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Conflux Network -The Hybrid Blockchain Without Barriers Feb 06, 2024

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Dr. Fan Long is the co-founder of Conflux Network, a PoW/PoS Hybrid Blockchain. Dr. Fan Long graduated from Tsinghua University Yao Class, and he holds Ph.D of Computer Science from MIT. His research interests include systems security, programming languages, and blockchain.

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Conflux is a public blockchain with superior performance, a unique consensus mechanism, and an innovative dual-space design. These features enable Conflux to deliver a fast, secure, and decentralized platform that is well-suited for various applications, including decentralized finance and Web3.

Conflux employs a hybrid consensus mechanism, combining Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), ensuring high security, throughput, and decentralization. Conflux's PoW consensus leverages the Tree-Graph ledger structure and GHAST algorithm, delivering a high transaction throughput of up to 3,000 TPS and confirmation latency within 1 minute, while maintaining the same level of decentralization as Bitcoin Fan explains Conflux's unique features such as its hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake blockchain, the tree graph ledger structure, and its compliance with Chinese regulations. Fan explains China's stance on blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation, highlighting their concerns about capital outflow and support for technology development.

Fan Long shares some use cases of Conflux Network, including NFTs being used as marketing tools in China and collaborations with China Telecom to develop a blockchain SIM card that allows easy access to web3 assets. Future plans for Conflux include an upcoming hard fork to enhance performance and compatibility with Bitcoin layer two solutions.

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Subsquid Network - The Web3 Data Lake Feb 01, 2024

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Dr. Dmitry Zhelezov is the Co-Founder and CEO and Marcel Fohrmann is the Co-Founder and CFO of Subsquid, a decentralized data lake and query engine that offers developers permissionless, cost-efficient access to on-chain data from over 100 chains and is integrated into a large ecosystem of Web2- and Web3-native developer tools.

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Subsquid Network is a decentralized query engine optimized for batch extraction of large volumes of data. It currently serves historial on-chain data ingested from 100+ EVM and Substrate networks, including event logs, transaction receipts, traces and per-transaction state diffs. In the future, it will additionally support general-purpose SQL queries and an ever-growing collection of structured data sets derived from on- and off- chain data.

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Nine Chronicles - A Web3 Game by Planetarium Labs Jan 31, 2024

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JC Kim is the CEO of Planetarium Labs, a community driven, Web3 gaming company founded in South Korea and backed by Animoca. They create games where users can create, share, own, and earn.

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Planetarium Labs has created Nine Chronicles, the first-ever Web3 RPG game. The game combines blockchain technology with immersive gameplay. The game is a fantasy MMORPG powered by the players, set in a world that can never be shut down. Infinitely moddable and owned by the community, Nine Chronicles invites you to aid the goddess Freya in her eternal struggle against an evil ravaging the land.

Nine Chronicles is the first-ever fully on-chain, open-source RPG. All of the transactions are recorded on-chain, which means there isn't a traditional server like traditional RPGs. Anyone can access the code and create different versions of the game utilizing the IP, giving the community and the players true ownership of the game. In addition to enjoying the gameplay, players can contribute to the game's ecosystem and content and get involved in ways that they would not be able to in traditional RPG games.

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Bitcoin IRA - Helping Americans Retire Jan 29, 2024

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Chris Kline is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bitcoin IRA, a crypto IRA platform for investing in cryptocurrencies with self-directed IRAs.

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In 2015, Chris launched Bitcoin IRA, the world's first company allowing U.S. investors to purchase Bitcoin for their IRA and 401(k) retirement accounts. He developed the process and partnerships to create a full-service, turnkey solution allowing investors to capitalize on the rapidly growing digital currency market space for their retirement portfolio while maintaining full IRS compliance.

Under his direction, the company has grown to over $100 million in assets under custodianship.

Bitcoin IRA was the world's first platform that allowed clients to open, fund and trade their retirement accounts with digital assets, firstly Bitcoin, and now a multitude of different digital assets.

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Summer.fi - DeFi Made Easy Jan 23, 2024

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Chris Bradbury is the CEO at Summer.fi, a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX.

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Summer.fi is a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, via three main products, advanced automation features, and various strategies, from basic to very sophisticated.

Summer.fi (previously Oasis.app) began as one of the first projects by MakerDAO, even before Single Collateral Dai, in 2016.

Summer.fi, became a standalone entity after the full decentralization of Maker. The Summer.fi mission is to build the most trusted app to deploy capital in DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX.

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Nayms - the Crypto Native Insurance Marketplace Jan 21, 2024

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Danielle Wall Elliott is the COO at Nayms, the crypto native insurance marketplace. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees tokenization of RWA as the next big unlock.

