Oracle Extends Database Leadership with Oracle Database 21c 11847

Oracle announced that Oracle Database 21c, the latest version of the world’s leading converged database, is available on Oracle Cloud, including the Always Free tier of Oracle Autonomous Database. Oracle Database 21c contains more than 200 new innovations, including immutable blockchain tables, In-Database JavaScript, native JSON binary data type, AutoML for in-database machine learning (ML), and persistent memory store, as well as enhancements for in-memory, graph processing performance, sharding, multitenant, and security. Unlike other vendors’ single-purpose databases in the cloud or on-premises, Oracle Database 21c provides support for multi-model, multi-workload, and multi-tenant requirements – all within a single, modern converged database engine. In addition, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle APEX (Application Express) Application Development, a new low-code service for developing and deploying data-driven enterprise applications quickly and easily. The browser-based, low-code cloud service enables developers to create modern web apps for desktops and mobile devices using an intuitive graphical interface.

“Oracle Database 21c continues our strategy of delivering the world’s most powerful converged database engine,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice president, database server technologies, Oracle. “It provides leading JSON document processing performance. It provides breakthrough operational database performance with Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory support. It provides industry-leading analytic database capabilities with new Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store, highest performance graph processing, and AutoML for simplest machine learning model development. It provides Immutable Blockchain Tables for tamperproof SQL tables. Competing vendors require separate JSON document, operational, analytic, graph, ML, and blockchain databases and services to support these capabilities. Oracle’s converged database approach makes developers far more productive when building new applications, and makes it easy to later evolve applications to meet new business requirements.”

What Analysts are Saying about Oracle Database

“With the launch of Database 21c, Oracle has elevated its flagship database to a new level of convergence with broad support for a wide variety of data types and workloads,” said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC. “The 200 new built-in innovations, including immutable blockchain tables and AutoML for in-database machine learning, elevate Oracle Database 21c to a new level of functionality, eliminating the need for specialized, isolated cloud services and tools to do those jobs. Users can avoid the compounding of costs and operational complexity that comes with each additional cloud service that organizations ordinarily use. In this way, Oracle is effectively slicing away at this disjointed set of services with a simplified, more technically elegant, and integrated approach that is far better suited for the enterprise needs of 2021.”

“Oracle’s latest converged database—Database 21c—focuses on making life dramatically easier for both users and developers. It supports and integrates an expanded range of data models and workloads, and includes built-in machine learning to eliminate the need for separate tooling and services by enabling organizations to run inference directly on their database, right next to their data. This is a refreshing contrast for organizations that leverage the likes of AWS, which has more than a dozen different databases, each requiring customers to deal with different APIs, ETL approaches and data integration processes. Oracle Database 21c transcends the barriers of a multi, isolated, and intrinsically non-converged, database approach,” said Mark Peters, Principal Analyst & Practice Director, ESG.

What Customers are Saying about Oracle Database

Headquartered in London, Aon is a US$46B global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. “We’ve never been able to see all of our Oracle sales and marketing data in one, unified system. It’s a real milestone. Using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud, we’ve seen performance boosted by 50X to 60X that makes response times to complex sales queries from 500 power users much faster and analytics costs are significantly lower than our on-premises business intelligence tools,” said Liesbeth Mulder, Global Reporting Lead, Aon.

Angelini Pharma is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Italy. “The Quinaryo XRing solution has been an important step ahead in our IoT strategy to experiment with a wearable device integrated with a data security tool based on a blockchain table solution,” said Pietro Berretoni, Digital & Innovation Head, Angelini Pharma. “With Oracle Blockchain Tables, the solution provides tamper-proof records that can easily integrate with other applications without requiring a complex new infrastructure. Oracle Database includes all the tools we know and new features like Oracle Blockchain Tables that we can leverage with XRing for sensible data collection.”

