If you deployed a Taiko A6 or Hekla wallet in the 

you've just received 2 exclusive Red Packets containing Loophead #5386 + Loophead #5390🧧

Last week's draw for Loopring KIX NFTs are now also claimable 💙↓

gm @taikoxyz testers🫡

If you deployed a Taiko A6 or Hekla wallet in the @LoopringWallet app + binded your wallet

you've just received 2 exclusive Red Packets containing Loophead #5386 + Loophead #5390🧧

Last week's draw for Loopring KIX NFTs are now also claimable 💙↓

Ethereum: A Visual Look

Non-Fungible Thursdays: What Happened in NFTs This Week? [Mar. 24, 2022]

How to Use Layer-2 Rollups to Avoid Gas Fees

Sick Of High Ethereum Gas Fees? Do This Instead

## Loopring (LRC) คืออะไร?

LRC เป็นสัญลักษณ์ของ Loopring ซึ่งเป็นโทเค็นคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีที่ขึ้นอยู่กับ [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/ethereum/) โดยมีโปรโตคอลแบบเปิดที่ได้รับการออกแบบมาสำหรับตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตแบบกระจายอำนาจ

ในปี 2020 ปริมาณการซื้อขายเฉลี่ยต่อวันของตลาดคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีทั้งหมดผันผวนอยู่ในช่วงประมาณ 50-200 ล้านดอลลาร์ การซื้อขายส่วนใหญ่ดำเนินการในตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีแบบรวมศูนย์ — แพลตฟอร์มออนไลน์ที่ดำเนินการโดยบริษัทเอกชนที่เก็บเงินของผู้ใช้และอำนวยความสะดวกในการจับคู่คำสั่งซื้อและขาย

แพลตฟอร์มดังกล่าวมีข้อเสียหลายประการร่วมกัน ดังนั้นในการแลกเปลี่ยนรูปแบบใหม่ที่มีการ — กระจายอำนาจ — ได้ปรากฏขึ้นเพื่อพยายามลดข้อเสียเหล่านี้ แต่อย่างไรก็ตาม ตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนแบบกระจายอำนาจอย่างสมบูรณ์นั้นก็ไม่ได้ปราศจากข้อบกพร่องไปซะทุกอย่าง

เป้าหมายของ Loopring คือการรวบรวมคำสั่งในการจับคู่จากส่วนกลางเข้ากับการจัดการคำสั่งบนบล็อคเชนแบบกระจายศูนย์ ให้เป็นผลิตภัณฑ์แบบไฮบริดซึ่งจะให้ผลลัพธ์ที่ดีที่สุดของการแลกเปลี่ยนทั้งแบบรวมศูนย์และแบบกระจายอำนาจ

โทเค็น LRC เปิดให้ประชาชนทั่วไปได้ใช้ในระหว่าง initial coin offering ([ICO](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico)) ในเดือนสิงหาคม 2017 ในขณะที่โปรโตคอล Loopring ถูกปรับใช้ครั้งแรกบนเครือข่ายหลักของ Ethereum ในเดือนธันวาคม 2019

### ใครคือผู้ก่อตั้ง Loopring?

ผู้ก่อตั้งและ CEO คนปัจจุบันของ Loopring Foundation ซึ่งให้การบริการในจัดการการพัฒนาโปรโตคอล Loopring คือ Daniel Wang วิศวกรซอฟต์แวร์และผู้ประกอบการที่อยู่ในเซี่ยงไฮ้ ประเทศจีน

Wang สำเร็จการศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรีด้านวิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์จากมหาวิทยาลัยวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งประเทศจีน และปริญญาโทในสาขาเดียวกันจากมหาวิทยาลัยแห่งรัฐแอริโซนา

ก่อนที่จะเริ่มทำงานกับ Loopring นั้น Wang ดำรงตำแหน่งผู้บริหารในบริษัทเทคโนโลยีรายใหญ่หลายแห่ง: เขาเป็นวิศวกรซอฟต์แวร์ชั้นนำของบริษัทผู้ผลิตอุปกรณ์ทางการแพทย์อย่าง Boston Scientific และยังเป็นผู้อำนวยการอาวุโสด้านวิศวกรรม, ระบบค้นหา, ระบบการแนะนำและโฆษณาที่ Chinese e ซึ่งเป็นยักษ์ใหญ่ด้านการค้าของ JD.com รวมถึงหัวหน้าฝ่ายเทคโนโลยีและวิศวกรซอฟต์แวร์อาวุโสที่ Google

Wang ยังได้ร่วมก่อตั้งบริษัทหลายแห่ง: Yunrang (Beijing) Information Technology Ltd. และบริษัทที่ให้บริการในด้านคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีที่ชื่อ Coinport Technology Ltd.

