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On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany secretly signed the Non-Aggression Pact, in which Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were occupied by the Soviet Union.

Fifty years later on this day, to draw the world's attention to the shared historical experiences of the three countries, over 2 million people from the three nations held hands, forming a human chain over 675 kilometers long, crossing the Baltic States.

At that time, the internet was still a rarity, and the protest movement relied entirely on village radio stations for coordination. The demonstrations were broadcast on television worldwide, and soon the three countries gained independence from Soviet control two years later.

Just connecting people together, how much power can it generate? When the consensus of millions is expressed, there is no need for financial capital or violent conflict; it can still have a tremendous influence, even affecting the fate of nations.

In the current cryptocurrency space, many projects are adopting the POS model, where the more money you have, the more rewards you receive, making the poor poorer and the rich richer, concentrating chips more and more, forgetting the original intention of BTC's POW, and overlooking the power of individuals themselves.

The same goes for DePIN projects; currently, many DePIN projects simply connect devices and call it a day. This method obviously has little competitiveness against traditional cloud service providers and computing power leasing platforms. After all, if you lack recognition, acquiring customers is often limited to within the circle, which may even lead to idle waste of computing power.

Currently, I believe @ICN_Protocol is performing well; last year ICN already made its mark in web2, currently having over a thousand paying enterprise clients and an annual revenue exceeding $5 million, which is the 'grounded business model' that all exchanges are eager to pursue.

In web3, unlike Filecoin/Arweave, which only focus on storage, and Akash, which only does computing power, Aethir focuses on isolated DePIN competitors. ICN's mainnet will simultaneously support storage, computing, and networking functions, integrating these three major services into one protocol with every user in the community acting as a node.

Recently, in the India-Pakistan conflict, Pakistan's use of a complete set of China's previous generation weapons to shoot down Indian aircraft/drone components purchased at a high price clearly illustrates that, in the face of a complete system, it is possible to battle across levels.

On the ICN mainnet, developers do not need to bear the learning and usage costs of multiple component protocols; they only need to connect to ICN to utilize a complete set of standardized infrastructure systems.

To fully leverage the advantages of the community, each user can act as a super node to verify the integrity of hardware resources and services, ensuring the decentralization and seamless operation of the ICN cloud network through the joint efforts of the global community, while both the community and hardware providers can earn fair rewards, truly returning data power to the users.

Today, ICN has opened node staking and will gradually open community-distributed hardware in phases in the future, allowing developers to build projects on ICN.

A fully decentralized infrastructure is steadily advancing along the roadmap, and the days of centralized internet applications facing single points of failure due to infrastructure issues like AWS may soon become a thing of the past.

Large companies working on public blockchain projects generally have better resources. For example, a few years ago, Facebook (Meta) published the Libra (Diem) white paper, but later faced significant regulatory resistance, leading core team members to leave and create SUI and Apt, two mainstream chains.

Just last year, Alex Zhang, one of the 13 janitors at Alibaba's Damo Academy, after serving as the CTO of AntChain and the CEO of Ant Group's development platform ZAN, formed the @pharos_network team to enter the high-performance public blockchain space.

Unlike the common scenario where employees start their own businesses, Pharos publicly announced its exclusive partnership with Ant Group during its financing and development stages, making Alex's close ties with Alibaba clear. Pharos aims to address issues that the consortium chain AntChain cannot solve due to compliance constraints, such as the marketization of RWA assets.

After reviewing the information currently disclosed by Pharos, I estimate that this year another public blockchain from a large company with a market value of tens to hundreds of billions will emerge. Its characteristics can be summarized as being fast, good, and cost-effective, which I'd like to share with you.

More: Currently, Pharos has secured commitments for nearly 300 million RWA assets, which translates to user revenues in the tens of millions annually. Coupled with its exclusive partnership with Ant Group and the backing of leading institutions like HackVC, such orders will continue to flow in.

It's important to note that even without external enterprises onboarding, the collaboration with AntChain itself signifies a substantial amount of already on-chain user assets.

In addition to CEO Alex being the CTO of AntChain, CTO Wishlonger is also the Chief Security Officer for Ant's Web3 operations. They previously led the trusted on-chain technology, which has been widely applied in new energy sectors such as new energy vehicles, batteries, and photovoltaic panels, accumulating over 12 million devices on-chain.

Fast: Thanks to the team's long-term technical accumulation from advancing business in Ant Blockchain for 7 years, Pharos achieved extremely high EVM Layer-1 performance in less than a year of development, with 20K TPS already validated on the public development network, and there will be further improvements. It took only two months to transition from the development network to today’s open user testing network without delays.

