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If you've ever encountered the dreaded "RPC URL Deprecated" error while working with cryptocurrency wallets or decentralized applications (dApps), you're not alone. This error message, which often appears as "the current RPC URL for this network has been deprecated," can be frustrating and disruptive. In this comprehensive 2024 guide, we'll break down the meaning of this error, provide step-by-step instructions on how to fix it on various platforms, and offer strategies to prevent it from happening again.

[Find RPC endpoints for 60+ blockchains → ](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/)

## What Does "RPC URL Deprecated" Mean?
To understand the error, you need to grasp the concept of Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) in blockchain technology. RPCs are a way for wallets, dApps, and developers to interact with various blockchain networks. Each network has specific RPC URLs that act as endpoints for these interactions. When a network updates its infrastructure, it may deprecate old RPC URLs and provide new ones. The "RPC URL Deprecated" error signifies that the RPC URL you're using is no longer valid.

## How to Fix "the current RPC URL for this network has been deprecated" Error on MetaMask

MetaMask is a popular cryptocurrency wallet, and encountering this error here is relatively common. Here's how to fix it:

1. **Open MetaMask:** Launch the MetaMask extension in your browser.
2. **Access Settings:** Click on the account icon in the top right corner and select "Settings."
3. **Navigate to Networks:** In the Settings menu, click on "Networks."
4. **Identify the Network:** Locate the network where you're experiencing the error.
5. **Update the RPC URL:** Click on the network to edit its details. Replace the deprecated RPC URL with the new, updated URL. You can find the correct RPC URL from reliable sources like the network's official website or documentation. You can also use[ Ankr’s RPC URLs](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/) for high-performance interactions.
6. **Save Changes:** Click "Save" to apply the updated RPC URL.

Find the full guide for changing your MetaMask RPC for different networks [in our docs.](https://www.ankr.com/docs/rpc-service/chains/chains-list/#chains-quickstart)

## How to Fix "the current RPC URL for this network has been deprecated" Error on Other Wallets

The process for fixing this error on other wallets is similar to MetaMask, with slight variations depending on the wallet's interface. Generally, you'll need to:

1. **Open the Wallet:** Launch the wallet application.
2. **Access Settings:** Look for the settings or preferences menu.
3. **Find Network Settings:** Locate the section where you manage network connections.
4. **Edit RPC URL:** Replace the deprecated RPC URL with the updated one for the specific network.
5. **Save and Restart:** Save your changes and restart the wallet to ensure the new RPC URL takes effect.

## Preventing the Error in the Future
To avoid encountering the "**RPC URL Deprecated**" error again:

- **Stay Informed:** Keep up with announcements from the blockchain networks you use. They often communicate changes to RPC URLs in advance.
- **Use Reliable Sources:** When searching for RPC URLs, always refer to official websites or trusted documentation.
- **Bookmark Official Resources:** Bookmark the official pages where you find updated RPC URLs for quick access.
- **Consider Node Providers:** For advanced users, running your node or using a reputable node provider can offer more control and stability.

## Additional Troubleshooting Tips
- **Check Internet Connection:** Ensure you have a stable internet connection.
- **Clear Cache:** Clearing your wallet's cache and browser cache may help.
- **Restart Wallet:** Restarting your wallet application can sometimes resolve minor glitches.
- **Consult Support:** If the error persists, reach out to the wallet's support team or community forums for assistance.

By following this comprehensive guide, you should be well-equipped to tackle the "RPC URL Deprecated" error whenever it arises. Staying proactive and informed will ensure a smoother experience in the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrency.

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As a developer diving into the Solana ecosystem, understanding Remote Procedure Call (RPC) URLs is crucial. These URLs serve as your gateway to interact with the Solana blockchain, enabling you to fetch data, send transactions, and build decentralized applications (dApps).

This guide will break down Solana RPC URLs,  Solana Chain IDs, and provide basic code examples for seamless integration.

[Use Ankr’s Solana RPC Now! ](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/solana/)

## List of Solana RPC URLs and Which to Choose
Solana offers several types of RPC URLs, each tailored for different development stages and environments:

- **Solana Mainnet RPC URL:**
  - This URL connects you to the live, production Solana blockchain. Use it when your dApp is ready for deployment to the real world.
  - **Common Mainnet URLs:**
    - https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com

Solana Labs hosts a rate-limited API node cluster with the endpoint below. 
 

For a scalable and high-performance Solana RPC endpoint, you can use [Ankr’s Premium RPC Service. ](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/solana/)

- **Solana Devnet RPC URL:**
  - The devnet is a testing ground for your applications before you go live. It replicates the mainnet but uses "play" tokens (not real SOL) to prevent costly mistakes.
  - **Common Devnet URL:**
    - https://rpc.ankr.com/solana_devnet

- **Solana Testnet RPC URL:**
   - Similar to the devnet, the testnet is another environment for testing your dApps.
  - **Common Testnet URL:**
    - https://api.testnet.solana.com

- **Custom Solana RPC URLs:**
  - For more control and flexibility (e.g., higher throughput), you can set up your own Solana RPC node.

## Choosing the Right URL
- **Production (mainnet):** Use a reputable public RPC provider or your own node to ensure high reliability and uptime.
- **Development:** The devnet or testnet URLs are ideal for testing.

## Solana Chain IDs
Each Solana network has a unique chain ID. These IDs are used by developers to ensure they are interacting with the correct blockchain.

|Network  | Chain ID |
|--|--|
| Mainnet Beta | 101 |
| Testnet | 102 |
| Devnet | 103 |

## How to Use Solana RPC URLs: Code Examples
Here's how you can interact with Solana using RPC URLs in popular programming languages:

[Learn more in the Solana Docs](https://solana.com/docs/clients/javascript)

### JavaScript (Solana-Web3.js):

**JavaScript**
```const { Connection, PublicKey } = require('@solana/web3.js');

async function getAccountBalance(publicKeyString) {
  const connection = new Connection('https://api.devnet.solana.com'); // Replace with your desired cluster's RPC endpoint

  try {
    const publicKey = new PublicKey(publicKeyString);
    const accountInfo = await connection.getAccountInfo(publicKey);

    if (accountInfo) {
      const balanceInLamports = accountInfo.lamports;
      const balanceInSOL = balanceInLamports / 1000000000;
      console.log(`Balance: ${balanceInSOL} SOL`);
    } else {
      co
nsole.error('Account not found.');
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching account balance:', error);
  }
}

// Replace 'your_public_key' with the actual public key of the account you want to check
getAccountBalance('your_public_key');
```


