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This article introduces the blockchain project Monad, which, through a series of innovations, fully harnesses the potential of the EVM, creating a high-throughput L1 blockchain.

This article describes the advancements of SNARK since its introduction in the mid-1980s.

In the previous article "Research on DeFi History: The Past DeFi Development History of Uniswap," the author reviewed the development of DeFi from the Bitcoin ecosystem's Counterparty protocol to dYdX, dividing DeFi history into two parts with Uniswap as the dividing line. In this article, the author will systematically analyze the future Defi development trajectory of Uniswap and provide expectations for the future of the DeFi sector.

This article delves into the depth of Vertex Edge, fully leveraging the potential of Vertex's high-performance transaction engine, unlocking a future of multi-chain possibilities.

This article explores the transformative changes that decentralization in blockchain can bring to society.

The article introduces a crucial but often overlooked aspect of how Ethereum maintains its security and decentralization: its multi-client approach. Ethereum intentionally lacks a "reference client" that everyone runs by default. Instead, there is a collaboratively managed specification (currently written in human-readable but slow Python) and multiple teams implementing that specification (also referred to as "clients") which users actually run.

Marlin (POND) is a blockchain network protocol for faster, secure decentralized web operations.

Assemble Protocol (ASM) is a blockchain-based platform enabling users to aggregate and spend reward points like a unified currency.

This article explores the intersection of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, highlighting the emergence of public blockchains as one of the most profound advancements in computer science history. It discusses how the development of AI is already having a significant impact on our world.

This article introduces ENKI, the first and largest liquidity staking protocol on Metis, its participation methods and airdrop expectations.

This article focuses on what exactly data availability is.

This article introduces privacy projects represented by Tornado, which truly utilize the zero-knowledge property of the ZK-SNARK algorithm, while most projects under the ZK banner only use the succinctness of ZK-SNARK. Often, people confuse the difference between Validity Proof and ZK, and Tornado serves as an excellent example to understand the application of ZK.

The author of this article takes the well-known ZK-Rollup project Aztec as an example, and uses the two recent proposals named B52 and Fernet proposed by Aztec Labs as the starting point to analyze how ZKR can achieve the decentralization of sequencer nodes.

This article, for the purpose of making the Rollup model easier to understand and analyze, Celestia researcher NashQ has divided the sequencer of Rollup into two logical entities - the aggregator and the header producer. At the same time, he divided the transaction ordering process into three logical steps: inclusion, ordering, and execution. Guided by this analytical thinking, the six major important variants of Sovereign Rollup are clearer and easier to understand. NashQ has detailed discussions on the censorship resistance and liveness of different Rollup variants, and also explored the minimum configuration of each Rollup variant node in the state of minimal trust (that is, to achieve a Trustless state, at least what types of nodes Rollup users need to run).

This article delves into the upcoming Dencun upgrade on the Ethereum network, with a specific focus on the EIP-4844 proposal and its impact on the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly Layer 2 technology and Data Availability (DA).