุณ REST API ทุกการกระทำที่เกี่ยวข้องกับ NFT เช่น minting การค้าขาย และการถ่ายโอน ซึ่งถือเป็นการเรียก API อย่างง่ายบน Immutable X บริษัทคาดว่าสิ่งนี้จะเป็นองค์ประกอบสำคัญในการดึงดูดผู้ใช้รายใหม่ เช่น บริษัทเกมและบริษัทที่ให้บริการเนื้อหาที่จัดตั้งขึ้นในอุตสาหกรรมนี้

นอกจากนี้ ผู้ใช้ยังไม่ต้องทำการเปลี่ยนเครือข่ายเมื่อเชื่อมต่อกับวอลเลท โปรโตคอลยังมีเลเยอร์ระดับกลางที่เรียกว่า "ลิงก์" ซึ่งเปิดใช้งานประสบการณ์วอลเลทเฉพาะกับ NFT และอนุญาตให้ Immutable X รองรับระบบของตลาดบุคคลที่สามโดยไม่มีความเสี่ยงด้านความปลอดภัยอีกด้วย

ด้วยสมุดคำสั่งซื้อทั่วโลกที่ใช้งานร่วมกันได้ จึงอำนวยความสะดวกให้กับโปรโตคอลสภาพคล่อง ตลาดการซื้อขาย NFT ให้สามารถสร้างขึ้นบน Immutable X ได้โดยไม่ต้องมีแบ็กเอนด์ ด้วยเหตุนี้ โซลูชันตลาดการซื้อขายของบริษัทอื่นจึงสามารถอยู่ร่วมกับตลาดการซื้อขายของโปรโตคอลได้ โปรโตคอลนี้คาดว่าโซลูชันนี้จะช่วยลดอุปสรรคในการเข้าสู่เนื้อหาสำหรับผู้สร้างเนื้อหาและนักพัฒนารายย่อย

#### หน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง:

ตรวจสอบ [Avalanche (AVAX)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/avalanche/) — คู่แข่งที่เติบโตอย่างรวดเร็วของ Ethereum

ลองดู [Polkadot (DOT)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/polkadot-new/) — ระบบบล็อคเชนความเร็วสูง

อ่านข้อมูล [เจาะลึกเกี่ยวกับระบบของ GameStop NFT](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/a-deep-dive-into-the-gamestop-nft-marketplace-platform)

รับข่าวสารล่าสุดเกี่ยวกับคริปโตและข้อมูลเชิงลึกด้านการซื้อขายล่าสุดด้วย [CoinMarketCap blog](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog)

### มีเหรียญ Immutable X (IMX) จำนวนเท่าใดในการหมุนเวียน

IMX เป็นโทเค็นยูทิลิตี้ ERC-20 แบบดั้งเดิมของโปรโตคอล โทเค็นมีกรณีการใช้งานหลักสามกรณี ได้แก่ ค่าธรรมเนียม staking และการกำกับดูแล 20% ของค่าธรรมเนียมโปรโตคอลต้องชำระเป็น IMX และผู้ใช้สามารถ stake ด้วย IMX เพื่อรับส่วนแบ่งค่าธรรมเนียมเครือข่ายได้ตามสัดส่วน ผู้ถือโทเค็น IMX ยังสามารถลงคะแนนข้อเสนอการกำกับดูแลได้ อุปทานทั้งหมดของ IMX มีมูลค่า 2000 ล้าน โดยมีการกระจายโทเค็นดังต่อไปนี้:

* การพัฒนาระบบ 51.74% สำหรับรางวัลผู้ใช้, ทุนนักพัฒนา, การจัดหาสภาพคล่อง, วัตถุประสงค์ทางการตลาด
* การพัฒนาโครงการ 25%
* การขายส่วนตัว 14.26% โดยเป็นแบบ one year cliff จะปลดล็อกรายเดือนในระยะเวลาสองปี
* การขายต่อสาธารณะ 5% โดยระยะเวลาการปลดล็อกคือหกเดือน
* เพื่อมูลนิธิ 4% ซึ่งจะใช้สำหรับเป็นรางวัลของความคิดริเริ่มที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการพัฒนาระบบ เช่น การจัดหาสภาพคล่อง one-year cliff การปลดล็อกรายเดือนในตลอดสี่ปี