New Innovations in Oracle Database 21c

Oracle Database 21c is the database engine that powers Oracle database services in the cloud and on-premises, including Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Exadata Database Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Exadata Database Machine. The latest release includes more than 200 new innovations, which extend database convergence to new use cases, optimize performance, and improve developer, analyst, and data scientist productivity. Key innovations include:

  • Immutable Blockchain Tables: Blockchain Tables bring the key security benefits of blockchain technology to enterprise applications. Part of Oracle’s Crypto-Secure Data Management, Blockchain Tables provide immutable insert-only tables whose rows are cryptographically chained together. By providing tamper detection and prevention capabilities directly in the Oracle Database, customers can protect against illicit changes by insiders or hackers impersonating administrators or users. Blockchain Tables are part of the converged database, accessed with standard SQL, and support full analytics and transactions – making it orders of magnitude easier to use, and more functional, than existing blockchain implementations. Blockchain Tables are a free feature in all Oracle Database editions.
  • Native JSON Data Type: Oracle has provided powerful SQL/JSON query and indexing support for many years. Database 21c adds a new JSON data type representation, enabling up to 10x faster scans and up to 4x faster update operations. Overall, these improvements make Oracle SQL/JSON 2x faster than MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB on the YCSB benchmark. As with previous releases, users can mix or join JSON and other data types; index any JSON element for fast OLTP; use declarative parallel SQL analytics across all formats; and run complex joins across multiple JSON documents and collections—all without any need for custom application code.
  • AutoML for In-Database Machine Learning: Automatically builds and compares machine-learning models at scale, and facilitates the use of machine learning by non-experts. A new AutoML user interface makes it easier for non-expert users to leverage in-database machine learning. Oracle also added new algorithms for anomaly detection, regression, and deep learning analysis to our extensive library of popular, in-database machine learning algorithms.
  • In-Database JavaScript: Enables developers to work efficiently in modern programming languages. The embedded Graal Multilingual Engine allows JavaScript data processing code to run inside the database – where the data resides – eliminating expensive network round-trips. In addition, users can easily execute SQL from within JavaScript code, and JavaScript data types are automatically mapped to Oracle Database data.
  • Persistent Memory Support: Stores database data and redo logs in local Persistent Memory (PMEM), which significantly improves the performance of IO-bound workloads. SQL runs directly on data stored in the direct-mapped Persistent Memory file system, eliminating the IO code path and the need for large buffer cache. In addition, new database algorithms prevent partial or inconsistent stores to Persistent Memory.
  • Higher Performance Graph Models: Allows modelling of data based on relationships, and enables exploration of connections and patterns in social networks, IoT, and more. Further improvements in memory optimization reduce the amount of memory required to analyze larger graphs, which enables existing applications to run faster with no changes. In addition, users can create or extend graph algorithms using Java syntax, which can execute as native algorithms since they are compiled with the same optimizations.
  • Database In-Memory Automation: Oracle supports both row and column formats in the same table to allow analytics and transactions to run simultaneously on the same table. Oracle Database 21c introduces a Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store that simplifies and improves efficiency by automatically managing the placement and removal of objects in the In-Memory Column Store, then tracks usage patterns and moves and evicts objects from the column store. In addition, columns are automatically compressed based on usage patterns. Oracle Database 21c also introduces new in-memory vector join algorithms to speed up complex queries.
  • Sharding Automation: Native Database Sharding delivers hyperscale performance and availability while enabling global enterprises to easily meet data sovereignty and data privacy regulations. Data shards share no hardware or software, and can reside on-premises or in the cloud. To simplify the design and use of sharding, Oracle Database 21c includes a Sharding Advisor Tool that assesses a database schema plus its workload characteristics and then provides a sharded database design optimized for performance, scalability, and availability. Backup and Recovery across shards is also automated.
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Stead’s blockchain-powered floating cities of the future 11836

Stead is an Arbitrum-based DeFi platform (Stead.Builders) that provides liquidity for small marine businesses, fishermen, and fish farmers, most of whom are unbanked or operating in developing countries.

