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If you’ve heard NEAR described as “a user-friendly, sharded Layer-1 with fast finality,” that’s a good start—but the story is richer. NEAR launched mainnet in April 2020 and has since focused on two big ideas: (1) scale through Nightshadesharding and (2) soften the crypto UX with accounts and powerful key permissions. In 2024–2025, NEAR doubled … Читать далее
If you’ve heard Aptos described as a “Diem-era reboot with fresh tech,” you’re close. Aptos is a Layer-1 blockchain built by Aptos Labs, a company founded by former Meta (Facebook) engineers Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching after Meta’s Diem project wound down. It centers on the Move programming language and a parallel execution engine called … Читать далее
If you’ve heard that Render turns idle GPUs into a global rendering cloud, you’ve got the right idea. The Render Network links GPU providers (people or data centers with spare graphics cards) to creators who need rendering power for 3D, VFX, or related compute. It’s built around software from OTOY, Inc., and coordinates jobs and … Читать далее
If you’ve heard people say “Celestia is modular,” they’re talking about a specific idea: split a blockchain’s jobs apart so one network focuses on ordering and making data available, while other layers handle execution (smart contracts) and, if needed, settlement. That lets rollups post data somewhere cheap and verifiable—without every node re-executing every transaction. Below … Читать далее
NEM—short for New Economy Movement—is one of the earlier public blockchains to take a payments-and-assets approach with built-in features rather than external smart contracts. The original public chain, often called NIS1, has been running since 2015, and in March 2021 the project’s next-generation chain, Symbol (XYM), launched as a separate network after years of development … Читать далее
Polkadot is a multichain network designed for interoperability—a way for many specialized blockchains to plug into a shared security layer and talk to each other. The idea was laid out by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood in a 2016 white paper that proposed a heterogeneous multi-chain with a minimal “relay” core and many flexible “parachains.” In … Читать далее
Monero (XMR) is the most prominent privacy-focused cryptocurrency. Unlike transparent ledgers (e.g., Bitcoin), Monero hides the sender, recipient, and amount of every transaction by default. It does this with a stack of cryptography—ring signatures, stealth addresses, and Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT)—plus network-layer protections. Over a decade, XMR has iterated through multiple hard-fork upgrades to harden … Читать далее
Decentraland is a browser‑based, Ethereum‑powered virtual world where land, wearables and names are issued as NFTs, and where the in‑world currency MANA underpins payments and governance. The idea was first laid out in a 2015–2017 white paper; the team then raised $24 million in an ICO in 2017, launched a closed beta in 2019, and … Читать далее
DOGS is a dog‑themed memecoin launched on The Open Network (TON) that rocketed to prominence in 2024–2025 thanks to what its creators and several industry trackers call one of the largest meme‑coin airdrops in crypto history, primarily rewarding long‑time Telegram users. The mascot “Spotty” traces back to a doodle linked to Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov, turning … Читать далее
Pepecoin (PEPE) stormed into crypto headlines in spring 2023, turning an internet frog into a multibillion‑dollar token almost overnight. But PEPE’s story stretches back years before the ticker appeared on charts. This article traces the meme’s cultural origins, the token’s launch and listings, its distinctive tokenomics, and the lessons PEPE offers about meme‑coin manias. From … Читать далее
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