State of Pyth Q3 2024
Pyth (PYTH) is an oracle network that aims to offer accurate prices for cryptocurrencies, equities, foreign exchange pairs, ETFs, and commodities. Oracle networks aggregate external data and make it available for onchain application use. Pyth fosters a network of first-party (primary source and aggregator) data providers and coordinates a “pull” oracle model. This model scales price feeds across many chains and lowers network costs by offloading update fees to data consumers (applications and developers). Pyth offers four core products:
State of The Graph Q3 2024
The Graph is an indexing protocol that provides onchain data — such as DeFi transactions and liquidity pool data — from various sources. The Graph removes the need for data consumers (e.g., app developers) to build complicated infrastructure to get onchain data. Instead, data consumers pay to query custom APIs — called “subgraphs” — of onchain data via the GraphQL API. Subgraphs define a data schema to be indexed, making that data queryable. Subgraphs can be developed and queried by anyone.
State of Sei Q3 2024
Sei (SEI) is an integrated, general-purpose Layer-1 network that aims to be the fastest network for exchanging digital assets. It is compatible with Cosmos’ Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol and was built using forks of the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Core protocol.
State of Core Q3 2024
Core developed the Core blockchain (CORE) as a scaling and programmability solution for Bitcoin, differentiating it with its Satoshi Plus consensus, EVM execution environment, Core governance, and coreBTC bridge. Launched in early 2023, the Core community is building an ecosystem of Bitcoin-focused applications, leveraging Bitcoin security such as consensus resources, wherever possible.
pump.science: The Tokenized Prediction Market for Longevity Regimens
Life is the ultimate multiplayer game. We're all logged in, whether we choose to be or not. Some of us are grinding for XP, increasing the skill and resources of our character. Others are watching from the sidelines as our avatar slowly loses health. There is one universal truth for all of us in this game: it will end.
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
At the beginning, Ethereum had two scaling strategies in its roadmap. One (eg. see this early paper from 2015) was "sharding": instead of verifying and storing all of the transactions in the chain, each node would only need to verify and store a small fraction of the transactions.
State of Sui Q2 and Q3 2024
Sui introduced the Mysticeti consensus mechanism, reducing consensus latency by 80% to 390 milliseconds under 100,000 transactions per second.
Sui integrated with Circle’s USDC and plans to integrate with Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). This integration contributed to a 139% QoQ increase in Sui's market cap to $4.8B, ranking it 21st.
The number of active addresses peaked at 2.2 million on May 30, 2024, the same day a token unlock released 9.3% of total tokens vesting. This surge in activity likely resulted from the influx of newly unlocked tokens, triggering increased trading and transfers.
State of IoTeX Q3 2024
IoTeX (IOTX) is a modular infrastructure platform that supports developers of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN). The IoTeX Network combines its EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, offchain compute mid-layer, and open hardware to connect smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. The real-world data is sourced from smart devices, machines and sensors, and decentralized applications (dApps) across the physical and digital world.
Chainlink Powers 3 Major Use Cases Under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian
Chainlink is the foundational platform underpinning the rapid adoption of tokenization and onchain finance by the world’s largest institutions and market infrastructures. As part of this shift, Chainlink is playing a significant role in enabling three landmark capital markets solutions under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian, an industry initiative led by what is considered to be one of the most progressive regulatory bodies globally when it comes to integrating blockchain technology within financial markets.
NEAR partnership, Surge Campaign, LiaBTC and Nakamoto Release
Crypto history has been written with the election of the most pro-crypto candidate in U.S. history. ALEX has been busy actively preparing for the anticipated bull market and expanding the finance layer of Bitcoin:
