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This article will share personal anecdotes from past years and after that discuss the difference in explore versus exploit stages of the cycle. As a closing remark, we will conclude with possible future scenarios and a personal commentary.

Users employing a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy do not expose themselves to excessive risk and can achieve a better average price; in the long run, such users still outperform most traders. Users purchasing the selected cryptocurrency at fixed intervals and with a fixed dollar amount can create passive investments and earn profits.

Ethereum’s shift to a rollup-centric roadmap induced explosive growth in modular scaling designs, eliminating gas fees over $100 and unlocking new application designs. However, it also faces a new problem of state fragmentation. The article analyzes the two major directions of scaling and explores their mechanisms.

This article provides a detailed explanation of the new Web3 interactive feature of the xNFT protocol, focusing on its applications, visiting various Dapps, achieving new application distribution methods, and the opportunity to receive project airdrops.

The success of runes will depend on user experience. If the broad compatibility of runes is quickly integrated and utilized, there is a good chance that they could replace BRC-20. In addition to storing token balances in UTXOs and shifting trust from the indexer level to the Bitcoin blockchain, runes should be easier to integrate with L2 solutions, bridges, and other DeFi applications.

The article details AltLayer, a decentralized resilient Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) protocol designed to provide a scalable second-layer solution to alleviate on-chain congestion and costly transactions cost. AltLayer utilizes the modular concept and restaking mechanism to enhance security, decentralization and processing speed. It provides Rollup services, allowing users to quickly create customized Rollups, supporting multi-chain and multi-virtual machine functions. AltLayer's core technologies include Restaked Rollup and RaaS, the latter of which simplifies the deployment of Rollup through a code-free interface. In addition, AltLayer issued the native token ALT, which is used to pay for fees, governance and consensus mechanisms within the ecosystem. The article also discusses AltLayer's team background, financing situation, and opportunities and challenges it faces.

The article presents IPOR Fusion, a meta DeFi credit market engine designed to transform liquidity into momentum by leveraging market dynamics. The IPOR protocol has traded over $4.4 billion in nominal interest rate and dividend rate swap volumes, with a focus on interest rate data, derivatives, and structured products. IPOR Fusion offers DeFi users a single integration point through automated execution core and intelligent layer optimization, providing a way to optimize returns, manage risks, and build customized strategies. It also introduces component tools such as Fuses, Atomists, Plasma Vaults, and Alphas to facilitate the integration of DeFi protocols and the creation of strategies. The goal of IPOR Fusion is to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of capital allocation while providing users with optimized asset management solutions.

The world of memes is always full of entertainment. Recently, a platform with the domain name "fun" — Pump.fun — has attracted considerable attention in the crypto community. Even professional poker player Tom Dwan mentioned Pump.fun in a tweet, hinting at his interest in its gambling entertainment.

Guild of Guardians is a mobile multiplayer RPG blockchain game issued by Immutable and is one of the cooperative games of Yield Guild Games (YGG). Players will build a team of heroes in the game, explore dungeons to obtain resources and participate in guild collaboration.

Ethena.fi tokenises a ‘delta neutral’ carry trade on ETH by issuing a stablecoin which represents the value of the delta neutral position. Their stablecoin, USDe, also collects the carry yield - hence their claim, an internet bond providing internet native yield.

The unified architecture of Ethereum refers to its integrated framework that combines the base layer (Layer 1) with various Layer 2 scaling solutions. This architecture aims to balance decentral

EIP-3074 is an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that introduces a novel approach to account management. It enables the delegation of control over regular user accounts (EOA) to smart contracts, facilitating more sophisticated transaction strategies. Proposed in 2020 by Ethereum core developers, EIP-3074 introduces two new opcodes, "AUTH" and "AUTHCALL," empowering EOAs to transform into smart contracts without the need to deploy new contracts. The implementation of EIP-3074 aims to enhance the overall user experience for wallet users by enabling gas sponsorship, batch transactions, and wallet asset recovery. While EIP-3074 presents promising advancements, it also raises some concerns such as increasing the risk of user asset theft, and possibly forming a parallel technology stack with the Account Abstraction (AA) proposal EIP-4337, which requires ensuring interoperability between the two.

Enoki is a SaaS platform developed by Mysten Labs, the company behind Sui, designed to help businesses seamlessly integrate blockchain technology. Enoki offers a simplified developer portal that enables enterprises to easily access building blocks and integrates the Sui wallet through features like zkLogin and sponsored transactions, allowing users to control their digital assets. Enoki also introduces innovative cryptographic features such as Time Capsule NFTs and obfuscated NFTs, as well as providing APIs and SDKs to simplify blockchain integration for businesses. Furthermore, by lowering barriers to entry, such as streamlining the wallet creation process and eliminating the need for gas fees, Enoki facilitates interactions between businesses and their customers. The article explores whether Enoki could become a pivotal point in the Sui ecosystem to enhance enterprise adoption and achieve mass adoption.

The article reported that the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission approved in principle Harvest International Asset Management Co., Ltd. and China Asset Management (Hong Kong) to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETF products, which will be provided through OSL Digital Securities Co., Ltd. This decision marks that Hong Kong is ahead of the United States in financial innovation. Through a flexible regulatory environment and an open attitude towards financial innovation, Hong Kong is trying to seize cryptocurrency pricing power in the global financial market. The article also mentioned that Hong Kong’s policy changes are friendly to the cryptocurrency market and emphasized the stability and continuity of the policy. In addition, the article points out that although the market has had mixed reactions to Hong Kong’s adoption of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, this move is a positive signal for the industry.

Illuvium is a blockchain gaming universe developed on Immutable X with the Unreal Engine 5, comprising four distinct types of games. These games share a unified world view and are designed for different player demographics, interconnected through the game world's economic mechanisms, significantly enhancing the gameplay experience.