Ethereum

Ancient8 Chain is a game-centric, community-driven Ethereum L2 solution, supported by OP Stack and enhanced by Celestia for better performance. It is tailored to address scalability and adoption challenges faced by Web3 games and consumer DApps. By prioritizing modularity, it reduces gas fees and features composability, scalability, and EVM compatibility, greatly facilitating developers in building applications on its platform.

Cross-chain asset transfers are complicated and expensive due to the differing architectures and consensus mechanisms of various blockchains, leading to a lack of unified standards and limiting asset liquidity. Existing third-party bridges face trust and security challenges. Centralized bridges need to maintain liquidity, passing on costs to users. One-click multichain solutions offer a compromise for asset bridging, similar to addressing the trilemma problem. Meanwhile, the number of Rollups, which are the mainstream scaling method for Ethereum, will continue to increase.

This article explores the economic models of Bitcoin and major PoS blockchains. First, it analyzes the concept of Bitcoin's "shutdown price" and its calculation method, involving Bitcoin's total supply, mining mechanism, and miner revenue. Then it compares the economic models of PoS blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, including their token distribution, inflation design, staking mechanisms, and liquid staking. The article concludes by summarizing the advantages of PoS over PoW and highlighting that economic models are crucial for the long-term operation of blockchains.

ZkSync is a Layer-2 scaling solution backed by the zk-Rollup technology. It enables fast and cheap payments compared to Layer-1 protocols on the Ethereum chain.

NEST Protocol is a decentralized Oracle network that uses a unique "quote mining" mechanism to synchronize off-chain data with on-chain data without needing a central authority. NEST Protocol provides efficient and decentralized price information for various applications, including decentralized exchanges, financial derivatives, Metaverse, GameFi, and more, aiming to improve the transparency and reliability of decentralized finance.

This article compares two blockchain scaling solutions: Ethereum's ZK Rollups and Solana's ZK Compression. It explores their advantages and challenges in terms of technical implementation and application.

This article deeply analyzes the impact of the Dencun upgrade on the Ethereum L2 network, revealing the positive results of the upgraded L2 network in reducing transaction costs, increasing user activities and asset inflows, while pointing out the negative effects such as network congestion and high rollback rate caused by MEV activities.

Lido is a protocol that provides staking services and allows users to stake cryptocurrencies to get rewards without a minimum threshold and lockups.

Crust Network is a decentralized storage solution that uses two methods, MPoW and GPoS, to keep your data safe. The network employs sWorker nodes to check storage tasks and offers an IPFS W3Auth gateway and a Decentralized Storage Market (DSM). Important participants include validators, candidates, guarantors, and users, with the CRU token used for transactions and governance. Crust's storage is cheaper than Google Cloud and offers better data privacy, making it ideal for DApps, website hosting, and NFT storage.

BlobScriptions, introduced by Ethereum, use blob technology to make data storage and transmission cheaper and more efficient. Like Bitcoin's inscriptions, BlobScriptions let users embed different types of data directly onto the Ethereum blockchain. When this blob feature was launched, it temporarily increased Ethereum gas fees. In this article, we will explain what BlobScriptions are and how they work in a straightforward way.

OpenOcean is the world’s first cross-chain aggregator, enabling trading on both DeFi and CeFi exchanges.

This article introduces ten layer 2 crypto projects to watch in 2024, explaining how these protocols solve the scalability issues of layer 1 blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Movement aims to integrate the Move language into the EVM ecosystem to address long-standing security issues without relying on L2 solutions. MOVE reduces blockchain transaction storage space and computation costs through an optimization technique called "modular packing," which bundles multiple smart contracts into a single module to lower storage and indexing costs, and increases execution speed by reducing the steps needed to execute bytecode.

Fuel is the fastest execution layer in modular blockchains, offering maximum security and the highest flexible throughput for decentralized applications. As an execution layer, it can be flexibly configured to work with other blockchain layers such as Ethereum and Celestia. This modular and multi-blockchain configuration enhances its flexibility and scalability.

Although the Rollup L2 ecosystem faces challenges such as adjusting revenue models and attracting users, it has made significant progress in reducing Ethereum transaction costs and improving efficiency. By using the Sequencer as a cash flow entry point, fees are charged for Rollup transactions to cover the costs generated by L1 and L2, and to generate additional profits.