

A recap of the first round in the latest iteration of Battle of the Dapps.
ApeSwap Moves on to the Grand Finale
Group A of Battle of the Dapps is now in the books!
After an intense battle between three worthy contestants in ApeSwap, BSC Station, and Coin Racer, ApeSwap was able to claim the points necessary to advance to the Grand Finale. The popular vote was won by Coin Racer by a narrow 2%, while ApeSwap won both judges’ votes due to its inter-chain operability and innovation in staying ahead of potential user concerns.
Below is a quick recap of what went down in this exciting first round!

Discussing Security
The first set of questions revolved around project security. ApeSwap’s rep explained their awareness of community concerns, and how they carefully monitor every new feature introduced into their ecosystem, including audits and extensive in-house testing. Coin Racer’s rep discussed how Solidity - the language their game is built on, has well-known exploitable flaws that they have addressed in development, and their recent hire of a cybersecurity specialist. BSC Station’s rep revealed that their launchpad only accepts applicants with a working product that has also been audited, as well as requiring applicants to KYC.
“Everything that we do, everything that we put out is audited by our team internally, and ultimately we measure that 5, 6, 7 times and are constantly looking after that,” the speaker from ApeSwap explained.
Discussing Longevity
The next set of questions was centered on longevity. BSC Station’s rep discussed their recent V2 launch that brings new user-friendly features, as well as their dedication to choosing to launch projects with a focus on long-term goals. Coin Racer’s rep explained that their team has run countless simulations that predict future success, and that they are working to bring in outside revenue streams to support the continued success of the game. ApeSwap’s rep explained that their focus is adjusting their offerings to serve their community and providing sustainable liquidity, while making sure that development doesn’t get oversaturated.
“BSC Station is a long-term project,” the BSC Station speaker noted. “We have been around the market for a while, and we aspire to be here for a long time.”
Discussing Community
The final set of questions from BSC News was based on community. Coin Racer’s rep detailed its ground-up platform redesign that is inspired by Mario Kart and Twisted Metal and how they seek to create a family-friendly party-style game that appeals to a wide audience - not just the Web3 community. ApeSwap’s rep dived into how their community supported them before the product was fully refined, and how they focus on creating a safe and fun environment for the community that reflects demand. BSC Station’s rep praised the loyalty of their community, and explained that they seek start-ups with a strong community when selecting new launchpad projects.
“In terms of the challenges that are faced, it’s really breaking the stigma of Web3 that really plagues the gaming space right now,” the Coin Racer speaker proposed. “And what we’re doing, as I mentioned, is utilizing education through this process.”
Projects Asking Projects
The projects also asked each other questions with no specific theme, touching on individual challenges that each project faces.
Check out the recording of the event to hear the full questions and responses from the projects!

BSC News would like to thank all three participants in Group A for their involvement. DeFi is driven by innovation, and every project participating in Battle of the Dapps has proven its commitment to furthering the growth of the space. BSC News would also like to thank the sponsor of Battle of the Dapps, the premium auditor and Web3 security specialist company CertiK!
Group B, comprised of NEST Protocol, MicroPets, and NodeReal, will be competing on October 24th at 7:00 PM UTC. Follow the official BSC News Twitter account to receive updates on the event and tune in to the official Twitter Space!
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As part of CMC's end-of-the-year wrap-up, we shine a light on what Bitcoin has been up to as the rest of the crypto market has struggled.

Bitcoin is the longest-living, market leading OG cryptocurrency. For better or for worse, it has given birth to the entire cryptocurrency industry. Many believe that Bitcoin has fulfilled its mission as peer-to-peer digital cash, bringing freedom to people worldwide. Users of the oldest cryptocurrency range from political dissidents like Alexey Navalny to financially excluded Venezuelans. It has the highest brand recognition of any project in the space and works exactly as advertised.
