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1. "The History of Airdrop Involution: A Cat-and-Mouse Game between Project Owners and Wool Party"
In less than three years since Uniswap launched its airdrop feast in September 2020, the form, nature, and scale of participation of airdrops have undergone tremendous changes. Airdrops are no longer simply a carnival on the chain. The stakeholders involved are gradually involved in market makers, centralized exchanges, wallets, etc., so famous scenes such as exchanges rushing to list, large investors dumping stocks, gas wars, and project official website crashes have begun to appear frequently.
This article provides an in-depth review of the history of the gradual involution of this airdrop, from which we can find that the project owners and the wool party are constantly upgrading their offensive and defensive methods, and gradually evolving into a strange relationship of mutual confrontation but mutual dependence.
2. "Binance Launchpad's new listings spark controversy: What are the standards? What are the reasons?"
Binance’s announcement of the upcoming launch of the Launchpad project Open Campus (EDU) quickly sparked controversy. It should be noted that Binance claims that the Launchpad project needs to undergo a period of strict background checks before it goes online, and the 30 Launchpad projects in the past basically have a good user base and popularity. In contrast, Open Campus can be said to have “come out of thin air”, registering the official Twitter account and project domain name in March; and officially releasing the first tweet in April.
3. "Roundtable Dialogue: How can zk become truly mainstream, and how will zk and AI be combined?"
As the zk narrative continues to heat up, last week ChainCatcher’s second “zk Master Class” series of events (previous reviews) invited six members from Ola, Cysic, Hyper Oracle, FOX, Opside and CatcherVC to discuss the current development bottlenecks of zk and possible breakthroughs in the future with the theme of “The zk narrative heats up, how to capture the long-term value of zk”.
4. "Cobo Shenyu: The blockchain industry is emerging from the trough"
On April 14, 2023, at a roundtable forum in the afternoon of the Web3 Carnival in Hong Kong, Cobo co-founder and CEO Shenyu talked about how he personally got involved in this industry, the lessons learned from the ups and downs of the industry since 2017, and his outlook for the future of the industry.
5. "Solana - The Ups and Downs of a "King of Public Chains""
Solana’s close relationship with FTX may be one of the reasons for its success, but it is not inevitable. This article is compiled from the podcast content released by Mable, Chief Revenue Officer of STEPN and former partner of Multicoin Capital in January 2023. As an investment institution with a heavy position in Solana, Multicoin Capital can be said to have made it or failed it. Through this article, let’s review the ups and downs of this king of public chains.
6. "Ten Thousand Words to Interpret the Public Chain Sui: Development History, Ecological Panorama, Technical Performance and Token Economy"
Compared with Aptos, Sui pays more attention to the innovation of underlying technology and aims to become the first Internet-scale programmable blockchain platform. Although Sui's development route is slightly slower than Aptos, projects driven by technological innovation often have potential. Sui has accumulated rich technical advantages in the past few years. With the launch of Sui's permanent test network, the market has high hopes for its innovative ideas in the next expansion cycle.
This article discusses the Sui project from multiple aspects, including basic situation, ecological development, token economic model, technical network progress, and development plan.
7. "Airdrop expectations accelerate the growth of the decentralized social graph CyberConnect, and the flagship product Link3 faces challenges"
Recently, the surge in data on the centralized social graph protocol CyberConnect has attracted a lot of attention. In fact, CyberConnect's data growth is inseparable from its flagship social product Link3, among which the ccProfile (personal data) NFT representing the user's identity is the main contributor to this data growth.
A closer look reveals that the surge in CyberConnect data is mainly due to two factors. On the one hand, it lowers the threshold for users to participate in minting ccProfileNFTs; on the other hand, the expectation of potential airdrops stimulates the participation of the army of investors.
8. "Iron Fish mainnet is coming, more than half of the addresses are anti-sybils, are its airdrop rules reasonable?"
Iron Fish, a privacy project named after the WWII encrypted transmission language "submarine", has a valuation of $190 million after completing a $27.7 million Series A round led by a16z. The project will be launched on the mainnet at 24:00 Beijing time, with a countdown of 7 hours, and will officially airdrop tokens to early users tomorrow.
9. "Multicoin Capital Co-founder: How did we become involved with FTX and end up suffering the consequences?"
The collapse of FTX is the heaviest topic in the cryptocurrency industry in 2022, especially for individuals and institutions that have suffered financial losses as a result. Multicoin Capital, which has lost 91.4% of its value in 2022, is undoubtedly a representative example.
Recently, Multicoin Capital co-founders Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain participated in a podcast with Blockworks. They deeply analyzed their relationship with FTX and answered the question: How did Multicoin Capital become associated with FTX and ultimately suffer the consequences?
10. "Frequently teaming up with big IPs such as Bilibili and Line Friends, can Azuki solve the NFT growth dilemma?"
Recently, Azuki's performance in the secondary market seems to be unaffected by these negative news. The floor price and trading volume seem to be going against the tide, and the trading volume and activity have surpassed BAYC many times. The cooperation between Azuki and Line Friends is a major positive, which can help its NFT go viral and increase brand awareness. However, some users are worried that it will follow the footsteps of the cooperation with Bilibili and end up with nothing in the future.
11. "a16z: 7 Tips to Avoid Token Design Flaws"
Tokens are a powerful new primitive that can be defined in many ways. The token design space is very rich, but we are still in the early stages of exploration. This article will discuss why we should think about token research and design, not just "token economics", and list seven tips for "avoiding pitfalls".
12. "Review of the surge in PEPE and AIDOGE: How do we dance with meme coins?"
"The chain monitored an address that bought 250 dollars of PEPE, and it just turned into 1.8 million dollars." Such voices have been heard in the community and on social media for the past two days. As the above information continues to spread, the market has also begun to stage a grand event that has happened before: people will charge money when they see the contract address. The meme season of the currency market has quietly arrived. This article will explain the characteristics of the recent phenomenal projects in the meme season, as well as how to seize opportunities and avoid possible risks in the future.
13. "a16z's L2 ambition Magi: Bringing diversity to Rollup clients"
After Coinbase launched Base, a new Ethereum L2 network based on OP Stack, a16z also took action. Magi client software will also be built on OP Stack and will be a16z's first step into Optimism Collective. This article is compiled from a16z's introduction to Magi client.