The platform supports numerous types of floating infrastructure, like fishing and transport boats, fish cages, floating docks, and, most impressively, floating houses, hotel rooms, and restaurants.

The platform started when the marine engineering company ArkPad, operating out of the Philippines, wanted to help customers to acquire mortgages for its floating houses.

Getting a mortgage is already difficult enough considering the huge down payments that need to be made, but securing a mortgage for a floating house is another story entirely. Most banks unfamiliarity with unconventional real estate means they pass it over for investment, so ArkPad helped to create the Stead platform in order to decentralize the funding process for floating infrastructure.

From floating homes to financial aid

While Stead’s initiative for supporting floating houses is tremendously unique, what also sets the company apart is additionally assisting unbanked small businesses in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

In many developing countries, a large portion of the population is bankless or prevented from accessing loans to expand their businesses. Key reasons include banks having excessive regulations, bureaucratic hurdles in account opening, or simply having relatively small amounts of capital available for loans in the first place. Additionally, on an archipelago nation like the Philippines, many banks simply don’t have any branches present on islands where valuable fish, like Yellowfin Tuna, can be found. In such cash-based societies, lack of physical access to a bank simply means going unbanked.

Stemming from these challenges, many developing countries suffer from having highly unbanked populations, a fertile ground for crypto to fill the unused space.

Building blocks for floating communities

Turning its dreams into a reality, Stead offers a solution like no other, providing liquidity to small businesses, including fisherman, through STEAD tokens.

Upon minting STEAD, stables are put into a pool to purchase a particular asset. In this case, let’s say for a fisherman wanting to purchase a fishing boat. Once enough capital has been garnered to acquire this Real-World Asset (RWA), the fisherman can reap their rewards through the token’s ‘lease-to-own’ program, buying back and burning the STEAD tokens that were initially issued to fund them.

Amplifying the company’s uniqueness, STEAD acts as a ticket to reserve time with the asset. The fisherman can lease time with the boat by burning STEAD, and after a greater dollar amount amount have been burned than were initially minted, they will be transferred full ownership of it. Therefore, the token goes beyond being just RWA; it has an intriguing deflationary supply.

Not only does this burning mechanism result in a reduced circulating supply, but another mechanism is built into the minting mechanics. While STEAD has no maximum supply, the minimum cost to mint a token increases by around 11.4% annually, if price drops below that, minting stops. This means that while the token has no maximum price, the minimum price that it can have is constantly increasing, a novel mechanic not seen in any other token.

A financial and architectural revolution

Spearheaded by Stead’s Co-Founder, Mitchell Suchner, Stead is working hard to make financial resources more easily accessible in Southeast Asia.

RWA tokens are an important emerging niche of crypto, and Stead stands to facilitate some of the most important transactions to serve some of the most profitable, and simultaneously under-served communities, but there is more that sets this project apart from others, and that is there long term goal.

During the first stage of operations, the platform intends to focus on the Southeast Asian market, but during the later stages, they plan to partner with small island nations, DAOs, and other organizations to facilitate the construction of whole floating cities.

The idea of building floating cities in national or international waters has been around for a while, called ‘seasteading’ advocates want to create independent floating jurisdictions of self-run communities where crypto friendly businesses can thrive.

Using ships, docks, and floating houses, communities and villages can be built and connect together to share resources such as fresh water, electricity, and fiber optic cables for internet. Far from being a fantasy, the first floating house has already been built in Boracay, Philippines, with some coastal resorts in the country already planning to purchase their own for listings on AirBnB.

Will Stead’s ultimate dream of building an entirely floating blockchain city become a reality? Only time will tell. However, the technology is here, and buoy, is it impressive.

Dypius Enables Secure Cross-Chain NFT Transfers for CAWS and World of Dypians with Chainlink CCIP 11202

Dypius has integrated Chainlink CCIP — the highest standard for safe cross-chain interoperability in the Web3 industry – to enable seamless NFT transfers across the Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, and Base mainnets. Owners of Cats and Watches Society (CAWS) and World of Dypians (WOD) land NFTs can now securely move their assets across these blockchains, enjoying an enhanced user experience and driving the platform’s growth.

