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Alors que nous avançons dans le troisième trimestre, un certain nombre de projets avancent avec un développement continu, et les choix de cette semaine devraient bénéficier de mises à jour et d’annonces importantes qui devraient renforcer leurs positions sur le marché et profiter à leurs communautés. Les nouvelles devraient également entraîner une attention accrue pour chaque devise respective au cours des prochaines semaines.

1. Actions Kucoin (KCS)

Kucoin est un échange qui donne à ses utilisateurs accès à une gamme de projets à venir ainsi qu’à des pièces plus établies. L’échange héberge également des offres initiales de pièces (IEO) et exploite sa propre devise, appelée Kucoin Shares (KCS), qui fonctionne comme un jeton ERC 20 standard basé sur la blockchain Ethereum. Détenir le jeton KCS permet aux utilisateurs de la plate-forme de bénéficier d’un certain nombre d’avantages, notamment une remise sur les frais de négociation et l’accès à tous les IEO Kucoin.

Pourquoi les actions Kucoin ? 70m Débloqué KCS Sorti le 2 septembre

L’équipe Kucoin a lancé son jeton KCS avec un volume total d’émission de 200 millions et une fonction de rachat et d’élimination qui aiderait à maintenir un approvisionnement constant de 100 millions de KCS. En conséquence, 100 millions de KCS ont été mis à la disposition du public en septembre 2017, dont 30 millions donnés à des investisseurs providentiels soumis à une période de blocage de deux ans. Les 70 millions de KCS restants émis par les fondateurs ont été soumis à une période de blocage de quatre ans commençant le 2 septembre 2017 et seront désormais libérés le 2 septembre 2021. Les 70 millions de jetons représentent les avoirs permanents des fondateurs de l’échange et le libération peut ne pas avoir un effet extrêmement préjudiciable sur le prix du KCS. Toute personne détenant KCS peut en savoir plus sur le verrouillage et la libération ici.

2. Ma voisine Alice (ALICE)

Ma voisine Alice est un jeu de construction multijoueur développé sur la plateforme DAO Maker. Les utilisateurs peuvent acheter et posséder des îles virtuelles, collecter et construire des objets passionnants et rencontrer de nouveaux amis à travers le jeu. Le jeu vise à combiner un récit amusant pour les joueurs réguliers qui souhaitent profiter du gameplay et un écosystème développé pour les joueurs qui souhaitent collecter et échanger des NFT.

Pourquoi ma voisine Alice ? Les tests de jeu pré-alpha s’ouvrent le 31 août

L’équipe Mon Voisin Alice a confirmé que leur version pré-alpha sera disponible pour des tests de jeu le 31 août. En conséquence, les détenteurs de jetons ALICE pourront tester une version pré-alpha du jeu, découvrir la ville de Lummesta et découvrir le chapitre d’introduction de Mon voisin Alice. Ce chapitre d’ouverture sera disponible pour les tests jusqu’au 30 septembre, et tous les détenteurs d’ALICE peuvent participer à la période de test d’un mois. Toute personne intéressée peut trouver un guide détaillé et une FAQ ici, et un guide sur la façon d’accéder aux tests pré-alpha ici.

3. Zilliqa (ZIL)

Zilliqa est une plate-forme de blockchain publique à haut débit conçue pour évoluer et intégrant une technologie de partitionnement qui permet aux utilisateurs de développer des contrats intelligents et des dApps directement sur leur plate-forme. Le projet utilise un nouveau protocole de consensus qui augmente les taux de transaction à mesure que le réseau s’étend, avec plus de transactions par seconde traitées à mesure que davantage de nœuds miniers rejoignent le réseau.

Pourquoi Zilliqa ? Mise à niveau du réseau le 30 août

L’équipe de Zilliqa a annoncé qu’il y aura une mise à niveau du réseau le 30 août de 03h30 à 10h00 UTC. La mise à niveau contribuera à améliorer les performances et les fonctionnalités en ce qui concerne la synchronisation des nœuds, la gestion des soumissions PoW, le nettoyage de la mémoire et la stabilité du réseau pour le service API JSONRPC. La mise à niveau comprend également toutes les fonctionnalités nécessaires pour activer le pont ZIL, et le pont sera opérationnel une fois que PolyNetwork sera pleinement opérationnel. Les détenteurs de ZIL n’auront rien à faire pendant la mise à niveau et les opérateurs de nœuds doivent vérifier les canaux de médias sociaux du projet pour obtenir des instructions supplémentaires.

Comment les pièces ont-elles fonctionné la semaine dernière?