## Python (Solana Py):
**Python**

```from solana.rpc.api import Client

async def get_block_height():
    client = Client("https://api.devnet.solana.com")  # Replace with your desired cluster's RPC endpoint

    try:
        block_height = await client.get_block_height()
        print("Block Height:", block_height)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Error fetching block height:", e)

# Example usage:
get_block_height()
```

## Rust (Solana Rust):
**Rust**

```use solana_client::rpc_client::RpcClient;

async fn get_fee_rate() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = RpcClient::new("https://api.devnet.solana.com"); // Replace with your desired cluster's RPC endpoint

    let fee_rate = client.get_fee_rate().await?;
    println!("Fee Rate: {}", fee_rate);

    Ok(())
}

// Example usage:
get_fee_rate().await?;
```

## Important Considerations Solana RPC URLs:
- **Rate Limits:** Be mindful of rate limits imposed by public RPC providers.
- **Security**: Always double-check the URLs you use to prevent phishing attacks.

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Ankr is excited to release Gravity on our RPC service in collaboration with Asphere, the new home for enterprise-level clients. Gravity is the hotly anticipated new blockchain from the team behind Web3’s most popular onchain distribution platform, [Galxe](https://www.galxe.com/).

This is great news for developers looking to get the jump on building on top of Gravity to build advanced multi-chain dApps. Users will be able to access Gravity Public and Premium RPCs, make request calls, and receive information returns that are identical to the results they would get by running a node themselves.

[**Call the Gravity RPCs now!**](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/gravity/)

## What is Gravity?

Gravity is a layer 1 blockchain and omnichain settlement layer built for mass adoption and full-chain abstraction. Its approach abstracts away the technical complexities of chain interactions, integrating advanced tech like ZK Proofs and state-of-the-art consensus mechanisms to ensure high performance, enhanced security, and efficiency.

**Key benefits of Gravity:**

- **Cross-Chain Transactions:** Gravity allows developers to define and settle transactions across multiple chains, making interactions more efficient and secure.
- **Efficient Verification:** Supporting cost-effective ZKP verification, Gravity ensures that transactions are both economical and secure.
- **Enhanced UX:** Introducing cryptographic primitives like the secp256r1 curve through precompiled contracts, Gravity enables use cases such as cost-effective passkey authentication for Account Abstraction wallets, enhancing user experience.
- **High-Performance Execution:** Gravity integrates the fastest execution layer, Reth, and the state-of-the-art consensus algorithm Jolteon (AptosBFT). Together, these technologies are set to provide high throughput and near-instant finality.
- **Secure and Robust PoS Mechanism:** Gravity’s Proof-of-Stake will be powered by the combination of G token native staking and restaking protocols including Babylon and EigenLayer. This design incentivizes and unites a cross-spectrum community to collectively safeguard the Gravity chain.
- **EVM Compatibility:** Gravity will be fully EVM-compatible, allowing developers to deploy and interact with smart contracts seamlessly.

[**Learn more about Gravity**](https://gravity.xyz/)

## What Are Ankr & Asphere’s New Gravity RPC Connections?

- Our Gravity RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) connect your wallet, command-line interface, or decentralized applications with the Gravity blockchain. They act as a messenger or blockchain router that relays on-chain information between Gravity nodes, chains, and ultimately end-users so they can execute necessary tasks like transactions, populate wallet balances, fetch ownership information, and much more.
- Gravity RPC endpoints are a gateway for developers to interface directly with Gravity — a portal to communicate easily, remotely, and with no need to go through the DevOps of establishing their own Gravity nodes.
- Asphere is providing a geo-distributed Gravity RPC comprised of blockchain nodes running worldwide for incredibly low latency and reliable connections.

[**Get started now with our Gravity RPC endpoints!**](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/gravity/)

## How Do the Gravity RPCs Help Developers?

Building with Gravity is an excellent choice for creating high-performance and secure dApps, but requires access to the information on Gravity nodes to do so. Therefore, Ankr and Asphere RPC solves the following developer troubles:

**Eliminates complex node ops** - Gravity RPCs will completely remove the need for developers to set up their own Gravity nodes, removing hours of time spent building, calibrating, and fixing node issues.

**Grants access to advanced tools** -  Ankr’s [Premium RPC Plan](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/pricing/) instantly grants access to the best tools to build applications quickly, including:

- At least 90,000 Gravity req/minute
- Dedicated Gravity endpoints
- Prioritized requests
- Priority support portal
- WebSockets (WS) capabilities

**Powers chains, applications, and open-source software that need access to Gravity** - Connect with a cluster of high-performance nodes that hold the information you need to build and operate applications with Gravity chain capabilities.

**Supports the Gravity network** - Ankr and Asphere will strengthen the Gravity network globally by offering easier development and a broader, decentralized node infrastructure.

## How to Make Your First Call to Gravity

You can [get started building](https://www.ankr.com/remote-procedure-call/) on the Gravity network by heading to our RPC Service to make your first call! You will be able to use the Gravity endpoint to call the chain using the standard EVM JSON RPC methods.

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Connect to Gravity with our high performance Web3 API and start building on the new interoperable L1 from Galxe!

Start Building On the Gravity Chain From Galxe With Our Newest RPC

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Babylon has just launched its mainnet phase 1, and Ankr is proud to have played a crucial role in supporting its launch as a Finality Provider! Read on to learn more about Babylon and our role in championing the future of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

## Babylon’s Big Moment: Bringing Together BTC & Web3

In February, Ankr [announced](https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/4790570782729) their collaboration with Babylon to provide infrastructure assisting the launch of the new trustless BTC staking protocol that extends Bitcoin’s security to all participating Proof-of-Stake protocols. Babylon enables PoS chains to use Bitcoin as a staking asset and enjoy more robust crypto-economic security than native tokens can provide. As a result, PoS systems will be able to utilize Babylon’s trustless scalable staking features to unlock value from the idle, unencumbered $1 trillion Bitcoin ecosystem.

Babylon’s BTC staking protocol enables BTC stakers to trustlessly stake and “restake” their tokens in a principle similar to EigenLayer, allowing them to earn multiple layers of yield while proliferating crypto-economic security across networks.

