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3F is a DeFi protocol built on Morpho that streamlines the process for users to obtain leveraged investments in real-world assets (RWA) with a single click. This article explores how it works and its potential implications.

As AI-generated content evolves at a rapid pace, verifying the authenticity of images has become a key concern. ZCAM uses cryptographic technology to establish verifiable records for photos and videos, providing a novel approach to address this issue.

Somnia and Monad are two of the most important representatives in the parallel EVM sector. Both aim to improve transaction throughput, but they take noticeably different technical paths. Monad relies mainly on Optimistic Parallel Execution and deferred execution to achieve 10,000 TPS while preserving Ethereum compatibility. Somnia, by contrast, performs a surgical reconstruction of the storage layer through its self-developed IceDB storage engine, combined with a multithreaded parallel mechanism designed to support industrial-grade workloads above 1,000,000 TPS. In simple terms, Monad optimizes the “ordering and processing” of execution flow, while Somnia removes the physical bottleneck of storage I/O at its root.

The technical core behind Somnia’s million-scale TPS lies in its low-level reconstruction of the EVM stack, mainly through the IceDB storage engine and its parallel execution engine. IceDB is a custom database built specifically for blockchain systems. By optimizing the Sparse Merkle Tree, or SMT, structure and reducing disk I/O friction, it directly addresses the read and write bottlenecks that traditional databases, such as LevelDB, face when handling massive state data. Combined with Somnia’s multithreaded parallel execution engine, transactions that do not interfere with one another can be distributed across multiple CPU cores and processed simultaneously.

Somnia Network (SOMI) is an ultra-high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain. Its core breakthrough is the ability to achieve more than 1,000,000 TPS, or transactions per second, with sub-second finality. Through its self-developed IceDB database engine and parallel execution mechanism, Somnia addresses performance bottlenecks that have limited large-scale Web3 adoption. As an “Agentic L1,” it focuses on delivering on-chain reactivity for AI agents, real-time social applications, and fully on-chain metaverse environments, allowing high-frequency, low-latency consumer applications to run entirely on-chain at scale.

Space and Polymarket are prediction market platforms. Space prioritizes order book trading, leverage, and incentive mechanisms on Solana, whereas Polymarket centers on established event markets, CLOB trading, and a results token framework.

SPC serves as the utility token in the Space prediction market ecosystem. It is mainly used for rewards and incentives, grants access to exclusive markets, enables participation in trading activities, and connects to prediction market performance via the platform's revenue mechanism.

Space is a blockchain-based prediction market protocol that leverages on-chain trading mechanisms to link event outcomes with market prices, enabling decentralized information pricing.

BNB’s burn mechanism is an automated algorithm designed to create long-term deflation by reducing total supply. It mainly consists of two parts: real-time burn (BEP-95) and quarterly Auto-Burn. Real-time burn permanently removes a portion of Gas fees from every transaction on BNB Smart Chain (BSC), while quarterly Auto-Burn uses a formula based on BNB’s price and on-chain activity to automatically calculate and burn tokens until total supply falls below 100 million.

BNB is a multifunctional utility token that supports the entire BNB Chain ecosystem. It was originally issued as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network and has since evolved into a core decentralized asset backed by its own public blockchain. As the blockchain industry shifts from simple trading toward Web3 infrastructure, BNB is widely used for fee deductions, cross-chain payments, on-chain governance, and as fuel for decentralized applications (dApps).

The core difference between Stargate Finance and LayerZero lies in where each one sits within the blockchain technology stack. LayerZero is an underlying omnichain interoperability protocol, or infrastructure, responsible for transmitting arbitrary information between different chains. Stargate Finance, by contrast, is a decentralized application (DApp) built on LayerZero and focused on enabling cross-chain liquidity transfers of native assets. In simple terms, LayerZero is the “communications base station” that carries information, while Stargate Finance is the “cross-chain bank” that uses that base station to provide services.

Stargate Finance provides an innovative cross-chain liquidity solution that allows users to transfer native assets directly between different blockchains. As a decentralized cross-chain bridge protocol, Stargate significantly reduces the complexity and cost of traditional cross-chain solutions while improving transaction security and liquidity.

Stargate Finance is a cross-chain liquidity pool and liquidity protocol that allows users to transfer assets across different blockchains through its distinctive cross-chain bridging capabilities. Its main strength lies in providing seamless asset liquidity, addressing the high fees and inefficiencies often found in traditional cross-chain protocols. With its innovative architecture, Stargate plays an increasingly important role in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem and has become a key hub for connecting different blockchains.

IOTA and IoTeX are both decentralized infrastructure projects built for the Internet of Things (IoT). They aim to address security, privacy, and efficiency challenges between IoT devices. IOTA uses the Tangle architecture to provide an efficient, feeless transaction system, while IoTeX uses a hybrid consensus mechanism and privacy preserving technologies to build a more flexible and scalable IoT ecosystem.

IOTA Tangle is a decentralized technology based on a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It moves beyond the architectural limits of traditional blockchains and provides a feeless, highly scalable transaction solution. The IOTA Tangle system is especially well suited to Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios, enabling devices to exchange data and carry out transactions efficiently and securely. Compared with traditional blockchains, Tangle offers higher speed and stronger scalability, supporting large scale, high frequency transactions without transaction fees.