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Watch the presentations and get to know more about the exciting projects that were featured:\n\nLit Protocol: A decentralized access control network for off-chain content and experiences based on on-chain conditions.\nGrape: A Solana-based tooling solution for DAOs and decentralized social networks.\nLighthouse: A Filecoin-based storage protocol that allows for permanent storage with one-time payments.\nItsMyne: A digital sports collectibles marketplace focused on community\nMatters Labs: A subscription service for decentralized publications.\n\n\n\nEcosystem Working Group All Hands\nThe Ecosystem Working Group is a collection of 50+ people across 3+ organizations that are passionate about the long-term adoption of Web3 and dedicated to growing the Filecoin, IPFS and libp2p ecosystems. All hands meetings are hosted regularly to check in on progress and showcase the growth of various developers, applications, storage providers, clients and communities around the world. 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Learn how to store off-chain NFT data in a decentralized manner using ChainSafe Storage, built on the guarantees of IPFS and Filecoin. Read ChainSafe’s newest blog to learn how.\n\nStorage Providers\n\n\n![101.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdJLWk7Ap3hh6q7BaKgLvE6v38QHYTnaLyXaEd5tVg6ME/101.png)\n\nStorage Provider Twitter Space AMA, January 26, 2022\nJoin fellow storage providers for an open discussion on the economics of operating a filecoin storage system and learn more about the opportunity to build the next-gen service provider on top of the Filecoin network. Come with your questions and learn from some of Filecoin’s most experienced storage providers. Tune in on January 26th at 8am PT!\n\nCommunity\n\n\n![102.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYukosTGb961UZtPMc7FxsaEEqJMvfgFDvYSyjgYJa11s/102.png)\n\nJonathan Victor on the Untold Stories Podcast\nProtocol Labs Business Development and Product Lead, Jonathan Victor, sat down with Charlie Shrem on the Untold Stories podcast. Tune in for a conversation about IPFS and Filecoin and its role in the growth of NFTs and Web3. They also talked about zero-knowledge proofs, hardcoding civil liberties, and other interesting topics.\n\n\n![103.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRVgHakLc9ns2DaYKpxaf9d9HsNSWNFiRQLp3SRFuJJw4/103.png)\n\n\nLit Protocol Raises $2.2 Million\nOur collaborators at Lit Protocol just closed a successful $2.2 million fundraiser for decentralized access control infrastructure. The tools developed by the team enable the implementation of token-gated access to both online and offline content and experiences. 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Thanks to all those improvements, and more, Lotus is now providing a stronger and easier to use foundation for storage providers to continuously grow their power by committing storage capacity to the Filecoin Network, and to provide robust storage service to the clients.\n\nCheck out lotus releases’ highlights for more information!\n\nProofs Improvements and zk-SNARKs\nNon-interactive zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) are a cryptographic technique that allows a prover to convince verifiers that the prover knows some piece of information without revealing the information itself.\n\nThe zk-SNARKs initiative for Filecoin project has been ongoing for about two years, even before mainnet launch, but much progress has been made in the past twelve months, including the launch of a dedicated zk-SNARKs for the World website where more information can be found.\n\nRecent updates include enabling storage providers to resume sealing after interruptions, the ability to deploy distributed Window PoSt, multicore-SDR (optimized/fast sealing), integration of a new Bls12-381 implementation, and general increase of performance across the board. 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Since well before mainnet launch, the Filecoin network has been operating at maximum capacity due to massive storage provider demand, making Filecoin the largest SNARK system in production, producing and verifying over five million SNARKs on a daily basis.\n\nFrom December 2020 to April 2021, CryptoNetLab and CyptoComputeLab designed and implemented SnarkPack, a novel strategy to scale SNARK proofs through aggregation, unlocking increased scalability, and relieving network congestion. SnarkPack landed in FIP13, bringing a 10-25x improvement in overall chain capacity to the Filecoin network.\n\nRetrieval Markets\nRetrieval Markets is one of the most exciting platforms being built on top of Filecoin. It offers CDN-like experience in a fully decentralized way where people can join to offer bandwidth and geographic location to their end users.\n\nThe year kicked off with an intensive Research Workshop focused on exploring the possibilities and opportunities for Retrieval Markets. Over 20 researchers met in a VR World to discuss and design new Data Delivery Metering, Graph Forming, Opportunistic Deployments, and Retrieval Market CryptoEconomics.\n\nIn April, the first Retrieval Market Builders Summit was held with the participation of the Lotus, PegaSys, Myel, Digital Mob, Textile, Chainsafe, Protocol Labs, IPFS, FilSwan, ResNetLab, and Estuary teams. Currently, there are several teams building different implementations of Retrieval Market solutions, and you can see their progress every other week at the Retrieval Markets Demo Days.\n\nNFT.Storage\nNFT.Storage launched in April 2021, providing off-chain storage of NFT metadata and assets in a free, simple service. Data uploaded to NFT.Storage’s HTTP endpoint is stored on Filecoin and made available to the public IPFS network. The service is free to use, with the vision to eventually persist NFT data in a decentralized manner as a public good.\n\nThe service also provides users with properly formatted IPFS URIs to reference their metadata in their smart contracts. This is a critical step to ensure their NFTs are truly making a permanent reference to the intended data. It guarantees the use of “ipfs://” URLs rather than “http://” URLs, which are centralized and can break if the server goes away, DNS is down, or the data’s location changes.\n\nThe product has grown quickly since launch, and now has over 21 million uploads stored in Filecoin across over 16,000 users. These NFTs include those minted by some of the largest marketplaces and minting services in the space, including OpenSea, OneOf, NFTPort, Makersplace, Jigstack, Curio, and more.\n\nThere’s a ton of exciting new feature work in progress, from a faster HTTP endpoint for accessing NFT data stored on IPFS, to a large directory uploader app for 10,000 NFT drops, to delegated authorization for marketplaces and SDKs to have end-users upload directly to NFT.Storage. Later this year, the team aims to utilize decentralized technology breakthroughs like smart contracts and DAOs to progress the product vision to persist NFT data in a decentralized way. The team is also working on niftysave, an effort to index all NFTs and save their metadata and assets onto Filecoin to ensure no NFT data is lost.\n\nFilecoin Green\nIn 2021, Filecoin Green formed as a brand new project and had made great strides in turning Filecoin into the world’s most verifiably sustainable blockchain!\n\nWorking with Storage Providers in order to better understand energy use on the network, the team developed an open source energy use model and launched the filecoin.energy dashboard. These tools make it easy for anyone in the world to estimate the energy use both for the network as a whole and for specific SPs.\n\nThe team also developed the ability to match SP energy use with renewables like wind and solar. Filecoin Green worked with the Filrep team to integrate these purchases into the reputation system, and partnered with the Energy Web foundation to record renewable energy purchases on their blockchain. This makes it possible for storage clients to see not only how much energy is being used by their chosen SP, but verify what renewable energy is being purchased to store their files down to the level of an individual solar or wind farm!