[Learn more about Babylon →](https://babylonlabs.io/)

## Infrastructure Supporting the Future of Bitcoin

**Ankr’s Babylon operations are now in full swing as we run a Finality Provider for Babylon Mainnet phase 1.** Finality Providers are critical to the protocol as they are responsible for voting during finality rounds on top of CometBFT and for receiving voting power delegations from BTC stakers. As one of the industry’s most experienced infrastructure providers, Ankr’s Finality Provider will provide a solid foundation for Bitcoin staking to power yields for global BTC holders while securing an array of PoS ecosystems with leading performance:

- 99.99% uptime, ensuring optimal performance.
- Robust, geographically distributed infrastructure.
- 24/7 monitoring, maintenance, and updates.

[**Get infrastructure services for your chain →**](https://www.ankr.com/enterprise/)

## Final Thoughts

Launching Babylon Mainnet phase 1 marks a pivotal moment for Bitcoin scalability and PoS chain security. By combining Ankr's infrastructure expertise with Babylon's innovative protocol, we're aiming to create a robust ecosystem for developers to build groundbreaking solutions. This partnership unlocks unprecedented opportunities for developers, enterprises, and end-users alike, propelling Bitcoin into a new era of decentralized applications and financial innovation. Let’s build something together!

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Bitcoin keeps surprising us.

After ETF approval, new all-time highs, and a variety of technical advances in the past year, Bitcoin is solidifying its position as a key player in the future of finance. Consequently, we discovered that Bitcoin has been responsible for a large portion of [blockchain development](https://www.ankr.com/blog/blockchain-s-pulse-current-trends-in-web3-development/) this year.

As the demand for Bitcoin rises, the demand for innovative protocols that upgrade its functionality rises along with it. Let this article be your guide to the orange wave of [Bitcoin Summer](https://www.ankr.com/blog/bitcoin-summer-and-what-s-coming-for-btc-staking-de-fi-l2s-and-more/) and how you can use our services to help you build on the blockchain that started it all.

[Build on Bitcoin for free](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/btc/) with our Public RPC!

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## Bitcoin Development Soaring

Bitcoin's initial purpose of disrupting traditional finance with peer-to-peer payments was groundbreaking.  However, its limited transaction capacity and functionality restricted its broader impact. This is where the recent surge in Ordinals, Inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, [Bitcoin staking](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/08/19/bitcoin-staking-platform-babylon-to-start-phased-mainnet-launch-this-week/), and L2 scaling solutions comes in. These innovations address Bitcoin's limitations and unlock its potential as a foundational technology. As more developers become interested in unlocking these new use cases for the Bitcoin network with Layer 2 chains, we have seen a spike in the number of RPC requests to the networks in the next section through our service.

## Ankr & Asphere Supporting the Bitcoin Scaling Community

By using our Web3 API service, users can interact with and build on a variety of Bitcoin scaling solutions. We are proud to support RPC connections to several Bitcoin ecosystem chains with many more on the way. Check out our current connections below.

- **B²**: [B Squared](https://www.bsquared.network/) is a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution that allows zero-knowledge rollups to use Bitcoin as a settlement layer via B² Hub. It can act uniquely as a data availability layer for other Bitcoin Layer 2s, improving overall network security and efficiency.

[Free B² RPC endpoint →](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/b2/)

- **Babylon**: The [Babylon](https://babylonlabs.io/) Protocol is a trustless Bitcoin staking solution that allows users to earn rewards by locking up their BTC without relinquishing control to support PoS chains, expanding Bitcoin's utility within the broader blockchain ecosystem.

[Learn more](https://www.ankr.com/blog/ankr-and-babylon-launching-first-bitcoin-staking-solution/) about our collaboration with Babylon.

- **Bitlayer**: The [Bitlayer](https://www.bitlayer.org/) Bitcoin Layer 2 solution offers Bitcoin-equivalent security and Turing completeness as the first L2 built on BitVM, aiming to be the computation layer of Bitcoin.

[Free Bitlayer RPC endpoint →](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/bitlayer/)

- **Core**: [Core](https://coredao.org/) is a Layer 1 blockchain combining Bitcoin's security with Ethereum's smart contract functionality via a unique consensus mechanism, aiming to host decentralized applications on a Bitcoin-secured foundation.

[Free Core RPC endpoint →](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/core/)

- **Rollux**: [Rollux](https://rollux.com/) is a Layer 2 scaling solution utilizing Syscoin's merge-mining for security, enabling high-throughput, low-latency transactions, and EVM-compatible smart contracts on a Bitcoin-anchored network, expanding its utility and application potential.

[Free Rollux RPC Endpoint →](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/rollux/)

- **Syscoin**: [Syscoin](https://syscoin.org/) is a modular L1 network leveraging Bitcoin's PoW security for its UTXO-based chain while simultaneously providing EVM compatibility and Rollux, an optimistic rollup, to offer smart contract functionality and scalability within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

[Free Syscoin RPC Endpoint →](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/syscoin/)

## Access Every Tool You Need To Build

Ankr and Asphere offer every service and tool developers need to bring projects to market, be they Bitcoin-related or not. Our selection of products includes:

[Web3 API](https://www.ankr.com/remote-procedure-call/): Our API service boasts RPC connections to 60+ blockchains, including several tailored to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Start calling chains for free and upgrade to a Premium plan as traffic to your project scales!

[RaaS](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/): Asphere’s Rollup as a Service offers an end-to-end engineering solution for creating new Layer 2 chains and bringing them to market with complete customization, operations, and maintenance by our expert team.

[Staking](https://www.ankr.com/staking-crypto/): As the original pioneers of liquid staking, Ankr ****supports liquid staking on 6+ chains ****and delegated staking for the ANKR token with industry-leading security and reliability. Integrate staking solutions for your wallet or dApp or stake securely as a user via the staking platform.

[AI x Blockchain](https://www.neuraprotocol.io/): The Neura Mainnet will be live in Q4 this year, giving developers the chance to build innovative AI applications with crowdsourced funding, decentralized GPU, Bitcoin security, and more.

[Ankr Verify](https://www.ankr.com/verifying/vendor/): Ankr Verify offers a seamless identity solution for every blockchain for trustless, zero-knowledge user verification and flexible permissions for every ecosystem dApp.

## Final Thoughts

Ankr and Asphere are at the forefront of the Bitcoin development movement, providing builders with the essential resources to create new functionality on the O.G. chain. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just getting started, our platform offers the tools, support, and community you need to be a part of Bitcoin's exciting future. Join us in shaping the next chapter of the Bitcoin revolution.

