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This article discusses the current situation and challenges of celebrities/stars joining Web3, especially in the NFT and Metaverse fields. The star effect has brought huge traffic and initial market prosperity, but due to the lack of attraction for long-term fan participation and professional operation planning, many projects have experienced rapid rise and fall.

Berachain is a meme chain that originated from Smoking Bears NFTs, dating back to the Bong Bears series of NFTs launched in August 2021. The project parties themselves also develop many DeFi. This article will introduce projects in the Berachain ecosystem.

Meta-game is a complex and esoteric concept in the field of encryption, involving game theory and behavioral economics. It includes underlying mechanisms, behavioral changes, best response functions, and reflex loops. Metagames inspire narratives through catalysts, influence price movements, and form reflexive loops through behavioral changes among market participants. Metagames can be self-enhancing or self-defeating, affecting their duration and trading strategies. The article uses examples such as the ETH killer trade, Facebook’s rebranding to Meta, and BTC ETF flows to demonstrate how the metagame works and how investors can identify and exploit these games to gain value.

The bull market is a time when narrative means everything to crypto projects. As the current market is in a growth phase, many projects are showing hundreds of multiples, but few hunters can understand the correlation between them.

Despite recent disappointments among some cryptocurrency investors regarding Ethereum, believing its performance has failed to surpass Bitcoin, Ethereum continues to demonstrate ongoing technical innovation and market advantages.

The Fed has announced a relaxing of policies, which means no hiking of rates and a slowdown in quantitative tightening. Risk-on assets like crypto are expected to hit new highs.

With the increasing demand for tokens adhering to the Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC) standard 20, the rise of ERC-20 token development companies has driven the growth of the blockchain ecosystem.

This article reviews the significant impact of Bitcoin halving events on the cryptocurrency market, particularly highlighting their role in advancing the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol. The halving event, known for its impact on Bitcoin’s supply and demand dynamics, provided the perfect backdrop for the emergence of Bitcoin Runes.

This article explores the best trading strategies to ride the cryptocurrency bull market, providing insights for beginners, intermediate traders, and experienced traders. By understanding these strategies, you can make the most of the cryptocurrency bull market.

This article offers an in-depth comparison between Base and Solana in the meme coin arena, evaluating aspects like user behaviour, code security, transaction speed, fund preferences, cultural traits, and deployment costs, while also uncovering the dynamics behind meme coin popularity.

Market makers play a key role in maintaining liquidity in the market. They usually operate by simultaneously providing buy and sell quotes, buying from sellers and selling to buyers, creating a market environment where transactions are readily available. Market makers contribute significantly to reducing market volatility and transaction costs by providing large amounts of liquidity, ensuring efficient trading, increasing investor confidence, and making markets function more smoothly. Although there are regulatory loopholes and gray areas in market making in crypto markets, market makers still play an important role in the market.

The features of Lens Network include high scalability, censorship resistance, and low cost. The next-generation Lens Protocol will become a cross-chain hub. To lay a scalable foundation for the social space of the future, Lens has chosen the technologically sound and forward-looking zkSync's ZK Stack to develop the new generation of Lens. This leverages account abstraction to enable gas-free and signature-free transactions, supporting embedded wallets to provide a seamless user experience.

The essence of seedless wallets lies in trading off higher security for user login convenience. Correspondingly, partial custody or smart contract social recovery is needed to address the risk of key loss. This article introduces several implementation methods for achieving seedless functionality, including MPC wallets, smart contract wallets, and Unipass' MPC+ smart wallet hybrid solution. Although smart contract wallets cannot directly achieve seedless functionality, their social recovery mechanism provides security for low-security key storage, aligning more with the decentralized values of Web3.

Thetanuts Finance is a decentralized multi-chain options protocol, focused on providing altcoin options, allowing users to go long or short. Since 2021, the protocol has been constantly developing and has launched a variety of products, including Basic Vaults, Stronghold index products, Long Vaults, Degen Vaults, and Wheel Vaults. The architecture of Thetanuts Finance v3 combines the existing Basic Vaults, lending markets, and Uniswap v3 pools, and introduces free market pricing. Additionally, Thetanuts Finance has also launched its governance token $NUTS to promote the protocol's decentralization, governance, and incentive mechanisms.

The Stacks project is undergoing a significant update called the "Nakamoto Upgrade" to enhance the performance and security of the Stacks chain, making it more like a Bitcoin Layer 2 (L2). The upgrade includes rapid block generation, transaction finality through Bitcoin, and improved MEV (Miner Extractable Value) resistance. Additionally, the introduction of sBTC will allow BTC to be used as a native asset on the Stacks chain, a crucial step towards establishing Stacks as a Bitcoin L2.