Perhaps it does not have the bells and whistles of newer projects, but it also doesn’t have their implosions (see Luna) or constant network shutdowns (see Solana). Amidst all the chaos in the markets this year, Bitcoin keeps relentlessly producing block after block after block. Despite some in the cryptocurrency space viewing it as "legacy tech," it remains the market leader for a reason.
One of the reasons for Bitcoin's success is its design simplicity, which limits the threat surface of attacks. Its smart contract functionality may be highly limited, but this has helped it avoid hidden leverage and the corrosive problems of MEV. It does not have stablecoins, which curtails the protocol-level influence of large centralized players like Circle and Tether. Had the ETHPOW fork been more contentious, stablecoin issuers would have had an outsized say. Bitcoin’s simplicity makes it resilient.
Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts critical of Bitcoin’s “old fashioned” technology fail to understand that most cryptocurrency projects are parasitical of Bitcoin's pristine censorship resistance. Regulators and lawmakers realize that Bitcoin cannot be easily censored, so these projects pretend to be similar to Bitcoin and avoid scrutiny. Moreover, market participants also know that they can easily exit these weaker coins into Bitcoin at the push of a button if needed, so they are happy to park their wealth there temporarily. Many think that these projects will always exist in the shadow of Bitcoin.
In recent years, Bitcoin has solidified its position as "digital gold," with countries and companies adopting this narrative. While the 2017 bubble saw numerous projects attempting to be “the next Bitcoin,” Bitcoin was the undisputed king of its category by 2022. Competitors now seek to be “smart contract platforms” rather than digital money. With crypto lenders and exchanges defaulting on their obligations and DeFi protocols getting hacked left right and center, the simplicity of keeping Bitcoin in cold storage is increasingly appealing. Staying humble and stacking sats, as some would say.
Bitcoin hasn’t escaped the price volatility of 2022, having lost ~60% of its value year to date. But it has avoided the devastation of many other market participants. Investors in Luna, depositors of Celsius or users of FTX have found themselves completely wiped out. What these projects have in common is the complexity of their narrative: numerous tokens, intertwined in a myriad of ways, offering both yield, price stability and the allure of exponential growth. Ultimately, they provided none of that and imploded within days. Bitcoin eschews complexity, it promises neither yield nor price stability. Instead, it offers resilience.
Those that were misled by the siren call Celsius, Luna, FTX and the like are looking for answers. Self-custody and censorship resistance are narratives that struggle to compete with “get rich quick” while the market is hot, but their value has been re-established recently. Hardware wallets have had record sales since FTX’s collapse. People have learned hard lessons about trusted third parties and protocols obfuscating risk with complexity. It is a great opportunity for Bitcoiners to embrace them and educate them on Bitcoin’s ethos and mission.
Yet there are concerning trends. The Lightning network continues to grow, but at a pace far slower than most advocates anticipated. Bitcoin has lost mindshare among speculators and technology enthusiasts to Ethereum. More worryingly, Bitcoin is losing market share to stablecoins, which function as digital bearer instruments that can now reach those who previously only had access to Bitcoin. Even in markets that require a higher degree of censorship resistance, such as dark net markets, Monero is gaining ground. Furthermore, there are growing concerns that its transaction fees may not compensate for the decline in the block subsidy.
The Bitcoin community must address the challenging task of maintaining the predictability and simplicity of the protocol without shutting out impactful innovation. A careful balance must be struck between the users’ needs and Bitcoin’s mission. Ideology cannot trump reality, Bitcoin’s future development must be practical, not just theoretical. There are encouraging examples of forward-looking research, such as the fellowship sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation for roll-ups on Bitcoin.
Despite these challenges, Bitcoin remains the king and will likely continue to lead in 2023. However, it cannot afford to rest on its laurels: it must continue to evolve and adapt to the changing landscape.