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## Why GPUs Reign Supreme in the World of Deep Learning
Deep learning, the engine powering today's most advanced AI, thrives on massive computational power. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), originally designed for rendering graphics, have emerged as the heroes of this field. Their ability to perform numerous calculations simultaneously (parallel processing) perfectly aligns with the demands of training complex neural networks on vast datasets. This acceleration is a game-changer, drastically reducing training times and enabling breakthroughs that were once unimaginable.

## Decoding the GPU Landscape: Key Factors for Deep Learning Success
Selecting the best GPU for deep learning is a strategic decision that hinges on various factors:

### GPU Memory (VRAM): Fueling Your Deep Learning Engine
Think of VRAM (Video Random Access Memory) as the fuel tank for your deep learning projects. It stores your model, datasets, and intermediate calculations. The more complex your model and larger your datasets, the more VRAM you'll need to avoid performance bottlenecks. Here's a quick guideline:
- **8GB VRAM:** Suitable for smaller models and datasets, ideal for beginners.
- **16GB VRAM:** A sweet spot for most mid-range deep learning tasks.
- **24GB or more:** Essential for large models, high-resolution images, and complex architectures.

### Compute Performance: The Powerhouse of Deep Learning
Compute performance is the muscle behind your GPU's speed. It's determined by several factors:

- **CUDA Cores:** NVIDIA's general-purpose parallel processing cores. More cores generally translate to faster performance.
- **Tensor Cores:** Specialized cores designed to accelerate matrix operations, the backbone of deep learning.
- **Architecture:** Newer architectures often offer better performance and efficiency.

### Power Efficiency: Balancing Performance and Sustainability
High-performance GPUs can be power-hungry. Balancing power consumption with performance is crucial, especially if you're concerned about energy costs or your environmental footprint. Look for GPUs with good performance-per-watt ratios.

### Price vs. Performance: Finding Your Sweet Spot
Deep learning GPUs span a wide price range. Set a realistic budget and prioritize the features that matter most to you. Remember, the most expensive GPU isn't always the best fit for your specific needs.

### Software and Ecosystem Support: The Foundation of Your Workflow
Ensure compatibility with your preferred deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and the availability of well-maintained drivers and software tools. This will streamline your development process and ensure a smooth experience.

## NVIDIA GPUs for Deep Learning: The 2024 Power Rankings
NVIDIA has cemented its position as the leading provider of deep learning GPUs. Let's explore their top contenders for 2024:

### High-End Titans: Unleashing Unmatched Deep Learning Power
- **NVIDIA H100:** The undisputed champion for cutting-edge research and large-scale deployments. Boasts immense compute power, massive VRAM, and advanced features like Transformer Engine and Hopper architecture.
- **NVIDIA A100:** Still a formidable powerhouse, ideal for demanding workloads and large-scale models. Offers excellent performance and scalability.

### Mid-Range Powerhouses: Balancing Performance and Affordability
- **NVIDIA RTX 4090:** A consumer-grade GPU with impressive deep learning capabilities. Offers a great balance of performance and price for serious enthusiasts and smaller teams.
- **NVIDIA RTX 4080:** A slightly more budget-friendly option that still delivers substantial power for deep learning tasks.

### Entry-Level Workhorses: Getting Started with Deep Learning
- **NVIDIA RTX 3060:** A fantastic entry point for beginners and those with limited budgets. Provides ample power for learning the ropes and experimenting with smaller projects.

### Cloud GPUs: Scaling New Heights in Deep Learning
Cloud GPUs offer unmatched flexibility and scalability for deep learning projects.

### Leading Cloud GPU Providers
- **Amazon Web Services (AWS):** Extensive selection of NVIDIA GPUs, flexible pricing, and seamless integration with other AWS services.
- **Google Cloud Platform (GCP):** Offers NVIDIA GPUs and its own specialized Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), optimized for deep learning workloads.
- **Microsoft Azure:** Provides a range of NVIDIA GPUs and integrates well with Azure Machine Learning.

## Neura: A New Decentralized Platform for Sourcing GPU
While traditional Cloud GPU providers offer a valuable service, they come with limitations. Here's where [Neura](https://www.neuraprotocol.io/) steps in as a revolutionary alternative:

- **Decentralization:** Unlike traditional providers with centralized data centers, Neura leverages a decentralized network of individual GPU owners. This distributed approach offers several advantages:
  - **Cost-Effectiveness:** By tapping into underutilized personal GPUs, Neura can offer lower costs compared to traditional providers.
  - **Scalability:** The decentralized network allows for near-infinite scalability, catering to projects requiring massive processing power.
  - **Flexibility:** Users can choose from a wider variety of GPUs based on individual needs and budget.

- **Focus on AI:** Neura is specifically built for AI projects. They offer additional features like:
  - **Crowdsourced Funding:** AI projects can be funded by the community through Neura's token system and Initial Model Offerings (IMOs).
  - **AI Compute-as-a-Currency:** Users can earn tokens by contributing unused GPU resources to the network, creating a unique economic model.

While Neura is a relatively new player in the market, its decentralized approach has the potential to disrupt the Cloud GPU landscape. By offering cost-effective, scalable, and AI-focused solutions, Neura is empowering a new generation of AI developers and researchers.

[Access Neura’s scalable GPU resources → ](https://www.neuraprotocol.io/)

### Advantages of Cloud GPUs
- **Scalability:** Easily scale resources up or down to match your project's demands.
- **Flexibility:** Experiment with different GPU configurations without upfront hardware investments.
- **Accessibility:** Access powerful GPUs from anywhere with an internet connection.

### Finding Free or Discounted Cloud GPU Resources
**Free Trials:** Many providers offer free trials or credits to new users.
**Research Grants and Educational Programs:** Look for opportunities that provide discounted access to cloud GPUs for research or educational purposes.

## GPU Workstations and Servers: Powering Deep Learning Teams
### When to Consider a GPU Workstation or Server
- **Dedicated Deep Learning Teams:** If you have a team focused on deep learning, a dedicated workstation or server ensures optimal performance and resource allocation.
- **Large-Scale Projects:** Demanding workloads require the horsepower of multiple high-end GPUs working in tandem.
- **Complete Control:** A dedicated setup gives you full control over your hardware and software environment.

### Key Features to Look For
- **Multiple GPUs:** Support for multiple high-end GPUs to accelerate training and inference.
- **Ample Storage:** Sufficient storage capacity for large datasets and models.
- **Robust Cooling:** Efficient cooling systems to prevent overheating and maintain optimal performance.

