The false prosperity of zkSync ecosystem under L2’s market value of 10 billion
The overall TVL of the Layer 2 track has recently touched the tens of billions of dollars mark, and the ecology of the second-layer chain is showing a "thriving" scene. zkSync still ranks third in the L2 track, behind Arbitrum and Optimism, with an on-chain TVL of nearly $500 million. Why do you say that the prosperity of the zkSync ecosystem is false prosperity?
Before answering this question, let’s take a look at the recent TVL trends of Arbitrum and OP, the two big brothers on the second floor. According to L2Beat data, Arbitrum TVL fluctuates within a narrow range around US$6 billion; OP has seen many positives recently, TVL has also hit new highs, and ATH has exceeded US$2.5 billion; both TVLs account for nearly 85% of the L2 track, occupying an absolute share Dominance.
The battle for Wormhole to acquire @StargateFinance is one of the most courageous battles in the history of crypto business warfare.
Although the Stargate DAO ultimately passed the acquisition proposal from @LayerZero_Fndn with nearly 95% support, the Wormhole battle ended in failure.
However, the spirit of striving for the impossible is worth learning for every crypto project.
This also symbolizes and continues the tenacious spirit of the holder of $W .
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The Drama of the Cross-Chain Bridge Leaders' Business War
The cross-chain bridge sector is extremely competitive, with the top-tier participants @wormhole and L0 @LayerZero_Core in fierce dispute over the acquisition of the Stargate protocol @StargateFinance. I just finished watching the drama and will summarize it to help friends quickly catch up.
TLDR version
The event was triggered when @LayerZero_Fndn initiated a proposal to announce a comprehensive acquisition of @StargateFinance for $110 million, including the protocol's native token $STG and all product lines of Stargate, with unified governance through a single token $ZRO after the acquisition, with all future protocol revenues used to repurchase $ZRO to reduce its circulating supply.
The moat of a public chain does not lie in financing, nor in technology, and not even in the diversity of its ecosystem, but rather in the originality of the ecosystem and its oligopoly degree.
The stronger the originality, the higher the oligopoly degree, the better the moat effect.
For example,
meme launchpad @pumpdotfun to @solana
decentralized prediction market @Polymarket to @0xPolygon
intention layer Near Intents to @NEARProtocol
Perp DEX @GMX_IO to @arbitrum
This also explains well why the lifecycle of high-performance public chains born in this cycle is so short. That is the absence of a moat.
The Drama of the Cross-Chain Bridge Leaders' Business War
The cross-chain bridge sector is extremely competitive, with the top-tier participants @wormhole and L0 @LayerZero_Core in fierce dispute over the acquisition of the Stargate protocol @StargateFinance. I just finished watching the drama and will summarize it to help friends quickly catch up.
TLDR version
The event was triggered when @LayerZero_Fndn initiated a proposal to announce a comprehensive acquisition of @StargateFinance for $110 million, including the protocol's native token $STG and all product lines of Stargate, with unified governance through a single token $ZRO after the acquisition, with all future protocol revenues used to repurchase $ZRO to reduce its circulating supply.
Horseshoe Chain @0xPolygon seems calm on the surface, but in reality, there are undercurrents, as if brewing some opportunity.
In the past week, on-chain data has shown significant changes, with a net inflow of $150 million in funds over 7 days.
Combined with Defillama data, the market value of stablecoins on Polygon has surged by 20% in the past week, indicating that the massive influx of funds into the Polygon chain mostly comes from stablecoins.
So where are these stablecoins flowing in the Polygon ecosystem?
Among the top-ranked protocols by TVL, the prediction market @Polymarket has absorbed approximately $12 million, Uniswap about $16 million, and other protocols show no significant changes in TVL. There is a huge gap between the liquidity of stablecoins flowing into the on-chain ecosystem and the $150 million inflow.
I have reason to believe that these stablecoin whales are waiting for an opportunity on the Polygon chain; have they discovered something?
Witnessed the foreign language zone $BTC maxi battle $ETH maxi, the core debate revolves around the inflation rates of the two.
According to ultrasound data, since Ethereum's transition to PoS, the annual inflation rate has dropped to 0.133%, which is 10 times lower than Bitcoin's inflation rate.
E Guardian believes that Ethereum's extremely low inflation rate means ETH is more scarce, concluding that Ethereum's value is far undervalued.
However, I resonate deeply with one of the points made by $BTC maxi: Scarcity should be measured by the difficulty of output/mining; the higher the difficulty, the stronger the scarcity attribute.
From the perspective of output difficulty, Ethereum does not possess such scarcity. Therefore, comparing the value of Bitcoin and Ethereum from the inflation perspective is unfair.
The reference point for ETH as a world computer should not be positioned as Bitcoin, which is viewed as a store of value; it should be comparable to TradeFi's NVIDIA.
So, why not have both? Only children make choices.
What is the essence of decentralization in crypto projects? Distributed management without a single entity monopolizing, anti-censorship, community autonomy, fault tolerance;
A person is awakened in the middle of the night by a text about being liquidated, no one told them, this is growth;
A person is awakened in the middle of the night by a text about being liquidated, only told their group friends, this is love;
A person is awakened in the middle of the night by a text about being liquidated, opens the plaza and sends 'feels good', this is the KOL you have added to your key follow list.
If you experienced the collapse of the $UST stablecoin with a 19.5% APY back in the day, then I think you should think twice about the on-chain DeFi opportunities that offer over 20% APY stablecoin yields this time around.