Weekly Recommendations | A Review of Notable Web3 Projects Born from the World's Seven Major Universities; Bloomberg Analyzes the Real Reasons Behind the Silvergate Crisis
Binance is accused of misappropriating $1.8 billion in user assets; exploring the actual impact of airdrops on the NFT market from Blur.Organizer: Cookies, ChainCatcher
As one of the most cutting-edge technology fields in today's society, Web3 is attracting more and more alumni from top universities, such as Blur, Scroll, Opensea, Aleo, and STEPN, all founded by alumni from leading institutions like Stanford, continuously injecting new vitality into the industry.
Based on the number and influence of Web3 projects founded by alumni from top global universities, Rootdata recently created a compilation of 7 projects, which includes Web3 projects founded by alumni from Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Zhejiang University. Among them, Stanford University has the highest number of projects recorded, reaching 44, while other universities have between 20 and 30.
Rootdata provides a detailed review of these alumni's projects in the Web3 field.
2、“Vitalik Buterin: My Personal Experience and Suggestions on Crypto Payments”
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin listed several personal experiences of using cryptocurrency for offline payments, stating that user experience is a key reason many Ethereum users (especially those in the Southern Hemisphere) often choose centralized solutions over on-chain decentralized alternatives.
3、“Bloomberg: What Caused the Silvergate Crisis?”
Recently, Silvergate Bank's holding company, Silvergate Capital Corporation, announced it would delay the submission of its annual 10-K report for the fiscal year 2022, stating, "The company is currently analyzing certain regulatory inquiries and investigations related to the company." Subsequently, many crypto companies and trading platforms, including Coinbase, Circle, Tether, and Galaxy Digital, distanced themselves from Silvergate; meanwhile, Silvergate's stock plummeted in the capital market. Bloomberg crypto reporter Matt Levine wrote an article analyzing the reasons behind Silvergate's "bank run."
4、“Reviewing Sui Testnet Wave 2: What Key Information Did the Officials Reveal?”
The Sui Testnet Wave 2 has successfully concluded, helping us achieve the goal of conducting staking operations on Sui. The significant activity on the network gives us more confidence that we have taken a crucial step in our journey to launch the mainnet. The Sui team learned a lot from Wave 2 and will release a three-part blog series to review all content from Wave 2. The first blog will cover network aspects, while the subsequent articles will delve deeper into token economics and the Frenemies game.
On February 20, 2023, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission released a "Consultation Document" on cryptocurrency trading, marking an important step for the Hong Kong government in liberalizing the cryptocurrency trading sector. The author of this article read the entire "Consultation Document" and realized they had previously underestimated the government's will and ambition. To better interpret the "Consultation Document," this article analyzes it from three aspects: framework blueprint, opportunities, and challenges.
Forbes raised significant questions about Binance's management and custody of customer assets and stablecoin collateral based on a recent detailed investigation. In the investigation, Forbes mentioned the nature and intent of some on-chain transactions and provided many possible explanations. However, so far, Binance has not provided a clear response to these on-chain transactions. This approach by Binance fails to restore confidence in the crypto industry, especially after the bankruptcy of FTX, as people are no longer easily trusting centralized platforms with off-chain balance sheets.
7、“First Class: Preview of Major Crypto Events in March”
This article provides a detailed overview of events and sectors such as Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade, DEFI, L1 & L2s, Game & NFT, including projects like yearn.finance, dYdX, Nexus Mutual, Synthetix, Ondo Finance, Filecoin, Cosmos, and Parallel Life.
8、“Starting from Blur: Exploring the Actual Impact of Airdrops on the NFT Market”
The NFT market is constantly changing. Over the past year, OpenSea has felt pressure as its emerging competitors gradually take away more market share. From a weekly perspective, LooksRare, X2Y2, Sudoswap, and Blur have reduced OpenSea's NFT market share from 99% to 50-30%. This article conducts an in-depth study of the airdrop data from LooksRare, X2Y2, and Blur to understand the effects of airdrops in their respective markets.
9、“Greenfield Capital: Can Web3 Disrupt the Online Dating Industry?”
The root of the online dating dilemma lies in the identity system. Beyond business model innovation, advanced analytics and machine learning Web3 technologies based on DID, verifiable credentials, SBT, and POAP can address these issues. This article discusses whether Web2 online dating will be the next industry disrupted by Web3 technology and showcases Web3 dating services, protocols, or products and their potential key features.
So far, the topic of MEV has mostly focused on Ethereum. However, this article will explore MEV in the Solana and Cosmos ecosystems. It will highlight various approaches to addressing MEV and related incentive adjustment challenges, including comparative analysis of trade-offs. By broadening the scope, we can learn from various practices in operation to better predict potential issues and ultimately design better solutions.
11、“Bankless: A Comprehensive Overview of the Latest Developments in ZK”
If you have been following the crypto world closely, you have likely heard about zero-knowledge proofs (ZK Proof) and their applications for some time. They have launched… or are very close to launching… or some version of them is just around the corner? This information can be hard to track.
ZK has a variety of implementations—today we will provide some updates on how the ZK world is evolving.
12、“The LSD Market Competition Begins: A Review of 9 Potential Protocols”
The Shanghai upgrade will release over $27 billion worth of ETH, which means the competition in the LSD market has begun, centered around offering the highest APR. The question is, who will be the winner? It could come from the 9 LSD protocols reviewed in this article.
