## iExec RLC (RLC) คืออะไร?
 
 iExec เป็นผู้ให้บริการชั้นนำด้านการประมวลผลแบบกระจายอำนาจบน [บล็อคเชน](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) บล็อคเชนถูกใช้เพื่อจัดระเบียบเครือข่ายการตลาดที่ผู้คนสามารถสร้างรายได้จากพลังการประมวลผลของพวกเขา เช่นเดียวกับแอปพลิเคชันและแม้แต่ชุดข้อมูล
 
 ทำได้โดยให้การเข้าถึงทรัพยากรการประมวลผลบนคลาวด์ตามความต้องการ IExec สามารถรองรับแอปพลิเคชันในด้านต่าง ๆ เช่น บิ๊กดาต้า, การดูแลสุขภาพ, AI, เรนเดอร์ และฟินเทค IExec ก่อตั้งขึ้นเมื่อวันที่ 16 ต.ค. 2016 โดยมีเป้าหมายเพื่อสร้างสรรค์การประมวลผลบนคลาวด์ผ่านการสร้างกระบวนทัศน์การประมวลผลบนคลาวด์แบบใหม่
 
 ด้วยเหตุนี้ iExec จึงอาศัย XtremWeb-HEP ซึ่งเป็นซอฟต์แวร์กริดแบบโอเพ่นซอร์สสำหรับเดสก์ท็อปที่ใช้คุณสมบัติต่าง ๆ เช่น แอปพลิเคชันหลายตัว, ความทนทานต่อข้อผิดพลาด, ผู้ใช้หลายคน, การปรับใช้ภาพเสมือน, โครงสร้างพื้นฐานส่วนตัว, การจัดการข้อมูล, ความปลอดภัย และอื่น ๆ อีกมากมาย
 
 ### ใครคือผู้ก่อตั้ง iExec RLC?
 
 โดยผู้ก่อตั้งของ iExec RLC คือ Gilles Fedak ที่เป็นทั้ง CEO และผู้ร่วมก่อตั้ง ก่อนที่เขาจะเริ่มทำงานกับ iExec เขาเคยทำงานใน INRIA ในตำแหน่งนักวิทยาศาสตร์การวิจัยที่ postdoc ใน UC San Diego และที่ ATER ที่ University Paris-Sud เขาได้รับปริญญาเอก ในด้านปรัชญาและวิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์
 
 Haiwu He เป็นผู้ร่วมก่อตั้งและหัวหน้าของ APAC ที่ iExec ก่อนหน้านั้น เขาเป็นศาสตราจารย์ที่ Chinese Academy of Sciences, วิศวกรวิจัยการถ่ายทอดนวัตกรรมที่ ENS Lyon, ผู้ร่วมก่อตั้ง iRentCPU, ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านวิศวกรวิจัยของ INRA และผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์ที่ Hohai University เขาได้รับปริญญาเอก ในด้านวิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์
 
 ซึ่งหมายความว่า iExec สร้างขึ้นจากการทำงานของสมาชิกในทีมที่ทำการวิจัยของ INRIA และ CNRS ในด้านการคำนวณกริดเดสก์ท็อป
 
 ### อะไรที่ทำให้ iExec RLC ไม่เหมือนใคร
 
 เครือข่าย iExec ประกอบด้วยผู้ให้บริการทรัพยากรการคำนวณ สิ่งเหล่านี้เรียกว่า iExec Workers หากผู้ใช้ต้องการเป็นผู้ปฏิบัติงานนี้ พวกเขาสามารถเชื่อมต่อเครื่องของตนและจะได้รับรางวัลเป็นโทเค็น RLC สำหรับการสนับสนุนทรัพยากรของตนไปยังเครือข่าย
 
 ผู้ให้บริการแอปพลิเคชันสามารถสร้างรายได้จากอัลกอริธึมของพวกเขา และผู้ให้บริการข้อมูลที่เป็นเจ้าของชุดข้อมูลสามารถกำหนดค่าให้ใช้งานได้ผ่าน iExec นอกจากนี้ยังมีโปรโตคอลฉันทามติที่เรียกว่า PoCo หรือ proof-of-contribution ให้การให้ฉันทามติเกี่ยวกับการคำนวณแบบ off-chain ด้วย proof-of-contribution นี้ ผู้ให้บริการทรัพยากรภายนอกจึงสามารถใช้ทรัพยากรของตนที่ได้รับการรับรองในบล็อคเชนได้
 
