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first_img David Hoffman: In 2026, ZEC will be similar to ETH in 2021, and NEAR will win the smart contract buying market

David Hoffman, founding partner of Bankless Ventures, published a discussion on the "Bitcoin Buy Side Trophy," stating that the crypto market occasionally sees a single asset absorbing the capital shift from Bitcoin holders. The Bitcoin community has long maintained a consensus of "holding only BTC," with a scale of about $1.7 trillion; individual shifts usually go unnoticed, but when enough people turn to the same asset, it becomes contagious. He cited 2021's ETH as an example, where its market cap rose from about $12 billion at the bottom to about $554 billion at the top, and referenced Su Zhu's statement from October that year, indicating that some people specifically moved cold-stored Bitcoin to buy ETH, and some publicly known Bitcoin maximalists may privately hold ETH.He believes that ZEC in 2026 is similar to ETH in 2021, having formed a consensus point for some Bitcoin capital, with reasons including privacy, quantum, or as a hedge against Bitcoin exposure "just in case." ZEC's market cap rose from about $200 million to about $2.6 billion, which is still small relative to the $1.7 trillion BTC; the key lies in relative scale rather than dollar appreciation, as the buying pressure is driven by Bitcoin wealth. As long as a very small proportion of holders can be persuaded to allocate a small amount of ZEC, the buying pressure will continue; very few people skip BTC, ETH, and other crypto assets to buy based solely on ZEC's own merits.He also believes that NEAR will win the weaker "smart contract buy side" in 2026, with funds coming from more decentralized market participants. The crypto market has always prioritized value storage, with smart contract chains coming second; ETH's position is weaker than BTC's, and SOL's challenge to ETH is greater than any asset's challenge to BTC.

Vitalik: Blockchain has evolved from a simple ledger into a cryptography-based secure computing network

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, delivered a keynote speech at the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, stating that the blockchain was initially a primary tool. Although it has characteristics such as openness, neutrality, and security, it is not scalable and is completely transparent, lacking privacy protection mechanisms.Subsequently, privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have changed this situation and have been transformed from planning into actual EIPs, included in the Ethereum roadmap. Technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are also beginning to be applied, and indistinguishable obfuscation may also be applied on-chain in the future. Beyond privacy, the parallel construction and proof of blocks can make extreme scalability possible, and industry thinking has shifted from digital assets to digital assets plus information, from purely on-chain to user-end, transaction memory pools, a complete pipeline on-chain, and from who can send what to who can see what.Currently, blockchain has gradually evolved from a simple ledger to a cryptography-based secure computing network. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can significantly enhance verification efficiency, allowing the chain to carry more possibilities.

Gate Launchpool's three major activities are running simultaneously, and the MarsCat (MCAT) prize pool exceeds one million dollars

According to official news, the Gate Launchpool Phase 375 MarsCat (MCAT) event is currently underway and will last until September 24 at 20:00 (UTC+8). Users can stake USDT, GT, or MCAT to share 2,000,000 MCAT tokens for free, with the current prize pool exceeding one million dollars. Among them, the total amount of USDT staked has reached 83,708,714.6 USDT, with an estimated annualized return rate of 13.69%; the estimated annualized return rate for the GT staking pool is 174.53%; and the estimated annualized return rate for the MCAT staking pool is 7522.57%.In addition, the Gate Launchpool CP and ALIGN events are simultaneously ongoing, with three major Launchpool activities running in parallel, providing users with diverse staking options. In the Gate Launchpool CP event, the total amount of ETH staked has reached 15,974.39 ETH, with an estimated annualized return rate of 3.15%; the estimated annualized return rate for the BTC staking pool is 1.41%; and the estimated annualized return rate for the CP staking pool is 61.65%. In the Gate Launchpool ALIGN event, the total amount of USDT staked has reached 137,165,777.41 USDT, with an estimated annualized return rate of 4.76%; the estimated annualized return rate for the GT staking pool is 0.96%; and the estimated annualized return rate for the ALIGN staking pool is 116.85%.
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