Must-attend this week: Citrea testnet, OpenSea 2.0 pre-registration, Babylon and Morph new Galxe tasks

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This week, with BTC breaking through the all-time high, altcoins also rebounded well. At the same time, there are also a few high-quality early projects worthy of participation by money-grabbing parties. Among them, the interactive tutorial of MapleStory Universe is detailed in the article: Web3 version of MapleStory Universe MapleStory Universe Second Pioneer Test Guide . Next, Odaily Planet Daily will take you to review several other projects worth focusing on.

Citrea: Bitcoin ZK Rollup Protocol

Reasons to participate

مصدر الصورة: تويتر الرسمي

Citrea is a ZK rollup of Bitcoin and an execution layer built on top of Bitcoin. Every transaction on Citrea is secured by zero-knowledge proofs and verified on Bitcoin via BitVM.

According to ROOTDATA data , Citrea has completed two rounds of financing with a total amount of US$16.7 million . The specific information is as follows:

• In February 2024, Citrea announced the completion of a $2.7 million seed round of financing, led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Delphi Ventures, Taproot Wizards co-founder Eric Wall, and modular blockchain Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun;

• At the end of October 2024, Citrea announced the completion of a $14 million Series A financing round, led by Peter Thiels Founders Fund, with participation from angel investors such as Erik Voorhees and Balaji Srinivasan.

دروس تفاعلية

Currently, Citrea can receive test coins, cross chains, interact with ecological projects, etc. on its test network.

STEP 1. Get test coins (link: https://citrea.xyz/faucet ).

After linking your wallet (automatically added and switched to the Citrea testnet), click “Request Faucet”.

STEP 2. Use the official cross-chain bridge (link: https://citrea.xyz/bridge ).

Connect the wallet, click “Generate New” to generate a new BTC wallet address (remember to save the private key information), and then click “Next”.

STEP 3. Interact with its ecological projects (collection link: https://citrea.xyz/ecosystem ).

OpenSea: NFT تبادل

Reasons to participate

مصدر الصورة: تويتر الرسمي

OpenSea is a platform that allows users to freely create, buy and sell various NFTs. On November 4, OpenSea announced on the X platform that it plans to launch a new version in December and has opened registration for the waiting list. As soon as the news came out, the Gemesis NFT series (an NFT project launched in April last year to commemorate OpenSea Pro) rose by more than 200% in a short period of time.

At the same time, according to a post by Azuki researcher and Mocaverse consultant wale.moca, the new version of OpenSea will have a leaderboard, which will also provide XP points. OpenSea officials retweeted this. Therefore, for the money-grabbing party, it is worth registering for the waiting list at 0 cost before the new version of OpenSea goes online.

دروس تفاعلية

Interactive website: https://opensea.io/waitlist

STEP 1. After entering the interactive website, click Small Boat and connect the MetaMask wallet.

STEP 2. Add your email address and click “Join the waitlist” below.

Babylon: A protocol that allows BTC to earn interest through staking

Reasons to participate

مصدر الصورة: تويتر الرسمي

Babylon is a BTC staking protocol that allows BTC holders to earn yield from their idle Bitcoin in a secure way: without third-party trust or bridging Bitcoin to any other chain. Holders simply lock their Bitcoin in a self-custodial manner to gain the right to validate the PoS chain and earn yield in return. BTC stakers can also enjoy maximum liquidity and yield, supported by the protocols fast unbinding and scalable re-pledge capabilities.

At the end of May this year, Babylon announced the completion of a new round of financing of US$70 million , led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital, the venture capital arm of تشفيرcurrency exchange Bullish (also the parent company of CoinDesk), HashKey Capital, Mantle, HackVC, ViaBTC Capital, Amber, imرمز مميز, Breyer Capital, IOSG, HTX Venture and LD Capital.

دروس تفاعلية

Currently, Babylon has released a new Galxe task (link: https://app.galxe.com/quest/Babylon/GCktmtVdHC ), which is a social task.

Morph: Ethereum L2 Solution

Reasons to participate

مصدر الصورة: تويتر الرسمي

Morph is an Ethereum L2 blockchain that combines Optimistic and ZK roll-up technologies to create scalable and secure dApps. It aims to counter the dominance of MEV. The project has currently received $20 million in financing.

دروس تفاعلية

Currently, Morph has released new Galxe tasks (link: https://app.galxe.com/quest/Morph/GCRJKtVToU ), which are simple social and viewing tasks (including daily tasks).

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