Tradedog – Research Reports

Solana

Solana network till date has handled 12.4 Billion transactions and is offering a staking APR of 18%. The scalability
feature of Solana, low fees, its unique timestamping technique, well deserved and competent team affirm the growth potential the projects has. Solana incorporates several features that encourage Dappdevelopers to build their applications on Solana
blockchain as it allows the developers to code in C, C++, Rust, andMove, eliminating the need to learn a specific
coding language like Solidity in Ethereum

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Non Fungible tokens

The NFT sector has blown up since the start of 2021, with a new report identifying more NFT sales in the last 24 hours than during the entirety of 2020. The market Size of NFT sales excluding project tokens and marketplaces from 2018 to 2020 has been growing with~187% CAGR in the same period of two years.

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Binance Smart Chain

BSC has rapidly become one of the strongest contenders to Ethereum’s blockchain. TransactionVolume and Unique
active wallets have been increasing pretty swiftly and this could very well be just the beginning of the BSC era.
As BSC generated just $15billion in terms of transaction volumes in January and this number surged to ~$745 billion
in February.

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Flow

The Flow blockchain is specifically aimed to enable developers to create and trade a particular variant of digital asset known as NonFungible Token(NFT). Flow secured funding from some notable investors like a16z, USV, Animoca Brands, Samsung. It has also made strategic partnerships with the likes of Warner Music Group, Ubisoft (as an advisor on the development of the platform). As of March, global franchises like UFC, F1 Delta, MotoGpare setting up to launch on the Flow blockchain while NBA TopShots launched to the public in late 2020.

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PancakeSwap

PancakeSwap is a decentralized exchange built on Binance smart chain for swapping BEP-20tokens. It uses an
automated market maker (AMM) model. This means that while the user can trade digital assets on the platform,
there isn’t an order book where orders are matched with counter orders. Instead, users trade against a liquidity
pool.

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Oracle

Smart Contracts cannot access the data outside their network, as smart contracts majorly work on If/else functions, it needs relevant information from the outside world in order to know what to do and this problem is solved by blockchain oracle networks. An oracle acts as a third-party source of information that has the main function of supplying this outside
information to the blockchain which permits the creation of a smart contract output.

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Flash Loans

Flash loans are the first uncollateralized loan options in DeFi. It enables users to borrow instantly with the click of a button. It requires no collateral to be deposited by the user and allows users to borrow any amount up to the total
liquidity available in the protocol. But, these loans come with a slight downside, i.e. the borrowed amount has to be
repaid within one transaction block and if a user fails to do so, the whole transaction is reversed to effectively undo
the actions executed until that point.

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NFT Ecosystem

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique digital items whose ownership and any transfer of ownership are all recorded and managed publicly using blockchain technology. Like the DeFi sector, most of the NFT activity happening today is on Ethereum. ERC20 is currently the most widely adopted token standard. However, ERC721 is an alternative Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) created by Dieter Shirley in late 2017 and is utilized primarily within gaming and collectables.

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Layer 2 Solutions

Layer-2 technology works as a secondary framework that is built on top of an existing blockchain. Layer 2
platforms and protocols process data in a way that decreases the burden on the base layer (root chain) by offloading transactions from the main chain onto layer 2platforms, the blockchain network can handle much higher transaction throughput.

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Ripple

Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network created by Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company. The platform consists of RippleNet, a global payments network that boasts a consortium of financial institutions that include UBS, Standard Chartered, American Express, Santander, and MUFG. As of writing, the platform can achieve 1500 TPS (transactions per second) with a settlement time below 4 seconds.

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