#### อะไรทำให้ Loopring มีเอกลักษณ์ที่เฉพาะตัว?

แนวคิดหลักที่อยู่เบื้องหลังของ Loopring คือการรวมองค์ประกอบของการแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีแบบรวมศูนย์และแบบกระจายอำนาจเข้าด้วยกัน เพื่อสร้างโปรโตคอลที่มีข้อได้เปรียบที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์และขจัดความไร้ประสิทธิภาพออกไป

ปัจจุบันการแลกเปลี่ยนแบบรวมศูนย์เป็นโหมดหลักของการดำเนินการสำหรับบริการซื้อขายคริปโตเคอร์เรนซี แม้ว่าการแลกเปลี่ยนแบบรวมศูนย์จะได้รับความนิยมและสะดวกอย่างมาก แต่การใช้การแลกเปลี่ยนแบบรวมศูนย์นั้นมีความเสี่ยงหลายประการ เนื่องจากการแลกเปลี่ยนเหล่านี้ถือเงินทุนของผู้ใช้ไว้ระหว่างจุดฝากและถอนเงิน จึงมีความเสี่ยงที่จะสูญเสียเงินทุนเหล่านี้ไปบางส่วนหรือทั้งหมดหากเกิดการโจมตีของแฮ็กเกอร์ หรือผู้กระทำผิดภายในการแลกเปลี่ยนหรือการแทรกแซงด้านกฎระเบียบ

ปัญหาสำคัญอีกประการสำหรับการแลกเปลี่ยนแบบรวมศูนย์คือการขาดความโปร่งใส: ความจริงที่ว่าการซื้อขายไม่ได้ถูกตัดสินบนบล็อคเชน แต่เก็บไว้ในบันทึกภายในของตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนทำให้อาจเกิดการแลกเปลี่ยนราคาเป็นไปไม่ได้ได้และอนุญาตให้ใช้เงินทุนของผู้ใช้งานเพื่อวัตถุประสงค์ที่ไม่ได้รับอนุญาตในขณะที่มีการดูแลเงินทุนนั้น ๆ

เพื่อขจัดปัญหาเหล่านี้ บริการซื้อขายรูปแบบใหม่ได้เกิดขึ้นในช่วงไม่กี่ปีที่ผ่านมา: การแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตแบบกระจายอำนาจ ([DEX](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-exchange-dex)) แทนที่จะเก็บเงินทุนของผู้ใช้งานไว้ในการดูแลและประมวลผลภายใน แต่มันกลับช่วยให้คำสั่งซื้อและขายสามารถเชื่อมต่อกันโดยตรงและยังสามารถชำระเงินในการซื้อขายบนบล็อกเชนสาธารณะได้อีกด้วย

ในขณะที่ขจัดความเสี่ยงจากการดูแลและความโปร่งใส DEX จะแนะนำข้อเสียของตนเอง: ซึ่งโดยหลักแล้วมีประสิทธิภาพต่ำกว่า (เมื่อเทียบกับทางเลือกแบบรวมศูนย์) ที่เกี่ยวข้องกับความสามารถที่จำกัดของบล็อคเชนและ [สภาพคล่องที่กระจัดกระจาย](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/liquidity)

โปรโตคอล Loopring พยายามที่จะรักษาข้อดีของการแลกเปลี่ยนแบบกระจายอำนาจ ในขณะที่ลดหรือขจัดความไร้ประสิทธิภาพผ่านโซลูชันไฮบริดที่เป็นนวัตกรรมใหม่ ผ่านการจัดการคำสั่งแบบรวมศูนย์ แต่จัดการการซื้อขายบนบล็อคเชน และรวมคำสั่งมากถึง 16 คำสั่งให้ไปเป็นการซื้อขายแบบหมุนเวียน แทนที่จะยอมให้ยึดติดกับแบบเดียว หนึ่งคู่การซื้อขายของ Loopring ที่คาดว่าจะเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพของการดำเนินการตามคำสั่งรวมทั้งเพิ่มสภาพคล่องของ DEX

#### หน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง:

Loopring เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของอุตสาหกรรม decentralized finance (DeFi) — อ่านเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับเรื่องนี้ที่ [CoinMarketCap Alexandria](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-decentralized-finance)

มีข้อสงสัยเกี่ยวกับคริปโตใช่หรือไม่? เรียนรู้วิธีการซื้อ Bitcoin [ที่นี่](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/)