 IExec ยังจัดเตรียมแอปพลิเคชันแบบกระจายที่ทำงานบนบล็อคเชนที่เรียกว่า [DApps](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-applications-dapps) ซึ่งปรับขนาดได้อย่างปลอดภัยและเข้าถึงเซิร์ฟเวอร์, ชุดข้อมูล และทรัพยากรการคำนวณได้ง่าย และเนื่องจากทั้งหมดนี้ทำงานบน Ethereum ได้ จึงอนุญาตให้มีโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของคลาวด์เสมือนที่สามารถให้การประมวลผลในประสิทธิภาพที่สูงและให้บริการตามความต้องการได้
 
 ด้วยเหตุนี้ iExec จึงสนับสนุนแอปพลิเคชันแบบกระจายบนบล็อคเชนแบบใหม่ และเปิดใช้งานการประมวลผลที่คุ้มค่าและมีประสิทธิภาพสูงผ่านโครงสร้างพื้นฐานในระบบคลาวด์แบบกระจายศูนย์ ด้วยการทำให้การเข้าถึงเครื่องจักรง่ายขึ้น ระบบคลาวด์แบบกระจายจะช่วยให้ฟุตปริ้นท์ทางสิ่งแวดล้อมของศูนย์ข้อมูลเพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมาก
 
 #### หน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง:
 
 เรียนรู้เพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับ [Injective Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/injective-protocol/)
 
 เรียนรู้เพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับ [Bondly](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/bondly/) เรียนรู้เกี่ยวกับคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีด้วย [CMC Alexandria](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/9-things-to-know-before-investing-in-cryptocurrency) อ่านโพสต์ล่าสุดบน [CoinMarketCap blog](https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/)
 
 ### มีเหรียญ iExec RLC (RLC) หมุนเวียนอยู่กี่เหรียญ?
 
 IExec RLC (RLC) เป็นคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีบนแพลตฟอร์ม [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/ethereum/) โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่ง RLC เป็นสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลที่เหมือนกับ [ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/erc20/)
 
 RLC สามารถจัดเก็บ, โอน, ซื้อขาย และแบ่งออกได้อย่างง่ายดายและปลอดภัย รวมทั้งใช้ในการทำธุรกรรมได้ด้วย
 
 ### เครือข่าย iExec RLC มีความปลอดภัยอย่างไร
 
 IExec ช่วยให้ [smart contract](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/smart-contract) เอาชนะข้อจำกัดภายในของบล็อคเชนของ Ethereum รวมถึงความสามารถในการปรับขนาด, ความเป็นส่วนตัว และการเชื่อมต่อ
 
 เพื่อความปลอดภัยระดับสูง iExec ได้พัฒนา TEE หรือที่เรียกว่า Trusted Execution Environment
 
 นี่คือพื้นที่ที่ปลอดภัยใน CPU ของเครื่องมือ ที่สามารถรับประกันการทำงานของโค้ดได้ กล่าวอีกนัยหนึ่งคือสามารถรับประกันได้ว่าจะไม่สามารถดัดแปลงรหัสได้เนื่องจากมีการใช้ทฤษฏีในระดับฮาร์ดแวร์
 
 เพื่อให้แน่ใจว่าการใช้ smart contract เพื่อเข้าถึงข้อมูลมาที่มาจากโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของ Web2 นั้นปลอดภัย
 
 ### คุณสามารถซื้อ iExec RLC (RLC) ได้จากที่ไหน
 
 เมื่อพูดถึงตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนอันดับต้น ๆ สำหรับการซื้อขาย iExec RLC จะรวมถึง:
 
 [Bittrex](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/bittrex/)
 
 [Uniswap V2](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/uniswap-v2/)
 
 [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/binance/)
 
 [Upbit](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/upbit/)
 
 [VCC Exchange](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/vcc-exchange/)
 
 [HitBTC](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/hitbtc/)
 
 ค้นหาข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ [หน้าตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยน](https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/) คริปโตของเรา
 
 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)

⚡️More on our latest DataProtector dev tool upgrade! Now with the DataProtectorSharing module, this DataProtector is now packed with new Monetization and Data Protection features, offering your Web3 app users full ownership control.

🧵 Read on for a lowdown on the new functions:

The newly upgraded DataProtector 'The Monetize Version' equips Web3 devs with powerful SDKs to build DApps to encrypt and securing data on the client side, granting and revoke access to applications through iExec 

 tokens, and transfer ownership securely.

