## Livepeer (LPT) คืออะไร?
 
 Livepeer เปิดตัวในปี 2017 เป็นโปรโตคอลของเครือข่ายการสตรีมวิดีโอแบบถ่ายทอดสดรายแรกที่เป็นแบบกระจายอำนาจอย่างสมบูรณ์ แพลตฟอร์มนี้มีจุดมุ่งหมายเพื่อเป็นทางเลือกที่มีประสิทธิภาพทางเศรษฐกิจโดยใช้ [บล็อคเชน](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) แทนโซลูชันแบบ centralized broadcasting สำหรับบริษัทผู้ออกอากาศทั้งรายใหม่และที่มีอยู่ทั้งหมดในตลาด
 
 ตามที่ระบุไว้ใน [เอกสารทางเทคนิคอย่างเป็นทางการ ของ Livepeer](https://github.com/livepeer/wiki/blob/master/WHITEPAPER.md#introduction-and-background) อุตสาหกรรมการสตรีมวิดีโอสดและการแพร่ภาพกระจายเสียงกำลังเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็ว และบริษัทกำลังมองหาช่องทางที่จะขับเคลื่อนคลื่นนี้และแนะนำการกระจายอำนาจสู่สิ่งแวดล้อมให้มากขึ้น Livepeer ตั้งเป้าที่จะปรับปรุงกระบวนการการออกอากาศโดยอนุญาตให้ผู้ผลิตส่งงานของตนบนแพลตฟอร์ม ดูแลการจัดรูปแบบใหม่และแจกจ่ายเนื้อหาไปยังผู้ใช้และแพลตฟอร์มสตรีมมิ่งได้
 
 ### ใครคือผู้ก่อตั้ง Livepeer?
 
 Livepeer เป็นโปรโตคอลแบบโอเพ่นซอร์ส ซึ่งหมายความว่านักพัฒนาสามารถสนับสนุนโค้ดพื้นฐานบน GitHub ได้อย่างอิสระ Livepeer Inc เป็นนิติบุคคลที่อยู่เบื้องหลังแพลตฟอร์ม Livepeer Livepeer Inc ก่อตั้งโดย [Doug Petkanics](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougpetkanics/) และ [Eric Tang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericxtang/)
 
 Doug Petkanics สำเร็จการศึกษาระดับปริญญาด้านวิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์จาก University of Pennsylvania ในปี 2006 ตั้งแต่นั้นมา เขาก็เป็นส่วนสำคัญของบริษัทใหญ่ ๆ มากมาย เช่น Groupon และ Wildcard ในปี 2006 เขาได้ร่วมงานกับ Accenture ในฐานะนักวิเคราะห์ และในปี 2010 เขาได้ร่วมก่อตั้ง Hyperpublic ซึ่ง Groupon เข้าซื้อกิจการในภายหลัง ในปี 2013 Petkanics ได้ร่วมก่อตั้ง Wildcard แพลตฟอร์มเกี่ยวกับการเผยแพร่ และเว็บเบราว์เซอร์ ตั้งแต่ปี 2016 เขาเป็นศูนย์กลางของการพัฒนา Livepeer
 
 Eric Tang สำเร็จการศึกษาระดับปริญญาด้านวิศวกรรมไฟฟ้าและคอมพิวเตอร์จากมหาวิทยาลัย Carnegie Mellon ในปี 2008 เขาได้เข้าร่วม Next Jump ในฐานะนักพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ และในปี 2010 เขาได้เป็นผู้จัดการฝ่ายผลิตภัณฑ์ของ Clickable ในปี 2010 เขาได้ร่วมมือกับ Doug Petkanics และร่วมก่อตั้ง Hyperpublic ตั้งแต่นั้นมา ทั้งคู่ก็ได้ทำงานร่วมกันใน Wildcard และต่อมาก็ทำงานร่วมกันใน Livepeer
 
 ### อะไรที่ทำให้ Livepeer ไม่เหมือนใคร?
 
 Livepeer เป็นโครงการที่ไม่เหมือนใครเพราะมีจุดมุ่งหมายเพื่อปฏิวัติอุตสาหกรรมการออกอากาศโดยใช้สามารถของเทคโนโลยีบล็อคเชน แพลตฟอร์มแบบโอเพ่นซอร์สนี้ช่วยให้ผู้ใช้และนักพัฒนามีส่วนร่วมในการจัดการและปรับปรุงแพลตฟอร์มได้อย่างอิสระ ความสามารถที่เพิ่มขึ้นของกล้องดิจิทัลในการผลิตเนื้อหาวิดีโอที่มีคุณภาพสูงช่วยขับเคลื่อนการพัฒนาอุตสาหกรรมการแพร่ภาพกระจายเสียง และ Livepeer ตั้งเป้าที่จะส่งเสริมกระบวนการนี้ต่อไป โดยให้ผู้ใช้ได้รับประโยชน์จากพลังการประมวลผลแบบกระจายอำนาจและแรงจูงใจด้านเศรษฐกิจคริปโตสำหรับการเริ่มระบบใหม่และการมีส่วนร่วม
 