La période de sept jours a généralement conduit à des résultats mitigés sur l’ensemble du marché ; et ICX a chuté de 5% et se négocie actuellement à environ 1,38 $. NRG a chuté de 4% et se négocie actuellement à 1,87 $, et FIRO s’est amélioré de 4% au cours de la semaine, et se négocie actuellement à 7,58 $. Au cours de la semaine, le marché a maintenu une valorisation globale de 2,13 T$ à 2,11 T$.

Près d’un an et demi après son lancement en mars 2020, le jeton SOL de Solana a fait son entrée dans le top dix des crypto-monnaies après une flambée des prix de plus de 72% et atteignant un niveau record de 81,81 $ la semaine dernière.

La capitalisation boursière du projet s’élevant actuellement à 21,1 milliards de dollars, les futurologues disent que Solana vient de démarrer. Voici un aperçu de la technologie derrière ce projet révolutionnaire et des facteurs qui ont contribué à son récent succès.

Résoudre le trilemme de la blockchain

La première victoire de Solana se présente sous la forme de sa capacité sans précédent à résoudre le trilemme de la blockchain, un problème qui hante les développeurs depuis les débuts de la technologie blockchain. Il indique essentiellement que parmi les trois facteurs de décentralisation, d’évolutivité et de sécurité, un réseau blockchain doit en sacrifier un pour mettre en œuvre correctement les deux autres.

Solana est un réseau blockchain de quatrième génération qui semble avoir trouvé une solution à ce problème. C’est l’un des seuls réseaux blockchain à l’échelle du Web qui a réussi à atteindre un débit de 50 000 TPS avec son réseau de test, résolvant le problème de l’évolutivité sans solutions de couche 2.

En outre, Solana combine le mécanisme de preuve de participation (PoS) avec des technologies à 8 cœurs telles que PoH (preuve d’historique), Tower BFT, Turbine, Gulf Stream, Sealevel, Pipeline, Cloudbreak et Achievers pour garantir des niveaux de décentralisation et de sécurité inégalés au sein du réseau.

Cette infrastructure robuste signifie que Solana pourrait être la plate-forme de référence pour la prochaine génération de dApps (applications décentralisées) car il peut éliminer des problèmes tels que la congestion du réseau, les frais de gaz élevés ou le manque d’évolutivité. Ceci est en outre établi par le fait que Mango Markets, un DEX alimenté par Solana, a réussi à lever 70 millions de dollars en financement participatif la semaine dernière.

Les solutions de Solana arrivant lentement sous les feux de la rampe, des projets DeFi comme Power Ledger ont commencé à migrer d’Ethereum vers Solana, contribuant davantage à son succès.

L’effet trou de ver

Un autre facteur contribuant au succès de Solana est son projet Wormhole. Le Wormhole est un pont bidirectionnel reliant deux réseaux blockchain pour le transfert transparent des actifs tokenisés. Il permet aux projets DeFi de bénéficier du haut débit et de l’abordabilité de Solana. En ouvrant une voie réservée aux actifs non natifs pour entrer dans l’écosystème Solana, il pourrait éventuellement devenir le pont reliant l’écosystème DeFi dans son ensemble.

Le caractère innovant de ce projet a réussi à attirer l’attention du marché. L’annonce par Solana du lancement de Wormhole 2.0 pourrait être l’une des raisons de sa récente remontée des prix.

Ventes NFT et listes d’échange

Parallèlement à ces autres facteurs, la Degenerate Ape Academy NFT est la cerise sur le gâteau. Le projet a choisi le réseau Solana pour héberger sa vente et environ 10 000 jetons de singe ont été vendus en huit minutes. Solana a dépassé un volume de transactions de 2,5 milliards de dollars avec des frais négligeables de 0,01 $ lors de la vente, sans aucune plainte de congestion du réseau.

Un tueur potentiel d’Ethereum ?

Dans le monde de DeFi, Ethereum est la superstar inégalée avec un écosystème composé de plus de 3000 dApps et comptant. Mais depuis 2017, nous avons vu l’émergence de réseaux de blockchain de nouvelle génération comme Polkadot, Cardano, Flow et Tezos qui ont été présentés comme des tueurs potentiels d’Ethereum.

Ces projets prétendaient avoir la solution à des problèmes tels que la congestion du réseau, les frais de gaz élevés et le manque d’évolutivité qui sont prédominants sur le réseau Ethereum.

Bien que ces projets aient connu leur propre succès, ils sont loin d’être proches d’Ethereum. Solana, d’autre part, a connu une croissance immense en l’espace d’un an seulement. Avec son débit atteignant les échelles Web et sa capacité à améliorer DeFi, Solana est définitivement sur le point d’être un tueur d’Ethereum s’il est bien mis en œuvre.

