Recent findings indicate that identifying enduring lung injury following a COVID-19 infection could be achieved through a straightforward blood screening. 🩸
Investigations conducted in the UK revealed that individuals suffering from lasting lung irregularities months after being hospitalized showed increased concentrations of two specific biological markers. 🧬
The first marker, MMP-7, plays a role in tissue decomposition as the body strives to repair and restructure itself. The second, KL-6, signals inflammation or harm within the lungs, with higher counts typically observed in those diagnosed with different forms of interstitial lung disease.
When these indicators remain high, it suggests continuous damage to the epithelium, the fragile outer lining of our respiratory organs. 🫁
Discovery of these patterns offers vital insight into the biological processes driving the respiratory symptoms some individuals continue to face following acute Covid-19, and may offer explanations regarding Long COVID cases as well. 🔎
Gaining a clearer grasp of these mechanisms brings us closer to developing effective therapies! 🙌
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Dusk vs Ethereum Regulated Finananc Use Case:
Ethereum wasn't designed with regulated finance in mind. Its transparent ledger means every transaction, wallet balance, and smart contract interaction is publicly visible. For a bank issuing bonds or an asset manager rebalancing portfolios, this creates immediate problems. Competitors can front run trades, reverse engineer strategies, and see exactly who owns what. Some institutions have tried building on Ethereum anyway, using private consortiums or layer-two solutions, but these workarounds often sacrifice composability or introduce trusted intermediaries that undermine the point of using blockchain.
Dusk built privacy into the base layer from the start. Transactions are confidential by default, with amounts and participants hidden through zero-knowledge cryptography. An institution can execute a trade without broadcasting their position size to the entire network. This matters enormously for professional finance, where information leakage directly translates to lost profit or competitive disadvantage.
The compliance piece is where the architectures diverge most sharply. On Ethereum, enforcing securities regulations typically requires wrapping tokens in permissioned smart contracts that check whitelists before allowing transfers. This creates fragmented liquidity pools since each issuer implements their own compliance layer. Token holders on one platform can't easily interact with those on another. The ecosystem becomes siloed, losing the network effects that make DeFi compelling.
Dusk embeds compliance directly into its confidential smart contracts. An issuer can program rules about who's allowed to hold their security token, enforce lock up periods, or restrict transfers to accredited investors, all while keeping the actual holder identities and transaction amounts private. Regulators or auditors get cryptographic proofs that rules are being followed without gaining access to commercially sensitive data. $DUSK #dusk @Dusk_Foundation
Launch your ML workflow straight from VS Code in just three steps. Begin by installing the Ocean VS Code extension to bring the power of Ocean orchestration into your development setup. Next, prepare your job by indicating the dataset ID, adding your training script, and choosing your compute preferences. Finally, execute the task and oversee the logs in real time, allowing the system to securely handle the full execution process.
This supports VS Code as well as compatible editors including Windsurf, Antigravity, and Cursor.
Docs: https://t.co/BontJkOAF0
Open VSX:
Payments don’t get censored all at once.
They get paused, flagged, delayed quietly.
Most payment systems rely on trust in operators, validators, or policy layers that can change overnight. Even fast, cheap networks can become fragile the moment someone upstream decides a transaction shouldn’t go through.
Plasma takes a harder stance.
By anchoring settlement to Bitcoin, Plasma inherits censorship resistance at the deepest level. Not as a promise. As a property. Even if the payment layer stays fast and user-friendly, the final record is secured by a network that doesn’t negotiate inclusion.
That anchor matters more than it sounds.
It means payments can be fast and defensible.
Final and resistant.
Usable without trusting a single coordinator to behave forever.
Users don’t see the anchor.
Merchants don’t think about it.
But when pressure shows up regulatory, political, or operational that anchor is what keeps payments from quietly disappearing.
Speed gets attention.
Fees get headlines.
Censorship resistance is what keeps the system honest.
@Plasma #plasma $XPL
$SOL
{spot}(SOLUSDT)
is trading around 96.21 after a sharp drop of 6.54%, printing a fresh intraday low at 94.71. The pair was rejected from the 106–104 supply area and has now slipped below the 100 psychological level, which points to clear short‑term bearish control.
On the two‑hour chart the market structure shows lower highs and lower lows, with downside momentum accelerating. MACD remains deeply negative (DIF -2.11, DEA -1.79), indicating sustained selling pressure rather than a quick capitulation.
Volume has expanded on red candles, suggesting distribution is in progress instead of panic exhaustion. The immediate support band sits at 94–95; a decisive break below that would likely open the path toward 90.
World of Dypians on Vanar: Real On-Chain Gaming, Finally Smooth
If you’ve ever played a blockchain game, you know the pain—laggy transactions, surprise fees, gameplay that just grinds to a halt. Vanar changes that.
Here’s the deal: Vanar’s built for speed. You get a network that actually keeps up with players, NFT and token support that means you genuinely own your stuff, and smart contracts running the show in the background. Everything’s transparent, and your assets stay safe thanks to real audits and decentralized checks.
Vanar’s not just for crypto diehards, either. Game studios and Web3 gamers both get a smoother experience. The whole thing started as a bridge between the old gaming world and the new Web3 universe, and it shows.
The best part? The blockchain handles the heavy lifting quietly, so you focus on the game, not the tech headaches. That means more players, more NFT trades, and real partnerships with studios.
Vanar proves on-chain gaming doesn’t have to suck the fun out of playing.
Ready to see it? Check out World of Dypians on Vanar.
FAQs
Is gameplay on-chain? The core asset logic is, so your items are real.
Worried about fees? Vanar’s built to keep them low.
Who wins here? Both players and studios.
World of Dypians on Vanar proves that scalable blockchain can power real gaming economies, without ruining the experience.
#Vanar $VANRY @Vanar
I Spent an Hour Comparing Plasma to TRON and the Usage Gap Is Honestly Brutal
Trying to figure out if Plasma’s actually competitive or just another Layer 2 with good marketing. Started looking at real transaction numbers and the picture gets uncomfortable fast.
TRON processes something like 300 million transactions monthly. Plasma’s doing around 40,000 USDT transactions daily which works out to maybe 1.2 million monthly. That’s not even close, that’s a different universe of adoption.
TRON’s generating $29.5 million in monthly fees from actual network activity. Users are paying those fees and the ecosystem still thrives. Plasma’s giving away transactions for free through the paymaster and still can’t attract meaningful volume.
What bothers me is Plasma’s got arguably better technology. Sub-second finality through PlasmaBFT versus TRON’s couple-second blocks. EVM compatibility versus TRON’s custom virtual machine. DeFi protocol integrations that TRON doesn’t have.
But none of that matters because TRON’s already won the network effects game. Everyone sending USDT internationally already uses TRON. Exchanges list TRC-20 USDT by default. Wallets support it natively. The infrastructure exists everywhere.
They raised over $500 million from serious investors who clearly believe the stablecoin payment market grows enough that being second place still wins. Framework Ventures, Founders Fund, these aren’t throwing money randomly.
The July token unlock adds 2.5 billion XPL to circulation. If usage hasn’t meaningfully increased by then, that’s a lot of selling pressure hitting a project that’s already underwater compared to where investors bought in.
I’m watching whether they can capture even 10% of TRON’s market share or if first-mover advantage in stablecoin infrastructure proves too strong to overcome regardless of technical superiority.
#plasma $XPL @Plasma