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ForkLog 25 03.03.2025

Cronos Considers Reissuing 70 Billion Burned CRO Tokens

The team behind the Cronos blockchain, affiliated with the Crypto.com exchange, has proposed the reissuance of 70 billion CRO tokens that were burned in 2021. Today, an ambitious proposal was published for voting on the Cronos POS governance forum.The community is invited to vote on a bold plan to restore Cronos’ Golden Age, with a […]

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ForkLog 32 17.02.2025

Decentralisation on hold: will DeFi tokens pay dividends?

In 2024, the DeFi sector’s TVL doubled to more than $120bn, marking a renaissance for the industry. A change of guard in the White House eased regulatory pressure rooted in the notion that tokens are securities. Against that backdrop, protocol teams revived discussions about the fee switch—a revenue-sharing mechanism that would pay dividends to DeFi-token […]

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ForkLog 27 10.02.2025

‘Bitcoin is cooked’: Justin Drake sees deflationary potential in Ethereum

Justin Drake outlined ways to restore deflation in the Ethereum network. Bitcoin will face security challenges as it nears the 21m BTC supply cap. Advances in energy, mining efficiency and economic incentives could mitigate the headwinds for the first cryptocurrency. As issuance shrinks, Ethereum will gain the status of “ultrasound” money, while Bitcoin will be […]

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ForkLog 26 07.02.2025

Berachain Developers Launch Mainnet and Conduct Airdrop

On February 6th, the official launch of Berachain’s mainnet took place. Leading cryptocurrency exchanges have listed the BERA token. Berachain is finally real. pic.twitter.com/hN8KEzrkXO — Berachain Foundation ?⛓ (@berachain) February 6, 2025 The developers announced the launch on February 4th. Berachain is a first-layer modular blockchain with EVM support, utilizing a Proof-of-Liquidity consensus mechanism. This […]

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ForkLog 31 05.02.2025

Binance Explores the Rise of Memecoins and AI Agents

Memecoins and artificial intelligence, particularly AI agents, have emerged as leading narratives of 2024. Binance has analyzed these market segments and shared its expectations regarding their prospects. Memecoins were a standout trend of 2024 and dominated crypto mindshare. Not far behind was the AI narrative, with AI agents in particular picking up steam over the […]

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ForkLog 16 05.02.2025

Ethereum Supply Returns to Pre-Merge Levels

The supply of Ethereum has risen to 120,521,725 ETH, a level last seen in September 2022 before the Merge update. Data: Ultra Sound Money. The metric has surpassed pre-Merge PoS and PoW levels by 584 ETH. In the two years and 144 days since the update, 1,948,221 ETH have been issued, while 1,947,636 ETH have […]

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ForkLog 294 23.12.2024

Hype or a new standard? What Hyperliquid’s airdrop—history’s most generous—teaches us

In late November 2024 the decentralised exchange (DEX) Hyperliquid carried out a genesis airdrop of its native token, HYPE. Roughly 31% of the total supply went to community participants, allocated in proportion to points earned at an early stage. The giveaway was the largest on record, worth about ~$10.8bn at the token’s peak. Since then […]

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ForkLog 8 01.11.2024

Binance Burns Over $1.07 Billion in BNB Tokens

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has completed its 29th quarterly BNB token burn, removing 1.77 million coins worth $1.07 billion from circulation. The 29th quarterly $BNB token burn has been completed directly on BNB Smart Chain (BSC), with 1772712.363 $BNB being burned ? View burn details below ?https://t.co/QjGO4lmhDP pic.twitter.com/SrEKXtAc4Y — BNB Chain (@BNBCHAIN) November 1, 2024 The […]

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ForkLog 25 30.10.2024

Glif Announces 100 Million GLIF Token Airdrop

The liquid staking protocol Glif, based on Filecoin, is set to launch its own token, GLIF. The project will distribute 100 million coins among users, reports The Block. .@TheBlock__ broke the news: https://t.co/Q26VhGEgJK And on Medium: https://t.co/eU58qIBmXV — GLIF (@glifio) October 29, 2024 The total issuance of GLIF will be 1 billion tokens, with 10% […]

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ForkLog 28 11.10.2024

Tokenomics with Vladimir Menaskop. Part two: towards TGE and beyond

From the first part of Vladimir Menaskop’s primer on how to design a project’s tokenomics, ForkLog readers learned the basics of this Web3 business discipline. This instalment turns to sound planning for a startup’s market debut. Key inputs As noted in the first part of the study: “The sequence ‘pre-seed, seed, private A and B, […]

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ForkLog 9 08.10.2024

Arthur Hayes on the Decline of Tokens Post-CEX Listing

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, in a new PvP essay, described the current cryptocurrency market cycle as “player versus player,” where ordinary investors suffer losses due to the high FDV of new tokens, while venture firms and crypto exchanges profit. The expert’s team sought to address several questions: Is it worth paying exchanges for a […]

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ForkLog 9 04.10.2024

Ethereum’s Inflation Surge Challenges Its ‘Hard Money’ Status, Says Binance

The increase in Ethereum’s issuance to a two-year high of 0.74% per annum (30 DMA) raises doubts about the cryptocurrency’s deflationary prospects and its status as ‘hard money’. This conclusion was reached by Binance, reports Cointelegraph. Experts highlighted the shift of network activity to L2, which led to a reduction in the number of transactions […]

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