## Your Deep Learning GPU Decision Guide
Choosing the right GPU involves answering some key questions:

1. What types of deep learning tasks will you be performing? (Image classification, natural language processing, etc.)
2. What is your budget?
3. Do you need scalability for future projects?
4. Do you prefer a local setup or the flexibility of cloud computing?

## Maximizing Your Deep Learning GPU: Tips and Tricks
### Software Optimization: Unleashing Your GPU's Full Potential
- **Deep Learning Frameworks:** Leverage the power of CUDA, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and other frameworks optimized for GPU acceleration.
- **Mixed Precision Training:** Utilize lower-precision data types (e.g., FP16) to speed up training while maintaining accuracy.

### Benchmarking: Putting Your GPU to the Test
Use standard benchmarks like MLPerf to compare the performance of different GPUs on your specific tasks.

### Future-Proofing: Embracing the Next Generation of GPUs
Stay informed about the latest advancements in GPU architecture and software to ensure your investment remains relevant for years to come.

## Conclusion: Empower Your Deep Learning Journey with the Perfect GPU
The right GPU is your gateway to unlocking the full potential of deep learning. Whether you're a researcher pushing the boundaries of AI, a developer building innovative applications, or a student eager to learn, the perfect GPU awaits to accelerate your journey.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best GPU for Deep Learning in 2024

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**TL;DR**
- Despite the recent market downturn, investors bought into ETH ETFs with renewed force last week, reaching first week for positive flows.

- Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap is chipping away at the scalability issues that have prevented the practicality of widespread adoption.

- Bringing BTC liquidity into the Ethereum ecosystem will begin a mutually beneficial collaboration between the ecosystems, setting aside differences.


Bitcoin created a digital currency uncorrupted by governments.

Ethereum created *programmability* for digital currency.

Many of us have understood the implications behind this for years. The myriad of Ethereum smart contracts deployed, articles written, and applications built is a testament to the promise we all understand.

However, we tend to forget that our niche area of tech is just that – very niche. We just convinced the traditional markets and regulators to give the O.G. cryptocurrency, BTC, a chance. It took years of education and regulatory convincing to get that done. Our reward at the beginning of summer was that bitcoin ETFs held nearly [$70B](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-traded-products-hold-over-1-million-btc) in bitcoin and growing.

So how will ETH ETFs fare in comparison?

## ETH ETFs Following the Leader, But More Education Needed

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Source: [The Block](https://www.theblock.co/post/307693/bitwise-hangs-banner-on-nyse-facade-to-promote-spot-ethereum-etf)

***“I think it really comes down to how advisors and distribution forces are able to make the case for Ether as the heartbeat or the headquarters for tokenization, stablecoins, and smart contract platforms.”***

***–  Andy Baehr of CoinDesk Indices [on CNBC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdzNrdwnSto)***

The launch of Ethereum ETFs has been boring. That’s not such a bad thing.

Many expected the ETH ETF inflows to be muted compared to bitcoin’s, and most expected that it would be very similar to bitcoin’s reception only on a smaller scale. Ethereum’s marketcap is about 25% that of bitcoin’s at the time of writing which is why some experts surmised that ETH ETFs reaching the range of [20%](https://www.wealthmanagement.com/etfs/spot-ethereum-etfs-expected-see-fraction-inflows-compared-bitcoin-funds) of where bitcoin products were would be a positive sign.

Ethereum inflows have been modest thus far. However, on Tuesday last week, the ETFs took on more ETH than on their debut. Additionally, the weekly [ETF flows turned positive](https://cointelegraph.com/news/ether-etf-weekly-flow-hits-positive) for first time since their launch. This news revives optimism that the funds will help boost the price appreciation of ETH this year. Many maintain faith that “ETF investors with long-term strategies are calmly buying Ethereum," as Swyftx’s Pav Hundal put it to [Decrypt](https://decrypt.co/243517/ethereum-etfs-took-in-more-eth-yesterday-than-on-their-debut-but-not-more-cash).

Of course, those who hold ETH yearn for it to surpass its all-time high in 2021, as bitcoin did earlier this year. But perhaps more importantly, gradual capital inflows to ETFs will lead to increased education, regulation, and adoption of the Ethereum ecosystem. Is Ethereum ready to take it all on?

## New Scaling Advances Bring ETH Closer To Handling Adoption

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Source: [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/whats-next-for-ethereum-after-the-merge/)

***“Blobs are the moment where Ethereum scaling ceased to be a "zero-to-one" problem, and became a "one-to-N" problem.”***

***– Vitalik Buterin [on his blog](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/28/blobs.html)***

Ethereum wants to be the world’s computer. It’s time to prove that it has the capacity.

Ethereum, once plagued by scalability issues, is undergoing a transformative evolution through a suite of scaling solutions. These advancements are poised to propel the network toward mass adoption by significantly increasing its capacity and efficiency.

The official Ethereum [Roadmap](https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/) outlines a rollup-centric vision of improvement for scalability, fee reductions, UX improvements, and more that will finally bridge the gap between Ethereum’s potential and its real-world applications. EIP-4844 (Proto-Danksharding) has pushed rollups to become many times more efficient in addition to modular DA layers, offering users a plethora of affordable options for transacting off Ethereum – great for UX but perhaps poor for ETH price appreciation.

But will the expansion of the rollup ecosystem lead to significant revenue from settlement for Ethereum and ETH appreciation? And will Ethereum maintain its status as the go-to settlement layer?

For all of the non-zero-sum speak in the Web3 space, the other matter with ETH is that it has competitors, and lots of them. In recent news, the California DMV (not particularly known for its savviness) [chose the Avalanche blockchain](https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-adoption-fraud-california-dmv) for its efforts to digitize 42 million car titles. Future use cases from businesses and governments will naturally flow to the network that can provide the unique benefits of blockchain with the fewest limitations in efficiency, scalability, and UX.

It’s up to the Ethereum community to finish the job of adapting, educating, and innovating the ecosystem the final step of the way to viability as a replacement for centralized systems.