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Tom Brady has launched a new NFT Platform called ‘Autograph’, together with Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka to facilitate digital ownership of sports memorabilia by sports fans, making use of the already growing NFT market, which is growing rapidly.

Tom Brady’s Foray Into the burgeoning NFT space

Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL quarterback Tom Brady, and Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka have launched their own non-fungible token platform, called “Autograph”. This sheds light on an NFT market that’s growing in tens of millions per day in trading volume.  The tokens, called NFTs, are far behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, although not far behind all the other alt coins.

What is an NFT?

“Non-fungible” means a unique item, such as a vintage signed football card, that cannot be copied. NFTs are part of the Ethereum blockchain.  NFTs can be physical items, like pieces of artwork, or they can be digital items, like a video montage of a sporting hero’s best moments.

Brady is a pioneer when it comes to athletes  joining the NFT market, after showing his initial interest in crypto. 

“Autograph” board and seed idea

The platform, co-chaired by Brady and internet entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt, will sell digital sports memorabilia from Brady, Osaka, hockey star Wayne Gretzky, and skateboarder Tony Hawk.  Osaka will be on the advisory board of the company.  This isn’t Brady’s first foray into the world of crypto; together with wife Gisele Bundchen, he has taken an equity stake in FTX trading limited, and will receive crypto in the partnership.

According to Brady, Autograph was created as a way for fans and collectors to have their own piece of iconic moments in sports and entertainment through official digital collectibles.  It also makes available one-of-a-kind individually signed items, together with exclusive content and experiences, according to website autograph.io.  Tom Brady’s NFT Collection has debuted on Draftkings Marketplace.

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Ishan Pandey: Hi Maggie Wu, welcome to our “Behind the Startup” series. Tell us about yourself and the story behind Krypital?

Maggie Wu:
I was born in China and came to the U.S. 15 years ago. I’ve been an entrepreneur for more than 15 years. Before entering the crypto space, I was in the investment field. Since 2017, I have started to pay attention to and invest in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.

We founded Krypital Group in 2017. As a leading global venture capital firm and incubator, we only focus on the investment and incubation related to the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. Aside from investment, we also have arms in the trading, mining and crypto exchange, etc. Through the years, we have invested in projects from all over the world. So far this year, we have invested in well over a hundred projects, and more than a few dozens of projects have yielded 100x+ returns. Our core team is based in North America; we also have teams in Asia and Latin America.

Particularly, we have a high interest in the Latin American market. Last year, we launched our own exchange Mexo.io, the development has been very rapid. In less than a year, Mexico has become one of the largest exchanges in Latin America. Our plan is to complete a comprehensive crypto ecosystem in the Latin American market as we progress forward.

Ishan Pandey: What qualities do you see in a team and a startup while investing? What important parameters do you follow while doing due diligence on projects?

Maggie Wu: When we invest, we certainly hope to invest in teams and projects with fresh ideas, lots of experience, and perseverance. Specifically, we always perform detailed analysis from the track, prospects, market pain points, products, teams, competitors, valuation, token economy, go-to-market strategies, etc.

We generally will evaluate the following perspectives before we invest in a project:

Solving what kind of problem?

Business Model

Team background

Competitor Analysis

Is it decentralized enough? Does it really need to use blockchain technology?

6) What is special as a Crypto Fund is that we also pay much attention to the project’s Token Economy, knowing the utility and use case of the token. How can a token accumulate value in the long term?

7) Community engagement

We spend much time discussing with project teams and do research before we invest. Also, based on the research we conducted, we will write articles to help others understand the project after we invested.

Ishan Pandey: Please enlighten us about the blockchain investing scene in Asia and how it is different from investing in blockchain startups in North America?

Maggie Wu:
Since we have international teams, the projects we invest from all over the world. As far as North American and Asian projects are concerned, I believe there are similarities and differences. From a technical point of view, I do not think there is a big difference. There are excellent developers in every country and region. In particular, the speed of technological iteration in our industry is breakneck, and the top developers’ learning and development speed are also very fast.

In North America, DeFi and other crypto topics are quite popular and acceptable, there are many great DeFi & NFT projects based in the US, and there are also many excellent teams working on innovative products and technology. We invested in many projects based in this region. Also, the North America crypto community is amazing. We do think North America is the most critical region for crypto funds to find and invest in projects.