### เครือข่าย Immutable X มีความปลอดภัยอย่างไร

Immutable X เป็นบล็อคเชน [เลเยอร์ 2](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/layer-2)ซึ่งไม่มีค่าธรรมเนียม [gas](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/gas) ซึ่งผู้ประกอบการสามารถกำหนดค่าธรรมเนียมการซื้อขายของตนเองได้ ตรงกันข้ามกับโซลูชันการปรับขนาดอื่น ๆ ของ Ethereum ที่ 51% attack บน Immutable X นั้นไม่สามารถทำได้ เนื่องจากไม่ใช่ไซด์เชนแบบรวมศูนย์ แต่มันได้ประโยชน์จากการรักษาความปลอดภัยของบล็อคเชนของ Ethereum Immutable X ใช้ zk-rollups ซึ่งหมายความว่าสินทรัพย์จะมีการซื้อขายบนบล็อคเชนเลเยอร์-2 แต่การพิสูจน์ความถูกต้องของธุรกรรมจะถูกเก็บไว้ในบล็อคเชนเลเยอร์-1 ซึ่งก็คือ Ethereum Immutable X ใช้การพิสูจน์ STARK เพราะไม่เหมือนกับ SNARK เนื่องจากพวกมันมีความปลอดภัยหลังควอนตัมและให้ความปลอดภัยแก่ผู้ใช้มากขึ้นแม้จะมีต้นทุนที่สูงกว่า

Immutable X เลือก Ethereum เป็นโซลูชั่นชั้นแรกเพราะทีมพิจารณาว่า Ethereum เป็นตัวเลือกที่ดีที่สุดของการเป็นเจ้าของสินทรัพย์แบบ decentralized และมีความน่าเชื่อถือ ตามคำพูดของทีม Ethereum ให้ความสำคัญกับการรวมศูนย์มากกว่าการอัพเกรดความสามารถในการปรับขนาดในระยะสั้น แม้ว่าจะได้รับความเดือดร้อนจากปัญหาค่าธรรมเนียม gas ที่พุ่งสูงขึ้นและความแออัดของเครือข่าย ดังนั้นจึงยังคงเป็นบล็อคเชนหลักสำหรับโครงการ NFT ที่จะสร้างต่อไป

### คุณสามารถซื้อ Immutable X (IMX) ได้จากที่ไหน

IMX สามารถซื้อได้จาก [OKEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/okex/), [FTX](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/ftx/), [Huobi Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/huobi-global/), [Bybit](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/bybit/) และ [Bitget](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/bitget/)

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)

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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.

Render

Injective 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 (10,000+ 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.

Injective’s core exchange module provides state-of-the-art capabilities including an advanced on-chain order book and matching engine for spot, perpetual, futures and options markets, resistance to Miner-Extractable Value (MEV) through frequent batch auction order matching, and zero gas fees for users.

Injective natively uses IBC and is highly-interoperable with multiple layer 1s, including, but not limited to, Polygon and Solana (through an upcoming Wormhole integration). It is also uniquely built to be interoperable with Ethereum, through its own decentralized ERC-20 token bridge, making Injective the first network within the Cosmos ecosystem to natively support Ethereum assets.

Smart contracts are implemented on Injective through CosmWasm, allowing for multi-chain smart contract transactions to occur seamlessly. Injective, however, is the only blockchain that enables automatic smart contract execution. This capability serves as a powerful building block for developers to create novel use cases that would not be possible on any other chain.

The use cases intended for INJ include but are not limited to: protocol governance, dApp value capture, Proof-of-Stake (PoS) security, developer incentives and staking. Further details regarding each of these use cases can be found below:

Protocol Governance: The INJ token governs every single component of Injective, including chain upgrades. Since its mainnet launch, the Injective community has actively contributed to governance, with all proposals passing through a DAO governance vote. The comprehensive governance page is available here.

Protocol Fee Value Capture: 60% of all fees generated from dApps enter an on-chain buy-back-and-burn auction to maintain the deflationary nature of INJ. The burn auction page is available here.

Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Security: INJ is used to secure the Injective blockchain using a proof-of-stake mechanism. Validators and delegators can both participate in staking.

Developer Incentives: 40% of fees generated by users on dApps built on Injective go directly towards incentivizing new developers building on Injective which brings an ever growing funnel of builders to Injective.

