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“Starknet’s latest upgrade, “Quantum Leap,” significantly improves Ethereum’s transaction processing speed, potentially enabling hundreds of transactions per second. This upgrade facilitates faster, efficient, and seamless network functionalities for developers, allowing real-time on-chain transaction confirmations. The upgrade, however, is still early-stage, and future success hinges on real-world application and user adoption.”

“StarkWare, the firm behind Ethereum scaling solution Starknet, recently announced its decision to release an estimated $550,000 worth of cryptocurrency caught in a system upgrade. This highlights the complexity and potential vulnerability within the swift progress and innovation of the blockchain ecosystem.”

Ethereum’s gas fees have hit an 8-month low due to low network activity, yet layer-2 scaling solution popularity is on the rise. This indicates the vital role of scaling solutions in maintaining low fees even amidst growing decentralization. Notably, Ethereum 2.0 and layer-2 solutions seem to alleviate the issue of high adoption against expensive gas fees and slow transaction times. Ethereum’s evolving technology is making it increasingly invincible, even against rival blockchain platforms.

“Cardano network activity has surged, reflected by a rise in transactions and technical improvements. Despite a dip in active daily users, the ratio of transactions to active addresses is increasing, implying more active users. Key upgrades, including provision for Ethereum Virtual Machine smart contracts, could potentially boost token prices and expand the Cardano ecosystem’s utility.”

The advent of quantum computing could impose drawbacks on economic growth, warn researchers. As this new technology emerges, it brings with it the threat of economic stagnation and a “productivity paradox”, wherein improved tech doesn’t immediately cause productivity to surge. A lack of comprehension and risk aversion, alongside significant barriers to entry, may turn quantum computing into a double-edged sword.

StarkNet, Ethereum’s scaling solution, test launched StarkNet Quantum Leap, a layer-2 network aiming at performance enhancement and throughput improvement. With throughput increased tenfold, this upgrade could quicken transaction processing significantly. Despite often compromising a network’s decentralization, this high throughput is critical for user-friendly, decentralized finance applications. StarkNet’s new upgrade also plans to substitute the “PENDING” transaction status with “ACCEPTED_ON_L2”.

The GPU shortage could accelerate the adoption of Web3 by mainstream thanks to decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN). Protocols like Akash, enabling GPU leasing to AI start-ups, and Arweave, offering permanent data storage, could help alleviate resource issues. DePIN could provide inexpensive, reliable infrastructure for startups, shielding them from AI threats and offering advantages over Web2.

The Joint L1 Task Force (L1TF) has submitted a revised proposal for Terra Luna Classic’s Q3 development, focusing on LUNC and USTC supply reduction, upgrading the Cosmos SDK, integrating Block Entropy AI app chain, and collaborating with external teams. These ambitious plans aim to increase stability and growth but also present challenges for the network.

A research collaboration between BTQ and university scholars has proposed a quantum computing-based proof-of-work (PoW) system called “proof-of-work consensus by quantum sampling.” This breakthrough approach, based on boson sampling, aims to provide faster, more energy-efficient processing and potentially future-proof blockchain networks. However, concerns of centralization and accessibility must be addressed for widespread adoption.

Researchers from universities in Australia and the US have proposed a novel proof-of-work (PoW) scheme for blockchain consensus using quantum computing. This PoW system has the potential to offer significant speedup and energy savings compared to classical hardware systems, enhancing blockchain applications’ efficiency and reducing environmental impacts.

The Bitcoin Cash network recently upgraded, introducing CashTokens that enable developers to create tokens with properties similar to BCH. These tokens can be applied to various use cases, such as stablecoins and decentralized exchanges. However, this upgrade also brings challenges like increased fees and transaction backlogs, impacting the network’s future functionality.

The Bitcoin network struggles with record transactions and fees due to the introduction of BRC-20 memecoins, causing over 400,000 pending transactions. The situation raises questions about the future of these tokens, with miners enjoying increased profitability and core developers considering them as network spam. Balancing innovation and network integrity will be essential moving forward.

A fortunate miner reaped nearly $200,000 in transaction fees due to the recent surge in blockchain activity related to the Ordinals protocol. With BRC-20 tokens gaining popularity, the Bitcoin network is pushed to its limits, causing high transaction fees and waiting times. Lightning Network emerges as a potential solution to address this issue, but concerns arise about the impact on financially disadvantaged users.

The Bank of England advances towards launching “Britcoin,” a central bank digital currency (CBDC), following the positive findings in Project Rosalind. The experiment explored API implementation for efficient retail CBDC transactions, while addressing skepticism surrounding CBDC programmability and user privacy concerns. The final decision on a CBDC is still years away.

“Finality in blockchain refers to the irrevocable confirmation of a transaction or block of transactions. Achieving finality has challenges like network latency and potential 51% attacks. However, improved security algorithms, consensus algorithms and advanced cryptographic techniques promise faster, more reliable confirmations, and permanence of transactions.”

“Blockchain technology introduces Leased Proof-of-Stake (LPoS), an innovative mechanism aimed at overcoming crypto mining complications. LPoS allows tokenholders to lease their tokens to validator nodes, improving their chance at generating new blocks and sharing transaction fees. While offering benefits such as decentralization and fixed tokens, LPoS also maintains control by restricting trade or transfer of leased tokens.”

“Kei Oda, former Goldman Sachs trader and current head of Quantstamp Asia-Pacific, discusses his journey into blockchain and crypto trading. Despite setbacks and high taxation, he recognizes the vibrancy of Japan’s crypto ecosystem, its appeal to startups, and potential for revolutionary uses like Ethereum. Furthermore, Oda expresses confidence in Japan’s balancing act in crypto regulation, inspiring interest even from its largest banking conglomerate.”

Several leading Ethereum liquid staking providers, including Rocket Pool, StakeWise, Stader Labs, Puffer Finance, and Diva Staking, are adopting a self-limiting strategy to own no more than 22% of the Ethereum staking market, thus working to avoid a potential increase in staking centralization. This move is in contrast to entities like Lido Finance, which advocates for growth and dismisses the self-limitation approach.

yPredict successfully secured $3.66 million for its native token, $YPRED, bridging traditional statistics and AI to offer unprecedented trading insights. Not exclusive to experts, yPredict democratizes data science with a subscription-based Prediction Marketplace, disrupting hedge funds’ hold on quantitative analysis and promoting wider access to data-backed trading strategies.

“Investment company Ark Invest and security firm Glassnode have presented a new approach to understanding the Bitcoin economy named “Cointime Economics.” The whitepaper describes a measurement system called “cointime”, which seeks to portray Bitcoin’s true value based on its dormancy period. It includes introducing metrics like “liveliness” and “vaultedness” for evaluating Bitcoin’s economic trends.”