Weekly Recommended Reading[Including: Solana; Vitalik Buterin; a16z]

HuobiPublicado em 2022-08-06Última atualização em 2022-08-09

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All you need to know for the first week in August

1.Solana

Solana Is Experiencing a Large-Scale Security Incident, What Should You Know?

Multiple Solana addresses have succumbed to a widespread attack, as private keys to several wallets have been compromised.

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Solana Down In A Green Market As Multimillion-Dollar Hack Empties Over 7,000 Wallets

SOL has dropped in an otherwise green market following reports of a multimillion-dollar hack targeting Solana wallets.

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2.New Protocol

Replace Solana? What You Should Know about the Aptos Network?

Learn about Aptos in one article: financing, technical architecture, Move language, and ecological applications

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Meme Coin CateCoin Silently Balloons Over 250% – Time To Buy CATE?

CateCoin (CATE) is doing the cat walk as it skyrockets by over 250% amid the crypto market’s bizarre movement. The slow yet steady gains of CATE shows how low market...

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3.WEB3

Web3 middleware: The bet on infrastructures to accelerate Web3

The middleware playbook could be the long term goal for crypto gem hunting. Despite the six years of blockchain development along the likes of decentralized infrastructure and GameFi, there remains roadblocks that hinder blockchain utility.

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4.DeFi

5 Ways to Fix DeFi Tokens

A key catalyst of the 2021 bull market was linking DeFi protocols with governance.But now the bull market is over, and the industry is realizing that valueless governance tokens are not the end-game.

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5.Layer 2

Vitalik Buterin: The different types of ZK-EVMs

This post will attempt to describe a taxonomy of the different "types" of EVM equivalence, as well as the benefits and costs of trying to implement each type.

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What is Zero-Knowledge Proofs?

If you have been around crypto long enough, you should by now have seen the word ZK plenty of times. But what really is it? Let us demystify it for you today.

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6.NFT

a16z: Why NFT Creators Are Going cc0

cc0 provides a new way for NFT creators to start projects

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7.Tokenomics

Tokenomics in Detail: Supply and Demand, Incentives and Governance

Token economics is an important part of cryptocurrencies.

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