\n\nAs these efforts have ramped up, Filecoin Green has been received by the community as the leader in verifiable sustainability for crypto systems. Coindesk covered how these strategies could turn both Filecoin and other blockchains green. The head of EWF tweeted that Filecoin is “at the head of the pack” in sustainable crypto.\n\nThe network has shared its sustainability strategy and verification work along with the establishment of a community of SPs and developers on the #fil-green channel!\n\nFVM\nThe Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is bringing smart contracts to the Filecoin network. This major technical advancement will make it possible to deploy trustless programmable storage use cases natively on Filecoin. As a WASM-based polyglot virtual machine, it can host existing EVM smart contracts in addition to the native Filecoin runtime with little to no adaptation, thanks to the EVM foreign runtime support.\n\nThe FVM opens up tons of opportunities for the network. The most exciting ones include: Data DAOs, decentralized compute, alternative storage markets, perpetual and crowdfunded storage, L2 solutions, cross-chain bridges, collateral lending programs, and more. If you’re attracted to any of these challenges, feel free to reach out!\n\nThe introduction of the FVM is a gradual process. The FVM team at Protocol Labs is currently completing Milestone 0, an internal testing and experimentation milestone aiming to launch canary Lotus nodes on mainnet, running built-in actors on the FVM.\n\nNext, Milestone 1 will officially transition the execution layer of mainnet to the FVM. It is estimated to land by the end of Q1 2022, and its scope will be limited to built-in actors. Milestone 2 will introduce the ability to deploy user-defined contracts, supporting both native actors and EVM smart contracts. It is expected to land by the end of Q2 2022.\n\nSubsequent milestones will focus on progressively migrating more and more Filecoin functionality out of system space to user space, to enable higher amounts of customization, innovation, and easier programmability. Timelines may vary depending on many factors.\n\nVDF\nA collaboration between Protocol Labs, Ethereum Foundation, Filecoin Foundation, Electric Coin Company (ECC), and Supranational was launched. The goal is to produce an efficient and cost-effective computational VDF (Verifiable Delay Function). This will involve developing both fast evaluation, as in sequential computation, and proving, as in parallel computation.\n\nThe intention is to develop optimized CPU (evaluation), GPU (proving), and eventually ASIC (evaluation and proving) implementations. Currently two proving systems are being explored: Halo2, which is published by ECC, and Nova, published by Microsoft Research.\n\nGeneralized proving ASICs and GPU optimizations are expected to improve the economic cost of general proving — not just VDF proofs — in either of these systems by 5-10x.\n\nProtocol Labs and Cryptosat are also collaborating to explore the possibility of a space VDF. One high-level idea is to exploit the speed of light as a ‘hard speed limit’ on communication latency — potentially allowing Protocol Labs to achieve a better Amax(Attacker’s Maximum Advantage) than theoretically possible from algorithmic and hardware optimizations, based on computational speed.\n\nIn this model, delay is based on minimum communication time between satellites in verifiable positions.\n\nDrand\nDrand, the distributed randomness beacon used by Filecoin’s leader elections, celebrated its one-year anniversary earlier this year, completing more than one million rounds of undisrupted service!\n\nDrand, which is powered by its network of independent partners, the League of Entropy (LoE), expanded since the Filecoin launch last October and added two new members to the consortium.\n\nThe LoE is expanding currently, and looking for new members to join the mission. Get in touch with them if you’re ready to contribute to the mission of making Drand a foundational Internet protocol for verifiable randomness.\n\nDrand is also being updated with new features in order to serve a wider variety of applications. Drand will adopt an “unchained” randomness generation method for partial signatures. This will enable developers to build clients that are able to encrypt messages in the future using a technique known as Time Lock Encryption, which can be leveraged to mitigate threats related to MEV (on Ethereum) and front running attacks.\n\nDrand will soon also provide support for higher frequency randomness beacons, running in parallel to the current 30-second beacon. This update will enable Drand to be leveraged by a broader set of Web2 and Web3 use cases.\n\nWeb3.Storage\nWeb3.Storage launched in August 2021, designed to make it easy for developers to integrate IPFS and Filecoin with their projects. They don’t need to run any infrastructure and are able to use simple interfaces including a JS client library and HTTP API.\n\nWith over 5,000 users and 9 million uploads since launch, Web3.Storage is growing quickly. As a result, developers new to Web3 are experiencing first-hand how content addressing and trustless storage enables lighter backend infrastructure, decentralization, and less lock-in, while experienced Web3 developers are able to quickly integrate IPFS and Filecoin with their production dapps.\n\nThe product has big ambitions to unlock new paradigms and patterns of how applications, users, and data interact with each other while continuing to provide an intuitive user experience, so stay tuned!\n\nEstuary\nThe work for Estuary kicked off in March 2021 and has grown into a reliable, scalable solution for participating in the Filecoin network today. Estuary nodes have their own libp2p stack with full IPFS and Filecoin features to help anyone make Filecoin storage deals in a multitude of ways.\n\nEstuary has made over 86,750 successful storage deals, has over half a billion objects registered, stored over 784.22 TiB of files, collaborates with many companies and groups within the Filecoin ecosystem, and stores data with over 143 storage providers from around the world.\n\nThose interested can run their own Estuary nodes in the cloud. Web developers can clone or fork the web client and provide a similar experience for their own users, or they can just use the hosted API to make storage deals with any public data they have.\n\nTextile\nTextile, a company that is rolling out tools to make it faster and easier for developers to build decentralized apps on IPFS and Filecoin, launched permissionless Filecoin storage bridges on Ethereum, Polygon, and NEAR. A Filecoin Deal Auctions pilot for clients to efficiently onboard massive datasets to the network was also rolled out with currently 2TiB per day and growing ~25% per week. As of October 1 2021, the pilot has reached 205TB in active Filecoin deals.\n\nHackathons\nIn 2021, the Filecoin and IPFS Hackathon program reached and connected 11,000+ developers and entrepreneurs worldwide. And more than 5,000 people have built projects in Filecoin and IPFS hackathons over the last 12 months.\n\nThe Filecoin ecosystem participated in 30+ events, such as HackFS and Scaling Ethereum early in the year, as well as other events sponsored by ETHGlobal and Chainlink that have encouraged developers and entrepreneurs to buidl. The hackathon program also piloted the multi-event Filecoin Asia Hackathon Season and participated in Polygon BUIDL IT as well as several student-run initiatives. Many of these events resulted in hundreds of sign ups and project submissions.\n\nFilecoin and IPFS’s goal continues to be to help connect, build, and catalyse the growth of promising projects by advancing them to these growing grants and accelerator programs. Some of the most amazing projects went on to secure millions of dollars in the form of grants and seed funding. Here are some favorites:\n\nArlequin is a metaverse fully community driven with a Paint-to-Earn system. Users can collect cute 3D animals, known as Arlee which are NFTs powered by the Flow blockchain and use IPFS (via web3.storage) to store their visual aspect.