#2026 #CryptoSummit If I had to use one sentence to describe the crypto industry in 2026 Q1, it would probably be: narratives are re-converging, resources are flowing back, and the real “next stage” is taking shape. After the policy tug-of-war, infrastructure buildout, and narrative rotations of 2024–2025, many people have clearly felt a shift: the market is no longer discussing only price, and the industry’s attention is returning to execution, structure, and long-term direction itself. And ...

#2026 #CryptoSummit If I had to use one sentence to describe the crypto industry in 2026 Q1, it would probably be: narratives are re-converging, resources are flowing back, and the real “next stage” is taking shape. After the policy tug-of-war, infrastructure buildout, and narrative rotations of 2024–2025, many people have clearly felt a shift: the market is no longer discussing only price, and the industry’s attention is returning to execution, structure, and long-term direction itself. And ...

#DA #EducationalSeries In the previous articles, we have discussed several key mechanisms, including Data Withholding Attacks, Erasure Coding, and DA Sampling. If you place these concepts onto the same logical map, you will find that they ultimately all point to the same core question: When we say “this chain is secure,” what exactly are we trusting? In the blockchain world, “trust minimization” is almost universally regarded as a shared design goal. But the reality is that no system is compl...

#DA #EducationalSeries In the previous articles, we have discussed several key mechanisms, including Data Withholding Attacks, Erasure Coding, and DA Sampling. If you place these concepts onto the same logical map, you will find that they ultimately all point to the same core question: When we say “this chain is secure,” what exactly are we trusting? In the blockchain world, “trust minimization” is almost universally regarded as a shared design goal. But the reality is that no system is compl...

#ArchiveNodes #EducationalSeries In the past few articles, we have discussed many concepts related to state:why state size keeps growing, what state bloat leads to, and why most public blockchains eventually need to implement State Pruning. Once states are gradually cleaned up and data that no longer needs long-term retention is removed, a natural question arises: If data is deleted, can history still be fully traced?Are we really willing to let a blockchain “lose its memory”? The answer is, ...

#ArchiveNodes #EducationalSeries In the past few articles, we have discussed many concepts related to state:why state size keeps growing, what state bloat leads to, and why most public blockchains eventually need to implement State Pruning. Once states are gradually cleaned up and data that no longer needs long-term retention is removed, a natural question arises: If data is deleted, can history still be fully traced?Are we really willing to let a blockchain “lose its memory”? The answer is, ...

#IndexFutures #derivatives From the day crypto derivatives were born, contract trading has essentially been a game with preset rules for everyone. The first thing you are required to do is to convert your assets into USDT — or at least into BTC or ETH. Only then are you allowed to participate in mainstream market movements. This feels almost like an iron law, unquestionable and unshakable. As for the small-cap tokens in your wallet, no matter how confident you are in their long-term value, th...

#IndexFutures #derivatives From the day crypto derivatives were born, contract trading has essentially been a game with preset rules for everyone. The first thing you are required to do is to convert your assets into USDT — or at least into BTC or ETH. Only then are you allowed to participate in mainstream market movements. This feels almost like an iron law, unquestionable and unshakable. As for the small-cap tokens in your wallet, no matter how confident you are in their long-term value, th...

#EducationalSeries #StatePruning In the previous articles, we have already discussed concepts such as State, State Size, and State Bloat. Let’s briefly recap: State represents the blockchain’s “world state” at a given moment, including account balances, contract storage, NFT ownership, liquidity in DEX pools, and more. As time goes on, these states continuously accumulate, forming an increasingly massive database. Here comes the problem — as state keeps accumulating, the burden on nodes becom...

#EducationalSeries #StatePruning In the previous articles, we have already discussed concepts such as State, State Size, and State Bloat. Let’s briefly recap: State represents the blockchain’s “world state” at a given moment, including account balances, contract storage, NFT ownership, liquidity in DEX pools, and more. As time goes on, these states continuously accumulate, forming an increasingly massive database. Here comes the problem — as state keeps accumulating, the burden on nodes becom...