 Livepeer กำลังกลายเป็นแพลตฟอร์มอุตสาหกรรมชั้นนำ เนื่องจากอนุญาตให้ผู้ใช้มีส่วนร่วมได้หลายวิธี แพลตฟอร์มนี้มอบโอกาสในการใช้เนื้อหาแบบจ่ายตามการใช้งานจริง, บริการวิดีโอโซเชียลแบบปรับขนาดอัตโนมัติ, วารสารศาสตร์แบบสดที่ไม่ถูกเซ็นเซอร์ และวิดีโอที่เปิดใช้งาน [DApps](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/how-to-access-dapps-on-your-mobile-phone) Livepeer กำลังเปลี่ยนแปลงกระบวนการสตรีมวิดีโอสดและกำลังอยู่ในเส้นทางการสู่การเป็นผู้นำในอุตสาหกรรม
 
 #### หน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง:
 
 อ่านเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับ [Basic Attention Token](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/basic-attention-token/)
 
 เรียนรู้เพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับ [โปรโตคอล NEAR](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/near-protocol/)
 
 เรียนรู้เพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับ [ธุรกรรม](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/transaction-tx) บนบล็อคเชน
 
 ดูที่ [CoinMarketCap blog](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog)
 
 ### มีเหรียญ Livepeer (LPT) หมุนอยู่เวียนอยู่กี่เหรียญ?
 
 Livepeer มีอุปทานสูงสุดอยู่ที่ 22,906,951 โทเค็น และอุปทานรวมอยู่ที่ 22,859,012 โทเค็น อุปทานหมุนเวียนคือ 21,164,655 โทเค็น
 
 จากอุปทานทั้งหมด ผู้ก่อตั้งและสมาชิกในทีมช่วงแรกจะแบ่งกันในจำนวน 12.35% ซึ่งมีระยะเวลาให้ได้รับสิทธิ์ 36 เดือนหลังจากเปิดตัวเครือข่าย โทเค็นอีก 19% จัดสรรไว้สำหรับการซื้อล่วงหน้า จำนวนโทเค็นที่มากที่สุดคือ 63.437% จะถูกแจกจ่ายไปยังการขายแบบฝูงชน สุดท้าย 5% ของปริมาณโทเค็นทั้งหมดจะเก็บไว้สำหรับการบำรุงรักษาเครือข่าย Livepeer เพื่อให้แน่ใจในการพัฒนาโครงการในอนาคต
 
 ### เครือข่าย Livepeer มีความปลอดภัยอย่างไร?
 
 เนื่องจาก Livepeer สร้างขึ้นบนบล็อคเชนของ [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/ethereum/) แพลตฟอร์มจึงใช้กลไกฉันทามติแบบ delegated proof-of-stake [(DPoS)](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/delegated-proof-of-stake-dpos) โดยในกลไก DPoS จะไม่มีการขุดเลย การตรวจสอบความถูกต้องของบล็อกใหม่บนบล็อคเชนจะเกิดขึ้นตามจำนวนเหรียญที่ทำการ stake
 
 นี่คือสิ่งที่ทำให้ Livepeer แตกต่างจากกลไกฉันทามติที่บิทคอยน์ใช้งาน แม้ว่า proof-of-work ([PoW](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-work-pow)) ของบิทคอยน์นั้นต้องการพลังงานไฟฟ้าและการประมวลผลจำนวนมาก แต่ระบบ DPoS นั้นคำนึงถึงสิ่งแวดล้อมมากกว่าและสามารถปรับขนาดได้ง่ายกว่า ไม่เพียงเท่านั้น LIvepeer ยังได้รับประโยชน์จาก DApp ที่กว้างขวาง ซึ่งจัดตั้งขึ้นโดยบล็อคเชนของ Ethereum ซึ่งช่วยเพิ่มความสามารถในการใช้งานของเครือข่ายได้อีกด้วย
 