\nGeo Web is a set of open protocols and property rights for anchoring digital content to physical land. The Geo Web will bring digital media, games, data, commerce, and NFTs into the physical world as shared experiences rather than siloed applications.\nimg8 is a decentralized image processing and optimization protocol built for decentralized storage networks. It empowers Web3 builders and designers to retrieve images easily and with increased security, faster speed and high resolution images.\nA full list of all winning Hackathon projects will be published soon - stay tuned!\n\nThe team runs 5 or more hackathons each month with an increased focus on events lasting several weeks that educate and onboard new developers into Web3, frequently partnering with collaborators across the entire Filecoin ecosystem.\n\nVisit hackathons.filecoin.io to learn more about the upcoming opportunities to build in 2022 and be sure to sign up for the mailing list.\n\nWeb3 Collaborations\nFilecoin continues to grow and gain adoption as the de facto storage layer of Web3, and developers continue to explore and expand upon all the possibilities of the protocol.\n\nRecent months have been filled with exciting collaborations with the Web3 community. The collaborations are multi-faceted and include joint grant programs for developers, filecoin storage bridges, joint hackathons, and investments.\n\nWith smart contract systems, Filecoin is now integrated with Ethereum, Polygon, NEAR, Hedera Hashgraph, Flow, and more projects on the way. Developers in these ecosystems have discovered the ease of using Filecoin for data storage.\n\nChainlink, a blockchain oracle service, is a key collaborator and integrated with Filecoin in May. The network recently launched an extensive joint grant program to spur the development of new applications, such as data bounties and miner insurance.\n\nOther exciting collaborators include video solutions: Livepeer’s co-mining initiative and Videocoin’s video NFTs.\n\nFilecoin was added to the Data Economy Index (using RenFIL) in Sept 2021 as a fundamental and key driver of the Web3 stack as a result of these ongoing collaborative efforts.\n\nNew Startups in the Filecoin Ecosystem\nThe End-to-End builders funnel is rapidly scaling: the Filecoin ecosystem collaborates with builders globally to deliver a seamless experience from Hackathon to Scale.\n\nStartups are supercharged by combining the comprehensive hackathon and grants programs with a rapidly expanding accelerator program that includes Techstars, Tachyon, DeFi Alliance, Outlier Ventures, among others.\n\nAlmost 60 startups have now graduated from partner accelerator programs over the past year and many of those founders grew through Filecoin hackathons or received dedicated grants as they progressed through the Builders Funnel. There are an incredible number of amazing founders in the ecosystem and Filecoin is excited to support them with capital and resources as they scale.\n\nIn February 2021, Filecoin Launchpad hosted its demo day with 13 teams from 11 countries around the world emerging from a 12-week immersive accelerator bridging the IPFS, Filecoin, and Ethereum communities. The presentations from the first cohort as well as the 20 teams from 13 countries who participated in the second cohort can be watched online. Applications for Tachyon 6 winter cohort are now being accepted.\n\nFilecoin teamed up with LongHash Ventures to launch the Filecoin Frontier Accelerator. You can learn more about the program here and watch 11 amazing team presentations from the first demo day in April.\n\nFilecoin collaborated with Outlier Ventures to launch the Filecoin Base Camp accelerator to catalyze the growth of new ecosystem projects that are building the next generation of applications that will drive adoption of Web3.\n\nEarly 2022 will be kickstarted with the Techstars Filecoin Accelerator, DeFi Alliance, and another strong collaboration with Tachyon. All of which are currently finalizing their applications. If you are a builder: Apply now to build the future of Web3 or feel free to share your vision with us at [email protected].\n\nStorage Providers\nStraight out of the gate, the Filecoin network committed storage at a much faster rate than initially anticipated and very quickly in April achieved maximum baseline minting level. Since then the network has only gone from strength to strength.\n\nIn July 2021, the Filecoin community agreed to approve a new FIP to rebrand and replace the “miner” terminology that was somewhat limited and narrow-focused, and the more suitable “storage provider” term was adopted. In the journey to onboard more Filecoin storage users, this rebranding will help emphasize the utility and value of the network to enterprise customers.\n\nSince inception, there has been an incredible growth of new storage providers coming online around the world. To date, there are more than 3,500 Filecoin systems up and running and between five to ten new systems being onboarded daily.\n\nWith 30-60 PiB of new capacity coming online daily, there is a vast amount of space available to store useful data. The cost of storing data on Filecoin is nearly free with the amount of capacity that is available today.\n\nIn June, the storage provider community stepped up and came together to form a new storage provider working group in North America and Asia. One of the first implementations of the working group was to support the community in their efforts to create better documentation and tooling. Since then we built working groups in Europe, North America, Asia, Korea and Japan!\n\nIn August, a new Filecoin bounty board was created to support that effort. Since then external experts have been participating in delivering new best practices. New ideas or requests are always welcome on the board.\n\nTo support the ecosystem in building new storage providers, we built out a new accelerator program dedicated to train and onboard 50 new Storage Providers a year. Apply today at https://www.web3espa.io!\n\nARG\nIn February, The Application Research Group (ARG) started experimenting with prototypes using Filecoin, IPFS, libp2p, and IPLD. As of now, the ARG has created an open-source framework for building websites compatible with IPFS out of the box, developer examples with well-known ecosystem partners like Textile, and high-fidelity prototypes such as an offline Filecoin+Ledger Wallet.\n\nIn March, the ARG created Estuary to help improve the experience around making Filecoin storage deals. In the near future, many network operators around the world may be running Estuary nodes and making Filecoin storage deals for as much meaningful public data as possible.\n\nAsia Expansion\nAsia is a critical area for expansion of the Filecoin and IPFS ecosystems and growth in the region continued at pace in several key countries during the first year after launch. Several key initiatives that focus on the region launched this year.\n\nAsia Hackathon Season is a multi-month hackathon series aimed to identify, accelerate, and highlight the innovative Filecon and IPFS development work being done by startups and developers in Asia. Filecoin partnered with Wanxiang, Polygon, Dapper Labs, and other major regional collaborators to put the first 2021 season together. The program is still underway but has already seen many exciting submissions from contributors across the region.\n\nTo expand Filecoin’s presence in Korea and Japan communities, local language outreach and community building in Korea and Japan rolled out in August, and several meetups and events were hosted by the community as part of Filecoin Orbit.\n\nAnother notable initiative has been the promotion of geographical diversification from storage providers in China to other countries, as well as building key strategic relationships across Asia, such as NFTStar and more.\n\nMuch More to Come\nThe Filecoin network officially went live in October 2020. It has been just over 1 year since launch, and the community has already delivered a vibrant ecosystem of applications, tooling, use cases, integrations, and more. And the best part is — this is just the beginning. There is more than enough room for more builders, entrepreneurs, founders, designers, thinkers, creatives, developers, and more. Together, we’re building new paradigms for the real world. Join the Filecoin Community and work with others around the world on building the future of decentralized technology.\n\nOS:https://filpool.me",