#IndexFutures #Memecoin Over the past two days, a piece of news has swept through the crypto community. On January 7, reports showed that a recent market rebound allowed a whale — who had previously opened positions totaling USD 230 million and was once sitting on an unrealized loss of USD 74 million — to fully recover. The whale is now holding an unrealized profit of USD 26.82 million, with rebound gains exceeding USD 100 million. Do not be intimidated by the numbers. What is truly astonishi...

#IndexFutures #Memecoin Over the past two days, a piece of news has swept through the crypto community. On January 7, reports showed that a recent market rebound allowed a whale — who had previously opened positions totaling USD 230 million and was once sitting on an unrealized loss of USD 74 million — to fully recover. The whale is now holding an unrealized profit of USD 26.82 million, with rebound gains exceeding USD 100 million. Do not be intimidated by the numbers. What is truly astonishi...

#IndexFutures #Spot For a long time, “small-cap tokens” have occupied an awkward position:On the one hand, they often carry users’ earliest investment convictions and long-term narratives — ecosystems, communities, and imagined future potential;On the other hand, in actual trading practice, these assets are more often just positions that “sit idle in the account,” rarely able to truly participate in the volatility of mainstream market movements.If you want to trade mainstream assets like BTC ...

#IndexFutures #Spot For a long time, “small-cap tokens” have occupied an awkward position:On the one hand, they often carry users’ earliest investment convictions and long-term narratives — ecosystems, communities, and imagined future potential;On the other hand, in actual trading practice, these assets are more often just positions that “sit idle in the account,” rarely able to truly participate in the volatility of mainstream market movements.If you want to trade mainstream assets like BTC ...

#DA #EducationalSeries In previous articles, we have repeatedly mentioned a key term: Data Availability (DA). However, until one truly understands a specific attack vector, DA still feels to many people like a concept that “sounds important, but remains abstract.” The Data Withholding Attack is precisely the direct reason why Data Availability has become a core issue in modular blockchains. If double-spending attacks explain why consensus mechanisms are necessary, then data withholding attack...

#DA #EducationalSeries In previous articles, we have repeatedly mentioned a key term: Data Availability (DA). However, until one truly understands a specific attack vector, DA still feels to many people like a concept that “sounds important, but remains abstract.” The Data Withholding Attack is precisely the direct reason why Data Availability has become a core issue in modular blockchains. If double-spending attacks explain why consensus mechanisms are necessary, then data withholding attack...

#USDT #IndexFutures #Derivatives In the crypto derivatives market, most innovation has historically revolved around two directions: higher leverage, or more complex trading instruments. Yet over the past few years, one long-standing issue has consistently been overlooked — is the barrier to participating in mainstream market movements truly low enough? For most users, the answer is no. Whether it is USDT-margined contracts or coin-margined contracts, almost all mainstream derivatives products...

#USDT #IndexFutures #Derivatives In the crypto derivatives market, most innovation has historically revolved around two directions: higher leverage, or more complex trading instruments. Yet over the past few years, one long-standing issue has consistently been overlooked — is the barrier to participating in mainstream market movements truly low enough? For most users, the answer is no. Whether it is USDT-margined contracts or coin-margined contracts, almost all mainstream derivatives products...

#ZKRollup #EducationalSeries Today, we continue our deep dive into the Rollup family. This session focuses on ZK Rollup. As a Layer 2 scaling solution, it cleverly leverages zero-knowledge proof technology to ensure the correctness of off-chain computation, achieving high throughput while still maintaining the same level of security as the main chain. Put simply, within the Rollup world, Optimistic Rollup is more like an engineering approach of “assume honesty first, then correct errors after...

#ZKRollup #EducationalSeries Today, we continue our deep dive into the Rollup family. This session focuses on ZK Rollup. As a Layer 2 scaling solution, it cleverly leverages zero-knowledge proof technology to ensure the correctness of off-chain computation, achieving high throughput while still maintaining the same level of security as the main chain. Put simply, within the Rollup world, Optimistic Rollup is more like an engineering approach of “assume honesty first, then correct errors after...