The CCIP interoperability solution is only one of the several Chainlink services that Dypius has integrated in recent years. This movement aligns with the platform’s goals to provide highly secure Web3 products and revolutionize the NFT landscape. Its continuous growth and recent updates show that Dypius is among the most innovative projects in the blockchain sphere.

How Chainlink CCIP Helps Dypius Grow

Chainlink is a world-class decentralized computing platform servicing financial institutions, startups, and developers while ensuring the utmost security for cross-chain interoperability, off-chain computation, and real-world data. The company has enabled financial institutions with $9 trillion in transactions to date – a proven track record of reliability and security that convinced Dypius to choose it as its primary interoperability solution.

CCIP is a continuously improving mechanism with a scalable architecture that allows developers to easily build custom chain-specific integrations and interact with any blockchain network via a user-friendly interface.

One of CCIP’s standout features is the backup from the Risk Management Network — a separate, independent network continually monitoring and verifying cross-chain operations. Its role is to add an extra layer of protection against the vulnerabilities of the cross-chain infrastructure.

Future updates to CCIP will benefit Dypius and its users, who won’t have to pay the switching costs if new cross-chain functionalities become necessary. This way, Dypius ensures its NFT owners enjoy ever-increasing security and efficiency without reducing quality or affordability.

Dypius has integrated several Chainlink services besides CCIP in recent years. In 2021, the platform integrated Chainlink Price Feeds into the Dypius ecosystem to help secure decentralized ETH and BNB price data. This movement supports access to real-time asset prices directly on-chain and thus ensures reliable and secure rewards data.

Incorporating Chainlink VRF & Automation helped Dypius deliver a unique and unpredictable gaming experience within World of Dypians while increasing data quality and performance.

Integrating CCIP will help Dypius users engage in seamless interactions and transfers across some of the most used blockchain networks. The platform should become more efficient and secure while growing and diversifying its user base.

Exploring the World of Dypians NFT Bridge

World of Dypians (WoD) is one of the most versatile metaverse platforms currently developing in the emerging Web3 space. This boundless multiplayer online role-playing game provides a unique, immersive experience in a virtual world that combines AI, high-quality graphics, and engaging gameplay.

The game welcomes NFT collectors and crypto enthusiasts to collect, use, and transfer CAWS or World of Dypians Land NFTs via the NFT Bridge – a dedicated page on the WOD website.

Users can initiate the transfer by connecting their wallet and choosing a bridge route between popular networks, such as Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, and Base Network. Next, they must select the NFT they wish to bridge and complete the NFT transfer, which sends the NFT automatically to the wallet in the destination chain.

Using the NFT Bridge on World of Dypians is quick and easy, even for first-time users. Moreover, it is secured by advanced protection standards, enabling seamless and efficient NFT transfers without any hassle.

The Steady Rise of Dypius

Dypius is one of the fastest advancing projects with a growing DeFi ecosystem incorporating secure and efficient products and services in Web3.

The platform is building World of Dypians (WoD) into a standout presence among platforms supporting NFT development. The game caters to regular gamers and businesses in the crypto industry and beyond. Its growth has attracted important partnerships with some of the industry’s leaders. Numerous major brands are already featured with dedicated spaces in the World of Dypians metaverse, including Chainlink, CoinMarketCap, BNB Chain, CoinGecko, KuCoin, Avalanche, Coin98, Conflux Network, Gate.io, MEXC Global, and Easy2Stake.

In 2023, World of Dypians completed key milestones, such as the game’s listing on Epic Games, launching a closed demo for its multiplayer mode, and setting new standards for AI-powered virtual universes. Moreover, the game became a legally recognized entity at the start of 2024, proving its commitment to transparency and structural growth.

