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Security
Blockchain Transaction Fees: Everything You Need To Know
Blockchain technology promises to revolutionize the world of online payments, in fact, many feel that it already has. Unlike traditional banking, it can deliver international payments almost instantly
Sep 23, 2024
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Market Updates
Research
How Singapore became a world-class jurisdiction for digital assets
To most experts, Singapore's emergence as a leading player in the global crypto space isn't a surprise. The country has long been one of the world's top TradFi (traditional finance) centers , and Asia's top FinTech hub . In recent years, sizable wealth has flowed .
Apr 25, 2024
Beginners
Mining
A Beginner’s Guide to Hashing in Blockchain
Blockchain technology has revolutionized how we store, transfer and verify data. One of the key components of blockchain is hashing, which is a mathematical function used to secure the integrity of da
Feb 26, 2025
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Protocols
What Is BitTorrent?
BitTorrent is a decentralized application built to enable peer-to-peer file-sharing between people whose computers function as nodes on the network. BitTorrent was created by Bram Cohen in 2001, and i
Sep 2, 2024
DeFi
Protocols
What Is Balancer Exchange?
Balancer is a decentralized and permissionless exchange powered by an automated market maker. The goal of this project is to provide a crypto asset exchange service that is devoid of centralized infra
Sep 2, 2024
Altcoin
Staking
Helium (HNT) Staking: A Step-by-Step Guide
Crypto staking is one of several ways investors can earn passive income from cryptocurrencies. Investors can lock up their assets for a certain period and earn rewards on centralized exchanges (CEXs)
Apr 25, 2024
DeFi
DEX
ShibaSwap: A Comprehensive Guide to the Decentralized Exchange
Ever since 2013 and the appearance of Dogecoin, similar projects have been trying to get some of DOGE’s popularity. While very few have succeeded, one definitely stands out from the rest. Shiba Inu (S
Apr 25, 2024
Beginners
DeFi
Ethereum
What Is Alchemix?
A self-paying loan may sound alien in the traditional banking industry, but anything is possible in the crypto space. Alchemix is one of the fast-paced decentralized finance (DeFi), applications deplo
Apr 25, 2024
Beginners
DeFi
How To Use Aave To Lend and Borrow Cryptocurrencies
Crypto lending platforms have acquired a bad reputation, but only in the space of centralized finance. In contrast, decentralized lending protocols like Aave are doing just fine. Learn why that is the
Sep 6, 2024
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NFT
Bitcoin
Ordinals: the new NFTs on the block(chain) - a beginner's guide
Are you tired of boring digital collectibles? If so, now's your chance to add some pizzazz to your collection with BTC digital artifacts. The world of NFTs became much more interesting with the introduction of ordinal theory — a newly emergent protocol that's creating plenty of buzz in 2023. The concept allows each satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin, to be ranked, ordered, inscribed, and individually transferred. But that's not all. Individual satoshis can also be inscribed with unique, immutable data stored entirely on the blockchain.
Dec 9, 2024
Intermediate
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GameFi
Altcoin
What is Catizen: the purr-fect CATI airdrop guide for cat lovers
With the Telegram ecosystem exploding in popularity, we’re seeing a resurgence of the GameFi narrative in the form of Telegram mini-apps . Thanks to a combination of addictive gameplay and high accessibility, these top mini-apps have managed to steal the limelight and gain millions of users overnight. One example of such a Telegram mini-app is Catizen. With close to 30 million users and a personal shout-out from Telegram CEO Pavel Durov himself, Catizen certainly shows promise in attempting to become the largest cat-lover community in the world.
Sep 20, 2024
Beginners
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Altcoin
DApps
What is Covalent (CXT): advancing the data infrastructure space
In the rapidly evolving landscape of blockchain technology, data accessibility and long-term data availability have become paramount for unlocking the full potential of this transformative tool. Covalent Network has emerged as a leading data infrastructure layer by addressing these challenges. Following its strategic partnership and , Covalent has solidified its position as a leading data availability and indexing solution in the crypto space. By aggregating, processing, and standardizing data from multiple blockchains, Covalent empowers developers and businesses to build innovative applications and make data-driven decisions.
Sep 11, 2024
Intermediate
Mining
What is BlockDAG: better network scalability with directed acyclic graph
The BlockDAG distributed ledger has been turning heads with its novel approach to data processing and transaction management. Unlike many of today's leading chains, BlockDAG uses a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure, which allows multiple blocks to be added simultaneously. This change helps to solve problems like network congestion and transaction speed, while also providing a more scalable and efficient solution for decentralized networks.
