Blockchain

Blockchain is the underlying technology for almost all cryptocurrencies. It is a distributed ledger jointly maintained by decentralized nodes around the world. Blockchain is hailed as "the trust machine", enabling trustless peer-to-peer payments. Blockchain will become the infrastructure for the next generation of the Internet - Web 3.

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Gate Research: Evaluating Sonic's Potential to Recreate Fantom's Peak via Data Modeling
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Gate Research: Evaluating Sonic's Potential to Recreate Fantom's Peak via Data Modeling

This report aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the core strengths and challenges in the development of the Sonic ecosystem, benchmarking them against the peak of the Fantom ecosystem. By examining key indicators across multiple dimensions—including competitive landscape, technological advancement, user growth, and ecosystem development—it explores whether Sonic has the potential to replicate Fantom's past success and evaluates its strategic roadmap and risk mitigation approach in the current complex market environment.
7/1/2025, 8:00:16 AM
Silicon Valley vs. Washington: Polymarket vs. Kalshi
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Silicon Valley vs. Washington: Polymarket vs. Kalshi

The article provides a detailed introduction to the financing history and investor lineup of two platforms, analyzing their different strategies and outcomes in terms of centralization versus decentralization, compliance versus regulatory boundaries, and market influence.
7/1/2025, 5:34:51 AM
How to Find Tokenless Protocols Worth Your Time
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How to Find Tokenless Protocols Worth Your Time

The article introduces several practical analytical tools, such as Kaito, Dexu AI, 0xPPL, Nansen, DeBank, DeFiLlama, and Coincarp, and demonstrates through concrete examples how to leverage these tools to uncover valuable projects.
7/1/2025, 1:40:12 AM
Monad Foundry's Sunset: Practicality, PMF, and the Race to Deliver
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Monad Foundry's Sunset: Practicality, PMF, and the Race to Deliver

The NYC 2.2 event hosted by the Monad Foundation has concluded, with 44 teams participating, focusing on user needs, product-market fit, delivery speed, and breakout strategies, injecting practical and driven construction capabilities into the Layer 1 ecosystem.
7/1/2025, 1:17:51 AM
Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
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Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely

This article, through three events—Trump’s airstrike, Mamdani’s election victory, and Cluely’s fundraising—reveals how attention, narrative, and speculation have become the three pillars of the new economic order. We are entering an era dominated by the "attention-speculation-resource allocation" paradigm.
7/1/2025, 1:10:59 AM
With Jump entering the storage market, can Aptos make a comeback from Shelby?
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With Jump entering the storage market, can Aptos make a comeback from Shelby?

The article provides a detailed introduction to Shelby as the world's first "cloud-level infrastructure" in the Web3 space, featuring sub-second reading, a native incentive mechanism, and chain-agnostic compatibility.
6/27/2025, 10:22:52 AM
Will Solana Become Wall Street’s Next Favorite? A Deep Dive Into Why Corporate Treasuries Are Going All-In
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Will Solana Become Wall Street’s Next Favorite? A Deep Dive Into Why Corporate Treasuries Are Going All-In

This article details Solana's technological advantages, including its high TPS (transactions per second), low fees, and the upcoming Firedancer validator node. These features make it ideal for high-frequency trading, instant payments, and mobile-first Web3 applications.
6/27/2025, 10:08:44 AM
A 92% drop, Celestia's new proposal will revolutionize "POS"
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A 92% drop, Celestia's new proposal will revolutionize "POS"

The article provides a detailed analysis of the specific content of the proposal, including the abandonment of the current Proof of Stake (PoS) mechanism in favor of adopting a "Proof of Governance" (PoG) model, as well as the potential impact of this transition on the Celestia network structure and token economics.
6/27/2025, 9:58:52 AM
Crypto Goes Wall Street: Key Assets to Watch
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Crypto Goes Wall Street: Key Assets to Watch

Each asset class has detailed analyses of risks and investment characteristics, including that stablecoins have the lowest risk but limited growth, trading platforms have high valuations and need to focus on ecological expansion capabilities, mining stocks are highly cyclical and need to pay attention to energy and regulatory pressures, and cryptocurrency vaults have the strongest explosive power but also the highest leverage and regulatory risks.
6/27/2025, 9:54:57 AM
Metaplanet: Japan’s Tax-Free Bitcoin for the Masses
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Metaplanet: Japan’s Tax-Free Bitcoin for the Masses

Metaplanet's stock price surged 300% in six months, driven by a unique tax system and macroeconomic environment in Japan that supports its Bitcoin valuation premium of up to 10 times. This article analyzes why retail investors in Japan are more willing to "indirectly buy coins" and reveals the logic behind the popularity of "Bitcoin concept stocks" under policy dividends, which is a key case for understanding the global flow of crypto capital and the trend of coin-stock linkage.
6/27/2025, 9:43:54 AM
Bitcoin as corporate treasury: Why Meta, Amazon and Microsoft all said no
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Bitcoin as corporate treasury: Why Meta, Amazon and Microsoft all said no

This article examines why companies are rejecting Bitcoin as a reserve asset, analyzes the returns and risks behind aggressive holdings by firms like MicroStrategy, and delves into the impact of crypto treasury strategies on corporate valuation, regulatory compliance, and financial stability.
6/27/2025, 9:40:39 AM
From Quant Giant to Infrastructure Recluse: Jump Crypto’s Redemption-Style Transformation
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From Quant Giant to Infrastructure Recluse: Jump Crypto’s Redemption-Style Transformation

The giant Jump Crypto, which once dominated on-chain liquidity, is returning to the encryption stage as an "infrastructure builder." This article reviews its lows from the UST manipulation controversy, the FTX crisis, to the Wormhole hacking incident, and analyzes its recent policy lobbying and the restart of its venture capital layout, providing an in-depth report on its "redemptive transformation."
6/27/2025, 9:32:53 AM
The Data Wars: Sui-Powered Walrus vs. Full-Stack Irys
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The Data Wars: Sui-Powered Walrus vs. Full-Stack Irys

This article provides a comprehensive and in-depth comparative analysis of two blockchain storage projects, Irys and Walrus, covering multiple dimensions such as technical architecture, economic model, data persistence, programmability, storage duration, and network maturity.
6/26/2025, 10:26:09 AM
Business involution, revenue pressure, CEX grabs the future on the chain
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Business involution, revenue pressure, CEX grabs the future on the chain

This article analyzes in detail the strategic adjustments and business expansions of these platforms, discusses the trend of integration between CEX and DEX, and how the future on-chain finance high ground will be occupied.
6/26/2025, 10:17:25 AM
What is Four?
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What is Four?

Learn about the official tokenomics of FORM, the native token of the FOUR ecosystem – covering its fixed supply, 1:1 BNX swap, utility, and governance role.
6/26/2025, 5:29:30 AM

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