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This article explains how perpetual futures have dominated cryptocurrency trading activities and introduces a new type of derivative that combines NFTs, allowing investors to trade NFTs with improved liquidity. NFT perpetual futures offer several advantages to the traditional NFT spot market, including leverage and hedging opportunities, enhancing the trading experience.

The Bittensor ecosystem has strong inclusivity, a competitive environment, and effective incentive mechanisms. The article provides a detailed introduction to Bittensor's planned upgrade mechanisms and subnetwork introductions, encouraging effective competition to promote high-quality artificial intelligence products.

Explore the diverse world of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and learn how different types of ETFs provide investors with broad market exposure and investment opportunities. This article details everything from traditional stock and bond ETFs to innovative cryptocurrency and thematic ETFs, highlighting the advantages of ETFs in providing liquidity, flexibility and risk diversification.

The article deeply explores how Merlin Chain ensures the security of its US$3.5 billion funds. Merlin Chain adopts a multi-token staking Oracle node system to achieve decentralization and resistance to single points of failure. By sharing the data availability layer (DA layer) with Celestia, the openness, transparency and on-chain storage of data are ensured. In addition, Merlin Chain inherits the security of Bitcoin and submits the L2 data to the L1 Bitcoin for verification through the Taproot solution. To further enhance security, Merlin Chain has partnered with Cobo to use the MPC wallet solution to manage assets and ensure the safety of funds. At the same time, Merlin Chain has also joined forces with several security companies to establish the Merlin Security Committee and supports on-chain monitoring through third-party platforms to jointly ensure the safety of funds.

RGB++ is a new asset trading protocol that combines the RGB protocol and a public chain that supports UTXO to achieve globally verifiable asset data storage. It sacrifices privacy but improves ease of use and is suitable for Defi scenarios. Users can directly operate RGB asset containers on UTXO chains such as CKB/Cardano in their Bitcoin accounts, or use the transaction folding function to reduce costs. However, it should be noted that isomorphic binding requires a public chain that supports the UTXO model.

For readers interested in the Ethereum ecosystem and open-source project financing, this article provides insights and strategies for understanding how to support and sustain innovative projects. The article not only analyzes various stages of project growth but also proposes solutions to promote the financing of public goods and the healthy development of the ecosystem, which has important reference value for investors, builders and policymakers.

The report provides compensation data for the cryptocurrency industry, showing that compensation and equity are higher at U.S. companies than at international companies, with founder pay increasing as companies raise more capital but equity ratios declining. Most companies adjust compensation based on local market rates or geographic tiers, with international companies preferring to pay in cryptocurrencies.

USDe is a fully collateralized semi-centralized stablecoin whose collateral value changes with variations in spot prices and futures position values. Ethena provides two methods: delivery contracts and perpetual contracts. The yields of the two methods are different, but both can obtain low-risk returns.

The article compares the development of two decentralized social media platforms, Lens and Farcaster. Farcaster quickly grew into a phenomenal crypto social media platform by incentivizing users to post content using the "DEGEN" tag reward mechanism, attracting a large number of users and revenue. The Lens platform launched the BONSAI token, attempting to imitate Farcaster's success. The BONSAI token combines the features of ERC20 and ERC721, and despite price fluctuations, its use and acceptance on the Lens platform are gradually increasing. The Lens protocol, in collaboration with Bundlr Network and Arweave Ecosystem, launched an L3 extension solution called Momoka to improve transaction processing capability. Although Lens is still behind Farcaster in user activity and community size, it is working hard to narrow the gap through the Bonsai token and the Momoka solution.

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Cega is an alternative options protocol built on the Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum chains, offering three types of products: option pool, bond option pool, and leverage option pool. The core logic is that users sell options by depositing USDC into the liquidity pool. Within a specific range of the underlying asset's price decline, there is no principal loss, and users can also earn premiums from market makers, making it more akin to yield-generating products.

B² Network, a layer-2 solution on the Bitcoin Blockchain addresses the scalability of the Bitcoin network by introducing a two-layer infrastructure that allows for faster transactions and lower costs without compromising on security.

Explore the innovation and risks of Ethena's algorithmic stablecoin, which offers high-yield internet bonds based on Ethereum's Delta-neutral strategy. Analyze potential crises it faces, including collateral decoupling and funding rate risks.

The Discreet Log Contract (DLC) is an oracle-based contract execution scheme that integrates DLC channels with the Lightning Network and expands DLC to allow the updating and execution of continuous contracts within the same DLC channel. With technologies such as Taproot and BitVM, more complex off-chain contract validations and settlements can be implemented within the DLC, while minimizing oracle trust through the use of OP challenge mechanisms.

This article provides a comprehensive review of the development and origins of coprocessors, analyzes the technical stacks and competitive advantages of various competitors in the current track, and explains how coprocessors work using Axiom as an example. Updated to 2025, it covers the latest market expansion, technical breakthroughs, and project evolutions in the coprocessor sector. The article highlights significant improvements in proof generation time, verification costs, and data processing capabilities, as well as the increased adoption of ZK coprocessors and cross-chain functionality. It also explores the integration of coprocessors with Web3 infrastructure and their role in enabling advanced authentication, dynamic risk assessment, and accountable voting mechanisms in decentralized applications.