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Fogo continues to stand out as a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain that's truly built for the demands of modern on-chain trading. Running on the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) with a pure Firedancer client, @Fogo Official achieves impressive sub-40ms block times and near-instant finality—making complex DeFi actions like perpetuals, on-chain order books, and derivatives feel seamless and reliable.
What sets apart is its focus on practical utility: low, predictable fees even under load, multi-local consensus for fair execution, and a curated validator approach that prioritizes stability and performance. Since mainnet launch earlier this year, the network has attracted builders and traders who need speed without sacrificing decentralization or self-custody.
The $FOGO token plays a central role—powering gas, staking for security, governance participation, and ecosystem incentives. With strong exchange listings like Binance and growing adoption in trading protocols, Fogo is quietly proving that infrastructure wins over hype in the long run.
Keep building, exploring, and supporting projects that deliver real progress. The path to scalable, institutional-grade DeFi is clearer thanks to efforts like this. Let's keep the momentum going—one fast, fair block at a time. #fogo #web #blockchaineconomy #ETFs
Disclaimer: This is not financial or investment advice. Cryptocurrency markets are highly volatile and involve significant risk. Always do your own research (DYOR) and only invest what you can afford to lose.

Also: EF’s Stańczak to leave ED role, XRPL member-only #DEX and Ethereum revives the DAO.
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ZORA MOVES FROM BASE TO SOLANA:
On-chain social platform and decentralized protocol Zora is making a decisive shift beyond its non-fungible tokens (NFT) and creator roots with the launch of “attention markets” on Solana, a product that allows users to trade tokens tied to internet trends, memes and cultural moments. The feature, unveiled Feb. 17, lets anyone create a new market for 1 SOL. Once live, users can buy and sell positions on whether a topic will gain or lose traction across social media. Instead of wagering on elections or macro data, traders speculate on buzz itself — such as hashtags, viral narratives, even broad themes like “AI girlfriend” or “bitcoin.” The design leans heavily into Solana’s strengths. Fast block times and low transaction costs make it easier to support rapid price updates and frequent trading, which are essential for markets built around fleeting online momentum. Initial activity was limited, however. The primary “attentionmarkets” token briefly touched roughly $70,000 in market capitalization, with around $200,000 in trading volume. Most other trend markets struggled to attract meaningful liquidity, with few crossing the $10,000 mark on their first day. Percentage swings were sharp, though largely driven by thin order books rather than sustained demand. Zora was among the breakout applications on Coinbase's Layer 2 Base network in the past few years. It launched its ZORA token there in April and helped roll out Creator Coins tied to Base profiles in July, a push that briefly helped Base overtake Solana in daily token creation. Creator coins are tokens tied to an individual creator’s online profile, brand or community. Think of them as tradable “shares” in a person’s internet presence. On platforms like Zora and Base, a creator coin could be automatically generated from a user’s profile. Fans could buy the coin to signal support, gain social clout, or speculate that the creator’s popularity would grow. As more people bought in, the price could rise, and interest faded, it could fall. As such, some in the Base community saw the new “attention markets” product as a pivot away from that momentum.
EF EXECUTIVE-DIRECTOR TO LEAVE:
Tomasz Stańczak, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation (EF), announced he will step down from his leadership role at the end of February 2026, marking a notable shift in the organization’s executive team. Stańczak, who has co-led the foundation alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang since early 2025, said in a blog post that he believes the foundation and the broader Ethereum ecosystem are “in a healthy state” as he prepares to hand over the reins to Bastian Aue, who will take the co-executive director role alongside Wang. Stańczak’s tenure began at a turbulent time for the EF. He was brought aboard following the transition of long-time executive director Aya Miyaguchi into a new leadership position amid mounting community criticism that the foundation wasn’t doing enough to aggressively push the Ethereum ecosystem forward. At the time, detractors pointed to a perceived disconnect between the EF and developers, including conflicts of interest, clashes over strategic direction and frustrations about ETH’s price performance. Such criticisms helped spur a broader leadership restructuring. While Stańczak stressed his confidence in the team’s ability to carry forward the EF’s mission, he also signaled his intention to remain involved in the ecosystem.
XRP LEDGER RELEASES MEMBER-ONLY DEX:
The XRP Ledger has activated a new “Permissioned DEX” amendment, a technical upgrade designed to let regulated institutions trade on XRPL without opening markets to everyone. The change, known as XLS-81, allows the creation of permissioned decentralized exchanges that work like XRPL’s existing built-in DEX, but with a key difference. A permissioned domain can restrict who can place offers and who can accept them, creating a gated trading venue where participation is tied to compliance requirements such as KYC and AML checks. Think of it as a 'members only' marketplace, while still keeping the trading mechanics native to the ledger. The feature is aimed at banks, brokers and other firms that may want onchain settlement and liquidity but cannot interact with fully open DeFi markets. For these players, the ability to control access is not optional; it is a minimum requirement. The activation also adds to a growing set of “institutional DeFi” primitives XRPL has been rolling out this month. Token Escrow, or XLS-85, went live last week, extending XRPL’s native escrow system beyond XRP to all trustline-based tokens and Multi-Purpose Tokens, including stablecoins such as RLUSD and tokenized real-world assets.