Dypius is advancing on several fronts within its DeFi ecosystem. For example, its native token, DYP v2, is now supported by Trust Wallet and Coinbase Wallet, two of the industry’s top solutions for storing and managing cryptocurrencies.

Furthermore, the platform launched an exclusive beta testing program for its upcoming mobile app, inviting Dypians everywhere to become beta testers. Anyone can play a decisive role in shaping the app’s user experience by trying new features or revealing bugs.

Dypius caters to both crypto beginners and experts with versatile solutions, including analytical DYP Tools, DeFi solutions, CAWS NFTs, and Metaverse gaming. The project runs on unique smart contracts using the protocol’s proprietary anti-manipulation functionality.

Layer3 Blockchain Orbs Announces V4 Upgrade to Meet Growing Industry Adoption 11230

Trailblazing blockchain infrastructure project Orbs has announced the development of the next major iteration of its Network protocol, Orbs V4. Described as a substantial upgrade, V4 is designed to enhance the efficiency and robustness of Orbs’ Layer3 technology, preparing the network for an expected surge in already-growing demand and usage in 2024.

As decentralized applications increasingly integrate Orbs’ products, the need for a more advanced network has become apparent. Orbs V4 is set to address this pressing need by focusing on a raft of key node upgrades, ensuring Orbs remains at the forefront of blockchain technology and equipped to handle the next wave of L3 adoption.

“The evolution to Orbs V4 marks a pivotal moment in our journey,” said Nadav Shemesh, CEO of Orbs. “This upgrade is not just about scaling up; it’s about setting a new standard in L3 infrastructure, ensuring we stay ahead of the curve in this ever-evolving space.”

V4 arrives two years after the introduction of its predecessor Orbs 3.0, which showcased the venture’s novel L3 architecture. The launch of two execution services, Orbs Lambda and Orbs VM, meanwhile, allowed devs to extend smart contracts with L3 decentralized backend services executed by Orbs Guardians, reducing projects’ dependence on centralized backend solutions.

The latest iteration of the Orbs Network protocol has been in the works for some time and will benefit from more efficient node implementation and other necessary upgrades. These will include Layer3 scaling enhancements, improvements in uptime, an upgraded L3 Activity dashboard to track Orbs-powered protocols, and a revamped Tetra staking wallet.

To facilitate more frequent upgrades, the existing manual rollout process for Guardian nodes will be automated while Orbs will move away from AWS-centric deployment to support a wider range of hardware and increase decentralization.

Technical barriers facing node operators will also be reduced in V4 as the Orbs node installer CLI will be replaced. Moreover, the auditability of the Orbs core orchestrator will be improved.

The entire Orbs team is eager to collaborate with Orbs Guardians, major stakeholders, and the wider community to bring its vision for V4 to fruition and to further solidify its position as an innovator in the Web3 sector.

About Orbs

Orbs is a Layer-3 public blockchain infrastructure project, conceived as a decentralized execution layer operating between existing L1/L2 solutions and the application layer. Executed by a secure network of permissionless validators, Orbs utilizes Proof-of-Stake and improves the existing capabilities of smart contracts on both EVM and non-EVM chains.

Fully on-chain gaming: How Web3Games.com is transforming the space with W3Gamez Network 11392

Blockchain gaming has embarked on its journey since 2014 with the launch of Huntercoin to test the potential of integrating blockchain technology with games. After nearly ten years of exploration, blockchain games are looking more and more like advanced prototypes of traditional games: the gameplay loops are not just about grinding, and the graphics are much more eye-catching. However, crypto gaming remains the hilarity of the minority at the current stage. To illustrate it, one of the most popular blockchain games, Axie Infinity, is less than 0.2% the size of Counter-Strike 2 in terms of average monthly active users. To open paths to onboarding more both players and developers, a growing community of Web3-native developers and players finds another approach to the next level of blockchain gaming by building the ecosystem of games and NFT primitives that operate completely on blockchains. In other words, fully on-chain games.