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      "body": "In January 2021, Crypto Briefing released a list of 10 DeFi projects that may airdrop to early adopters. So far, three of the 10 listed have delivered tokens, bringing digital assets worth thousands of dollars to early adopters. \n\nLast June, Instadapp was the first on the list to reward its early users. It airdropped 11,000,000 INST to Maker DAO, Compound and Aave users on Ethereum and Polygon. On-chain trading platform dYdX announced its token DYDX last August, then distributed 7.5% of all DYDX to its early users. Other than that, Paraswap airdropped 150 million PSP token to its active users though it officially announced no plan for an airdrop. \n\nIn June, Instadapp was the first to reward its early users on the list, airdropping 11,000,000 INST tokens to Maker DAO, Compound and Aave users on Ethereum and Polygon. Secondly, the on-chain trading platform dYdX announced its own token in August, dropping 7.5% of the total supply of DYDX tokens to early adopters. In addition, even though Paraswap publicly announced that it wasn't planning to airdrop, it still dropped 150 million PSP tokens to frequent users in November. \n \n\nOf the seven projects that haven't airdropped users with tokens in 2021, some of them still look promising. MetaMask keeps suggesting that airdrops may be conducted, but has been elusive about who is eligible or when airdrops may occur. Other options, such as Zapper and DeFi Saver, are not hyping on potential airdrop, but are still likely to do one. Today in this article, I will give you a selection of high-quality projects that are most likely to be airdropped in 2022. \n\nFILPool mining pool is a professional Filecoin mining pool invested and constructed by Cloud Computing Technology Company, a high-tech company focusing on IPFS·Filecoin mining and distributed storage technology research and development.\n\nComment: Emerging platforms are more potent, also the earlier you participate, the more rewards you can get, so it'd be best to start following LuckyHash now. \n\n\n\n\n\nzkSync \n\n\n\n\n\nzkSync is a layer 2 scaling solution of Ethereum. It uses ZK-Rollups and is one of several Ethereum expansion projects we listed. Pioneer users can transfer ETH to the zkSync 1.0 mainnet, where they can mint NFTs or test dApps that are ready to be launched on the network. \n\n\nIn order to obtain potential airdrop eligibility, users can try transferring ETH to zkSync's mainnet wallet and exchange it on the UniSync testnet version of zkEVM. \n\n \nIt is worth noting that zkSync has confirmed that it plans to decentralize \nthrough governance tokens, and many people speculate that the tokens will be distributed to early users through airdrops. \n\n\nComment: Layer2 may be the hottest track this year, and zkSync is obviously the leading project of Layer2 track. It can be laid out in advance and focused on. \n\nUnstoppable Domains \n\n\nFollowing the unexpected airdrop of the Ethereum domain name service in early November, there are increasing speculations about whether other blockchain domain name providers will follow a similar path. \n\n\nUnstoppable Domains provides \".crypto\" domain names on Ethereum and Polygon, similar to the way ENS provides \".eth\" names on Ethereum. The protocol currently has no tokens, making it a major candidate for future airdrops. \n\nDifferent from ENS, Unstoppable Domains only requires a one-time payment to purchase a domain name without renewal fees. If the it decides to issue tokens, Unstoppable Domain owners may all be eligible for future airdrops.\n  \nComment: Web3.0 is the future development trend, and the domain name is undoubtedly a supplement and improvement to the Web3.0 infrastructure construction, that's why it worth attention. \n\nConclusion: Aside from token rewards, being familiar with these upcoming technologies is in itself an excellent educational investment. Although being an early user can be highly rewarding, those who do so should also be aware of the risks involved in using protocols that are still in the early stages of development. \n \nIn addition to the projects mentioned in this list, testing any other Ethereum scaling solutions or interoperability protocols next year may be a good choice to maximize the airdrop opportunity. In addition to Ethereum, other ecosystems such as Cosmos, Avalanche, and Solana may also bring rewards.\n\nOS:https://filpool.me\n\nMedium：https://medium.com/@FILPool5201/high-quality-projects-most-likely-to-be-airdropped-in-2022-e53e89619d5",
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      "body": "Ethereum's network congestion and high transaction fees have created a mature market for its Layer-1 competitors and EVM compatible Layer-2 projects. As a result easy deployment of decentralized applications using much of the same infrastructure, these solutions have been embraced by users who had been priced out of Ethereum mainnet. These solutions regard themselves as early scaling incumbents. \n\nHowever, such solutions often face severe security tradeoffs. The sidechain technology relies on separate consensus mechanism (compared to the mainnet), so it introduces the problem that validator groups can jointly steal or freeze user's funds. These risks may not be significant right now, but they will gradually accumulate over time. A successful attack is enough to cause a devastating impact on enterprises and users. \nFor example, a system like zk-Rollup that uses \"validity proof\"，can fundamentally eliminate the possibility of invalid or fraudulent transactions, which greatly reduces the value that an attacker can extract. To be precise, zk-Rollup is the only scalability solution that relies on cryptographic security guarantees. It can remain robust no matter how much value is locked in the system. \n\nTherefore, many people regard zkRollup as one of the most promising Layer-2 scaling solutions, and Layer 2 sidechain has been considered as the \"Holy Grail\" of scaling on Ethereum. Why? \n\nzkRollup have an interesting feature: the more transactions they process, the cheaper they become. It subverts the trilemma of \"Decentralization\", \"Security\", and \"Scalability\" of blockchain. \n\nOne of the pioneers of zk-Rollups is zkSync. Though they are in the early stages, they are very likely to be fully productive on the mainnet soon. zkSync is one of Ethereum's most promising scaling solutions using zkRollup technology. As the crypto economy tends to rollups and zkSync shifts to decentralized governance, the year 2022 may be an explosive year of the Layer 2. \n\nSo what is zkSync? \nMany people regard zkSync as a Layer 2 (L2) scaling solution because its purpose is to make Ethereum gas fee inexpensive and transactions almost instantaneous. \n\n\nTechnically speaking, zkSync is built by Matter Labs, and belongs to a class of L2 known as zkRollups. This means that zkSync uses a \"zero-knowledge\" cryptographic proof, posting data batches \"on-chain\" through zkSync, and at the same time executing transactions externally to the Ethereum base layer, thereby effectively batching and verifying Ethereum transactions. \n\nIn addition, the design of zkRollup led to something quite magical: through network effects, zkSync became cheaper for users as activity on its network increases. This is in sharp contrast to traditional blockchains, which become more expensive as the demand for their blockspace grows. Therefore, a resource like zkSync is very promising as a prospect for scaling Ethereum. \n\nAccording to analysis website L2BEAT, zkSync is the 10th largest L2 locked per total value, with a TVL of $63.42M. As zkSync continues to develop in features and functions, and a growing number of users begin migrating to zkRollups for a better user experience and cheaper transactions, this number is expected to grow even further. \n\n\n\nzkSync has reached several key milestones in its ecological development. The first is to release zkSync 1.x, which provides native