#### มีเหรียญ Loopring (LRC) หมุนเวียนอยู่กี่เหรียญ?

การออกโทเค็น LRC ถูกควบคุมโดย smart contracts ที่ประกอบด้วย Loopring Protocol

วิธีการหลักในการขอรับ LRC คือการทำ ring mining: : เพื่อการปรับปรุงสภาพคล่องของเครือข่าย Loopring คำสั่งจะไม่ถูกจับคู่โดยจำกัดแค่เพียงคริปโตเคอร์เรนซี 2 สกุลเท่านั้น โปรโตคอลสามารถผสมและจับคู่คำสั่งได้ถึง 16 รายการสำหรับคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีที่แตกต่างกันในการซื้อขายแบบหมุนเวียน ที่เรียกว่า order ring

เครือข่าย Loopring จะได้รับรางวัลเป็นโทเค็น LRC สำหรับการรวมคำสั่งซื้อแต่ละรายการเป็น order ring, การรักษาหนังสือคำสั่งสาธารณะและประวัติการค้า และในการกระจายคำสั่งไปยังรีเลย์อื่น ๆ

### เครือ Loopring มีความปลอดภัยอย่างไร?

Loopring สามารถทำงานได้บนบล็อกเชนของ Ethereum และ [Neo](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/neo/) โดยมีแผนจะเพิ่มการรองรับบล็อกเชน [Qtum](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/qtum/) แต่ละเครือข่ายเหล่านี้มีโทเค็นของตัวเอง: LRC และ LRN สำหรับ Ethereum และ Neo ตามลำดับ เมื่อเปิดตัวโทเค็นเครือข่าย Qtum จะเรียกว่า LRQ

โทเค็นเหล่านี้มีความปลอดภัยเนื่องจากฟังก์ชันแฮชของแพลตฟอร์มบล็อกเชนพื้นฐาน: LRC โดย Ethash ของ Ethereum, LRN โดย SHA256 ของ Neo และ RIPEMD160 และ LRQ โดยอัลกอริทึม PoSv3 ที่ใช้การ proof-of-stake ของ Qtum

### คุณสามารถซื้อ Loopring (LRC) ได้จากที่ไหน?

LRC ให้บริการในตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนมากมาย โดยแหล่งที่สำคัญและน่าเชื่อถือที่สุดคือ:

* [Coinbase Pro](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/coinbase-pro/)
* [Bilaxy](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/bilaxy/)
* [OKEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/okex/)
* [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/binance/)

Loopring

Ledger

Coinbase

Trust Wallet

MetaMask

SolFlare

Backpack

Phantom

Atomic wallet

Ethereum

Shiba Inu

Chainlink

UNUS SED LEO

Uniswap

Frax Share

Biconomy

Illuvium

SKALE

Holo

Galxe

Yield Guild Games

SPACE ID

Lido Staked ETH

Threshold

Redacted

Bird Dog

Cajutel

Pullix

FractonX

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.

Enjin Coin

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.

Decentraland

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.

Fantom

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.

Algorand

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

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.

Harmony

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

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

The Sandbox

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.

Curve DAO Token

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

Tezos is a high-performing blockchain and open-source platform for assets and applications, with a strong focus on code security, on-chain governance, and decentralization. Tezos 2.0, the upcoming step in the evolution of Tezos, aims to improve scalability (via layer 2s), composability, and to implement support to mainstream programming languages (like Javascript, Typescript, Python, and many others).

Initially built with formal verification in mind, the Tezos protocol enables builders to avoid bugs when developing smart contracts, making it particularly suited to applications that require a high degree of security and certainty.

Tezos’ LPoS (Liquid Proof-of-Stake) consensus mechanism enables any stakeholder to take part, directly or by delegation, in the consensus process, and to be rewarded for securing the network. Rather uniquely, Tezos’ on-chain governance system also enables stakeholders to create and vote on protocol upgrade proposals. This pioneering system allows the protocol to self-amend and upgrade itself without leading to a split (or fork) in the blockchain, empowering the community without slowing down innovation.

First proposed in 2014 and launched in 2018, the Tezos Mainnet has a proven track record of running uninterrupted ever since, having earned a strong reputation for technical excellence and a supportive community.

Tezos

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

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.

Gala.com
News.Gala.com
Games.Gala.com
Music.Gala.com
Film.Gala.com

Gala

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.

Zilliqa

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

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

Theta Network

Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless, blockchain with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 dapps to support a more inclusive financial system. Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo platform), CELO governance asset, and several Mento stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that allow for real-world users to use digital assets. The open source Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day 2020.  The Celo community passed an indicative on-chain governance proposal (temperature check) to have Celo migrate to an Ethereum layer-2.  Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and many others run validators on the Celo Platform.  Today, the Platform supports 1,000+ projects in over 150 countries are building on Celo to, helping to create the conditions of prosperity for all.  For more information, please visit Celo.org.

Celo

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

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.