Fully on-chain gaming is one of the most promising areas for creating the next Alpha space, with multiple top investment institutions conducting in-depth research. Currently, fully on-chain gaming is still mainly attracting the attention of niche geek groups, with most attention focused on the Layer 2 network RedStone created by the team behind the Dark Forest game. Recently, more and more projects are participating in developing fully on-chain gaming engines and products. Among these pioneers leading the paradigm shift to fully on-chain gaming, Web3Games.com stands out with its latest product, W3Gamez Network.

Web3Games.com has been committed to integrating decentralized blockchain technology with games since 2021, giving players real ownership of game assets, enhancing game transparency, and providing developers with more user-friendly blockchain development tools. In the early days, Web3Games.com focused on building the infrastructure for blockchain gaming. After three years, it is almost the only project that has delivered technical infrastructure applications and game products at the same time. The team officially announced in 2024 that it will focus on the fully on-chain gaming ecosystem and bring its fully on-chain gaming Layer 2 network W3Gamez Network, which is invested by the NEAR Foundation, developed based on the OP Stack framework, and uses NEAR for Data Availability (DA).

Since on-chain gaming requires that games solely use smart contracts to execute the gameplay logic and store in-game data, it challenges developers and players to operate under strict technical limitations. Therefore, the experimental trials for any project are inevitable, and the accumulative cost becomes consequently expensive. Moreover, traditional GameFi games typically only put game assets on-chain, while game logic is still processed on centralized servers. This can lead to transparency and fairness concerns, as players cannot verify that the game is being played fairly.

Web3Games.com has addressed these challenges by focusing on Layer 2 rollup solutions, enabling developers to create fully on-chain games that are both performant and affordable. In 2024, Web3Games.com launched its W3Gamez Network, a Layer 2 network specifically designed for blockchain gaming. The network uses NEAR Data Availability (DA) to provide low-cost and high-throughput transactions for game assets and logic.

In addition to launching the W3Gamez Network, Web3Games.com is also launching two tokens: WGT and W3G.

WGT (Web3Games.com token) is a utility and governance token that will be used to incentivize and reward activities that support the Web3Games ecosystem. W3G (W3Gamez Network Token) is the native gas and governance token of the W3Gamez Network. The W3G token sale is currently ongoing on Web3Games.com and will end on January 28, 2024. The token price is $0.02 USDC, and the target raise is $400,000.

W3Gamez Network has raised $4 million in two rounds of funding from investors, including NEAR Foundation, DAO Maker, and LD Capital. The team has also worked with NEAR on multiple projects, including providing blockchain technology solutions to Alibaba. W3Gamez Network is the first Layer 2 gaming network to use NEAR’s Data Availability (DA) technology.

To make games trustless, open-source and composable, with the game’s state always immutable and transparent on the blockchain, W3Gamez Network, along with the entire ecosystem powered by Web3Games.com, has provided a fully decentralized ecosystem with robust blockchain security, where everyone plays fair and owns their experience. However, the idea of putting an entire game onto a blockchain is still controversial among traditional game developers, because blockchains are notoriously undesirable for its computing speed, scalability and storage. There is a long journey ahead of fully on-chain gaming. In 2024, Web3Games.com will be fully focused on the development of fully on-chain gaming, having taken the road with the launch of W3Gamez Network as a major milestone. Although fully on-chain gaming remains experimental in the crypto industry, the thesis is that it is highly possible onboarding of the next billion users to blockchain will be through gaming. Hence, it’s essential that well-designed incentive structures, sustainable economics, and developing architectures are available for both developers and players, which is exactly what W3Gamez Network has been focusing on.

PunkPoll Unveils Censorship-Resistant Voting and Survey Platform Powered by Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Mina Protocol 11324

Mina Foundation, the organization serving the Mina Protocol, has partnered with PunkPoll, an online voting and survey platform that today announces the launch of its Open Beta. The PunkPoll voting system allows for anonymous responses and protects personal privacy through a zero-knowledge-native design verified on Mina Protocol.