## BTC Integrations Set To Flood Ethereum Ecosystem With Liquidity

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Source: [Babylon BTC staking](https://babylonlabs.io/blog/what-is-bitcoin-staking) protocol

***“Ethereum, the biggest proof of stake system, is only 2 years old. Proof of stake is still a baby. And Babylon will nurture it.”***

***– David Tse, Babylon founder [on X](https://x.com/dntse/status/1815899710173110465)***

Rollups are a core piece of Ethereum's plans to scale – what happens if every rollup could instantly tap into the $1T market cap of BTC for security? This is exactly what some protocols like [Babylon](https://babylonlabs.io/) and [Lombard Finance](https://www.lombard.finance/) are hoping to achieve with new BTC staking and restaking functionality.

By staking bitcoin on these PoS rollups, projects can significantly bolster their security posture without needing to go through the process of bootstrapping their own capital. This makes it even easier to scale Ethereum’s rollup ecosystem.

Moreover, the implications for decentralized finance are profound. If rollups can securely leverage bitcoin's market cap, it opens up a world of possibilities for cross-chain applications and interoperability. We could see the emergence of hybrid DeFi platforms that seamlessly blend the best of both worlds: Ethereum's smart contract capabilities and bitcoin's proven security and store of value properties.

## This is Only the Beginning for ETH…

The confluence of ETH ETFs, scaling advancements, and bitcoin integration marks a pivotal moment for Ethereum. The potential for Ethereum to become the bedrock of a decentralized financial future is within reach. However, as Ethereum matures, it's important to remember that while the technology is groundbreaking, its adoption hinges on user experience. The complexities of blockchain technology must be abstracted away for mainstream users. Additionally, as the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, Ethereum must adapt to ensure compliance while pushing the boundaries of innovation.

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A New Era for ETH? ETF Inflows, Scaling To Adoption, Bitcoin Friendship, and more.

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Asphere is thrilled to announce our newest collaboration with [LimeChain](https://limechain.tech/) to amplify our Rollup as a Service product. LimeChain will be an extremely powerful new tool that Asphere RaaS projects can leverage for **comprehensive consulting services from the experts who have advised teams like Coinbase, Optimism, and Hedera**.

LimeChain adds yet another layer of expertise, engineering, and consulting power on top of Asphere’s end-to-end rollup creation service. Learn more about LimeChain below.

[**See all Ankr RaaS benefits**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## What Is LimeChain?

LimeChain is not a blockchain network itself, but rather a leading blockchain development and consulting company. They specialize in helping businesses and startups leverage the power of blockchain technology to create innovative solutions.

### **What does LimeChain do?**

**Project Consulting:** They provide expert advice on blockchain strategy, legal matters, technology selection, and implementation.

**Blockchain development:** They build custom blockchain solutions tailored to specific client needs, from smart contracts to decentralized applications (dApps).

**Tool development:** LimeChain has created several open-source tools to support blockchain development on different platforms.

**Additional services:**

- **ZK Tech development**
- **DEX development**
- **NFT development**
- **UX/UI design**
- **Wallet development**
- **+ Many more**

[**Learn more about LimeChain**](https://limechain.tech/)

## How Does LimeChain Benefit the Rollup Ecosystem?

LimeChain adds even more customization and value to projects using Asphere’s comprehensive service to build out their visions. LimeChain's role in the rollup ecosystem is primarily as a development and consulting firm that significantly contributes to the ecosystem by:

### **Building Rollup-Based Solutions**

- **Custom Development:** LimeChain can assist in designing tailored rollup solutions for businesses, helping to scale their operations and reduce costs.
- **Integration with Existing Systems:** They can integrate rollups with existing infrastructure, making the transition smoother for enterprises.

### **Consulting and Expertise**

- **Rollup Strategy:** They provide guidance on comprehensive issues such as selecting the right rollup type, navigating legal matters, and selecting tools and frameworks.
- **Technical Support:** LimeChain offers technical expertise to help teams overcome challenges in rollup development and deployment.
- **Risk Assessment:** They can assess the potential risks associated with rollup technology and provide mitigation strategies.

### **Open-Source Contributions**

- **Tool Development:** LimeChain has developed open-source tools that can be used in rollup development, potentially benefiting the entire ecosystem.
- **Community Engagement:** By participating in the open-source community, LimeChain helps foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.

## How Will LimeChain Work With Ankr & Asphere RaaS Projects?

**LimeChain Collaborating with Rollup as a Service:** Ankr & Asphere RaaS collaborates with LimeChain to enhance customization and advisory services for clients.

- Complete advising for Web3 projects
- Offers an additional suite of tools for Ankr RaaS
- Provides new opportunities for L2s

[**Build your new L2 today with Ankr & LimeChain**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## Final Thoughts

We at Ankr believe working with LimeChain is a game-changer for rollup development. With the combined power of Ankr & Asphere RaaS and LimeChain's consulting services, developers have the tools they need to create truly innovative and impactful rollup applications. We invite all aspiring L2 developers to join us in building a more efficient, interconnected, and user-centric blockchain future.

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LimeChain and Asphere RaaS Collaborate for Comprehensive Project Consulting & Development

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Ankr and Asphere have joined hands with Destra Network to build the testnet and mainnet for the Arbitrum Orbit-based Destra Network rollup, accelerating the protocol's journey to market. The partnership will create a host of DePIN benefits for Web3 projects that will build on the new network!

## Asphere Delivering Bespoke Rollup Creation

### Engineering the Destra L2

The team at Asphere has built solutions from some of the biggest names in blockchain and business, including Microsoft, Binance, Polygon, and many more. We now are assisting the team at Destra Network by creating custom architecture for the [Destra L2](https://medium.com/@destranetwork/destra-network-intoducing-destra-chain-39587c1ab22e) from scratch, implementing all mechanisms of the chain such as their Proof of Sync Consensus, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, and unique node architecture. Our team will also be a key player in operating the network and ensuring its smooth functioning moving forward.

### Implementation of Destra Node Infrastructure

Asphere is set to deploy and operate a global network of Destra nodes, enabling us to provide public and private endpoints for developers to connect to the blockchain.

### Public & Paid Blockchain RPC Connections for Developers

The RPC (Remote Procedure Call) will become a vital service that connects developers’ wallets, command-line interfaces, and dApps to the Destra mainnet nodes so they can execute read and write interactions on the network.

[**See all Asphere RaaS benefits**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## What Is Destra?

Destra Network is an L2 blockchain that aims to revolutionize the Web3 landscape by offering a platform that enables developers to harness its Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network ([DePIN](https://www.ankr.com/blog/depin-decentralized-physical-infrastructure/)) for obtaining AI and cloud computing resources to power their applications. It combines a decentralized cloud and GPU network to optimize computation efficiency across the board.

