NEAR’s Nightshade tech enables 100K TPS, user-friendly tools, and near-zero fees, making it a top blockchain for scalability.
Fetch.ai’s decentralized AI network powers autonomous agents for DeFi, energy, and transport, staking FET for seamless utility.
Render Network transforms GPU rendering with decentralized, cost-efficient solutions for AI, 3D, and digital creators.
As 2024 unfolds, the crypto market is abuzz with innovative projects reshaping blockchain and AI landscapes. From NEAR Protocol’s sharding scalability to Fetch.ai’s decentralized AI breakthroughs, these cutting-edge networks are driving adoption in DeFi, machine learning, and beyond
NEAR Protocol(NEAR): Sharding for Scalability
Current price: $6.84
Market cap: $7.36B
NEAR Protocol uses its Nightshade technology to enhance transaction throughput, processing up to 100,000 transactions per second. Unlike conventional sharding, Nightshade involves validators working in parallel across multiple chains, maintaining high efficiency.
With human-readable account names and modular components for developers, NEAR simplifies the blockchain experience for both users and creators. Its ecosystem includes platforms like Flux and Mintbase, driving adoption through accessible tools and near-zero transaction costs.
Internet Computer (ICP): A New Era Of Blockchain Technology
Current price: $7.48
Market cap:$3.5B
The new Canadian Internet Computer Corporation (ICP) is a Canadian governmental body functioning in an entirely new sphere of Blockchain technology and self-identifying as the first ‘World Computer’ blockchain. The ICP is quite different from traditional blockchains. It wants to create a completely decentralized internet to help run various online applications, such as social networks, without cloud services. There are three main ways a person can use ICP: to pay for coordination and computation via “cycles,” to stake to hold participatory governance or to hedge against depreciation. Such versatility enables the ICP to capture a satisfying if not dominant, market share within the competing cyberspace.
Render Network(RENDER) revolutionizes decentralized GPU rendering.
Current price:$9.30
Market cap:$4.81B
The Render Network connects node operators offering idle GPU computing power with digital creators needing scalable cloud rendering solutions. The platform supports applications from 3D rendering to machine learning and generative AI. The network optimizes scale, speed, and cost-efficiency using a decentralized peer-to-peer structure. Managed by the Render Network Foundation, it also provides a platform for developers and artists to build services in the digital economy.
Filecoin(FIL): Decentralizing Data Storage
Current Price:$6.68
Market cap:$2.0B
Filecoin is the answer for users whose goal is to protect the most important information in a secure and decentralized format. Filecoin allows users to effectively store data and retrieve it later, as it is built on a blockchain that incorporates proof of replication and proof of spacetime. Resource providers in the Filecoin network are rewarded in FIL tokens and participate in transactions in the FIL token.
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance(Fetch.ai) Powers Decentralized AI
Current price: $1.76
Market cap: $4.8B
Fetch.ai aims to democratize access to AI through an open and permissionless decentralized machine learning network. Its utility token, FET, facilitates creating and training digital twins—autonomous agents interacting with large-scale datasets. Users stake FET for validation and access machine-learning-based utilities to develop autonomous applications, optimizing sectors such as DeFi, transportation, and energy grids.
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