According to Dune data,  there are currently 1,201,167,362 PYTH tokens in the staked state, with a total staked value exceeding $594 million. The number of PYTH stakers has reached 151,211.

According to official data，as of May 9th, Circle has issued approximately $2 billion USDC and redeemed approximately $2 billion USDC in the past 7 days, with a decrease in circulation of approximately $100 million. The total circulation of USDC is $33 billion, with a reserve of $33.1 billion, including approximately $3.3 billion in cash and Circle Reserve Fund holding approximately $29.8 billion.

The third part of our Glassnode Spotlights series, presenting the most interesting and actionable insights from the Coinbase x Glassnode Q2 Guide to Crypto Markets, explores Ethereum's Evolving Ecosystem - Staking, DeFi, and Derivative Markets.

This year, the factors influencing Bitcoin’s price shifted away from the interest rate narrative when spot Bitcoin ETFs were approved in the US in January. Since then, Bitcoin’s prices have re-aligned with market expectations on interest rates, now that ETF flows have diminished. The Federal Reserve is confronted with a challenging dilemma: it needs to control persistent inflation while also supporting a weakening U.S. economy. Over the long term, this predicament could turn out to be advantageous for Bitcoin.

Recent works [BBCA-Chain, Motorway, Cordial-Miners, Shoal, Mysticeti-C, Sailfish] debunk the belief that Block-DAG BFT Consensus protocols have to pay significant latency to achieve throughput scalability. They provide alternative ways for leveraging parallel transaction dissemination.

On May 10th, according to DeFiLlama data, the trading volume of Solana's DEX reached 1.314 billion US dollars yesterday, surpassing the trading volume of 1.297 billion US dollars on Ethereum's DEX.

In Ethereum, resources were up until recently limited, and priced, using a single resource called "gas". Gas is a measure of the amount of "computational effort" needed to process a given transaction or block. Gas merges together multiple types of "effort", most notably:

The article is divided into two sections: the main dialogue between the host and Sam, and the Q&A session where community users ask questions about AO.

Everything you want to know about the $HALO token

This report examines Core Chain’s pivotal role in enhancing Bitcoin’s functionality, focusing on the core competencies of the Satoshi Plus Consensus mechanism, non-custodial BTC staking, and EVM compatibility.