minting, transfers, and atomic swap for NFTs. In September 2021, zkSync 2.0 was also launched on public testnet, providing EVM compatibility and code transplation from Solidy /Vyper. \n\nOn January 7, 2022, BitDAO and Matter Labs jointly launched a new proposal on \"zkDAO Endowment\", proposing to develop and fund the community-owned zkSync ecosystem accelerator, and provide 200 million USD to support the zkSync ecosystem and develop BitDAO and all DAOs. The proposal aims to promote the scalability of Ethereum and adopt the Layer-2 scaling solution zkSync. \n\nTherefore, both in terms of technology and ecological applications, zkSync has a relatively mature development and huge potential for futher development. \n\nSimultaneously, zkSync officially plans to launch its token and start to introduce the incentive mechanism of the token economy into the project for sustainable operation of zkSync. Undoubtedly the upcoming zkSync Token will attract more liquidity and practicality for zkSync. However, Matter Labs stated the launch of its tokenomic model might take several months. \n\nFILPool mining pool is a professional Filecoin mining pool invested and constructed by Cloud Computing Technology Company, a high-tech company focusing on IPFS·Filecoin mining and distributed storage technology research and development.\n\nOS:https://filpool.me",
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      "body": "1.Ethereum embraces a 438% price increase in 2021 \nBy 18th December, Ethereum price has multiplied 4.38 times since the beginning of 2021, from the $736 to $3960. While Bitcoin price only went up 63%. As three Ethereum ETF were approved for listing at the end of April (1. Purpose Ether ETF launched by Purpose Investment; 2. CI Galaxy Ethereum ETF launched by CI Global Asset Management; 3. Evolve Ether ETF launched by Evolve Capital), Ethereum is gradually turning from an alt coin to valid coin in the eyes of crypto conservatives. \n\n\n![41.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYAW4SsThYXH8V9DUCmpRXfGUQAQgtpzBij33SJNZLCnf/41.png)\n\n\n\n2. Steep fell following China’s total ban \nMiners’ income was boosted as Ethereum price surged. On 15th May, miners’ single-day income hit a record high (130 million US dollars), and then fell to a minimum of 32 million US dollars following the market plunge and of China’s cryptocurrency ban. Due to the Ethereum’s burning mechanism, the income of miners never returned to the its highest level on May (as you can see from the figure below, the block rewards are gradually increasing, but the handling fee income is severely reduced) \n\n\n\n\n![42.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbCPNVEBcU1AY1EJqf8CSPEgdTipTsWV2VZzxXa3mMRD4/42.png)\n\n\n\n3. Ethereum ecosystem scaled to over 150 billion USD \nAlthough cryptocurrency market had a great leap in 2021, Ethereum price only multiplied 2.6 times compared to its last highest record of $1448 in 2017. \n\nThough its price hasn’t went up crazily, Ethereum’s ecosystem is now worth a total of 150 billion USD, while 130 billion was accumulated this year. DeFi’s TVL has 7 folded compared to the beginning of 2021. However, Ethereum’s dominance in DeFi also lowered from 97% to 63%. \n\n\n![43.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmb9Pr87eFiMxbcscu351mj1StTNf18UrXEsaiWWHoPzqE/43.png)\n\n\n\n\n4. EIP-1559 burning mechanism has great contribution towards Ethereum price recovery \nDue to the high usage rate, Ethereum continues to see gas price peaks in 2021. Before the market crash in May, the gas used median remained above 100 gwei for most of the time, and dropped to less than 30 gwei during the recession, but it rose again as the market rebounded. However, the volatility of gas used in the second half of 2021 is much smaller than that in the first half, which is mainly due to EIP-1559 burning mechanism. EIP-1559 impacts on the network in a way that perhaps will not reduce gas fee, but can reduce its volatility and increase predictability. \n\n\n4.Astonishing number of Ethereum are burned everyday due to London upgrade \n\nOn 5th August, Ethereum launched London upgrade at a height of 12,965,000. Nearly 9,000 Ethereum are burned on a daily basis. Until now, the number of Ethereum burned had exceeded 1.2 million, valued at approximately 4.9 billion USD. (It’s estimated that 2 million Ethereum will be burned annually in a bear market. If it’s been bull market for a whole year, then annual burned volume will exceed 3 million).\n \n\n\n![45.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmV9CQj5d5Q5eLM9NuFC1ksSvoKWxqtyNeeM42huhvUe1n/45.png)\n\n\nAt present, the average daily output of Ethereum is about 13,000, and a total of 119 million have been produced. Its annual inflation rate is about 4.1%. Ethereum's burning mechanism can reduce its inflation rate to about 1.4%, lower than that of Bitcoin (1.7%). When Ethereum officially enters 2.0, the inflation rate may be further reduced to a negative number, achieving deflation. \n\nAccording to Ethereum's economic model, the annual issuance of Ethereum 2.0 goes up with the increase in the number of pledges. When the quantity of pledge exceeds 100 million, the annual issuance rate will stabilize at 1.71%, that is, the average daily output is about 5600. By then if Ethereum 2.0 can maintain the current burn volume, it can achieve 1% deflation every year. \n\n\n6、By December 19, the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain address has pledged 8.71 million Ethereum, worth about 34.4 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for only 7.3% of the total issuance, and the actual staking rate is about 5.4%. It can be seen from the figure that the growth rate of the staking amount of Ethereum 2.0 has slowed down significantly this year. In 2020, it only took 2 months to accumulate 2.18 million Ethereum. But the number has only increased by another 653 since the beginning of 2021. This is related to the slowness of the Ethereum upgrade. \n![41.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYAW4SsThYXH8V9DUCmpRXfGUQAQgtpzBij33SJNZLCnf/41.png)",
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      "body": "India, with a population of 1.4 billion, is currently the fastest-growing cryptocurrency market. Over 20 million Indian cryptocurrency holders are waiting for the implementation of regulatory policies in the country. \n\n\n![36.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRCcjRMSBhpRbPJEWSjAxHnTrMDv3E6W6XT4G3Dmyjpay/36.png)\n\n\nDue to increasing regulatory uncertainty, the \"The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021\", which originally scheduled to be submitted at the winter meeting of the Indian Parliament in December, has been delayed. The bill proposes to ban all private cryptocurrencies in India. According to reliable sources, the government is still finalizing the details of the legislation and the cabinet has not approved the proposed legislation yet. \n\nThe delay in policy formulation has brought a window period for the development of India's crypto industry. Its huge market demand, cryptoassets scale and the attractiveness of the crypto industry to talents have brought rapid growth to India cryptocurrency market. It is noteworthy that the trading volume from Indian cryptocurrency exchanges accounted for 5% of the total global trading volume starting December 2020. \n\nIn addition, the Economic Times statistics show that India has more than 20 million cryptocurrency account holders, the number has surpassed that of Indian stock market. A total of 6 billion rupees have been (equivalent to US$79.14 million) invested in cryptocurrencies. Among the 20 million cryptocurrency holders, the average age of investors is approximately 25, and most investors are between 25 and 34 years old. \n\nA report by Crebaco and Khaitan & Co shows that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin and Ethereum, are becoming expandingly popular in India and speculated India's crypto industry would be worth 15 billion U.S. dollars. \n\nDuring the past 10 years, India has beening showing increasingly more interest in cryptocurrencies and many cryptoasset exchanges such as CoinDCX or WazirX catering to the