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Game NFT marketplace: the easiest piece of cake to cut from Opensea
Author: Peter, IOSG Ventures TL; DRVertical NFT trading marketplace is emerging, eating Opensea’s shareGame NFT trading market is expected to be one of the first successful verticalized platformsThe current game NFT trading market has already taken shapeGame NFT trading market will occupy a more critical position in the ecosystemThe NFT market in the past year has been crazy. It seems that since a certain moment, celebrities have purchased NFT, changing their social media avatars such as Twit...
Game NFT marketplace: the easiest piece of cake to cut from Opensea
Author: Peter, IOSG Ventures TL; DRVertical NFT trading marketplace is emerging, eating Opensea’s shareGame NFT trading market is expected to be one of the first successful verticalized platformsThe current game NFT trading market has already taken shapeGame NFT trading market will occupy a more critical position in the ecosystemThe NFT market in the past year has been crazy. It seems that since a certain moment, celebrities have purchased NFT, changing their social media avatars such as Twit...
Zero Knowledge in DiDs and Social Networks
Author: Ishanee, IOSG VenturesLet’s start by establishing terminologies that will be referenced throughout this article.Decentralized Identity (DID) or self-sovereign identity (SSI) is an open standard based framework that uses identifiers & verifiable credentials that are self-owned, independent and enable trusted data exchange.Credential / Attestation / Verifiable Credential (VC) / POAP / SBT is a piece of document in Web2 or on blockchain with details pointing at a qualification. These can...
Zero Knowledge in DiDs and Social Networks
Author: Ishanee, IOSG VenturesLet’s start by establishing terminologies that will be referenced throughout this article.Decentralized Identity (DID) or self-sovereign identity (SSI) is an open standard based framework that uses identifiers & verifiable credentials that are self-owned, independent and enable trusted data exchange.Credential / Attestation / Verifiable Credential (VC) / POAP / SBT is a piece of document in Web2 or on blockchain with details pointing at a qualification. These can...
dYdX Is Running Away: The Battle Between Appchain and Rollup
TL;DRThe main reasons why dYdX left StarkWare: long development cycle of Stark technology, L2 solution sequencer/prover network decentralization still need time, for the sake of composability, Cosmos SDK providing a pretty solid development toolIn addition to transaction speed and cost, the imagination of appchain is also reflected in token empowerment.Appchains have better flexibility in terms of fast iterations compared to those generalized public chains.The multi-chain narratives have chan...
dYdX Is Running Away: The Battle Between Appchain and Rollup
TL;DRThe main reasons why dYdX left StarkWare: long development cycle of Stark technology, L2 solution sequencer/prover network decentralization still need time, for the sake of composability, Cosmos SDK providing a pretty solid development toolIn addition to transaction speed and cost, the imagination of appchain is also reflected in token empowerment.Appchains have better flexibility in terms of fast iterations compared to those generalized public chains.The multi-chain narratives have chan...
Diving into Data Availability Layer: The Overlooked LEGO of the Modular Future
tl;drFor light-client data availability, there is little disagreement that erasing codes are used to solve the problem, the difference being how to ensure that the erasing codes are properly encoded. KZG commitments are used in Polygon Avail and Danksharding, while fraud proof is used in Celestia. For Rollup’s data availability, if DAC is understood as a consortium blockchain, what Polygon Avail and Celestia have done is to make the data availability layer more decentralized — providing a “DA...
Diving into Data Availability Layer: The Overlooked LEGO of the Modular Future
tl;drFor light-client data availability, there is little disagreement that erasing codes are used to solve the problem, the difference being how to ensure that the erasing codes are properly encoded. KZG commitments are used in Polygon Avail and Danksharding, while fraud proof is used in Celestia. For Rollup’s data availability, if DAC is understood as a consortium blockchain, what Polygon Avail and Celestia have done is to make the data availability layer more decentralized — providing a “DA...
The Twilight Zone：The Merge is Near
Key TakeawaysLast week, a successful merge was achieved on Ropsten testnet, where PoS was officially enabled.The merge on the Sepolia and Goerli testnet will take place in a few weeks.The merge on Ethereum mainnet is expected to be executed in late August to November, if everything goes well.To coincide with the eventual mainnet merge, EIP-5133 proposes to activatet the mainnet's difficulty bomb in August.Since Layer 2 scaling is well-developed, the focus of Ethereum has now shifted from...
The Twilight Zone：The Merge is Near
Key TakeawaysLast week, a successful merge was achieved on Ropsten testnet, where PoS was officially enabled.The merge on the Sepolia and Goerli testnet will take place in a few weeks.The merge on Ethereum mainnet is expected to be executed in late August to November, if everything goes well.To coincide with the eventual mainnet merge, EIP-5133 proposes to activatet the mainnet's difficulty bomb in August.Since Layer 2 scaling is well-developed, the focus of Ethereum has now shifted from...
