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Author | Asher (@Asher_ 0210 )

Nexus: A parallelized proof-of-stake mining network

Reasons to participate

Image source: Official Twitter

Nexus Network is a parallelized proof-of-stake mining network with Nexus zkVM, a modular, scalable, open source, highly parallelized, validator-optimized, contributor-friendly zkVM written in Rust with a focus on performance and security.

According to ROOTDATA data, Nexus has completed two rounds of financing with a total amount of US$27.2 million, including:

  • In October 2022, Nexus announced the completion of a $2.2 million seed round of financing, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Alliance DAO, SV Angel, Blockchain Builders Fund, etc.

  • On June 11, 2024, Nexus announced the completion of a US$25 million Series A financing round, led by Lightspeed and Pantera, with participation from Dragonfly, Faction and Blockchain Builders Fund.

Interactive Tutorial

Yesterday, the initial Beta version of Nexus Network was launched. It was also stated that this is the first Beta version, inviting users to connect to Nexus Network through a web application or command line interface, and the team will frequently update its vulnerabilities. It is not certain whether there will be rewards at present, it is a blind mining stage, and there is no need to bind a wallet. Therefore, it is recommended not to clear the browser cache in the later stage, otherwise the points will disappear.

Interactive website: https://beta.nexus.xyz/

You can directly enter the interactive website to mine, just click "Connect" (do not close the webpage and do not refresh after the connection is successful).

SEI: A Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for DeFi

Reasons to participate

Image source: Official Twitter

Sei Network is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain designed for decentralized finance and trading applications. Built on the Cosmos SDK, Sei provides fast transaction confirmation, low latency, and is equipped with a native order matching engine, which optimizes the trading experience of DeFi protocols. Through interoperability achieved by IBC (Inter-Chain Communication Protocol), Sei is committed to becoming the leading infrastructure for decentralized exchanges and other trading applications in the Web3 field.

Although Sei Network has already issued coins, this time it is jointly organizing ecological tasks with OKX to activate the activity of the SEI ecosystem. By completing the tasks, you can share SEI token rewards worth US$300,000. The interaction cost is low and it is worth participating.

Interactive Tutorial

Interactive website: https://www.okx.com/zh-hans/web3/discover/cryptopedia/event/sei

The event was launched on October 1st, and currently has over 51,000 participants, and will end on November 1st.

Sei activity interface

Task 1: SEI Social Task

Follow Sei’s official account. If you hold at least $10 worth of assets on the Ethereum mainnet, you can get a GAS fee subsidy of 1 SEI.

Task 2: Yei Finance

Follow the official project account and use Yei Finance to stake more than $10 of any protocol token into the lending pool in a single transaction.

Mission 3: GreedyGoblin

Follow the official project account and participate in TG mini games.

Task 4: DragonSwap

Follow the official project promotion to provide more than 10 US dollars of USDC/USDT liquidity.

Mission 5: Jellyverse

Follow the official project push and provide more than $5 of liquidity to the JLY/WSEI trading pool.

Task 6: Pit Finance

Follow the official project and deposit 10 WSEI/10 ISEI/5 USDC/5 USDT into the Pit Finance vault.

Mission 7: OnlyPerps

Follow the project official Twitter account. To open a long or short position on OnlyPerps, you need a collateral worth at least $5.

Mission 8: Silo

Follow the official project account and stake at least 25 SEI on Silo until the event ends.

Theoriq: A modular, composable AI agent base layer

Reasons to participate

Image source: Official Twitter

Theoriq is a modular, composable AI agent base layer for machine learning and related complex data-driven computations for Web3. The project works with numerous Web3 protocols to apply machine learning to DeFi, games, social, and data infrastructure.

According to ROOTDATA data, Theoriq has completed two rounds of financing with a total amount of US$10.2 million, including:

  • In September 2022, Theoriq announced the completion of a $4 million seed round of financing, led by IOSG Ventures, with participation from SNZ Holding, HashKey Capital, Alliance DAO, LongHash Ventures, NxGen, etc.

  • In May 2024, Theoriq announced the completion of a $6.2 million seed round of extension financing, led by Hack VC, with participation from Inception Capital, HTX Ventures, Figment Capital, Hypersphere Ventures and Alumni Ventures.

Interactive Tutorial

On October 8, Theoriq announced on the X platform that the incentive testnet has been launched, and users can earn points by completing simple free tasks.

Interactive website: https://quests.theoriq.ai/

STEP 1. Enter the interactive website and connect your wallet, Twitter account, and Discord account.

STEP 2. After logging in successfully, you can see 3 major categories of tasks, namely: social tasks, agency tasks and feedback tasks (Note: tasks are divided into one-time tasks, daily tasks and weekly tasks).