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unshETH Introduces Liquid Staking Derivatives for Ethereum Validator Nodes

unshETH looks to unlock validator potential with its new reward mechanism!
unshETH Liquid Staking Derivatives
Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSD) is a relatively new industry that is disrupting how people earn rewards and how they interact with financial products. Token holders are given a derivative for their original token, which they can put to additional use, gaining rewards from two tokens instead of one.
unshETH.xyz is striving to take this industry a step further with a unified ERC-20 token (unshETH). All liquid staking derivative tokens on the Ethereum network can be swapped for this one token, increasing accessibility. Moreover, unshETH is taking a completely new approach to Liquid Staking Derivatives.
unshETH is aiming to ensure decentralization of Ethereum validator nodes, y allowing users to delegate with whom their eth should be staked. The protocol will also be open source, so that any other LSD provider can copy their features. This will help to strengthen and improve the overall ecosystem.
Decentralization Of Ethereum Validator Nodes
Ethereum runs on validator nodes. These nodes ensure that the industry is impervious to a 51% attack and that transactions are legitimate. To ensure the longevity and viability of the Ethereum ecosystem, it is important that Ethereum validators are decentralized.
Currently, it costs nearly $50,000 (32 ETH) to run a validator node. This is not a flaw - the high price ensures that only those who are committed to the Ethereum ecosystem will invest for a long-time horizon. It also ensures that no single actor owns too many nodes, given the cost. The staked 32 ETH cannot be withdrawn, at least until the Shanghai Upgrade this March.
But while the overall validator nodes on Ethereum are increasing in their decentralization via the overall numbers, this has not been the case for Liquid Staking Derivative validators. The unshETH team witnessed this firsthand, having developed some of the first LSDs themselves.
To this end, the core aim of unshETH is Ethereum validator node decentralization for liquid derivatives. One means they use to achieve this is that validator rewards decrease with the total amount staked. This should serve to greatly disincentivize centralization. The second is incentive engineering, whereby capital is distributed across the LSD ecosystem to promote decentralization.
The Benefits Of Liquid Staking Derivatives
Liquid Staking provides multiple benefits for decentralized finance (DeFi) users. A derivative token is given to a user when the original token is staked. In this manner, the DeFi native gets staking rewards for the original token and can put the derivative token to a different use.
The use cases of liquid staking are innumerable. All traditional derivative products within the financial markets (such as futures and options) can be placed on a blockchain, with additional risk mitigation and transparency features. This would be done with a much smaller amount of red tape.
But all of these benefits can only come to fruition when the core network is sufficiently decentralized. unshETH provides a variety of mechanisms to restore decentralization for LSD nodes on Ethereum. It does this in an open source manner so that all other providers can assist with one of the most pressing issues of Web3 - node decentralization.
Why UnshETH Is A Game Changer For Liquid Staking Derivatives
unshETH allows liquid token holders to exchange their Liquid Staking Derivative assets (such as stETH or cbETH - built by Lido and Coinbase respectively) into one unified asset: unshETH. This is different from other providers that offer various derivatives for various tokens, resulting in a messy string of derivative pairs to keep track of. Moreover, they are focused on bringing back decentralization to the Ethereum LSD market.
Most, if not all, of the other LSD providers are not focused on assisting in decentralization of validators. They are interested in taking a profit through fees. unshETH is Ethereum-specific and takes a more streamlined approach with its unified token. This will restore integrity to the ecosystem.
unshETH aims to restore validator decentralization to the Liquid Staking Derivatives industry through incentive engineering, an idea that was strongly endorsed by Vitalik Buterin, the original Ethereum founder. This alone sets it apart from other providers. unshETH further allows liquid holders to consolidate a variety of derivatives into one functional and tradable unified token.
Users will be able to withdraw tokens after the Ethereum Shanghai upgrade in March. This is when the full version of unshETH will be unlocked. The unshETH team will then roll out Validator Dominance Options, a brand new DeFi derivative designed to add another layer of enforcement of decentralization, by redistributing staking yield away from monopolistic LSD providers via a novel mechanism.
