In addition to this, we also released two new Medium articles providing insights on the different products of Octopus Protocol and presenting a closer look at the team working behind the scenes at Octopus. For this week, we have lots of exciting announcements for our Octopodes community. Starting with the first event: The Octopus Protocol Airdrop.

We would like to provide a certain clarity to the Octopus Protocol Airdrop before divulging into details. Our original plans did not include any Airdrop activity for our native utility token $OPS. If you take a closer look at the tokenomics of OPS tokens, you may find that it does not include an allocation for Airdrop.

After the recent success of our Discord Invite Challenge, which was announced last week, we wanted to offer more opportunities for the community to engage with Octopus Protocol. The airdrop also provides the possibility for a more diverse community with an equal opportunity to access OPS tokens. Simultaneously, we received a massive amount of interest and inquiries about airdrop from our growing Octopodes community. Hence, after a series of discussions with our leading developers, advisors, and industry players, we are now ready with a strategy for the community to participate in the Octopus Protocol airdrop.

The Octopus Protocol will airdrop a total of 10,000,000 xOPS tokens to the Octopus community; our Octopodes.

The entire Airdrop event will be conducted in a total of 4 rounds. A total of 1000 winners will have the unique opportunity to grab xOPS tokens. In each round, 250 winners have a chance to receive the xOPS airdrop tokens.

In Round 1, a total of 2,500,000 xOPS tokens will be airdropped. The start date for Round 1 of Octopus Protocol Airdrop is from 9th May at 2 PM UTC. The end date for the Round 1 is 12th May 2021 at 00:00 AM UTC.

The winners will be announced on our channels after the end of each round.

Please note: the winners will not receive the actual OPS tokens (Octopus Protocol native token). Instead, winners will be rewarded with xOPS tokens, which they can swap with OPS tokens. The provision for swapping will be provided after the Initial DEX Offering (IDO). The ratio for xOPS with OPS will be available post the IDO launch.

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The key takeaway you should have from everything we’re about to get into is that the move to the Accountless Internet enabled by your Crypto Wallet means a completely different architecture for the applications you use. In a nutshell many of the elements that reside within an app and away from the user account will move from the app to the account. Most apps you deal with today perform some of useful service. To access this useful service you have an account that is effectively your identity within the app, but in this case the app houses your identity. In addition the app houses all the information created through your usage of the service. As a result it houses all the value created alongside those. In this sense apps are ‘accountful’, meaning the app houses, and in effect owns, your account and the information tied to it. But there’s nothing unique about this right? Everything is built this way. In a sense we’re kind of like the fish who don’t realize they’re in water. While it may seem grandiose to define a new term, in this case the term ‘accountful’ is something I hope will have the effect of leading you to ask ‘what the hell is water?’ We’re so used to accountful apps its almost impossible to notice they are a thing, or that there could be a different way. To make sense of an app being accountless, we needed to think of an app being accountful. In the Accountless paradigm the app is stripped down to the service, and everything else moves into the user account. Now those elements that live in the account become accessible by every app at the command of the user, and not the app they had used. In the accountless paradigm your meta-account is home to all of your value and your information. Or, at least the information and value you want tied to that single account, and by extension, to that identity.

How would these differences manifest in practice? Let’s take a look at how brokerage or trading would work, a case that relates to the ‘value’ side of things. In the current paradigm where accountful apps reign, you have an account with your brokerage, say Robinhood. That account defines your identity to them, it is a distinct account for this service. The assets, whether available cash or anything else, are held by the brokerage. Once you’re logged in, you tell Robinhood what you want to do, say use Cash to Buy XYZ. The action is performed, and now Robinhood holds more XYZ and less Cash on your behalf. You log out, the assets stay there. In the accountless internet paradigm enabled by your crypto wallet you have one account also known as a wallet, your assets, whether available cash or anything else live there. When you go to the service provider, let’s say Uniswap, you just connect your wallet, and now you’re in. You tell the app what you want to do, let’s say use Cash to Buy XYZ. The app asks for permission to use your cash. You grant it. The app then asks you again for the exact action you want to take. You confirm, and then it’s done. You now have less cash, and more XYZ. The assets are still in your account, they never left. You finish your interaction, you close the app, and the assets? They’re still in your account ready for the next time you’ll connect your wallet to another app. Regardless of which app it is.