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Nayms is the world's leading, fully regulated marketplace for on-chain insurance. They are paving the way in providing a new digital asset risk market that allows regulated brokers and underwriters to find digital asset capital providers to share in the premium and liability covering digital asset risk.

Nayms' traceable smart contract is built on a trustless system, meaning insurance brokers can place a contract between market participants in a limitless number of areas and share in the future value of such open trade.

At Nayms, marketplace users are the product. These users are digitally native brokers, new-age carriers and investors fit for the world of digital assets.

Nayms isn't new technology for old companies, it's new technology for the insurance participants of the future, who deserve the back-end infrastructure capable of conducting truly digital insurance with the market, for the benefit of coverholders.

Nayms recently launched the first institutional tokenized (re)insurance marketplace on Base. Nayms introduces insurance as an asset class and users can earn yield on real world assets by committing capital onto their marketplace.

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Leather - The Bitcoin Wallet for the Bitcoin Economy Jan 17, 2024

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Mark Hendrickson is the General Manager of Leather, the Bitcoin wallet for the fast-emerging Bitcoin Economy.

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Mark explains the importance of Ordinals on Bitcoin and their potential for storing different types of data securely on-chain. He emphasizes that Leather is a Web3 wallet for Bitcoin users and highlights the value proposition of Bitcoin as a foundation for building a new digital economy. With the surge of interest in Ordinals in 2023, Leather had impressive growth metrics for the year, and they expect this to continue in 2024. Leather has Ledger integration, and is working on an app-based wallet for this year.

The Leather vision is to be the gold standard among Bitcoin wallet brands, built to last so that users can explore Bitcoin Web3 knowing that they have a reliable hub to come back to. Mark says a complete Bitcoin wallet user experience involves best-in-class UX, code health, and content geared toward user needs, and being a responsible steward, helping usher in the next generation of Bitcoiners.

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PowerLoom - The Decentralized Data Layer for Web3 Jan 15, 2024

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Swaroop Hegde is a co-founder at PowerLoom - a decentralized Data Layer for Web3 that is scaling trustless data and building on-chain data primitives.

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The Powerloom Protocol is a decentralized data protocol designed to meet the growing data requirements of smart contract-based applications, including DeFi, games, and other user-centric platforms. It incentivizes participating peers to achieve consensus on state transitions and event emission observations across multiple smart contracts.

By utilizing data compositions on smaller, consensus-reached data units, Powerloom stands as a peer-validated and accurate information source, empowering rich data applications such as dashboards, bots, aggregators, and insights trackers.

Powerloom in a nutshell: Powerloom acts as a decentralized library catalog for blockchain data, providing verified and up-to-date information from multiple chains. Powerloom has a snapshot-driven approach to data retrieval, which allows for efficient scaling and trust in the results.

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Crown Token - Taking IPs to the Metaverse Jan 11, 2024

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Pan Lorattawut is the CEO of VUCA Digital, the blockchain consulting firm behind the CROWN Token Project. Prior to VUCA Digital, Pan was Senior VP at Meketa Investment Group, a full-service investment consulting and advisory firm with $1.4 trillion-plus in assets under advisement in the United States.

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CROWN Token (CROWN) is issued by Vega Investment Group, an affiliated company of T&B Media Global, a global IP management and entertainment investment company, and is developed and managed by the VUCA Digital team.

T&B Media Global manages, produces, and invests in live-action and animated feature films and TV series that are distributed globally.

Through this network CROWN can leverage a portfolio of intellectual properties (IPs) to expand into adjacent businesses both in the physical and digital world. CROWN aims to be a token for the entertainment industry by bridging traditional IPs with blockchain technology to enhance the core business and create additional value to both IP owners and the community. With CROWN, the audience can become part of the story. Through their proprietary ADOT platform, token holders can vote to select a film's direction, character designs and art concepts, or content that T&B and partners will produce.

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Gary Said Yes - Bitcoin Spot ETFs Approved! Jan 10, 2024

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In a historic move, the SEC today announced that it has approved eleven Bitcoin Spot ETFs. U.S. investors will now be able to gain exposure to Bitcoin when trading begins tomorrow. Andy marks the historic occasion by recapping the days events and looking forward to what happens next for Bitcoin.

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Finally, after a multi-year effort by the Bitcoin community, all eleven much-anticipated Bitcoin Spot ETFs have been approved by the SEC and will begin trading tomorrow.

Bitcoin's journey has been a strange and wild ride. Exactly 14 years ago today, Hal Finney tweeted that he was "Running bitcoin." In the years afterward, Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared, and Bitcoin began its slow journey from a curious collectible for cypherpunks and cryptographers, to a payment mechanism for the dark web, to a speculative bet, to a means of outpacing inflation, and today, to a full embrace from the traditional financial system.

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