About unshETH:
UnshETH is a decentralized initiative for disrupting the dominance of a single Liquid Staking Derivative (LSD) on the Ethereum network by incentivizing the diversification of validator ownership through the use of incentive engineering. The core mission of unshETH is to ensure decentralization of Ethereum validator nodes, restoring original design principles. The protocol increases LSD market accessibility and helps users unlock the power of liquid staking derivatives in a fully decentralized manner.
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Pioneers can mine more Pi by boosting their individual mining rates through diverse contributions.
Boost Your Individual Mining Rate
While the popular mode of increasing Pi is through mining via the mobile application, Pioneers can increase their holdings by boosting individual mining rates through diverse contributions.
Here are the different ways you can increase your Pi mining rate in addition to mining daily:
- Inviting your friends to mine Pi, increasing Referral Team Rewards.
- Maximizing Security Circle Rewards by completing your Security Circle.
- Reminding your existing referral team to mine so you can earn more.
- Increasing your lockup commitment after setting up your lockup configuration.
- Engaging with the Pi Browser applications in the directory to increase App usage rewards.
- Increasing Node rewards by running a Node on the Testnet.
Visit the Pi mobile application and read more about mining rates in the Whitepaper. BSC News will continue to publish daily tips and updates about the mobile mining network.
What is Pi Network:
Pi Network is a novel cryptocurrency and developer platform that allows mobile users to mine Pi coins without draining the device’s battery. Pi’s blockchain secures not only economic transactions via a mobile meritocracy system but also a full Web 3.0 experience where community developers can build decentralized applications (dApps) for millions of users.
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Proof of Reserves is a hot and important topic across crypto and Web3. More and more major exchanges and projects are implementing ways to transparently show their assets reserves. Users want to see Proofs of Reserves to gauge the security and solubility of projects.
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Core DAO Introduces S-Prize to Incentivize Ecosystem Development

The S-Prize introduction will ensure that users gain access to valuable blockchain applications while rewarding builders for their creations.
Core DAO Announce Satoshi Prize
Following the imminent $CORE airdrop, Core DAO has announced the integration of a new reward token called the Satoshi Prize or Core S-Prize.
In honor of the Satoshi Plus consensus mechanism and Satoshi Nakamoto, the token will be used for ecosystem development. According to the protocol’s Medium announcement, S-Prize will incentivize valuable Decentralized Application (dApp) development and reward builders.
“The goal of the S-Prize is twofold: (1) incentivize the development of real applications that deliver value to Core users and (2) reward builders for the value that they create on the Core network. As one of the world’s largest and most decentralized communities, delivering useful products on Core is the ultimate achievement,” Core DAO wrote.
S-Prize follows the protocol’s mission of ignoring grants that don't help users at the network’s early stage of development. Grants favor protocols’ development even when they don’t align with the network’s long-term vision. With S-Prize, developers will be rewarded based on their applications' value to the Core ecosystem, ensuring maximum benefit for users.
Builders receiving S-Prize will be challenged with achieving milestones and completing objectives. Furthermore, the challenges will be time-dependent and paired with reasonable CORE rewards. Core DAO will announce the challenges, CORE prices, and payment timeline.
S-Prize promises to reward builders for their effort toward contributing true value to the Core DAO ecosystem. The initiative would benefit developers, users, and the entire Core community. By rewarding builders based on the value they add to the ecosystem, users can gain access to valuable dApps on the network. Overall, S-Prize will position the network to be a top player in the blockchain industry.
Read the Core DAO publication for more information.
What is Core DAO:
Core DAO is the official decentralized organization developing the Satoshi Plus ecosystem. It represents an opportunity for miners to access new revenue streams by contributing hash power to the chain. Inspired by the principles of both blockchains, Core displays a deep appreciation for the crypto ecosystem's history and an even greater excitement for Core’s role in its future.
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