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Astar — A Journey Toward Sustainability Astar is evolving into a multi-layer platform centered around the Superchain ecosystem, with Soneium at its core. The project has been focusing on sustainability by overhauling the inflation structure of $ASTR—introducing a fixed supply model, an emission decay mechanism, and establishing the AFC—to promote long-term value stability. This is not merely a numerical adjustment, but a strategic redesign of the ecosystem’s revenue structure. This article explores how Astar is building its multi-layer ecosystem and how the restructuring of $ASTR through Tokenomics 3.0 aims to achieve long-term sustainability. https://lnkd.in/grN_vhwx

“A Strategic Framework for the Coexistence of the Three Pillars of Digital Currency – CBDCs, Bank-Issued Stablecoins, and Non-Bank Stablecoins” 1. CBDC vs. Stablecoin - CBDCs and stablecoins form a dual monetary structure in the digital age, with CBDCs ensuring public trust and stablecoins offering private-sector flexibility. - CBDCs serve as essential public infrastructure by providing legal finality, enabling monetary policy execution, and facilitating cross-border settlement. - South Korea is designing a coexistence model for digital currencies through parallel experiments with wholesale CBDCs and deposit tokens. 2. Bank-Issued vs. Non-Bank Issued Stablecoins - Bank-issued stablecoins serve as on-chain extensions of traditional finance, offering legal finality and regulatory compliance for wholesale settlement infrastructure. - Non-bank stablecoins function as innovative public-chain-based tools for global retail payments, Web3 ecosystems, and financial inclusion. - While functional coexistence is possible, financial institutions may ultimately dominate due to stronger regulatory alignment and institutional trust. 3. Korea’s Stablecoin Strategy - South Korea prioritizes monetary sovereignty and policy effectiveness, advancing a digital currency strategy centered on bank-issued, deposit-backed stablecoins within the regulatory framework. - Tokenized assets backed by government bonds and issued by non-bank entities raise concerns about undermining monetary policy, and such experiments are only being considered within tightly controlled regulatory sandboxes. - To balance global interoperability and private-sector innovation, Korea should explore a phased rollout of permissioned, deposit-token infrastructure while working toward technical standardization. The full report "A Strategic Framework Proposal for Korean CBDC and Stablecoin" written by DeSpread Head of Strategy Earl Cho can be accessed through the links below⤵️ ENG: https://lnkd.in/gG74yVFQ KOR: https://lnkd.in/ghn2Urhp JPN: https://lnkd.in/gvi_EUvM ZH: https://lnkd.in/gezmNmsx

Growth 0 to 1: Hyperliquid Hyperliquid's growth began with a differentiated strategy where founder Jeff rejected VC funding and adopted a "user-first" philosophy. Starting with the testnet launch in November 2022, they built transparent community communication through Discord and established a steady user acquisition foundation through referral codes and Hyperintern mascot marketing. In 2023, despite facing crises like the YGG and FRIEND-USD oracle incidents, they actually strengthened community trust through transparent problem acknowledgment and immediate compensation. Building on this trust, the November points program launch became the real turning point for growth. The strategy of distributing 1 million points weekly for 6 months achieved a 6x increase in daily active users and 120x TVL growth, reshaping the web3 industry landscape. In this article, we will examine Hyperliquid's journey and strategy from its inception to the TGE. https://lnkd.in/gCvCq34s

Berachain: The Journey of Honey to the Bear In Berachain, validators decide which liquidity pools receive $BGT token emissions, and in return, they redistribute incentives received from protocols to their $BGT delegators. As a Berachain validator, DeSpread monitor the ecosystem in real-time and execute optimal boosting pool voting strategies to provide more incentives to our $BGT delegators. For users considering participation in the Berachain ecosystem and active utilization of $BGT, this article closely examines the detailed processes of how incentives are generated and distributed to users in Berachain, as well as the factors that influence the scale of incentive rewards. https://lnkd.in/gUNYifFm