In addition to block generation speed and development progress, it is commendable that Pharos and AntChain have significantly open-sourced the DTVM virtual machine, increasing the code execution speed across the industry by 20 to 30 times, with smart contract call latency as low as 0.93ms, allowing applications like RWA, DeFi, AI, etc., to run on-chain with the feel of the internet.

Good: Simply put, for users, the best projects are those that can make money.

This year, under the shadow of VC coin valuation restructuring and Alpha points, many people are apprehensive about airdrop interactions.

However, I believe Pharos has little to worry about; on one hand, it is strong and hasn't taken too much VC funding, more so seeking partnerships to gain web3 endorsements, keeping its chips in hand with room for distribution.

On the other hand, the team has localized expertise by assigning the most professional people, such as CMO Laura, who previously managed the Solana Saga phone, surely well-versed in the allure of airdrops driven by the 'wealth effect' for users.

Save: While it may not matter for single transactions, in the long-term high-frequency usage scenario, TPS/Gas cost-effectiveness will become an important cost issue.

The older generation of TRX/ETH/BNB needs no further mention; individual users feel the pinch, while Pharos=500000K/1¢ is a truly suitable choice for enterprise-level users, significantly more economical than high-performance competitors (MegaETH=1000K/1¢, Monad=60K/1¢).

Finally, a small interactive note.

If you are interested in experiencing the Pharos test network (

I taught my relatives how to刷alpha, told her to go all out, today we reviewed the results, it went wrong, she didn't get the airdrop, lost several hundred dollars, when teaching beginners, it's important to be clear about how many times to刷🤣

I don't oppose alpha, and I let friends in the group and relatives outside the circle go all out too, what I oppose is this kind of meaningless刷量, when they look at me with confusion and ask why, I can only say: just刷 it,刷 it and get paid.

The boasting from before, about web3 user rights, ownership shifting from platforms to users, decentralization has become a joke at the hands of this largest centralized exchange.

This time is no different, over ten million to alpha, five million to the early participating community, hahaha, some are still saying to give retail investors benefits, robbing one group of retail investors' money for another group of retail investors, just刷吧,刷吧,刷吧.

Can anyone obtain alpha points through normal transactions?

To reiterate, I do not oppose alpha; what I oppose is the current rule of alpha points, which inflates transaction volume.

I don't see what the point of this is, other than making it look like Binance's wallet market share is very high, incredibly high, and what else does it mean? There is no volatility, no transaction fees, nothing is left behind.

Additionally, I really dislike encroaching on community shares. If the project team issued it, please deduct it from the team's share.

Recently in Bera's LP mining, I didn't hedge and it dropped too much. I also stored USDE in the pre-stored gold inventory, and after several months, the results came out with little gain, which is quite frustrating. The annualized return is 1%, giving a sense that funds are being diverted for the mainnet head mining, making a diversion to cover it up.

The LP earnings in Perpdex are also very unstable. It looks like the annualized return is high, but if traders make money during the time you deposit, you will also incur some losses. It seems that there is no lock-up, but in order to ensure gains, you have to keep it for a long time.

The best financial management is still stablecoins, and it’s best to use single-coin demand deposits, which have good flexibility and liquidity. If BTC crashes and presents a great opportunity, you can withdraw at any time to buy the dip.

Let me introduce a relatively good mine, the leading lending protocol on Sei, @TakaraLend, which will start a $500,000 incentive in collaboration with Bitget wallet this month and continue for three months.

The most intense business battles are often conducted in the most straightforward ways. Before there was an activity, the APY was 12%, and within a month it went from launch to 50M. After this activity started, it maintained around 30-40% for a while, then surged with 12M funds in one day, dropping back to below 20%.

This protocol is the dark horse of the Sei ecosystem this year, and the lending protocol with the fastest TVL growth. Those who still have stablecoins can use L0 to cross-chain and deposit. Note that this portion of extra income needs to be deposited using a BG wallet to qualify.

You don't have to worry about security; it has been audited by Zellic and Peckshield, and contract monitoring is conducted by Hypernative and Blocksec Phalcon. The deposits are non-custodial, ensuring users' asset ownership, and all operations are on-chain, transparent and reliable.

In addition, Takara's modular structure can be seamlessly integrated into other dApps, becoming a broader settlement layer.

In addition to stable visible fundamentals + incentive income, there are two hidden benefits.

First, Takara has not yet issued its own token. A few days ago, they announced a preview of the points system in a Space, and there will be additional token rewards after depositing.

Additionally, a few days ago they mentioned in the Space that after users obtain points, they won’t have to hold onto them without seeing returns. They can directly exchange them for NFTs or APY bonus rights. This means that even if you want to keep the points, you can still estimate their value through these concrete portions.

