Contents 1. What is ICN? 2. ICNT latest updates 3. Comparison and economic model between ICN and other DePIN projects and economic models 4. Conclusion of the next stage of the DePIN track At the end of May, ICN (ImpossibleCloudNetwork) @ICN_Protocol announced that it had received strategic investment in NGPCapital with a valuation of US$470 million. Many people's first reaction was: "Has Xiaomi invested in Web3?" Although this was not Lei Jun's direct move, the one who had bet on Xiaomi, Helium, and WorkFusion

Airdrops in the cryptocurrency field are a marketing promotion method for the project to distribute a certain number of tokens for free to community members or potential users. In this way, the project party hopes to increase the visibility of the tokens and attract more users to participate in the project, thereby expanding the size of the community and increasing the liquidity of the tokens. For users, airdrops provide opportunities to obtain project tokens without initial investment, and are one of the ways to get in touch with and understand new projects in the early stage.

How do novice users choose a safe and reliable stablecoin platform? This article recommends the Top 10 stablecoin platforms in 2025, including Binance, OKX, Bybit, Gate.io, HTX, KuCoin, MEXC, Bitget, CoinEx and ProBit, and compares and analyzes them from dimensions such as security, stablecoin types, liquidity, user experience, fee structure and additional functions. The data comes from CoinGecko, DefiLlama and community evaluation. It is recommended that novices choose platforms that are highly compliant, easy to operate and support Chinese, such as KuCoin and CoinEx, and gradually build confidence through a small number of tests.

Against the backdrop of violent fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market, investors' demand for asset preservation is becoming increasingly prominent. This article aims to answer how to effectively hedge risks in the turbulent currency circle. It will introduce in detail the concept of stablecoin, a core hedge tool, and provide a list of TOP3 stablecoins by analyzing the current highly recognized options in the market. The article will explain how to select and use these stablecoins according to their own needs, so as to better manage risks in an uncertain market environment.

Stable coins are digital currencies that maintain stable value by anchoring specific assets. They are mainly divided into three categories: fiat currency collateral, crypto asset collateral and algorithmic. Among them, fiat currency collateral such as USDT and USDC are widely used, and their reserves are often invested in US Treasury bonds, forming a close connection with the traditional financial system.

This article will discuss the world's mainstream stablecoins and analyze which stablecoins have the risk aversion attribute of "gold substitute" in the market downward cycle (bear market). We will explain how to judge and choose a relatively stable value storage tool in a bear market by comparing the market value, endorsement mechanism, transparency, and comprehensively combining common views on the Internet, and explain this analysis process.

Character set and sorting rules issues are common when cross-platform migration or multi-person development, resulting in garbled code or inconsistent query. There are three core solutions: First, check and unify the character set of database, table, and fields to utf8mb4, view through SHOWCREATEDATABASE/TABLE, and modify it with ALTER statement; second, specify the utf8mb4 character set when the client connects, and set it in connection parameters or execute SETNAMES; third, select the sorting rules reasonably, and recommend using utf8mb4_unicode_ci to ensure the accuracy of comparison and sorting, and specify or modify it through ALTER when building the library and table.

Ethereum price has gone through several critical stages, from $0.70 in 2015 to $3,050 in 2025. 1) From 2015 to 2016, ETH rose from $0.70 to $20.64 in mid-2016; 2) from 2017 to 2018, driven by the ICO boom, reached $1,417 in early 2018, and then fell to $80 due to regulatory concerns; 3) from 2019 to 2020, and rose to $737 under DeFi; 4) from 2021, hit a new high of $4,864, and then fell to $1,200-2,000 due to PoS transformation; 5) from 2023 to 2024 to about $3,000