⚡ ⬇️Here are some of the features you can integrate into your apps with just a few clicks using the upgraded DataProtector dev tool:

Secure sharing: Protected data can be distributed without monetary exchange, allowing your dapp users to share information freely while maintaining control and security.

Renting: Users can rent access to protected data for a specified duration and price. This allows data owners to earn while still retaining ownership.

Selling: Ownership of protected data can be sold, enabling users to fully capitalize on their digital assets by transferring ownership rights in a secure and verifiable manner.

Subscription bundles: Include protected data in subscription bundles for flexible user access. Owners set the periodicity and price, earning steady revenue in iExec RLC tokens by offering access to multiple data sets or services.

Learn more about the upgrade iExec DataProtector dev tool on our blog ⬇️

Welcome to iExec RLC's Community channel aggregated by CoinMarketCap.

⚡️More on our latest DataProtector dev tool upgrade! Now with the DataProtectorSharing module, this DataProtector is now packed with new Monetization and Data Protection features, offering your Web3 app users full ownership control.

🧵 Read on for a lowdown on the new functions:
The newly upgraded DataProtector 'The Monetize Version' equips Web3 devs with powerful SDKs to build DApps to encrypt and securing data on the client side, granting and revoke access to applications through iExec $RLC tokens, and transfer ownership securely.
⚡ ⬇️Here are some of the features you can integrate into your apps with just a few clicks using the upgraded DataProtector dev tool:
Secure sharing: Protected data can be distributed without monetary exchange, allowing your dapp users to share information freely while maintaining control and security.
Renting: Users can rent access to protected data for a specified duration and price. This allows data owners to earn while still retaining ownership.
Selling: Ownership of protected data can be sold, enabling users to fully capitalize on their digital assets by transferring ownership rights in a secure and verifiable manner.
Subscription bundles: Include protected data in subscription bundles for flexible user access. Owners set the periodicity and price, earning steady revenue in iExec RLC tokens by offering access to multiple data sets or services.
Learn more about the upgrade iExec DataProtector dev tool on our blog ⬇️https://medium.com/iex-ec/introducing-dataprotector-the-monetize-version-dev-tool-upgrade-c4d3212f4bc8

Binance

iExec RLC

Ledger

Trust Wallet

MetaMask

Atomic wallet

Ethereum

Shiba Inu

Chainlink

Uniswap

UNUS SED LEO

Balancer

SwissBorg

FLEX

TrueFi

0x0.ai

Non-Playable Coin

Zentry

Audius

COTI

Apu Apustaja

TUBES

Gold Fever

GameStop

QANplatform

PAWZONE

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

Ocean Protocol

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.

Fetch.ai

Cortex

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

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.

SingularityNET

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

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

OriginTrail is an ecosystem building a trusted knowledge infrastructure for artificial intelligence. It addresses the challenge of misinformation in the AI era by ensuring the origin of information and enabling discoverability of the world's most important knowledge and real world assets (RWAs).

OriginTrail is creating a Verifiable Web for decentralized AI by empowering world class brands and builders. It utilizes its unique Decentralized Knowledge Graph and OriginTrail Parachain to deliver AI-powered search and solutions for enterprises and individuals worldwide.

OriginTrail has gained support and partnerships with world-class organizations such as British Standards Institution, SCAN, Polkadot, Parity, Walmart, World Federation of Hemophilia, Oracle, and the EU Commission's Next Generation Internet. These partnerships contribute to advancing OriginTrail's trusted knowledge foundation and its applicability in trillion-dollar industries, while providing a verifiable web of knowledge important in particular to drive the economies of RWAs.

The best way to see the technology in action is by checking ChatDKG, which is an experimental, question answering bot on X (Twitter) based on trusted Knowledge Assets in OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph. The ChatDKG provides answers based on OriginTrail trusted AI.

The Metcalfe phase of the updated roadmap pursues an ambitious goal of creating the world’s largest verifiable web for AI consisting of 100 billion Knowledge Assets, bringing a 100.000x scalability increase. As the name of the phase suggests, it will seek to produce network effects across the OriginTrail DKG and use novel techniques to pursue autonomous DKG growth based on the genesis knowledge foundation being created by organizations and individuals alike. The genesis part of the Metcalfe’s phase also introduces knowledge mining and knowledge signaling capabilities to drive constant growth of the Verifiable Web.