demands. Recently, CoinDCX was valued at US$1.1 billion after financing. \n\nEconomists reputed India's crypto industry is likely to become the center of the crypto industry in Asia if it can obtain regulatory norms and guidelines different from the arbitrary complete cryptocurrency ban in China. India then, with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, is likely to replace China's dominating position in Asia cryptocurrency. \n\nHowever, the explosive growth of the Indian market and the emerge of related institutions in the crypto industry deeply concerns Indian Financial Division of Supervision and Regulation. The Central Bank of India has been considering cryptocurrency a threat to financial stability and the country's macroeconomy. Furthermore, this is the fundamental reason why the Indian government has increased its supervision of the encryption industry. \n\nIndia needs cryptocurrency regulation, which don't necessarily have to follow the path of China’s total ban. Building on United Kingdom and Singapore’s expertise and experience in cryptocurrency regulation may be an excellent choice for India. In UK and Singapore, though countries cryptocurrencies are different from fiat currencies, they were required to comply with the requirements of their financial regulators.",
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      "body": "NFT is no doubt the one under the spotlight in cryptocurrency market 2021. \nWe can hardly tell whether it’s the development of OpenSea that brought NFT up or NFT’s burst in popularity made OpenSea famous, but OpenSea is definitely the monopoly in NFT market. According to ConsenSys’s analysis, in 2021, OpenSea’s trade volume adds up to 97% of the whole NFT market. It’s dominating position is too obvious to not be seen. \n\nAccording to OpenSea’s trade volume statistics, NFT market development can be divided into several stages: \n\n\n![34.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmStmaeQEqYvWDy6H5WDhWdHZp9ZDvFdbdSx1dpZaBE37M/34.png)\n\n\n1.Indifferent: Feb 2021 (monthly trading volume has been below 10 million USD for a long time, sometimes even less than one million) \n\n2.Preliminary development: February - June 2021 (monthly trading volume maintained at 100 million to 150 million USD, 10x explosive growth) \n\n3.Getting ready: July 2021 (compared to the previous five months, the monthly transaction volume has doubled to more than 320 million USD) \n\n4.Unstoppable: August 2021 (monthly transaction volume increased by ten times compared with the previous month and reached its peak, exceeding 3.4 billion USD) \n\n5.Heat dropped: September - November 2021 (monthly transaction volume shows a decreasing trend month by month, compared its peak in August, in November decreased by 44%) \n\n6. Stabilization: December 2021 - present (the transaction volume of December is similar to that of November, and it tends to be stable) \n\n\n![35.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQma265S6UX6jEHWPgyQF9t82A8wCCTLgLXYmaPsxuKhXcy/35.png)\n\n\nIt’s quite intuitive to see that NFT market is highly volatile, same as cryptocurrency market, it tends to fluctuate in an very small amount of time. A big jump rather than hierarchic bars marks its pattern. Although OpenSea had most trade volume in August, more NFTs were sold in September. And the lagging growth in the number of active trading users also reflects this. \n\nHowever, the basis of the surge still relies on long-term preparation, which is in line with the characteristics of the cryptocurrency market that most rewards are given to early users and loyal users. Active users in December are currently second only to the peak in October, this helps stabilizing the NFT market. \n\nThe total number of active user who has traded on OpenSea is over 850 thousand and OpenSea has 300 thousand active users on a monthly basis. \nEven during its downside, OpenSea’s daily trading volume is stabilized at a level between 50 million and 100 million USD, and sometimes the number can exceed 150 million USD. \n\n\nNowadays NFT has become an inseparable part of crypto market, but the FOMO sentiment brought along with it has also increased the asset bubble.",
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      "body": "Preface: Bitcoin opened the Pandora box of crypto-world and decentralized the global economy. DAO infused decentralized organization with “artificial intelligence”, self-motivation and autonomous governance. All is without manipulation and all operations are executed by code. This is the most fascinating point of DAO: it’s an organized yet autonomous world, and a democratic and liberal world. \n\nIn crypto-world, we often come across the term “DAO,” what does it stand for? \n\n\n![31.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQD2eAyWkq4Ug64FNiQTAukZawPou1DGrH2m3J1JjjN6u/31.png)\n\n\nDAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization.It’s name has already revealed that DAO is a decentralized autonomous “organization.” The “organization” can be a project, a platform or a community. \nIn fact, the earliest concept of DAO was put forward in a book called “The Starfish and the Spider” written by American writer Ori Brafman. In his book, he compares centralized organizations to spiders, and distributed organizations to starfish. Spider dies if its head is chopped off (centralized organizations can’t live without a head). Starfish, on the other hand, is composed of a bunch of cells that are equal to each other (decentralized), and each tentacles torn off by can grow into a complete starfish. Relatively speaking, a decentralized organization like starfish is much more vigorous than a centralized one. \n\nIn cryptoworld, DAO isn’t managed by a small group of people, but configured by codes and the codes are executed by computer network. This means no one has privilege and everyone is equal under the rules. It’s like the ideal form of democracy that everyone obeys the same law. \nThat’s why sometimes people regard DAO’s decentralization as democratic autonomy. It has several features, such as: all amendments can be voted \nby everyone rather than just a small group of decision makers in the organization; all votes are counted by software so no manipulation can be cast upon. This eliminates the possibility of tampering of vote counts, realizing total transparency and full visibility. \n\nDAO members don’t need to put trust on any one. As a result, DAO can be composed of many people who don’t even know each other. In other word, people can cooperate with each beyond any physical limitations and ensure that all parties are working for the benefit of the project itself. \nThere is such a company, its mysterious founder has never put any effort into it after it’s established, he simply handed the company to his community. It hasn’t hired any employee however the company still runs normally, because a group of faithfuls are supporting it. Later the founder disappeared but increasingly more people are into it.Ten years later, this amazing company set a market value of jaw-dropping US$1.3 trillion in November this year, surpassing Facebook and Tencent, and squeezed into the top five companies in the world by market value. \nYou may have guessed the company’s name, that’s right, Bitcoin! It is a “monster” who receives both praise and vituperation, yet it’s no doubt the most famous and most successful DAO in the world. Its mystery boss’s name is Satoshi. \n\n“Thank you Satoshi. Whoever you are.” \nThe most fascinating part of DAO is that it runs in a self-motivated autonomous way without any central institution. \n\nDAO on Ethereum, compared to those on Bitcoin, are often more complex. Because DAO represents a revolutionary financial technology driven by Ethereum. Before Ethereum, there was no way to decentralize an organization in a globally accessible, non-hierarchical, and interoperable way. Bitcoin only stays at economy level. \n\nA traditional enterprise relies on the boss or an elite team to execute decisions, while DAO relies entirely on smart contracts to execute orders, it completely subverts the stereotypical operating mode of corporate governance. These smart contracts are highly visible, verifiable, and publicly auditable, so any potential member can fully understand the operation of the agreement at each step. Those smart contracts lay the basic framework for the operation of the DAO. \n\nThe concept of DAO is spreading fast in crypto industry. ConstitutionDAO illustrated the charm of \"MEME+DAO\", its token “People” has also become well-known. In addition, EOS BP nodes voted to freeze all the tokens of the inactive development parent company \"block.one\". \n\nFrom dictatorship to democracy, from passive governance to autonomous governance, this is the spirit passed down by the DAO. Behind the code is a subversion of power and a perfect inheritance of the blockchain spirit \"decentralization.\" \n\nConclusion: As Nutbox CMO Sunny said, \"The future digital enterprise form has to be DAO.\" DAO is the future of venture capital, and will soon become the second major breakthrough in the blockchain field after digital cash. Perhaps, 2022 will be the first year of DAO!",