Injective

Optimism (OP) is a layer-two blockchain on top of Ethereum. Optimism benefits from the security of the Ethereum mainnet and helps scale the Ethereum ecosystem by using optimistic rollups. That means transactions are trustlessly recorded on Optimism but ultimately secured on Ethereum.

Optimism is one of the biggest scaling solutions for Ethereum with over $500 million in TVL. It is home to 97 protocols, the biggest being Synthetix (SNX), a derivatives exchange, Uniswap (UNI), a DEX, and Velodrome (VELO), an AMM. Users can begin their journey on Optimism by adding the chain on their Metamask and bridging tokens like ETH to the L2. On May 31, 2022, Optimism conducted a highly anticipated airdrop of its OP token.

Optimism

NEAR Protocol is a layer-one blockchain that was designed as a community-run cloud computing platform and that eliminates some of the limitations that have been bogging competing blockchains, such as low transaction speeds, low throughput and poor interoperability. This provides the ideal environment for DApps and creates a developer and user-friendly platform. For instance, NEAR uses human-readable account names, unlike the cryptographic wallet addresses common to Ethereum. NEAR also introduces unique solutions to scaling problems and has its own consensus mechanism called “Doomslug.”

NEAR Protocol is being built by the NEAR Collective, its community that is updating the initial code and releasing updates to the ecosystem. Its declared goal is to build a platform that is “secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people.”

Flux, a protocol that allows developers to create markets based on assets, commodities, real-world events, and Mintbase, an NFT minting platform are examples of projects being built on NEAR Protocol.

NEAR Protocol

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

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.

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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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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Arbitrum is an Ethereum layer-two (L2) scaling solution. It uses optimistic rollups to achieve its goal of improving speed, scalability and cost-efficiency on Ethereum. Arbitrum benefits from the security and compatibility of Ethereum. Another benefit is the higher throughput and lower fees compared to Ethereum. That is made possible thanks to moving most of the computation and storage load off-chain.

Arbitrum’s native token is called ARB and is used for governance. Offchain Labs, the developers behind Arbitrum, announced the shift to a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure — the Arbitrum DAO. ARB holders can vote on proposals that affect the features, protocol upgrades, funds allocation and election of a Security Council.

Arbitrum has an ambitious roadmap for 2023, which includes: Launching its own layer-three solution called Orbit; Enabling developers to deploy programs written in popular programming languages like Rust, C++, and more using Stylus; Expanding its validator set to include more independent institutional validators; Moving its protocol to layer two with Arbitrum One.

On March 16, 2023,  Arbitrum announced their highly anticipated airdrop of ARB. The token will be airdropped to early users and DAOs building on Arbitrum, with 12.75% of the total supply to be distributed. Recipients were rewarded on a point-based system depending on their interaction with the Arbitrum network until a cutoff date of March 1, 2023. The token generation event is on March 23, 2023.

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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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Illuvium is an open-world fantasy battle game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Often touted as the first AAA game on Ethereum, Illuvium looks to provide a source of entertainment to both casual gamers and hardcore DeFi fans through a range of collecting and trading features.

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

The world of Illuvium is inhabited by creatures known as Illuvials, who can be captured by players that best them in battle and nurse them back to health. From then on, they become a loyal part of the player’s collection and can be used when battling other adventurers as part of Illuvium’s auto battler gameplay.

The game is a fusion between an open-world exploration game and a PVP battle game. Players can spend their time exploring the expanses of the game world or building up their team of powerful beasts.

Illuvium has been in development since 2020, and is being built by a worldwide team of more than 40 individuals, including the co-founders; serial entrepreneur and early cryptocurrency adopter Kieran Warwick, and experienced game designer Aaron Warwick, who are brothers. (And who are coincidentally also the brothers of Kain Warwick, the co-founder of DeFi platform Synthetix).

The ILV token has a number of uses within the Illuvium ecosystem. It’s the main token used to reward players for their in-game achievements, entitles players to their share of the Illuvium Vault and is used for participating in the governance of the game via the Illuvium decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

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Polygon (previously Matic Network) is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications.

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

Using Polygon, one can create optimistic rollup chains, ZK rollup chains, stand alone chains or any other kind of infra required by the developer.

Polygon effectively transforms Ethereum into a full-fledged multi-chain system (aka Internet of Blockchains). This multi-chain system is akin to other ones such as Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche etc. with the advantages of Ethereum’s security, vibrant ecosystem and openness.