Another point is that the Sei ecosystem airdrops have always been quite comfortable among public chains.

In the first season, many people know that there are returns from cross-chain. The second season features Sei's staking and LST, as well as NFTs, which are not competitive; you only need to stake 42 SEI to get 200, and holding 42 ISEI gives you 3000. The rules are lenient, and the risk-reward ratio is super high.

It was clearly stated that there would be a third season. Recently, the foundation has also been promoting support for DeFi, with TVL inflow, hinting at some pre-emptive moves like Sui. Therefore, it can be reasonably speculated that the third season may reward DeFi users.

Additionally, to be safe, the cost of the SEI incentives earned is relatively low, and some can be exchanged for ISEI to enrich account interactions. A barbell strategy can also be adopted to use this portion of continuous income to participate in new opportunities on-chain.

In summary, certain returns + volatile coins are definitely a choice for large positions.

I asked Master A how to explain the advantages of @union_build?
Without hesitation, he told me that layerzero focuses on EVM as the EU, wormhole is SVM as ASEAN, axelar is the Bohai Economic Rim, while union is the United Nations.

Truly a great writer, the analogy he made was so vivid; union connects all chains, and its ambition to eliminate cross-chain friction is just like the United Nations, isn't it?

The more chains that join, the stronger the profitability and security of Union will be.
As more countries join, the membership fees will increase, and so will the influence, just like the United Nations; no wonder it's called a union.

Many people may have used Union after Baby went online; at that time, it supported ETH and the mainnets of baby, corn, and bob, as well as the lst assets of btc, and the bridge for baby. I have to say, the user experience was still somewhat distant from my expectations, mainly because the assets were too few and not versatile enough.

However, at that time, it was to support baby during a critical moment, and some functions were used first.
In fact, their main product is still in testing, UNION raised 16 million, and they definitely won’t easily release a product without refining it.
This month, they evolved again, the ninth generation testnet AppV2 is open for testing, introducing Xion and new assets.

Participation Perspective

1. Participate in testing, earn water, cross-chain, and receive 5xp on the dashboard without needing to refresh too much.
There are also permanent social tasks and wallet connections.

2. Kaito construction, there has been voting for xp before, the project team still cares about Kaito, and currently, there aren't many listings in the Chinese community; teachers, keep it up.

Many people say that writing this is useless or don't know how to write; in fact, it still requires attention to posture. If you don’t have the ability to create long texts, there’s no need to force it or copy and paste, using AI to rewrite, creating internet garbage is pointless.

Learn to observe the social graph, pay attention to interacting more with the core circles of the project team (for example, @0xkaiserkarel, @e_beriker, @larry0x, @73lV_ etc.), and engage in high-quality interactions.

When you have no influence in the community, first immerse yourself as a listener; sometimes, just keeping up with the latest news and understanding it translated into Chinese can easily get you on the list.

3. Add LST/BABY LP in Tower, which is more suitable for teachers who have previously participated in various ecological agreements of babylon and received BABY airdrops.

If you come in for UNION points, be aware of the impermanent loss; this is not a single asset deposit.

However, Union is currently leaning towards BTCFi; they are also currently the most suitable protocol for BTC cross-chain. Currently, the baby system has 4.8 billion USD of BTC assets in the DeFi ecosystem, and these BTC will circulate and be used through Union.

In the future, there will likely be more opportunities for BTC labor; they focus on bringing bridge funds into the Baby ecosystem agreements for staking and earning interest, obtaining native profits from the agreements, effectively transferring the bubble and giving coin hoarders more mining opportunities.

4. Sign up to participate in the trusted setup ceremony; Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is the proof of system security, adopting the latest generation of ZK technology.

After the public phase of the ceremony begins, everyone can verify whether the union network is reliable; even if everyone is a fraud, just one honest person (like you, who needs to use it, doesn’t need to trust anyone else, just verify yourself) can ensure the security of the protocol.

5. Ecological NFT @WhaleSharkNFTs, not sure if it’s blue-chip or if there will be an airdrop; we sloths have a DC ROLE to earn some xp for real.

A few days ago, I mentioned that the airdrop for order numbers 3-20u from @jager_BSC might turn into order number 200u. Surprisingly, no one questioned it in the comments section; it's strange because I was looking forward to an exciting debate.

Since introducing the fourmeme community, the airdrop has been claimed over a million times, becoming the protocol with the highest gas consumption on bnbc. With over 100,000 token holders in the community, it has directly reached alpha status, and the airdrop has transformed into order numbers 20-50u at its peak.