**Key Features:**

- **GPU Network:** By leveraging the power of a decentralized GPU network, Destra provides efficient computation for AI and machine learning applications.
- **Decentralized Cloud:** Destra's cloud infrastructure is distributed across many nodes from independent DSync providers, enhancing security, reliability, and accessibility.
- **AI/LLM Training platform:** Destra will be the first on-chain decentralized AI training platform powered by Destra’s unique distributed GPU network architecture.
- **Decentralized DNS:** Destra offers a decentralized domain name system, reducing reliance on centralized authorities.
- **Decentralized CDN:** Content delivery is optimized through a distributed network, improving performance and accessibility.

[**Learn more about Destra**](https://www.destra.network/)

## How Will Destra Benefit Developers?

Destra offers a compelling platform for developers building Web3 applications due to its unique combination of decentralized cloud, GPU network, and innovative technologies. Here's how it can benefit developers:

### **Enhanced Scalability and Performance**

- **GPU Network:** By leveraging decentralized GPU power, developers can accelerate computationally intensive tasks, such as AI, machine learning, and blockchain computations.
- **Decentralized Cloud:** Distributed infrastructure ensures high availability and scalability, allowing applications to handle increasing user loads without performance degradation.

### **Improved Security and Reliability**

- **Decentralization:** By removing single points of failure, Destra enhances the security and resilience of applications against cyberattacks and outages.
- **Data Privacy:** Decentralized storage helps protect sensitive user data from breaches and unauthorized access.

### **Lower Costs**

- **Efficient Resource Utilization:** The optimized combination of decentralized cloud and GPU network can reduce operational costs compared to traditional cloud providers.
- **Token-Based Economy:** Destra's token system can potentially offer cost-effective solutions for storage, computation, and other services.

### **Access to a Wider Audience**

- **Decentralized DNS and CDN:** Improved accessibility and faster content delivery can attract a larger user base.
- **Interoperability:** Destra's compatibility with other blockchain networks can expand the reach of applications.

### **Innovation Opportunities**

- **DSync Technology:** This unique addressing system can inspire innovative data management and storage solutions.
- **Decentralized Ecosystem:** Building on Destra can contribute to the growth of a decentralized web and foster new business models.

## Final Thoughts

We at [Asphere](https://asphere.xyz/) believe that Destra will be a game-changer for DePIN-focused rollup development. With the power of Asphere RaaS and Destra's decentralized computing, developers have the tools they need to create truly innovative and impactful Web3 applications. We invite all aspiring L2 developers to join us in building a more efficient, interconnected, and user-centric blockchain future.

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The blockchain revolution is here, and it's not just for seasoned coders anymore. No-code blockchain platforms are democratizing this cutting-edge technology, making it accessible to entrepreneurs, businesses, and innovators of all backgrounds. Let's dive into the world of no-code blockchain development and how it can empower you to build the future.

## What is No-Code Blockchain Development?
No-code blockchain development refers to the process of building blockchain-based applications (dApps) and smart contracts without writing a single line of code. This is achieved through intuitive, visual interfaces and pre-built components that allow you to drag, drop, and configure your desired functionality. It’s similar to what platforms like Wix or Squarespace have done with building websites – something that was reserved only for skilled developers in the old days of the web. In the near future, everyone will be able to launch their own, blockchain, dApp, wallet, or other project with no coding required!

## What Kind of Applications Can I Create With the Help of No-Code Blockchain Platforms?
The possibilities are vast! Here are just a few examples of what you can build:

- **Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Applications:** Create lending platforms, decentralized exchanges, yield farming protocols, and more.
- **NFT Marketplaces:** Build platforms for buying, selling, and trading unique digital assets like art, music, and collectibles.
- **Supply Chain Management Systems:** Enhance transparency, traceability, and security in your supply chain processes.
- **Voting and Governance Systems:** Design secure and transparent voting mechanisms for communities and organizations.
- **Gaming and Metaverse Applications:** Develop immersive experiences that leverage blockchain for ownership and interaction.
- **Custom Tokens and Cryptocurrencies:** Easily launch your own digital assets with unique features and use cases.


## Why Choose No-Code Development for Blockchain?
**Speed:** Dramatically reduce development time and bring your ideas to market faster.
**Cost-Efficiency:** Eliminate the need to hire expensive development teams.
**Accessibility:** Empower non-technical individuals to participate in the blockchain revolution.
**Flexibility**: Easily iterate and modify your applications as your needs evolve.
**Reduced Risk:** Mitigate the risk of coding errors and security vulnerabilities.

## Top No-Code Blockchain Platforms
Here's a look at some of the leading no-code blockchain app builders and platforms:

1. **Asphere:** Asphere provides a no-code deployer app that lets any builder or team customize and launch a modular rollup and token in minutes via an easy-to-use interface. [Launch your blockchain & token now. ](https://asphere.xyz/)
2. **Bubble (with Blockchain Plugins):** Bubble is a popular no-code web app builder. When combined with blockchain plugins like "Web3 & Metamask" or "Nexus," it becomes a powerful tool for creating dApps.
3. **Bildr:** Bildr is specifically designed for blockchain development. It offers a suite of features for building dApps, smart contracts, and even custom blockchains.

## How to Choose the Right No-Code Platform
Consider these factors when selecting a **no-code blockchain platform:**

- **Ease of Use:** How intuitive is the interface? Can you build applications without a steep learning curve?
- **Functionality:** Does the platform offer the specific features you need for your project (e.g., smart contract creation, tokenization)?
- **Scalability:** Will the platform support your application as it grows in complexity and user base?
- **Community and Support:** Is there an active community for help and resources? Does the platform offer reliable customer support?
- **Cost:** How does the pricing model align with your budget and project scope?

## How to Build Your First Blockchain Application with No-Code
1. **Define Your Idea:** Clearly articulate the problem your application will solve and its core functionality.
2. **Choose Your Platform:** Select a no-code blockchain platform that aligns with your project requirements.
3. **Design Your Application:** Use the platform's visual interface to design the user interface and workflows.
4. **Configure Smart Contracts:** Set up the logic that governs your application's interactions with the blockchain.
5. **Test Thoroughly:** Rigorously test your application to ensure it functions as expected.
6. **Deploy and Iterate:** Launch your application and continuously gather feedback to improve it.