As part of its Open Beta launch, PunkPoll is integrating with KakaoTalk, a popular Korean-based messenger app with more than 150 million users worldwide. This integration is made possible by Mina’s recursive zero-knowledge proof technology, which allows for its succinct 22KB blockchain to be embedded in users’ smartphones and day-to-day devices.

Joon Kim, a board member of the Mina Foundation, said of the partnership, “The holy grail of blockchain is finding killer use cases. PunkPoll, through its Open Beta, is positioned to showcase not only ZK-voting for real-world users, guaranteeing privacy and security, but decentralized identity verification through social graphing. We believe that PunkPoll not only highlights the potential of Mina’s technology but stands as a beacon for the blockchain industry as a whole. Mina Foundation is excited for what else is to come through this partnership.”

Mina Protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) that allow one party to prove to another that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the validity of the statement. Leveraging Mina’s ZK offerings for developers, PunkPoll minimizes the risks of sensitive data disclosure while upholding polling transparency and verifying the uniqueness of users’ identities.

PunkPoll’s platform supports a wide range of voting and survey use cases and user preferences. Among these features, PunkPoll offers social graphing — a novel voter authentication method where friends verify each others’ identities, rather than relying on personal documents and centralized certification authorities. This approach enables identity verification based on human relationships and is a key part of PunkPoll’s decentralized registration process.

Peter Baek, the CEO of PunkPoll added, “The aim of PunkPoll’s service is to enhance the transparency of voting processes and ensure the integrity of voting results, all while protecting the privacy of voters. By utilizing recursive zero-knowledge proofs on Mina’s performant Hodori Net, and soon, on mainnet, we simplify the voting verification process and enhance the scalability of the system. We believe the combination of these cutting-edge technologies effectively solves the problems that occur in existing voting systems.”

PunkPoll launches its Open Beta service on the Mina Hodori Net, featuring an anonymized ‘News-Based Public Opinion Poll’ system based on its zk-Voting infrastructure. For more information, please visit: https://www.punkpoll.io/.

About Mina Protocol

Mina Protocol is a next-gen zero knowledge (ZK) blockchain. Rather than apply brute computing force, Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to design an entire blockchain that is fixed at 22KB, the size of a couple tweets. Lightweight and accessible, Mina enables efficient implementation and easy programmability of zero knowledge smart contracts (zkApps). With Mina’s enhanced privacy features and off-chain execution model, developers can build novel applications that bridge the real world and crypto—bringing us closer to the secure, democratic future we all deserve.

About Mina Foundation

The Mina Foundation serves the Mina Protocol. The Foundation supports the protocol and its community by issuing grants to third parties that make significant contributions, fostering community growth, and championing Mina in the wider world. Mina Foundation board members include former Executive Director at ZCash Foundation Josh Cincinnati, Harvard Business School Finance Professor, and Coinbase Advisory board member Marco Di Maggio, Head of Product at OP Labs Tess Rinearson, Mina Foundation General Counsel Joon Kim, and former O(1) Labs CEO Evan Shapiro.

About PunkPoll

PunkPoll is a decentralized voting and public opinion polling platform, aiming to innovatively transform political participation in the digital age. This platform is designed to address several limitations and vulnerabilities of traditional voting systems, such as the potential for manipulation, lack of transparency, and privacy issues. PunkPoll employs the latest decentralized technologies, including Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) based blockchain and NFTs, to provide a secure and transparent voting system, as well as anonymized surveys and public opinion polling, enabling users to directly participate in substantial decision-making processes.

This system uses a decentralized registration method, allowing users to become PunkPoll citizens (panel members) through social graph authentication via messenger. This facilitates user participation in the mechanisms of direct democracy, with the goal of creating a user-friendly platform that is easily accessible from anywhere in the world.