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      "body": "Much of the conversation around blockchain technology and climate issues has focused on the energy expenditure of Proof of Work chains. Little, however, has been said of how the development of Web3 will enable more transparent tracking and accountability for green technologies. Filecoin wants to be at the forefront of that change and Filecoin Green is an initiative that seeks to make its blockchain carbon-neutral and, in time, carbon negative. Moreover, it hopes to play a part in getting others to do so as well.\n\nFilecoin’s Role in a Greener Present and Future\nMost users understand how critical storage providers are to the Filecoin chain. They are at the center of an island economy designed to offer file storage services to anyone from anywhere. As more storage providers come onto the chain the energy use of the network does increase, but much of this energy is expended to provide a useful resource: storage capacity.\n\nIn this sense, Filecoin is already playing a part in becoming a green blockchain. Its proof-of-useful-work consensus algorithm is based on valuable output and avoids all the wasteful energy consumption that drives simple proof-of-work blockchains.\n\nThe Power of Web3 in Building Better Solutions\nThis is coupled with the fact that the network’s infrastructure also makes it easier to measure energy use compared to other major blockchains. On Filecoin, miners and storage providers have unique identities associated with their activity on the network. That activity can be used to model electricity consumption using on-chain information. The filecoin.energy dashboard uses this Filecoin design feature to raise the bar for energy transparency across Web2 and Web3 alike, allowing anyone to estimate the energy use of any node in the network.\n\nKnowing the electricity use of Filecoin nodes, it is possible to match this use to renewable energy. This was demonstrated in a partnership with Energy Web Zero to match Filecoin energy use with renewable energy certificates (RECs). Renewables purchases are recorded in Filrep, a reputation system that stores data on the Filecoin network. Each record keeps track of where the energy was produced and proves the ownership of the corresponding RECs.\n\nFilecoin and the Crypto Climate Accord\nAnother step Filecoin is taking towards building greener solutions is joining the Crypto Climate Accord. Modeled after the Paris Climate Accord, the CCA is a joint effort between stakeholders in the crypto and blockchain space that have come together to reduce the technology’s carbon footprint. The agreement hopes to decarbonize the crypto space by 2040 and ensure the industry is next-zero for carbon emissions by 2030.\n\nThe CCA has developed a three-pronged approach to ensure this becomes a reality:\n\nIt establishes a baseline for renewable energy use within the crypto space\nIt encourages the development of open-source tools that help to decarbonize mining\nIt enables the sharing of measurable progress and additional assistance when needed in meeting objectives.\nThe Filecoin Foundation and Protocol Labs have joined the CCA to support this work, and are playing an active role in realizing its mission. This includes developing the filecoin.energy dashboard and helping to support the Energy Web Zero platform for purchasing renewable energy. In this effort, Filecoin is both pioneering open source tools and developing a playbook that can be used by other currencies to decarbonize.\n\nThe Road Ahead\nAltogether, the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry can become an important player in renewable energy and drive objective, actionable change towards sustainability. Due to its inherent technological advantages, it can even outpace traditional companies in their efforts towards fighting climate change.\n\nFilecoin Green is sure to play its role in this. By taking steps towards measuring environmental impacts and reducing them, the network is already leading the way among most blockchain projects.",
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      "body": "Language learning apps can give a fun, convenient way to learn a new language. Like many uses of the internet, though, there is an opportunity for dark patterns to sneak in: user data hoarding, targeted presentation, and majority-cultural filter bubbles can have negative social impacts, and properietary or closed-source software and always-connected centralised backends can create unstable infrastructure and restrict user freedom.\n\nWe present here Omnilingo (opens new window)- an open project to build language learning protocols, software, and infrastructure that avoids these problems, prioritizing minority language communities and user data sovereignty. Let’s start with a few example stories about Omnilingo’s users.\n\n#Language Activist\nA language activist in a minority community wants to add their language to their favourite language learning app. The activist gathers audio samples and transcriptions and designs a curriculum. They contact the company producing the app, which controls what material can be used. The company responds that the language has too few speakers to be worth their time, saying one of:\n\nTheir lawyers don’t have time to evaluate whether they can use this material legally.\nTheir developers don’t have time to add the language to their app.\nTheir servers don’t have space or bandwidth to host the material for use in the app.\nThey can’t evaluate the quality of the material, and would rather not allow anyone to use it.\nWith OmniLingo, the activist can host the material they’ve collected and, through the IPFS decentralised storage network, and users can add the material to their app using the material’s Content ID hash.\n\n#Language Learner\nA privacy-conscious language learner wants an app that doesn’t track their abilities or habits; apps with registration and partnerships with advertising surveillance networks are hard to find, and many of them have disappeared along with their data. With OmniLingo, as long as their are users the data remains on the network; the open protocol allows developing clients which store no information on the network, or which allow users to choose who gets access to their data.\n\n#Language Instructor\nA language instructor is tired of having to adapt their course to the subscription plastic-wrapped curriculum their school purchased: the curriculum dictates the topics that are covered, the order, the vocabulary, and the variety of voices (gender, dialect, accent) that are used. With OmniLingo, the instructor can create, share and mix their own material.\n\n#Who we are\nWe’re a pair of computational linguistics researchers and language activists. Fran Tyers is an assistant professor of computational linguistics at Indiana University and Nick Howell is a language technology consultant. We work at all layers of the stack to bring the latest advancements in language technology to minority and under-resourced language communities in ways that support their right to self-determination.\n\n#What is OmniLingo\nOmniLingo is a protocol and sample implementation for language-learning applications with a focus on decentralised and self-determined storage, user rights and privacy, and minority and under-represented languages.