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The 2024-2025 Crypto Market Yearbook (Yearbook) released by CoinMarketCap sorts out the major innovations, market-shaking moments and unforgettable milestones of the past year, while also looking forward to 2025.

The origins of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) trace back to foundational ideas developed long before Ethereum’s inception. By combining the strengths of decentralized governance with the capabilities of artificial intelligence, hybrid DAOs could play a pivotal role in shaping a future where technology and humanity coexist harmoniously.

This article explains how to quickly determine whether a developer (dev) has locked tokens on-chain. By analyzing transaction histories and utilizing tools like Debot, you can track all transfers associated with a developer’s address. Using the $Sora project as a case study, the author shows how to verify token locks through contracts like Streamflow and uncovers discrepancies between the official lock-up information shared on Twitter and the actual status.

Ethereum's privacy issues are increasingly gaining attention, especially as transaction transparency may expose users' financial information and activities. To address this issue, Stealth Addresses have been proposed, aiming to ensure the receiver's identity and transaction details remain private by generating a unique temporary address for each transaction. This method does not rely on third-party privacy protocols but enhances privacy directly at the protocol level. However, the implementation of Stealth Addresses still faces challenges.

UniLend was exploited due to a vulnerability, leading to the theft of approximately $200K (4% of TVL). The attacker used a flash loan to deposit 60 million USDC, manipulated collateral calculations, and exploited a contract bug in the health check process to inflate collateral value, withdrawing 60 stETH. The flaw stemmed from the faulty implementation of the userBalanceOfToken function. UniLend has since fixed the issue, paused V2 deposits, and offered a bounty to recover the funds. This incident underscores the critical importance of security for DeFi platforms and the need for thorough smart contract audits.

GEODNET is a geospatial network providing real-time, high-precision positioning data for IoT, autonomous systems, and global applications.

Crypto Pulse focuses on the latest developments in the cryptocurrency industry, delivering up-to-date market analysis and insights.

Plume changes the status quo by bringing real-world assets on-chain and integrating synthetic assets into this new ecosystem for decentralized lending, trading, financial products, and other use cases. This bridges the gap between traditional finance and the crypto ecosystem.

Discover how MetaTrust Labs is transforming Web3 security with cutting-edge tools like MetaScan, MetaScout, and MetaScore. Learn about their advanced technology, use cases, and how they’re shaping the future of decentralized applications.

Explore Bitte Protocol, an AI-driven platform that simplifies blockchain interactions, enabling users to manage crypto assets, execute DeFi swaps, and create NFTs across multiple blockchains with ease.

SHX token powers Stronghold's payment network, enabling fast, secure, and low-cost transactions across digital and traditional financial systems.

Perena offers a suite of tools for stablecoin infrastructure, enabling users to launch, trade, and earn with stablecoins. It features a stableswap AMM, concentrated liquidity pools, and support for integrating stablecoins with deep liquidity.

Pipe Network is a decentralized Content Delivery Network (CDN) built on Solana, designed for ultra-fast, reliable media streaming and real-time applications.

Bio Protocol ($BIO) is a decentralized platform driving biotech innovation through BioDAOs, IP tokenization, and community governance.

As the narrative around smart contracts gradually loses its appeal, the strong emergence of AI has brought a breakthrough, driving an unexpected surge in interest and innovation. From Bitcoin’s consensus layer to the execution layer of smart contracts, and now to the AI-powered application layer, has the crypto industry entered its third wave of technological evolution?