Atomicals Protocol provides a simple way to organize digital objects on the Bitcoin network. What is it and what makes it special?

A quick overview 🧵 1/ What is the Atomicals Protocol?

The Atomicals Protocol is a protocol for minting, transferring and updating digital objects for UTXO blockchains such as Bitcoin. Through Atomicals, users can create and transfer both fungible and non-fungible tokens on the Bitcoin network.

As we head into a new week, let’s recap the last few days. The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro/TradFi

The London Stock Exchange is gearing up to introduce a market for exchange-traded notes (“ETN”) for #Bitcoin and #Ethereum, targeting May 28 as the proposed date.

As we head into a new week, let’s recap the last few days. The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro/TradFi

#Bitcoin's market cap soared past US$1.4T earlier this week, exceeding silver's value and making it the world's eighth most valuable asset at one point.

ERC404 has taken the crypto sphere by storm. What is it and how does it work?

A short thread on the basics 🧵 1/ What is #ERC404?

ERC404 is an unofficial, experimental token standard that aims to combine the characteristics of fungible tokens and NFTs. Note that it has not gone through the usual Ethereum Improvement Proposal (“EIP”) process.

1/ Rollups are the most popular types of #Ethereum L2 scaling solutions. A number of major rollups have launched solutions that make it possible for developers to launch new rollups based on their tech. Examples include @arbitrum Orbit chains, @optimismFND OP Stack chains, etc. 2/ Rollup-as-a-service (“RaaS”) providers help users deploy and maintain their own rollups. To facilitate this, they provide a range of solutions and services, from rollup management to no-code deployment.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro / Tradfi

@jpmorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network has gone live. It is a blockchain-based collateral settlement application that enables their clients to utilize tokenized assets as collateral.

The #NFT space has enjoyed renewed growth and interest since 2022, as new models seek to unlock liquidity within these assets through “NFTFi”. What are some of the latest developments and how are they faring?

Let’s dive into the NFT Marketplaces and Lending sectors.
🧵👇 1/ NFT Marketplaces

Existing marketplaces such as @opensea adopt the auction and marketplace models where users trade individual NFTs. However, more recently, we witnessed the emergence of Leveraged Trading and #AMMs where users can be exposed to NFTs without direct ownership.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

Inflation rate in the UK remained high at 10.1% in March, exceeding expectations of 9.8%. This was largely driven by energy prices, which increased 40.5% year-on-year.

The emergence of layer-2s, ordinals, and technical upgrades are all serving to transform the Bitcoin network.

In our latest #Binance Research report, we take a closer look into what is potentially a new era for Bitcoin.

Some takeaways ⬇️ 🧵 1/ Despite smart contract Layer-1s consistently taking the headlines, Bitcoin has retained its dominant position atop the #crypto market cap charts.

1/ Real estate, stocks, carbon credits, and other financial assets are coming to DeFi.

In one of our latest #Binance Research reports, we explore the world of Real World Assets (“RWAs”) 💰🔒

Some takeaways ⬇️ 🧵
research.binance.com/en/analysis/re… 2/ Real World Assets (“RWAs”) are assets that exist off-chain, but are tokenized and brought on-chain to be used as a source of yield within DeFi.

RWAs can represent both tangible and intangible assets such as real estate, #stocks, #cars, or almost any other store of value.

1/ 2022 was a defining year for crypto, which will shape the industry for years to come.

We compiled every influential event and key highlights of 2022 in one comprehensive report.

A #Binance Research thread on the key takeaways ⬇️ 🧵
research.binance.com/en/analysis/fu… 2/ L1s had an eventful 2022. Notable events include Ethereum’s transition to PoS 🐼, BNB Chain gaining market share 📈, and new L1s such as Aptos coming to market and Sui launching its testnet 🆕.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

Non-farm payrolls are set to have increased by 200,000 last month, according to a consensus forecast compiled by Bloomberg. The slowdown in November is a further sign that demand for new workers is easing amid the Federal Reserve’s historic efforts to cool the economy.

Cross-chain communication is key to a multi-chain future and contributes to DeFi composability. How does the interoperability landscape look and what are the pros and cons of existing solutions?

A thread 🧵👇 1/ The existence of numerous L1s has contributed to the fragmentation of liquidity and siloed ecosystems. For the multi-chain thesis to play out, interoperability between protocols needs to improve.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

Is a pivot on the horizon? Not yet, but one can hope. Minutes from the Federal Reserve meeting documented that it would “soon be appropriate” to reduce the pace of rate increases as officials evaluate the economic impact of recent measures.

With one of the world’s largest sporting events approaching this Sunday, we took a look at how crypto has been involved with the World Cup.

Here are some notable finds: A thread 👇🧵
#WorldCup2022 1/ Earlier this year, FIFA announced a partnership with Algorand as their official blockchain platform for the World Cup. Algorand will “assist FIFA in further developing its digital assets strategy.”

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We published our Crypto Industry Map recently which provides an overview of the #crypto ecosystem. We explored 4 verticals in the first edition: #Infrastructure, #DeFi, #NFT, and #GameFi.

Below are some interesting finds from our Infrastructure Map: A thread 👇 1/ Scalability and Fairness: As L1s see increasing adoption, more projects aim to make blockchains more scalable by batching transactions off-chain and fairer by implementing efficient distribution of Maximal Extractable Value.

We recently published our Q3 State of Crypto: Market Pulse where we dug into five sub-sectors: Market Overview, Layer 1s, Defi, NFTs, and Gamefi.

Here are some interesting finds from our #Layer1 section: A thread 👇🧵
#Binance 1/ Monthly Transactions: Across the sample set, Solana had the highest increase in transactions in Q3 (+58%) after experiencing a significant fall in Q2. Avalanche continued to track lower,, falling 65% QoQ in Q3.

@zkSync is one of multiple projects building #zkEVM. The project recently launched its Baby Alpha and here is all you need to know 🧵👇 1/ Both zero-knowledge proofs and Ethereum Virtual Machines are concepts that have been around for some time now but bringing them together in a fully operational way, this soon after the Ethereum merge, might heat up the debate around Layer 2 scaling solutions again

Real yield… what’s that?

Find out what #Binance Research has to say about this narrative that has garnered the interest of the #DeFi community. 🧵👇 1/ Real yields are generated from tangible sources of revenue and are not solely reliant on inflationary token emissions. This differs from what we saw during the height of #DeFi summer, when APYs were commonplace, and funded by high token emissions.

Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇 1/ Macro

U.S. inflation in September increased by 8.2% year-on-year, stronger than expectations of 8.1%. Despite hot inflation data, stock markets staged a turnaround during the trading day and closed higher, suggesting that inflation concerns may have been somewhat priced in.

The Binance Research team had a closer look at Arbitrum. Here's what we found 👇🧵 1/ Arbitrum is an L2 solution designed to boost the speed and scalability of Ethereum smart contracts while adding additional privacy features. Arbitrum further allows developers to run unmodified EVM contracts and transactions without compromising on layer 1 security