So we talked about value, but what about information? How would that type of case work? Let’s start with how things work today, the accountful paradigm. I find an app I like, and I want to use it. Say it’s Twitter. I’m asked to sign up for an account, I use my email and now my sign-up action makes a write to the app’s database. I log in, inputting my newfound credentials & my input is checked against the database, it matches, great, now we’re in. Once logged in, the app shows me a feed. Let’s treat this as part of the service the app performs. The feed is compiled from previous writes made to the database, the feed I see is assembled by reading the subset of entries made by the accounts I follow. If I were to tweet, that would be another write to the database, perhaps an append to my already existing series of tweets. Once again everything other than my email lives inside of the app, my account, my own and others tweets, all of this information is held within.

In the accountless paradigm there would be no sign up. The app will ask me to connect my wallet, a substitute for making an account for the app. The app could permit me to make a pseudonym/public username associated with my wallet. If I were to tweet, the tweet would be writing a state update tied to my account. Every write creates a new entry ‘held within’ the account in no different fashion than how the account would hold assets. What about the feed? The app could assemble a floating database by reading all accounts that have chosen to connect to it, only displaying a feed of connected wallets. The feed I see would be the subset of connected wallets I chose to follow. When I connect my wallet the app can inquire about the length of the session I want to have. Think of this as pre-defining my desired screen time. This would act as pre-approval for the session such that I wouldn’t have to approve each time I wanted to post. This may not seem so different, and while the difference may be subtle, it’s certainly there. With the information of my posts held within the account I could leave the app the moment I’m no longer happy with its service. I no longer have to fear losing everything I’ve put into it, because an accountless app doesn’t own my information. An accountless app merely arranges it. In this sense applications become more like media players, and our information or value are the media. We pick the player we like best and we insert our media. We come to the app for the service. If the service is no longer appealing we can move to another. If the service shuts down, we may be disappointed, but we haven’t lost anything.

Why do I think this is so cool? Perhaps I’m over stating it, but I think there’s something magical about moving the information that previously lived within the confines of distinct apps into the account that created was the ultimate source for it. It’s not just about the control or sovereignty you could have over your information. It’s about all the things we can’t even imagine doing now but will be enabled by this shift in architecture. But to keep things in perspective here’s one thing that doesn’t seem so far out on the horizon that we couldn’t even imagine it today, and that’s messaging. Think of the Twitter example above, what’s really happening there? Messages are posted by users, and each message is written to the account instead of updating the app’s internal and siloed database. The app reads every connected account to display a feed. It’s already passing some information between these accounts, a form of messaging that resembles text or email is not too far away. You could create messages that are only readable by another account you specify. The message is written to your account with the specification it can only be viewed by another account, and in this case the app in question allows the other account to view it once connected. You could specify individual or group messages. Group messages could be designated via a shared account that is accessible by the individual accounts of everyone in the group. With all messages being tied to the account of the sender you could have better control than ever before. Who hasn’t sent an email they wish they could immediately undo? You clicked send and off the message went, into the ether on its way to the destination. While some messengers allow you to delete or edit a message after it has been sent, you have limited certainty about who else has that capability. When it comes to email, no major clients provide this capability. In an accountless architecture no messaging application would face a problem like this as every message is held within the account, viewable only by the recipients.

It’s time to rethink how applications are built. Why shouldn’t they be accountless? We should they be accountful? Why should they own your account, and by extension all of the information and value tied to or created by it? The most important question is why should we continue to build applications the same way we have until now? While it’s true that it’s still so early that it’s hard to picture the things uniquely enabled by the accountless internet, it’s not impossible. The things not possible in an accountful paradigm are not impossible to imagine. I’m going to make my best effort to do just that. To attempt and imagine them, and hopefully help manifest them into existence.

仍有一些機構尚未發表，或是筆者遺漏，因此本文將會持續新增，也歡迎讀者若有看到適合的相關預測文章，也歡迎與我回饋，謝謝！

加密貨幣交易所 Coinbase 的產品長 Surojit Chatterjee 於 Coinbase 官方部落格中發表對於 2022 年 Web3 及加密貨幣經濟的十大預測：

區塊鏈分析機構 Messari 於 2021 年 12 月初發佈了內容長達 165 頁的《2022加密貨幣產業報告》，以下分享其第一個章節提到的十大論述及投資主題：

區塊鏈分析公司 The Block Research 的研究團隊發表了《2022 年數位資產展望報告》，在報告中回顧了 2021 年的重大發展事件，也展望 2022 年的發展。

To be continued…

Alongside a cross-chain launchpad, the TrustPad team are on the verge of implementing an NFT marketplace in addition to TalentPad; a wholly unique NFT launchpad.