Sep 11, 2024
Intermediate
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Altcoin
What Is Dash?
Dash is a decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) payment protocol and cryptocurrency, whose transactions are recorded on the blockchain. Users can instantly send and receive secure digital payments with mi
Sep 2, 2024
Bitcoin
New Bitcoin City: a Friend.tech alternative for the Bitcoin community
Have you hopped on the SocialFi train yet? New Bitcoin City and Friend.tech are two major SocialFi projects that each have a particular focus. New Bitcoin City, with its foundations in the Bitcoin blockchain, is a framework for game players and NFT collectors looking to use beyond just trading on exchanges. Meanwhile, Friend.tech, based on the Ethereum blockchain, is a decentralized social network that allows users to tokenize and monetize their interactions, creating an economic market for social interaction.
Apr 25, 2024
Security
Wallets
Self-custody
A complete guide to 2024's best hardware wallets
Have you ever considered the most secure method to store your cryptocurrency? A hardware wallet provides an essential safeguard solution for your cryptocurrency assets by keeping them offline. Unlike hot wallets, which can be susceptible to cyber-attacks, hardware wallets securely contain the private keys you need to gain access to your digital assets.
Mar 8, 2025
Beginners
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Ethereum
Research
A quick and simple guide to account abstraction and EIP-4337
Authored by Kiwi Yao, researcher @OKX Ventures Account abstraction (AA) has been a hot topic recently in the crypto space for it's game-changing influence on managing individual accounts on Ethereum . By simplifying numerous pain points, this might be the proposal that lowers the barrier to entry for non-crypto natives. These benefits include decoupling transaction sources from signatures and giving users more flexibility in account security.
Feb 27, 2025
Intermediate
Bitcoin
What are Bitcoin and crypto ETFs and how can they impact markets?
With Bitcoin gaining massive institutional interest and countries adopting it as a legal tender, the demand for regulated financial products for cryptocurrencies is growing. For instance, the bullish sentiment caused by the first Bitcoin futures-backed ETF in the United States — with over $1 billion traded on its first two days — indicates the growing market for crypto exchange-traded funds.
Feb 26, 2025
Beginners
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DeFi
GameFi
SUI explained: the future of asset ownership?
SUI is a permissionless Layer-1 blockchain that adopts a unique object-oriented data model and purpose-built programming language, Move, to support true digital asset ownership. While Solana primarily concentrates on , SUI takes a different approach, aiming to excel in decentralized applications (DApps) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). That's why SUI has been dubbed the "The Solana Killer" by .
Aug 13, 2024
Intermediate
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NFT
Artificial intelligence
9 best AI art generators to create NFTs
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic over the past few years. It’s also one of the emerging technologies that’s started combining with the crypto industry. For example, AI image generator
Feb 24, 2025
Intermediate
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NFT
10 best NFT projects to watch in 2024
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets with unique characteristics, enabling them to represent ownership of items in the real world. These tokens are built on blockchain technology and can take various forms, including artwork, music, videos, and games.
Feb 24, 2025
Beginners
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Bitcoin
What is the Bitcoin 2024 halving and how could it impact crypto?
April 19, 2024 saw the arrival of the fourth Bitcoin halving event — a significant development affecting the asset's circulation. But what is the Bitcoin halving exactly? According to the Bitcoin white paper , it's a built-in feature of Bitcoin's programming that occurs approximately every four years. This unique event cuts the number of Bitcoins awarded to miners for processing transactions in half. Why does this matter? Well, it's all about supply and control.
Feb 24, 2025
Intermediate
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Ethereum
Beyond traditional transactions: the opportunities account abstraction brings
Authored by Kiwi Yao, researcher @OKX Ventures The biggest obstacle to widespread crypto adoption is making the processes too complex. For instance, when a user's private keys are lost, their digital assets are gone forever. This could discourage many people from considering getting into crypto.
Feb 24, 2025
Advanced
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Bitcoin
Protocols
What is SegWit? an introduction to Bitcoin’s clever on-chain scaling approach
A beginner-friendly introduction to Bitcoin’s SegWit, including what SegWit is, why it’s important, and what it achieves When Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin , he stipulated that the capacity of each block should not exceed one million, and the number of transactions that can be recorded in each one million capacity is extremely limited. In the earliest days, the capacity of each block of one million was enough to cope with the transaction volume of the niche market, but when the number of Bitcoin players surged, it became particularly congested.
Jan 29, 2025
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