ETHEREUM MEMBERS REVIVE NEW VERSION OF THE DAO: 
In the summer of 2016, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, known as the DAO, became the defining crisis of Ethereum’s early years. A smart contract exploit siphoned millions of dollars’ worth of ether (ETH) from that initial project, and the community’s response — a contentious hard fork to recover those funds, splintered the original chain from the current one, leaving the old chain behind, known as Ethereum Classic. The DAO was once the greatest crowdfunding effort in crypto’s history, but faded into a cautionary tale of governance, security, and the limits of “code is law.” Now, nearly a decade later, that story has taken an unexpected turn. What was lost, or rather, left untouched, is being repurposed as a ~$150 million (at today’s prices) security endowment for the Ethereum ecosystem. The endowment, now known as TheDAO Security Fund, will stake some of the 75,000 dormant ether (ETH) and deploy the yield through community-driven funding rounds to support Ethereum security research, tooling and rapid-response efforts, while keeping claims open for any remaining eligible token holders. At the center of this story is Griff Green, one of the original DAO curators and a veteran of Ethereum decentralized governance. “When the DAO hack happened [in 2016], obviously, I jumped into action and basically led everything but the hard fork,” Green said of assembling the white hat group that rescued funds on the original Ethereum chain. “We hacked all these hackers. It was straight up DAO wars”. That effort, alongside others, helped salvage funds that might otherwise have been lost forever. At the time, the hard fork restored roughly 97% of the DAO’s funds to token holders, but left a small fraction, roughly 3%, in limbo. These “edge case” funds came from quirks of the original smart contracts: people who paid more than expected, those who burned tokens to form sub-DAOs, and other anomalies that didn’t cleanly map back. Over time, that leftover balance, once only worth a few million, ballooned into something far more significant due to ether’s appreciation. “The value of the funds we control has grown dramatically… well over 75,000 ETH,” a blog post for the new DAO fund states.
In Other News
A recent poll of 1,000 American investors in digital assets found that over half are scared they'll face an IRS tax penalty this year as new transparency rules governing crypto exchanges take effect. The data collected at the end of January by crypto tax platform Awaken Tax canvassed U.S. holders’ concerns about a radical shift from self-disclosure to automatic reporting of transactions. This has been enacted through the introduction of the “Digital Asset Proceeds From Broker Transactions,” or Form 1099-DA, which tens of millions of Americans will be made aware of over the next month or so. The new rules are designed to clamp down on crypto tax evasion and compel brokers, such as crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), to report all sales and exchanges of digital assets that occurred in 2025 to the tax agency. The aim is to give tax authorities a clear view of investor gains and losses by opening up customer data inside exchanges for the first time, allowing the IRS to compare what crypto brokers report with what taxpayers file. While the goal is to remove any margin of error, the rules are a “blunt instrument,” created by legislators who know nothing about crypto, according to Awaken Tax founder Andrew Duca. “It means crypto is being treated like stocks, but it doesn’t behave in that way. Real crypto users will move assets between multiple wallets and interact with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, using pretty complex trading strategies,” Duca said. — Ian AllisonCrypto venture firm Dragonfly Capital completed a $650 million fourth fund, marking one of the largest raises in the sector at a time when many blockchain-focused VCs are struggling, Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi said. “It’s a weird time to celebrate,” Qureshi wrote on a social media post, describing low spirits and “the gloom of a bear market” for crypto. However, he noted that Dragonfly has historically raised capital during downturns, including the 2018 ICO crash and just before the 2022 Terra collapse, 'vintages,' he said, ultimately became the firm’s best performers. In September, the firm said it aimed to raise $500 million for its fourth fund, targeting early-stage projects. It has not yet identified any of them. In May 2023, Dragonfly Capital raised $650 million for its third crypto fund for later-stage companies. — Olivier Acuna 
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Blockchain technology is a decentralized, secure, and transparent way to record and store data (most commonly transactions) across a network of computers, without needing any central authority like a bank, government, or company to control or verify it.Think of it as a digital ledger (like a shared Google Sheet that nobody can secretly edit) — but much more powerful and secure.Core Idea in Simple TermsImagine a chain of locked boxes (blocks).