 ### คุณสามารถซื้อ Livepeer (LPT) ได้จากที่ไหน
 
 โทเค็น Livepeer (LPT) กำลังกลายเป็นสินทรัพย์ที่เป็นที่ต้องการมากขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ ซึ่งเป็นสาเหตุที่ทำให้ตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนเริ่มเสนอคู่การซื้อขายด้วยคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีมากขึ้น หากคุณต้องการซื้อ LPT ทางเลือกที่ดีที่สุดของคุณคือ [Gate.io](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/gate-io/)
 
 ตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนอื่น ๆ ที่แนะนำ ได้แก่ :
 
 * [Poloniex](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/poloniex/)
 * [OKEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/okex/)
 * [Sushiswap](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/sushiswap/)
 
 สิ่งสำคัญคือต้องทราบว่าการซื้อคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีนั้นมีความเสี่ยง เช่นเดียวกับการลงทุนในสินทรัพย์อื่น ๆ
 
 [ค้นหาข้อมูลเพิ่มเติม](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/) เกี่ยวกับการซื้อคริปโตได้ที่นี่
 
 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)

With this week's launch of the Livepeer AI Subnet, Livepeer AI, the home for all information on Livepeer’s AI initiative, was also introduced!

 to explore the different paths available for infrastructure providers and developers.

- Learn how to set up your AI Orchestrator node and contribute GPU capacity to the network.

- Earn revenue by processing AI inference tasks.

- Access detailed guides and documentation to help you get started and optimize your setup.

- Sign up to experiment with the AI Subnet and integrate generative AI features into your apps.

- Apply to our AI Startup Program for up to 

 in grants, mentorship, and an investor demo day.

- Use the Livepeer Gateway to test and refine your apps.

- Check out the roadmap to see upcoming milestones and developments.

- Stay updated with the latest news, enhancements, and opportunities as the project progresses.

- Engage with the Livepeer community on Discord.

- Share your feedback, ask questions, and collaborate with other innovators in the AI and video space.

Dive into Livepeer AI now and be part of the future of AI-enabled video and media!

With this week's launch of the Livepeer AI Subnet, Livepeer AI, the home for all information on Livepeer’s AI initiative, was also introduced!

🧵👇
Visit http://livepeer.ai to explore the different paths available for infrastructure providers and developers.

Here's what you can do

👇
📡 Infrastructure Providers:

- Learn how to set up your AI Orchestrator node and contribute GPU capacity to the network.
- Earn revenue by processing AI inference tasks.
- Access detailed guides and documentation to help you get started and optimize your setup.

👇
💻 Developers:

- Sign up to experiment with the AI Subnet and integrate generative AI features into your apps.
- Apply to our AI Startup Program for up to $40K in grants, mentorship, and an investor demo day.
- Use the Livepeer Gateway to test and refine your apps.

👇
📅 Roadmap & Updates:

- Check out the roadmap to see upcoming milestones and developments.
- Stay updated with the latest news, enhancements, and opportunities as the project progresses.

👇
🌐 Join the Community:

- Engage with the Livepeer community on Discord.
- Share your feedback, ask questions, and collaborate with other innovators in the AI and video space.

👇
Dive into Livepeer AI now and be part of the future of AI-enabled video and media!

https://livepeer.ai/

Livepeer governance update: LPT holders who are staking their token on the Livepeer network can vote now in the latest onchain treasury proposal, which is aimed at funding continued community development focused on bringing AI Video compute capabilities to Livepeer. 👇 

Since the onchain treasury launched at the tail end of 2023 proposals have been passed to fund active community contributors, a core team focused on tech integrations to bring more demand, and the initial AI video capabilities. The value within the treasury has continued to grow. 

Voting on proposals is open to all who are staked. You can vote on the current active treasury proposal here: 

Livepeer governance update: LPT holders who are staking their token on the Livepeer network can vote now in the latest onchain treasury proposal, which is aimed at funding continued community development focused on bringing AI Video compute capabilities to Livepeer. 👇 
Since the onchain treasury launched at the tail end of 2023 proposals have been passed to fund active community contributors, a core team focused on tech integrations to bring more demand, and the initial AI video capabilities. The value within the treasury has continued to grow. 
Voting on proposals is open to all who are staked. You can vote on the current active treasury proposal here: https://explorer.livepeer.org/treasury/42084921863832634370966409987770520882792921083596034115019946998721416745190

What Is Livepeer?