In Asia, such as China, the market condition is a bit different. Projects in this region are not that deeply technology-oriented but have more operational innovation. Whether it is North American projects or other overseas projects, the Chinese market is really important for them since many people trade and hold crypto in this market. Many top centralized exchanges such as Binance, Huobi, Okex, and Gate are coming out of China. In the Chinese market, you need to have good relationships with different resources to invest in good projects or help projects expand in this market. Also, the relationship and resources are significant when you conduct due diligence for the projects and the team.

From the perspective of financial innovation, I think North American projects have a deeper understanding of the design of financial derivatives, while the Asian team is better at the innovation of token economic models.

From a policy perspective, the North American market is more open and has more opportunities for project development. The Asian market, especially the Chinese market, is focused more stringent on blockchain and the cryptocurrency industry, so there are more restrictions on the development of the projects.

From the investment perspective, we use the same evaluation standards for all the projects that come to us, that is, investing in early rounds of solid projects with the most potential.

Ishan Pandey: What is your investment strategy when investing in blockchain projects?

Maggie Wu: In general, we are a research-oriented, long-term, and visionary investment company. We focus on discovering the builders or creators of the blockchain industry. In addition to providing funds, we will also use our global resources to help the project and maximize its potential, including support for product design, token model, marketing, community building, exchange listing, secondary strategy, etc.

In terms of specific investment strategies, there are conventional strategies and special strategies for different cycles. First, we will invest primarily in tokens and secondary in equity.

Second, we invest in relatively early projects, seed rounds, and private equity rounds with a reasonable valuation.

Third, we will adjust the investment direction per the development of the industry. For example, two or three years ago, we mainly invested in infrastructure projects, such as layer 1 or layer 2 solutions. Last year we started to invest more in DeFi projects. This year we focused more on the NFT and GameFi-related projects. Recently, we are focusing more on metaverse. In the future, we will continue to focus on Web3, DeFi-related projects.

At the same time, in different industry cycles, such as the bear market or bull market, our investment strategies will also have some differences. For example, we will be more interested in more aggressive and fast-developing projects in a bull market. If the bull market cycle can be grasped well, then the development of the project will be relatively easy. When investing in a bear market, we will be more cautious, and the evaluation criteria will be stricter.

In the bull market, sometimes we will pick projects with fast growth because you have to be more aggressive in the bull market. Thus, if the project has a good strategy, they will have good go-to-market strategies and exchange listing plans. These are the types of projects that will be more attractive in a bull market. In a bear market, it will require totally different strategies because, in the bear market, it is really hard for projects to be listed on crypto exchanges. So we will have to stay with the investment for a much longer time. Like traditional investment, you will do a lot of due diligence that includes the team background, product positioning, marketing strategies, corporations, competitions, and valuations. There are a lot of things to look at during the bear market.

Generally speaking, we are a long-term and far-sighted research-driven investment firm. We focus on builders or creators and invest in early-stage, seed, or private round projects. In addition to capital, we will also leverage our global resources to help projects and maximize their potential. Support will be provided to creators who need assistance utilizing crypto user interfaces, token models, funding and marketing, etc.

Ishan Pandey: What are your views on DeFi and the susceptibility of decentralized applications to hacks?

Maggie Wu:
Yeah, nowadays, more and more projects get hacked. If you are new to DeFi applications, you really need to be aware of these risks.

Since DeFi is still in its early days and has lots of money involved, hackers will try every method to find the weak points and profit. We follow the market and hack technics evolution every day. We also have an internal tech team researching this part. We often alert our portfolio projects to prevent hacking from happening to them and advise them to work with more than one audit firm to make sure their smart contracts are solid.

I think with the growth of the whole ecosystem, DeFi applications will become more secure in the future.

Ishan Pandey: What advice would you give to fund managers or investors who want to start their own investment fund?

Maggie Wu:
For a fund, it’s really not just about money. Fund managers and investors should find out what kind of value you and your fund can give to the projects you want to invest in. I think investors need to have enough enthusiasm and knowledge about this industry. The second is to have a clear positioning, investment strategy, risk control awareness, and reasonable resource allocation. Of course, you also need to prepare sufficient funds. Finally, investors need to have a vision for this industry, long-term patience to accompany and do their best to help the project development.

Since we started investing in this space in 2017, we have accumulated many resources and experience in this industry to help projects grow. For example, here are a few things we can help for our portfolio companies:

Advisory on project positioning, token economy, white paper, etc.

Funding: Connection with other Crypto Funds

Marketing, Branding, PR, Connect with KOLs

Exchange listing and market making strategy

Global Community building

Co-organizing Hackathon and help with hiring

Since this space still has much room to grow, we do think there will be more fund floods in the blockchain space. Finding your exceptional edge and value-added points could give you a better chance to be a great investor.