\n\n\n \n![1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXgu9nU6gcsvgKB2LVuh67uH9zVJG8t9m4FnaeZ5uG44e/1.png)\n  \n              \n       \n#Architecture\n\n\n![2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUhK25YZ7MQRf9gWmdwfbz7Akp7gJEsuhYDtHdJGXDU3n/2.png)\n\n\nOmniLingo language data is stored on IPFS in a hierarchy of JSON and MP3 files. 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      "body": "Almost everyone in blockchain industry knows something about mining. But to take care of the few, let me tell you what mining is: simply put, mining is the process of mining machines, which are loaded with specialized chips that help calculating cryptos' location and obtaining cryptos. Complex calculation will be performed during transactions, and miners use computers to run those calculations to gain Bitc oin or other cryptocurrencies.\n \nIn 2021, mining has divided into two major modes: traditional mining & cloud hashrate mining. Why cloud mining appeals to rookie miners and how it became so popular? Let’s take a look! \n\n\n![10.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYyme4r2tjVA3kdTAkJx4AQCeU8MpmLxqT7Rmk9fC6aza/10.png)\n\n\nIn early mining history, people were able to mine using calculating capacity of personal computers and a mining software. But as more and more miners flooding into the industry, mining difficulty has risen up and professional GPU mining machines started to emerge on the market. As mining investment rose, regular miners are basically excluded from mining. However, as mining model upgrades, cloud mining model appeared, which made everyone eligible to mine cryptos. \n\nRegular PC is far from enough to participate in traditional crypto mining now, specialized GPU mining machine is a must. If someone wants to mine cryptocurrency, they have to buy mining machines and set up their own machine room. Not to mention installation, management, maintenance and etc. You may choose to spending days looking for a reliable agent to help you manage mining, but it’s also a cumbersome process to handover your mining machines to them. \n\nFortunately, cloud mining perfectly clears the barriers that have been keeping regular people from mining. Cloud mining is a remote mining model, it means you can participate no matter where you are. Cloud mining service providers sells hashrate on their platforms, which comes from mining farms built by themselves or with other companies. Cloud mining is extremely flexible and effective, it’s bound to own a dominating place on the market. \n\n\n![11.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRBXUksfVyCwJkXj4LPwtmALuL25wnpVzfhWg2PpdyUJg/11.png)\n\n\nEssentially cloud mining and traditional mining are the same, since they all require mining machines and have to face common mining problems. The main difference is that with cloud mining, users don’t need to look after their machines, it’s a very simple way to begin their mining journey. All they have to do is selecting a premium trustworthy cloud mining platform like BPool. BPool allows you to mine with low cost and its revenues are so high that sometimes even more profitable than buying machines yourselves. Also BPool provides products of different contract periods, so that you can invest in mining on a very flexible manner and almost of no prerequisites. Such terms simply don’t exist in traditional mining industry in 2021, that’s why the masses are moving towards cloud mining industry. \n\nAlthough cloud mining is an excellent way to mine, vital factors such as whether have hashrate from real mining farms, mining efficiency, platform service capacity have be considered. That’s why you have to find a reliable and powerful cloud mining platform.\n\n\nOS：https://sky.bpool.io",
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      "body": "During the past few months, cryptocurrency market has witnessed the rise of public blockchain such as Solana, Avalanche, Fantom. Yet another public blockchain project - inter chain network Polkadot draws public attention. The project plans to launch the first phase of Parachain Slots auction at 9pm on November 11. \n\n\n![1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTy2FHunggj9HXcN6RXdHWNutvkoY45oVqc9GDxFcLXor/1.png)\n\n\nCompetition over the project has already begun even before the auction starts. In order to promote their chance to win, project parties have widely adopted the form of crowd loans to raise Polkadot's native token DOT from the market. Currently, OKEx, Binance, MXC and other trade platform have cooperated with the project parties to open their early bird vote channel. Users can get token rewards and other supplementary rewards for voting. \n\nIt’s noteworthy that the DOT pledged by users will have relatively long lock-up period.If the voted project lost the auction, users get to take back their DOT after the auction. For the voters of the successfully bidden project, their pledged DOT will be lock up for 96 weeks (672 days), until the slot loan period ends. \n\nAccording to reliable sources, this slots auction will be held from Nov 11th to Dec 16th, consists of 5 rounds of auctions. For the voters of the successfully bidden project, their pledged DOT will be lock up for 96 weeks (672 days). If the voted project lost the auction, the pledged DOT will be unlocked after the auction. \n\nObviously, no matter which side participants decide to vote for, their pledged DOT will always be locked up for relatively long period, which will possibly bring up risks of asset devaluing. When the first phase slot auction ends, DOT will potentially experience big fluctuation as market demand falls. Investors should be aware of asset loss caused by DOT price drop during the lock-up period. \n\nIn short, a lock-up period of at least 35 days and at most almost 2 years is definitely a factor that investors should take into consideration. On the other hand, the application ecosystem of Polkadot network’s official expanded chain features parachains inserted with relaychain sockets. It is, undoubtedly, a value increase sign for Polkadot. We only know from Polkadot’s trial network Kusama’s auction results that when Kusama’s native token KSM launched it’s “slot” auction, its price indeed multiplied several times. \n\nPolkadot slot is at our doorstep, is it an opportunity or risk? \n\n\n![2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQCiih4NB3nLScvNAt9K2vsPLhTyjQ6w8ZGJJGMv2WBKJ/2.png)\n\n\nCompared to cryptocurrency investment, mining is much more reliable. However it’s not likely to earn big money investing BTC or ETH mining machines, judging from the current BTC and ETH’s prices. Also a high level of capital is needed, thus not suitable for regular investors. \n\nHowever, the emergence of Filecoin can well meet the investment needs of regular users. First, the current price of FIL is relatively low. Due to the existence of data storage demand, the value of FIL has enormous room for increase; second, BPool (https://sky.bpool.io), a platform that focuses on crypto asset investment services, has greatly reduced the user's investment threshold by launching a one-stop Filecoin mining investment service. It makes mining as simple as online shopping! \n\n\n![3.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPtD6tTVQdsSKzdoUpR6XRDrxfs7S77w3YaXayZr7ZDKL/3.png)\n\n\nBPool core feature is stability and security, as listed below: \n\nFirst, BPool is in a leading position of the industry and it has reached in-depth cooperation with some of the industry heads. It has an innovative and strong technical team to develop industry-leading algorithms, making BPool products four times higher than their peers in mining efficiency. \n\nSecond, BPool guarantees revenue.BPool technical team is continuously optimizing its mining system, launching competitive Filecoin hashrate contract product. Its Lucky value is 5% higher than peers’ average, BPool puts all its efforts into assuring their users’ revenue. \n\nThird, BPool system is easy to learn, convenient to use and doesn’t require any professional skills to operate. 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