Livepeer

Trust Wallet

MetaMask

Atomic wallet

Ethereum

Shiba Inu

Chainlink

Uniswap

Pepe

Nexo

Synthetix

Curve DAO Token

Ocean Protocol

ApeCoin

MANTRA

AIOZ Network

Memecoin

Blur

Decentraland

Flappymoonbird

APF coin

Railgun

Phemex Token

XDAO

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.

Storj

Compound is a DeFi lending protocol that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by depositing them into one of several pools supported by the platform.

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

When a user deposits tokens to a Compound pool, they receive cTokens in return. These cTokens represent the individual’s stake in the pool and can be used to redeem the underlying cryptocurrency initially deposited into the pool at any time. For example, by depositing ETH into a pool, you will receive cETH in return. Over time, the exchange rate of these cTokens to the underlying asset increases, which means you can redeem them for more of the underlying asset than you initially put in — this is how the interest is distributed.

On the flip side, borrowers can take a secured loan from any Compound pool by depositing collateral. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio varies based on the collateral asset, but currently ranges from 50 to 75%. The interest rate paid varies by borrowed asset and borrowers can face automatic liquidation if their collateral falls below a specific maintenance threshold.

Since the launch of the Compound mainnet in September 2018, the platform has skyrocketed in popularity, and recently passed more than $800 million in total locked value.

Compound

ZEN is the governance and utility token for Horizen, a zero-knowledge-enabled network of blockchains powered by the largest node infrastructure in the industry. Blockchain interoperability is enabled by the Zendoo protocol, which uses SNARK-verification and allows for complete flexibility in sidechain type, consensus, and speed. Cryptographic verification of networked chains offers massive scale, and the network currently supports up to 10,000 sidechains with a throughput limit of 10,000,000 TPS.

Zendoo makes Horizen a permissionless network of blockchains. Developers can deploy their blockchains within the ecosystem using a variety of SDKs. In 2023, the ecosystem team launched Horizen EON, a public proof-of-stake sidechain and an EVM-compatible smart contracting platform that allows developers to efficiently build and deploy dapps on the Horizen ecosystem, while benefiting from the Ethereum ecosystem. Since going live with Horizen EON, DeFi projects including SpookySwap, Ascent Exchange, and Yuzu have successfully integrated into the Horizen ecosystem. Get started on Horizen EON today!

Horizen's native cryptocurrency, ZEN, is a mineable PoW coin currently trading on major exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance. ZEN can be staked to participate in Horizen's nearly 50,000 full node network.

While ZEN was previously a privacy token, following ZenIP 42204 in June of 2023, the network removed its existing privacy features in favor of moving towards a vision of adaptability and responsible, scalable growth.

Horizen

UMA was founded in 2018 by Allison Lu and Hart Lambur, two ex Goldman Sachs traders, with the goal of making global markets universally fair, accessible, secure and decentralized.

The team drew inspiration from traditional finance derivatives to define an open-source protocol to allow anyone, anywhere, to design and build trustless financial contracts.

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.

Arweave

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.

Audius is a decentralized music streaming protocol initially built on POA network, but now living on Solana. Audius was launched to remedy the inefficiencies of the music industry, which is plagued by intransparent music rights ownership and intermediaries standing between artists and their audience.

Audius aims to align the interests of artists, fans, and node operators through its platform powered by its native AUDIO token. Artists can upload music, stored and distributed by content and discovery nodes, that fans can listen to for free. Currently, Audius rewards content creators through rewards like featuring in the weekly trending lists. In the future, it plans to integrate stablecoins for artists to offer paid content, as well as artist tokens that give fans the ability to access exclusive content, potentially cooperating with platforms like Rally.

Audius

Helium (HNT) is a decentralized blockchain-powered network for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Launched in July 2019, the Helium mainnet allows low-powered wireless devices to communicate with each other and send data across its network of nodes.

Nodes come in the form of so-called Hotspots, which are a combination of a wireless gateway and a blockchain mining device. Users who operate nodes thus mine and earn rewards in Helium’s native cryptocurrency token, HNT.

Helium’s goal is to prepare IoT communication for the future, identifying inadequacies in current infrastructure from its birth in 2013.

Helium

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.

Basic Attention Token

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.

Loopring

0x is an infrastructure protocol that allows users to easily trade ERC20 tokens and other assets on the many different blockchains (including Ethereum) without relying on centralized intermediaries. It is a protocol for decentralized exchange.

0x achieves this decentralized exchange functionality using a collection of open-source, publicly auditable smart contracts that work together to produce a flexible, low-friction trading protocol that developers can easily weave into their products.