The $MATIC token will continue to exist and will play an increasingly important role, securing the system and enabling governance.

Polygon (formerly Matic Network) is a Layer 2 scaling solution backed by Binance and Coinbase. The project seeks to stimulate mass adoption of cryptocurrencies by resolving the problems of scalability on many blockchains.

Polygon combines the Plasma Framework and the proof-of-stake blockchain architecture. The Plasma framework used by Polygon as proposed by the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, allows for the easy execution of scalable and autonomous smart contracts.

Nothing will change for the existing ecosystem built on the Plasma-POS chain. With Polygon, new features are being built around the existing proven technology to expand the ability to cater to diverse needs from the developer ecosystem. Polygon will continue to develop the core technology so that it can scale to a larger ecosystem.

Polygon boasts of up to 65,000 transactions per second on a single side chain, along with a respectable block confirmation time of less than two seconds. The framework also allows for the creation of globally available decentralized financial applications on a single foundational blockchain.

The Plasma framework gives Polygon the potential of housing an unlimited number of decentralized applications on their infrastructure without experiencing the normal drawbacks common on proof-of-work blockchains. So far, Polygon has attracted more than 50 DApps to its PoS-secured Ethereum sidechain.

MATIC, the native tokens of Polygon, is an ERC-20 token running on the Ethereum blockchain. The tokens are used for payment services on Polygon and as a settlement currency between users who operate within the Polygon ecosystem. The transaction fees on Polygon sidechains are also paid in MATIC tokens.

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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.

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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

The Internet Computer blockchain incorporates a radical rethink of blockchain design, powered by innovations in cryptography. It provides the first “World Computer” blockchain that can be used to build almost any online system or service, including demanding web social media, without need for traditional IT such as cloud computing services. As such it can enable full end-to-end decentralization.

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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.

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Sui is a groundbreaking layer-1 blockchain platform designed to support the needs of global adoption by offering a secure, powerful, and scalable development platform. At its core, Sui leverages a novel object-centric data model and the secure Move programming language to address inefficiencies prevalent in existing blockchain architectures.

On top of strong technical foundations, Sui prioritizes user experience by eliminating barriers commonly associated with blockchain interactions. Through innovations like zkLogin, sponsored transactions, and programmable transaction blocks, Sui creates a higher standard for user experience within Web3 by ensuring applications are accessible and user-friendly.

Stacks is a Bitcoin Layer for smart contracts; it enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Bitcoin is the largest, most valuable, and most durable decentralized asset. The Stacks layer unlocks $500B in BTC capital using the Bitcoin L1 as settlement for decentralized applications.

Stacks has knowledge of the full Bitcoin state, thanks to its Proof of Transfer consensus and Clarity language, enabling it to read from Bitcoin at any time.

All transactions on the Stacks layer are automatically hashed and settled on the Bitcoin L1. Stacks blocks are secured by 100% Bitcoin hashpower. In order to re-order Stacks blocks/transactions, an attacker would have to reorg Bitcoin.

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Polkadot is an open-source sharded multichain protocol that connects and secures a network of specialized blockchains, facilitating cross-chain transfer of any data or asset types, not just tokens, thereby allowing blockchains to be interoperable with each other. Polkadot was designed to provide a foundation for a decentralized internet of blockchains, also known as Web3.

Polkadot is known as a layer-0 metaprotocol because it underlies and describes a format for a network of layer 1 blockchains known as parachains (parallel chains). As a metaprotocol, Polkadot is also capable of autonomously and forklessly updating its own codebase via on-chain governance according to the will of its token holder community.

Polkadot provides a foundation to support a decentralized web, controlled by its users, and to simplify the creation of new applications, institutions and services.

The Polkadot protocol can connect public and private chains, permissionless networks, oracles and future technologies, allowing these independent blockchains to trustlessly share information and transactions through the Polkadot Relay Chain (explained further down).

Polkadot’s native DOT token serves three clear purposes: staking for operations and security, facilitating network governance, and bonding tokens to  connect parachains .

Polkadot has four core components:

Relay Chain: Polkadot’s “heart,” helping to create consensus, interoperability and shared security across the network of different chains;

Parachains: independent chains that can have their own tokens and be optimized for specific use cases;

Parathreads: similar to parachains but with flexible connectivity based on an economical pay-as-you-go model;

Bridges: allow parachains and parathreads to connect and communicate with external blockchains like Ethereum.