Blockchain X AI, 6 Must-Know Infra Projects As AI technology rapidly advances, its presence across everyday life and industries is growing, leading to an explosive demand for GPUs—an essential computing resource—but the current market remains dominated by a few big tech companies, resulting in high costs and limited accessibility. To address these structural limitations, blockchain-based decentralized infrastructure projects are gaining attention by aggregating idle GPU resources worldwide to resolve inefficiencies in centralized infrastructure and enhance the scalability and efficiency of the AI ecosystem. This article explores six leading projects currently drawing attention in the market, examining each one's background, key services, investment history, team profile, and strategies ahead of their upcoming TGEs. https://lnkd.in/gYny6nXb

2024 South Korean Crypto Retail Investor Trends Report DeSpread and CoinNess have jointly authored the 2024 Korean Crypto Retail Investor Trends Report. This report is based on survey results conducted from December 10 to December 13, 2024, reflecting a total of 3,108 valid responses. The survey covered various aspects, including the age distribution of Korean crypto investors, investment tendencies, preferred cryptocurrencies, and more. Through this report, we aim to analyze the characteristics of Korean crypto investors over the past year and further explore their outlook on the crypto market in 2025. https://lnkd.in/eUGj2Ruv

dTAO — Market-Driven Incentive Alignment Mechanism Recent blockchain protocols are attempting to connect protocol performance with their token value through mechanisms like staking rewards and token buybacks. However, because users can receive the same benefits by simply holding or staking tokens, actual governance often fails to reasonably incorporate users' opinions. When governance participation decreases, a "tragedy of the commons" occurs where only a small number of users participate in governance and distribute the protocol's accumulated profits to maximize their own interests. As a result, protocols face the challenge of designing tokenomics that go beyond ensuring simple sustainability to achieve both a higher level of decentralization and alignment of interests among participants. In this article, we will examine the background and characteristics of the dTAO mechanism adopted by Bitensor as an alternative solution to these issues. https://lnkd.in/gzndMpmX

Surviving in Berachain As the recent memecoin market subsides, interest in DeFi is growing in the market. Within this trend, many new users are entering Berachain, which offers high yields based on tokens with lower volatility compared to memecoins. Governance Phase 1, which begins the registration request process for ecosystem protocol reward vaults, started on February 26. As these requests begin to be implemented in the future, the role of $BGT will become increasingly important. It is expected that the flywheel based on the PoL structure will be activated, bringing more users and liquidity to Berachain. In this article, we will examine Berachain's flywheel structure in detail to help new users manage risks, and discuss the inherent risks in Berachain's flywheel and ways to prevent them. https://lnkd.in/g5TeZAs8

All You Need to Know About Story Story and $IP have demonstrated robust performance even during the recent downturn, attracting investor attention. However, concerns have been raised about its relatively low ecosystem activity compared to competing projects, as well as the limitations of an early-stage, incomplete ecosystem. Nonetheless, the Story ecosystem offers various opportunities for on-chain incentives through a range of dApps—including PiperX, StoryHunt, Unleash Protocol, and Verio. The Story Foundation is also actively working to boost ecosystem activity by allocating 5% of the total circulating supply as initial incentives directly to users. Furthermore, Story is laying the groundwork for sustainable growth by introducing its proprietary ATCP/IP framework, which evaluates the contributions of specific agents and IPs. This initiative positions Story as a dedicated layer for the economic activity of AI agents. In this article, we will examine Story’s current status and positioning, explore actionable on-chain plays, and delve into its growth potential from a medium- to long-term perspective. https://lnkd.in/gyeaZ664

Story — Make IP Great Again Story emerged to overcome the limitations of the traditional IP market—such as high legal processing costs and complex registration procedures—by transforming IP into programmable assets, thereby providing creators with fair compensation. Furthermore, Story has developed the ATCP/IP framework to support information exchange and virtual asset transactions among AI agents. This allows the content generated by these agents to be registered as IP, enabling an environment where revenue can be generated and shared. In this article, we will explore Story's features, structure, and ecosystem, and examine its vision along with the direction needed to realize that vision. https://lnkd.in/gDVdzSi6