Although there has been a pullback now, this is far from over, and we will see clear outcomes in the next couple of days, with a few points:

1. The current market cap of 21 million is actually the FDV, with only 30% in circulation, which is 7 million. Relative to the community size, this is still undervalued. This is the hottest project on the Binance chain lately, directly prompting CZ to discuss whether to lower Binance chain gas fees today.

2. Currently, only 20% of the airdrop has been claimed; those who haven't claimed should hurry to do so. https://t.co/4BpK1vlMwL

The remaining 80% of the unclaimed share will be fully used for LP incentives on the official website within 7 days.

This means that the $14.7 million incentive will be divided among $1 million of LP, which is a huge concept. Right now, there is a 1000% return, plus an additional annualized APR of 76,600% over a week, making it an incredibly lucrative opportunity.

3. After reaching alpha, trading will still occur on-chain, and taxes will be distributed to users holding over 146 billion tokens. When it comes time to buy LP for mining and sell the mined tokens, there will be a significant amount of trading.

Tokens pooled into LP with $jager will not participate in dividends, but the tax revenue from holding will increase significantly due to active trading, creating a flywheel effect between the two earnings.

Of course, it is still important to note: high emissions mean risk. Be cautious when buying tokens to participate in LP. V2LP can incur considerable impermanent loss when token prices drop, and with a 14-day lock-up period for LP, it remains quite thrilling. Those holding tokens can join the community for discussions.

When you participate in building through @OpenledgerHQ, every step of data submission will be recorded by 'Proof of Contribution' (PoA).

This is a blockchain built specifically for AI, where every subsequent profit will enjoy dividend rights, and there will be voting rights for each governance upgrade, rather than being monopolized by AI giants.

Ensuring the distribution of future profits is the best incentive for creation.

I wonder if you heard adults say when you were young that writers and artists continue to receive royalties after creating classics, and scientists receive a share every time a product is produced based on their patents.

Today’s self-media individuals are still unable to escape the temptation of sustainability, racking their brains for works with long-tail traffic, and leaving behind a meme to sell like crazy…

It is foreseeable that in the future human production activities, repetitive natural language processing tasks will almost disappear, as large language models can solve various problems.

Once a model is well-trained, especially a specialized model in a vertical field, it can be continuously used, only requiring performance upgrades.

Currently, ordinary people have limited usage rights to AI models, but the data you have previously published online is quietly being learned by AI, and every interaction you have with AI has a certain impact on the algorithm… but all of this is not closely related to you.

When creators can only reap positive reviews on traditional AI platforms, but can ensure their rights on Openledger, the choice of where to build becomes very simple.

Thanks to the projects that are willing to reward on-chain interactions during this cycle, basically everyone can receive a few dollars.

More than five thousand addresses have already claimed the airdrop. Although it's not a lot, I recommend that those who haven't claimed it should do so, especially teachers with many numbers. Once claimed, you can gather them. Holding over 14.6 billion $Jager will allow you to participate in dividends every ten minutes, which is quite a traditional way of playing.

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1. Today, the pool of @jager_BSC has increased four to five times, and the number of airdrop claims is decreasing. You can simply hold for dividends, but if you claim immediately, you can only receive 65%. Don't worry about it crashing too hard. I tested that this hour's annualized dividend is over 3000%, but of course, it's not particularly stable.

2. You can add LP; currently, the locked position for 14 days has an annualized return of 1100%, but this is just an appetizer.

Because the airdrop claim window will close in 5 days, 90% of the airdrop shares have only been claimed at 1.7%. The remaining shares are used to reward LP, so you can actually understand this as having a linear release of 58 times more airdrops later.

Moreover, not everyone will add LP, so the actual multiple will be even higher. According to this calculation, the final profit might even increase from a single number of 3u to around 200u, can you believe it?

3. The name Jager comes from an early community manager at Binance and was also used to name the smallest unit of BNB, similar to the satoshis (Sats) of BTC.

The narrative itself is strongly tied to BNB, so as long as there is discussion about BNB, Jager will have a continuous scenario to talk about. If you're interested, you can check out the TG community.

Both sides have broken through simultaneously, @ethos_network ranked 28th in the entire server, breaking through the Nascent Soul stage, vibrant green. @KaitoAI ranked 31st in the entire server.

Some updates: Ethos believes their product is already quite good and has plans for expansion, having released 2,200 invitation codes last week.

Kaito's shift in direction, the previous model brought considerable short-term momentum to the project, but without genuine effort, it is hard to produce in-depth content. In the future, the voting model will change to a high-stakes binding for enhancement, encouraging long-term construction and helping the project establish its own core community.