Following the Genesis stage and the transition to an AI-native V8, further capabilities will become available in the Convergence stage. By leveraging the advancements in AI and the DKG, we will unlock autonomous knowledge mining which in turn leads to an autonomous DKG. At that stage, new knowledge gets added to the DKG with very limited human involvement. Services such as AI agents will be performing knowledge inferencing directly on the DKG to find any “blind spots” in the knowledge they can fill as well as search for new knowledge and bring it to the DKG in accordance with knowledge signaling.

OriginTrail

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

SKALE, described as a modular blockchain network, is designed to bring scalability to Ethereum. SKALE is the only blockchain network capable of running an unlimited number of fast, on-demand, pooled-security Blockchains with zero gas fees to end users. These individual chains are known as SKALE chains and can be dapp-specific or shared.

The project’s website says it wants to enable people to build and run DApps in a “decentralized modular cloud built for real-world needs and configured for your requirements.” This emphasis on decentralization isn’t at the expense of security.

According to SKALE, those who build on this platform can run Solidity smart contracts “thousands of times faster at a fraction of the mainnet cost” — with games and content streaming services among the projects that already take advantage of its infrastructure.

SKALE

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.

Launched in 2017, Livepeer is the first live video streaming network protocol that is fully decentralized. The platform aims to become a viable blockchain-based, economically efficient alternative to centralized broadcasting solutions for all new and existing broadcaster companies.

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

As stated in the official Livepeer whitepaper, the live video streaming and broadcasting industry is growing at a rapid pace, and the company is looking to ride this wave and introduce decentralization to the environment. Livepeer aims to streamline the broadcasting process by allowing producers to submit their work on the platform, taking care of reformatting and distributing the content to users and streaming platforms.

Livepeer

NKN (NKN), or New Kind of Network, is a network that focuses on creating a decentralized and open-source network protocol for public blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to share network bandwidth and internet connectivity. Its main objective is to address the challenges faced by today's internet, such as centralization, scalability issues and security concerns.

Oasis is the pioneering layer 1 blockchain designed to enable scalability and confidential compute. Oasis is home to Sapphire, the first confidential EVM that empowers Web3 and Decentralized AI developers to build dApps with Smart Privacy natively on Oasis or other EVM-based chains.

ROSE is the native token of the Oasis Network used for gas fees, staking, delegation and governance. With a unique layered architecture, Oasis presents the optimal building and execution environment for DeFi, AI, GameFi, NFTs, the metaverse, data tokenization and DAO governance. Oasis also has native support for rollups at the consensus layer.

Oasis

Golem Network is an open-source, decentralized computing platform that is building an ecosystem to provide computing power to the AI industry. A peer-to-peer marketplace for distributed computing resources. Users engage directly on the Golem platform, exchanging GLM tokens for the utilization of their idle computing resources.

Golem allows to break down tasks into smaller subtasks and distribute them across multiple providers, enabling parallel processing. This approach boosts efficiency and speeds up the completion of complex computations.

Golem

Mask Network is a protocol that allows its users to send encrypted messages over Twitter and Facebook. It essentially acts as a bridge between the internet and a decentralized network running on top.

Mask Network was initially launched in July 2019, with its first use case of allowing Facebook and Twitter users to encrypt posts on the social media platforms. It then raised $2 million in a funding round in November 2020, co-led by HashKey and Hash Global, and a further $3 million funding round in February 2021 with participation from Digital Currency Group and Fundamental Labs.

Now, Mask Network offers the ability to fund Gitcoin grant campaigns directly from Twitter, as well as plans to offer peer-to-peer payments and decentralized storage functionality. It is a decentralized portal that also allows users to use DApps like crypto payments, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods/NFTs) and decentralized organizations (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, creating what is referred to as a decentralized Applet (DApplet) ecosystem.

Mask Network

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

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

Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) that was developed on the Ethereum blockchain and launched in March 2020. It was able to raise a $3M seed round by Placeholder and Accomplice. Balancer protocol functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, price sensor and liquidity provider. It allows users to earn profits through its recently introduced token ($BAL) by contributing to customizable liquidity pools.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Balancer(https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-balancer.

The protocol operates a few types of pools:

Private pools give the owner governance over the pool, and make the person the sole contributor of liquidity to the pool. Also, all the parameters are mutable by the owner.

Shared pools are for those who want to become liquidity providers (LPs). The LPs are rewarded with the Balancer Pool Tokens (BPTs).

Smart pools are similar to private pools but are controlled by a smart contract. They also reward using BPTs and allow anyone to contribute liquidity to the pool.