ChainGPT Facilitates the Launch of the GT Protocol, Bringing AI-Powered Auto-Trading to Crypto 11395

ChainGPT, the AI-powered Web3 infrastructure providing a diverse suite of tools and services, launches the GT Protocol through its IDO (initial DEX offering) launchpad, ChainGPT Pad. The protocol’s app grants access to CeFi, DeFi, and NFTs within a non-custodial setting, providing secure and transparent asset and portfolio management alongside efficient algorithmic trading tools. The GT Protocol implements advanced AI algorithms to power its automated crypto trading platform, which recently went live, with its native crypto token $GTAI set to launch on January 25.

With the guidance of ChainGPT’s launchpad, which serves as an incubator for promising Web3 startups, the GT Protocol features a conversational AI model alongside its “Deal Execution and Task Management Core” to connect users with crypto’s most profitable and risk-managed investment instruments. Users will gain convenient access to DeFi platforms, NFT marketplaces, CeFi exchanges, and ChainGPT’s proprietary staking mechanism.

GT Protocol’s core strength lies in its blockchain AI execution technology integrations, which offer a wide range of features including:

  • Simplified AI commands for trading and transactions
  • AI-driven portfolio management for optimal returns
  • Automated AI-powered trading strategies
  • Comprehensive off-chain and on-chain AI analytics on crypto markets
  • Real-time AI trading signals
  • AI-enabled arbitrage trading
  • AI management tools for NFT collectors
  • User-friendly AI tools for Web3 onboarding and education

The $GTAI token is a signature part of the GT ecosystem, where users can earn the protocol’s native currency by providing account data for GT AI model learning while using its app and products. $GTAI holders can participate in GT DAO governance votes, influencing the future strategy and ecosystem development.

ChainGPT is a pioneer in the field of blockchain AI infrastructure, offering a wide range of tools and services including a smart contract generator and auditor, advanced AI trading, an NFT generator, an AI-powered security extension, and SDK and API access for developers and organizations to integrate ChainGPT. The ChainGPT Pad supports the entire ecosystem and is recognized for its strategic mentorship, earning top ROI rankings for nurturing talented and innovative Web3 startups.

“The GT Protocol is a testament to the visionary approach of ChainGPT Pad by fostering groundbreaking Web3 solutions with the help of AI,” says Ilan Rakhmanov, CEO and Founder of ChainGPT. “GT Protocol has already garnered great momentum thanks to attention from significant media figures. We are excited for the GT Protocol, with its all-encompassing app, to be a part of the ChainGPT ecosystem because it provides a gateway to the future of crypto—making sophisticated AI-powered investments accessible to all.”

“Our protocol is truly a one-stop-shop for everything crypto, and our use of advanced AI algorithms offers investors from any background a comfortable and convenient way to trade, buy, bid, and stake crypto,” says Vladislav Balaban, co-founder of GT Protocol. “With our AI shopping assistant and other revolutionary features, we’re approaching groundbreaking territory in the Web3 space. We are grateful to working with the team at ChainGPT Pad who have provided us with invaluable expertise and guidance during the development stages.”

About ChainGPT:

ChainGPT is the leading provider of AI-powered infrastructure for crypto, blockchain, and Web3, offering automated smart contract generation and auditing and an advanced Web3 AI chatbot, AI-powered news aggregation, an AI training assistant, cross-chain swap, and an NFT generator. Further solidifying its position at the forefront of technological innovation, ChainGPT has established strategic partnerships and received recognition from notable tech leaders such as Google, Nvidia, BNBChain, and Chainlink.

Website: https://www.chaingpt.org/

About GT Protocol:

GT Protocol is a Web3 AI execution protocol connecting users with access to CeFi, DeFi, and NFT markets through an all-in-one conversational AI interface. As an AI layer for blockchain, GT’s goal is to onboard 100 million users over the next couple of years with its AI Shopping Assistant that brings major brands like Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Apple, and more into the world of Web3.

Website: https://www.gt-protocol.io/