Each box contains:
A list of recent transactions or data recordsA timestampA unique fingerprint (called a hash)And importantly — the fingerprint of the previous box
Because each box points to the one before it through cryptography, you get an unbreakable chain. If someone tries to change anything in an old box, its hash changes → which breaks the link to the next box → and the entire network immediately notices something is wrong.Key Characteristics of Blockchain (2025–2026 perspective)
Feature
What it means
Why it matters
Decentralized
No single owner/server — data lives on thousands of computers (nodes) worldwide
No single point of failure or control
Immutable
Once data is written and confirmed, it cannot be changed or deleted
Creates trust without needing to trust any one party
Transparent
Everyone can see the records (on public blockchains)
Auditable by anyone
Secure
Protected by cryptography + consensus rules
Extremely hard to hack or forge
Distributed
Every full participant has a complete copy of the ledger
System keeps running even if many nodes go offline
How a New Block Gets Added (Simplified)
Someone creates a transaction (e.g. "Charles sends 1 ETH to Alice" or "Supply chain part X moved from factory A to warehouse B")The transaction is broadcast to the networkNodes check if it's valid (correct signatures, enough balance, follows rules)Valid transactions are collected into a candidate blockNodes compete / agree (via consensus mechanism — Proof of Stake, Proof of Work, etc.) to decide which block gets added nextThe winning block is linked to the previous one → chain growsEveryone updates their copy of the blockchain
Most Famous ExampleBitcoin (2009) was the first real-world blockchain.
It uses blockchain to record who owns how much Bitcoin — without any bank in the middle.Beyond Crypto (2025–2026 reality)Blockchain is now used far beyond just cryptocurrencies:
Stablecoin & cross-border payments (faster + cheaper than SWIFT)Tokenized real-world assets (real estate, stocks, art on-chain)Supply chain tracking (verify authenticity of products)Digital identity & credentialsSmart contracts (self-executing agreements — e.g. "pay automatically when package arrives")Decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming (NFTs/game assets), DAOs, etc.
In short:
Blockchain = a tamper-proof, shared notebook that nobody owns, everyone can verify, and no one can cheat on — once something is written, it's permanent.Let me know if you'd like:
A deeper dive into how consensus worksExplanation of public vs private blockchainsCurrent major use-cases in 2026Or how NFTs / Web3 connect to this
Happy to go as simple or technical as you want! #BlockChainTechnology #blockchaineconomy #BlockchainDecentralization

Nếu sàn giao dịch tập trung (CEX) hoạt động dựa trên Order Book (Sổ lệnh) để khớp người mua và người bán, thì các sàn DEX như Uniswap hay PancakeSwap lại vận hành nhờ AMM (Automated Market Maker). Đây là một bước đột phá về thuật toán, loại bỏ nhu cầu về một bên trung gian điều phối.
1. Công thức toán học đằng sau thanh khoản
Phần lớn các AMM hiện nay sử dụng mô hình Constant Product Market Maker (Trình tạo thị trường sản phẩm không đổi). Công thức kinh điển nhất chính là:
Trong đó:
* x: Số lượng token thứ nhất trong pool.
* y: Số lượng token thứ hai trong pool.
* k: Một hằng số không đổi.
Khi bạn mua token x, số lượng x trong pool giảm xuống, buộc số lượng y phải tăng lên để giữ cho k không đổi. Chính cơ chế này tự động điều chỉnh giá của tài sản dựa trên quy luật cung cầu mà không cần sự can thiệp của con người.
2. Vai trò của Liquidity Provider (LP)
Hệ thống này chỉ hoạt động khi có nguồn vốn dồi dào. Những người cung cấp thanh khoản (LP) sẽ nạp cả hai loại token vào pool theo tỷ lệ giá hiện tại. Đổi lại, họ nhận được phí giao dịch từ mỗi lệnh swap của người dùng. Tuy nhiên, các LP cần đặc biệt lưu ý đến Impermanent Loss (Tổn thất tạm thời) – hiện tượng xảy ra khi tỷ giá giữa hai token biến động mạnh so với thời điểm nạp vốn.
3. Tại sao AMM là tương lai?
* Tính phi tập trung: Bất kỳ ai cũng có thể trở thành nhà tạo lập thị trường.
* Tính liên tục: Thanh khoản luôn sẵn sàng 24/7, không phụ thuộc vào việc có người đặt lệnh đối ứng hay không.
* Khả năng lập trình: Các nhà phát triển có thể tích hợp pool thanh khoản vào các hợp đồng thông minh khác để tạo ra các sản phẩm tài chính phức tạp (Yield Farming, Lending...).
Lời kết: Hiểu về AMM không chỉ giúp chúng ta giao dịch hiệu quả hơn mà còn mở ra cái nhìn sâu sắc về cách dòng tiền vận hành trong Web3. Việc nắm vững các thông số kỹ thuật và rủi ro như trượt giá (slippage) hay phí gas sẽ là lợi thế lớn cho bất kỳ nhà đầu tư nào.
#DeF #AM #blockchaineconomy #SmartContract