TrustPad is a decentralized multi-chain fundraising platform enabling projects to raise capital and promise safety to early-stage investors.

Rug-proof mechanisms and guaranteed allocations combined with a fair and transparent approach to project launches sets TrustPad on course to move to the forefront of the cross-chain launchpad industry.

The innovation does not cease there. TalentPad, TrustPad’s upcoming NFT launchpad and marketplace featuring exclusive drops from undiscovered and established creators, will be rolling out in Q2 2021, and we’ll be following along through every step!

You can keep up to date with all things TrustPad over on their Twitter, and join their community on Telegram.

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We are true believers in the distributed ledger technology and are dedicated to funding projects in their early stages that have a significant impact on their niche.

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But before we do that, we are not going to forget our loyal Arkanians who have believed in us from the start and went through the tough timeline to complete their whitelisting and participation. We are going to honour their commitment with a 10% token bonus. The bonus tokens will be airdropped to the round 1 participants along with their invested tokens on the 8th of January 2022.

Our ANIA’s round 2 pre-sale will start from 21st January 2022 at 13:00 UTC and continue for 48 hours, ending on the 23rd at 13:00 UTC.

In this round, we will be committing 36,250,000 ANIA tokens for the presale, ensuring that there is enough for everyone. Our deep-seated commitment towards a fair launch and distribution still applies and people can partake in the 2nd round by having a personal commitment between $500–5,000 only (acceptable in USDT, BUSD, and USDC). The second presale round has a cap of $1,450,000.

The small amount of investment with a $5K cap per one applicant is specifically designed with a fair launch in mind, where Arkania discourages large buys and limits even whales to only a small amount, thereby ensuring that the public benefits, not a handful of heavy buyers.

Details of our presale timeline are:

The presale round is on a first-come-first-serve basis and after the round is complete, your ANIA will be transferred to you. KYC from the first round is accepted in the second round, and contributors who participated in the first round can participate in the second as well up to $5000 in a total of both rounds.

While participants get busy in the second pre-sale, we will also be going ahead with our PancakeSwap listing, expected to go live on the 25th of this month.

But before you can participate in the second presale round, don’t forget to get yourself whitelisted first!

The whitelisting process is our obligatory KYC and AML check, in line with best industry practices. Whitelisting will start early on, giving all round 2 participants enough time to clear the whitelisting checks well ahead of the second presale, giving enough time to our loyal fans and investors to go through all of the steps.

But this time, we have made one little, but significant change. We have taken a major step towards making the whitelisting process a much easier journey than before. We have partnered with Fractal ID, a decentralized KYC solutions expert platform. The platform will allow you to register and complete your whitelisting process once, enabling you to take part in future rounds and IDOs without the need to repeatedly go through the checks again and again. Fractal provides a completely secure environment, with military-grade encryption to protect your personal data and at the same time allows you to participate in our platforms with extreme ease.

Keep viewing our blog as we will update you on how to get registered and complete the whitelisting process on Fractal with a step-by-step guide. Once you complete and pass the Fractal process, you will never need to go through our whitelisting process again, with you simply providing details of your Fractal ID to connect with our portal for verification.

Building upon the largest industry issues of token launches, Arkania gives its users a completely different project launching experience. With the secure environment of a decentralized setup but merged with the comfort and ease of a centralized one, Arkania gives both investors and project developers a one-of-a-kind platform that caters to their most basic needs.

With future additions to our features such as multichain support, Arkania will become a bridge for all projects and investors, even if the team is using a different blockchain network than the token buyers.

Did you take part in our ANIA airdrop campaign? If so, check out your wallets. We have distributed the 500 ANIA tokens to successful participants already on 6th January.

Want to know more about how Arkania is reshaping the token launch sphere with its innovative approach? Feel free to contact our team through our social media accounts and our representatives will be glad to assist and guide you:

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