The protocol is used by companies building web3 apps such as wallets, DEXes, portfolio trackes, and others. It is a used by hundreds of developers for their projects. The protocol has facilitates over $200B in trading volume since its inception. One can track its usage in its dedicated https://explorer.0x.org/.

The protocol is powered by an ERC20 governance token known as ZRX. ZRX holders can participate in protocol governance, having direct power over protocol changes and its community treasury.

0x Protocol

Flow

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.

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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

Filecoin is a decentralized storage system that aims to “store humanity’s most important information.” The project raised $205 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017, and initially planned a launch date for mid-2019. However, the launch date for the Filecoin mainnet was pushed back until block 148,888, which is expected in mid-October 2020.

The project was first described back in 2014 as an incentive layer for the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer storage network where users pay for data storage and distribution services in $FIL. Filecoin is open protocol and backed by a blockchain that records commitments made by the network’s participants, with transactions made using FIL, the blockchain’s native currency. The blockchain is based on both proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime.

Filecoin is open-source and decentralized, which means that all governance is in the hands of the community. On the Filecoin platform, developers have the opportunity to create cloud file storage services like Dropbox or iCloud. Anyone can join Filecoin and start storing their data or earn money by providing space for someone else's funds. The creators of Filecoin opted for their blockchain technology to run the network and their token with their own consensus.

$FIL is the native currency of Filecoin that powers the entire network and all processes. Clients pay for transactions in FIL tokens. Miners place FIL as collateral, guaranteeing their services.

The developers claim that Filecoin solves the problem of inefficient file storage and retrieval. Customers can find the right solution with an efficient set of tools and its core development, IPFS.

Filecoin

Theta Network

Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that is able to take real-world data and supply it to on-chain applications, while also connecting APIs to smart-contracts to facilitate the exchange of information between on-chain and off-chain data sources.

By supplying reputable, verifiable real-world data to blockchains, Band Protocol unlocks a range of new use cases for developers to explore — since they can now use any type of real-world data as part of their decentralized application (DApp) logic, including sports, weather, random numbers, price feed data and more.

Band Protocol initially launched as an ERC-20 project on the Ethereum blockchain in September 2019, but transitioned to the Cosmos network in June 2020 with the release of Band Protocol 2.0. The new protocol is built on BandChain using the Cosmos SDK. Oracle nodes on BandChain not only relay data but are also involved in block production/validation, giving them a dual role.

BAND is the native token of the Band Protocol ecosystem and is used as collateral by validators involved in fulfilling data requests, as well as the main medium of exchange on BandChain — being used to paying for private data.

Band Protocol

What Is Ankr (ANKR)?

Ankr is a decentralized blockchain infrastructure provider that operates an array of nodes globally distributed across over 50 Proof-of-Stake networks. This infrastructure helps drive the growth of the crypto economy while powering a full suite of multi-chain tools for Web3 users:

Ankr Build
Ankr provides comprehensive blockchain developer solutions, including traditional APIs, a decentralized multi-chain network of public RPC nodes used to access blockchain data and execute code, and tools like Ankr Scan to view on-chain information across blockchains.

Ankr Earn
Ankr Earn makes staking, liquid staking, and other yield-earning opportunities easy and accessible to any crypto investor. Ankr creates the most scalable and decentralized staking infrastructure solution that aims to solve the capital inefficiency of Proof-of-Stake networks and similar blockchain consensus mechanisms.

Ankr Learn
Through Ankr’s learning tools, tutorials, and docs, anyone can become a better user or developer of blockchain-based systems.

Ankr

Numerai is an Ethereum-based platform allowing developers and data scientists to experiment and create machine learning models with improved reliability. The platform’s main goal is to bring decentralization to the data science field and allow developers to compete in creating effective machine learning prediction models.

Founded in late 2015 in San Francisco, Numerai claims to be the first hedge fund to launch a cryptocurrency on the market. Unlike traditional hedge funds, however, Numerai relies on the data and predictions produced by tournament participants to participate in the stock market. They claim to be the first hedge fund to use machine learning so heavily in its investment strategy.

Numeraire

Curve is a decentralized exchange for stablecoins that uses an automated market maker (AMM) to manage liquidity.

Launched in January 2020, Curve is now synonymous with the decentralized finance (DeFi) phenomenon, and has seen significant growth in the second half of 2020.

In August, Curve launched a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), with CRV as its in-house token. The DAO uses Ethereum-based creation tool Aragon to connect multiple smart contracts used for users’ deposited liquidity. Issues such as governance, however, differ from Aragon in their weighting and other respects.