Topics of Crypto World

The value and importance of market capitalization

Legal currencies created by governments, not backed by tangible assets

A fraudulent and a get-rich-quick scheme

Blockchain networks suffer Sybil attacks when an actor creates multiple nodes to take over the network.

Decentraland is an Ethereum-based virtual world where users trade commodities such as LAND, collectibles, and in-game items using its native token MANA.

NFT Mystery Boxes are digital collectibles sold as unique NFTs on blockchain, containing random digital assets that are revealed after purchase.

Segregated Witness (SegWit) is an update in the Bitcoin blockchain that separates the witness data from the base block. It is aimed at scaling the network.

Highlights: 1. The advanced subject of Futures Trading at Gate learn aims to help traders establish a professional futures trading system and form a framework for contract thinking from three aspects regarding investment philosophy, contract tools, and trading system. 2. The theme of this issue is Emotion Management, focusing on how to avoid FOMO in futures trading, introducing the internal logic behind the phenomenon and sharing how to manage emotion as well.

Trading is a game of profit and loss. No one is happy losing their hard-earned money in the process of trading. Hence you would certainly make sure that your trading strategy will be profitable before employing it in a real-time environment. So you have a strategy but you are not sure of how it will perform. Backtesting will help you get started. Backtesting is crucial for any profitable trading strategy. It helps you to analyze your strategy and see how well it performed over the past years. It does not substitute for a real-time experience but it will help you in your journey of becoming an algo trader. In the coming sessions, we will dive deeper into backtesting and why it is important.

The Moving Average is an indicator that measures the average price with a period-based calculation

Bitcoin maximalism is an ideology that believes in the supremacy of Bitcoin. Maximalists have extreme views surrounding Bitcoin and its use cases.

An oracle in blockchain technology is a third-party service that provides external data to a smart contract, allowing it to interact with the real world.

Binance Coin (BNB) is an exchange token issued by Binance, and is also the utility token of the Binance Smart Chain. As Binance develops into the top three crypto exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume, along with the endless ecological applications on its smart chain, BNB has become the third largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin and Ethereum. This article will have a detailed introduction of BNB’s history and the huge Binance ecosystem behind it.

A Merkle Tree is a structure used to verify and maintain data integrity in a set. Merkle trees and Merkle Roots are employed to verify transactions.

Yearn.finance is a decentralized smart financial product built on Ethereum. It implements algorithms to shift assets between different smart contracts to attain the highest yields. Yearn.finance launched the YFI token in July 2020. Its price soared from $3 to $30,000 within one month, which rapidly attracted a large number of investors. Its founder, Andre Cronje, is a South African fintech developer. He created Yearn.finance when he realized that different DeFi applications offer different yields. Users flocked to Yearn.finance soon after it was launched. Its market cap reached $1.5 billion by September 2020. Data shows that its total value locked in the network exceeded $6 billion at its peak in November 2021. How did the craze sweep the whole crypto space? How does it work? Let’s explore.