Ishan Pandey: According to you, what worthwhile trends are we going to see next in the blockchain industry?

Maggie Wu: We can see that more and more funds are entering the blockchain industry, especially traditional funds and family funds, etc. The price of mainstream cryptocurrencies such as BTC and ETH will gradually rise in the future. And then, fierce competition will occur between the various main chain ecology, and cross-chain related components will become inevitable. In various ecosystems, especially at the dApp level, there will be more complex combinations of financial derivatives and financial instruments. At the same time, GameFi, NFT, social, and DAO related projects will be continually popular among the communities, and it is foreseeable that there will be good incremental users. Recently, metaverse-related projects have become more popular, including Facebook also announced they want to build a metaverse.

At the same time, the financial supervision of various countries will be more transparent. We look forward to introducing financial policies related to blockchain in various countries, which will further promote the development of the industry.

Our industry is still in its early stages. Especially in developing countries, there is still huge potential, such as the Latin American market. We have been focusing on the Latin American market since 2019 and have entered the Latin American market in 2020 on Large-scale user-focused applications, such as payment, transfer, wallet, exchange and social networking, etc. We believe that all these can help the industry to develop into the mainstream truly.

We think the number of people who join trade or hold crypto will be doubled or tripled by the end of 2021. TVL will rise up again and even surpass the beginning of 2021. Bitcoin & Ethereum prices will reach ATH.

From the trend-wise, we pay most of our attention mainly to DeFi, Web 3.0, NFT, Crypto Infrastructure such as crypto payment areas.

We see other newly emerging trends like Metaverse, which could become the next social platform & DAOs, which could become the future of companies or corporations. These areas are also quite exciting and also have a lot of growth potential.

Disclaimer: The purpose of this article is to remove informational asymmetry existing today in our digital markets by performing due diligence by asking the right questions and equipping readers with better opinions to make informed decisions. The material does not constitute any investment, financial, or legal advice. Please do your research before investing in any digital assets or tokens, etc. The writer does not have any vested interest in the company. Ishan Pandey.

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Ethereum is set to correct its lavish energy consumption in less than six months from now and here’s why this matters:

Ethereum is the busiest blockchain network of all cryptocurrencies.
It has become the home to NFTs, mainstream DeFis and DEx built with blockchain.
There are approximately 1 million Ethereum transactions that go on daily and each gulps as much energy as you’d spend watching Youtube for 441 days non-stop.
Ethereum 2.0 is a beat-them-or-join-them game.

Ever since discussions about climate change became a staple world topic, Bitcoin and Ethereum have remained at the receiving end of constant backlash over its voracious energy use. The two top tier coins with an estimated capitalization of $1.3 trillion — representing over 65% of the current total cryptocurrency market capitalization — gulp energy estimated to be sufficient for a nation of 90 million residents according to the Ethereum Energy Consumption Index.

Back in May when the crypto market bled red, part of the value wreck experienced by Bitcoin was attributed to a raised concern by Elon Musk over the impact of its consumption on the environment. A group of self-proclaimed stakeholders has since gathered together to address the problem and engineer a change but the results have no definite timeline. 

Ethereum on the other hand rolled out a major upgrade that sought to address many issues like scalability, relative scarcity, gas fees, transaction costs amongst others but it left out energy concerns. This time, after another major code improvement due in December, it will focus all attention on eliminating all possible Ether mining incentives in a big switch to the energy-efficient proof of stake.

Ethereum Energy Option

Ethereum’s proposed energy-efficient option — simply known as Ethereum 2.0 — looks to fully switch to the all too familiar proof of stake. It is a type of consensus mechanism that disincentives the act of donating one’s gas power to solving mathematical algorithms on the network for token rewards and replacing it with a mechanism that makes new coins from the power of a pool of existing ones. Its last EIP-1559 upgrade took away the influence of people with purchasing power over transaction fees and handed it over to a newly developed algorithm.

Implication for the market

Added to the last EIP-1559 upgrade is the equally critical EIP-3554 protocol upgrade. 3554 sets the ground rolling for ETH 2.0 and marks the end of all mining activities on the network. Already, there are only a few months left until the expiration of its “difficulty time bomb” era. The implication of this is an approaching period of difficulty for all activities carried out on the blockchain platform, which forces all to upgrade or become shut out.

If Ethereum gets it right, it will be well on its way to topple Bitcoin’s dominance with a massive number of users who seek to see it cover all loopholes that breed options. If it fails, then this will come at a price that involves loss of investor confidence and attract the presence of the US Security and Exchange Commission which now seeks to tighten up on the US digital currency market altogether.