## The Future of No-Code Blockchain Development
The no-code blockchain movement is still in its early stages, but its potential is undeniable. As these platforms become more sophisticated and accessible, we can expect to see an explosion of innovative blockchain applications across various industries.

No-code blockchain development is not just a trend; it's a paradigm shift. By removing the barrier of coding, it's empowering a new generation of creators to build a more decentralized, transparent, and equitable future.

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Top Blockchain No-Code Development Plataforms: How to choose and use!

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The world of blockchain technology and Web3 applications is booming, and the programming languages used to build these decentralized systems are at the heart of this movement. Whether you're an experienced developer or new to blockchain, understanding the landscape of blockchain programming languages is crucial for creating innovative decentralized applications (dApps) that will shape the future.

## Why Choose a Specialized Blockchain Coding Language?
General-purpose languages like Python or JavaScript can be adapted for blockchain development, but specialized **blockchain languages** are designed with the unique needs of this technology in mind:

- **Security Focus:** Blockchain applications handle sensitive financial data and execute irreversible transactions. Specialized languages often incorporate features like formal verification and strict type systems to minimize security risks.
- **Smart Contract Optimization:** These languages offer specific data structures and functionalities for creating efficient and secure smart contracts, the self-executing agreements that power dApps.
- **Community and Ecosystem:** A dedicated community of blockchain developers builds a rich ecosystem around specialized languages, providing libraries, frameworks, and support resources tailored to blockchain needs.
- **Domain-Specific Features:** Specialized languages streamline blockchain development by offering built-in functions for token creation, asset management, decentralized identity, and other common blockchain operations.

## Key Advantages of Blockchain-Specific Languages
Choosing a specialized **language for blockchain** brings several key benefits:

- **Improved Security:** Robust security features, such as formal verification and static analysis tools, help detect and prevent vulnerabilities in smart contracts, ensuring the integrity of blockchain systems.
- **Efficiency:** Blockchain-specific languages are optimized for the unique requirements of blockchain operations, leading to faster transaction processing, reduced resource consumption, and lower gas fees.
- **Ecosystem Support:** A thriving ecosystem around specialized languages provides developers with a wealth of libraries, tools, and frameworks, accelerating development and reducing the learning curve.
- **Community:** Strong communities foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation, providing invaluable resources and support for blockchain developers.

## Top Blockchain Programming Languages: Which Blockchain is Often Used for Web3 Applications

### Solidity: The Reigning Champion
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- **Designed for:** Ethereum and other EVM-compatible blockchains.
- **Strengths:**
  - **Most Popular:** Solidity holds the crown as the most widely used blockchain language, boasting a massive community, extensive documentation, and a vast ecosystem of tools and libraries.
  - **JavaScript-like Syntax:** Its curly-brace syntax is familiar to many developers, easing the transition to blockchain development.
  - **Extensive Ecosystem:** The Ethereum ecosystem offers a wealth of resources, including frameworks like Truffle and Hardhat, making development smoother and more efficient.
- **Challenges:**
  - **Security Risks:** Solidity's flexibility can also lead to vulnerabilities if not handled carefully. Thorough testing and security audits are crucial.
  - **Learning Curve:** Mastering Solidity's nuances and understanding its security pitfalls can be challenging, especially for beginners.

### Vyper: A Security-Boosted Alternative
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Image source: [Hands-on Vyper Tutorial](https://hive.blog/hive-199277/@aicoding/100daysofblockchain-13-creating-my-first-smart-contract-hands-on-vyper) by aicoding

- **Designed for:** EVM-compatible blockchains.
- **Strengths:**
  - **Enhanced Security:** Vyper prioritizes security by limiting features and imposing stricter syntax rules, making it easier to audit and verify smart contract code.
  - **Pythonic Syntax:** Its Python-like syntax appeals to many developers, offering a more readable and intuitive experience.
  - **Emerging Ecosystem:** While still growing, the Vyper community is passionate and dedicated to building a robust ecosystem of tools and resources.
- **Challenges:**
  - **Limited Ecosystem:** Vyper's ecosystem is less mature than Solidity's, with fewer libraries and tools available.
  - **Lower Adoption:** Vyper's stricter rules and limited features might not be suitable for all types of dApps.


### Rust: Empowering the Next Generation of Blockchains

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Image source: Udemy [rustaceans ](https://www.udemy.com/course/rustaceans/?couponCode=LETSLEARNNOWPP) course

- **Designed for:** General-purpose, but rapidly gaining popularity in blockchain development (e.g., Solana, Polkadot, NEAR).
- Strengths:
  - **Uncompromising Safety:** Rust enforces strict memory safety and prevents common programming errors, making it ideal for building secure and reliable blockchain applications.
  - **Performance:** Rust's zero-cost abstractions and efficient memory management deliver exceptional performance, making it suitable for high-throughput blockchains.
  - **Growing Community:** Rust's popularity is surging in the blockchain space, attracting talented developers and fostering a vibrant community.
- **Challenges:**
  - **Steeper Learning Curve:** Rust's unique ownership model and strict compiler can be challenging for beginners to grasp.
  - **Limited Ecosystem:** The Rust blockchain ecosystem is still developing, but the community is actively building libraries, frameworks, and tools.

### Move: Purpose-Built for Digital Assets
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Image source: [Move language guide](https://metaschool.so/articles/guide-move-smart-contract-programming-language/)
- **Designed for:** The Diem blockchain (formerly Libra), focused on asset management and financial applications.
- **Strengths:**
  - **Resource-Oriented Programming:** Move introduces a novel programming model that prioritizes resources (e.g., coins, tokens), ensuring secure and flexible asset management.
  - **Formal Verification:** Move's design facilitates formal verification, allowing developers to prove the correctness of their code with mathematical rigor.
- Security: Move emphasizes security at its core, with features like linear types and resource ownership, making it suitable for financial applications.
- Challenges:
  - Early Stage: Move is still relatively new and evolving, with a smaller community and ecosystem compared to more established languages.
  - Limited Adoption: The Diem blockchain is not yet widely adopted, limiting the immediate use cases for Move.

## Other Notable Blockchain Languages
While Solidity, Vyper, Rust, and Move dominate the blockchain language landscape, several other languages play significant roles in specific niches or emerging projects:

- **C++:** The backbone of Bitcoin and EOS, C++ offers high performance and low-level control, making it suitable for complex blockchain implementations.
- **JavaScript (Node.js):** Widely used for building dApp front-ends and interacting with blockchain networks through libraries like Web3.js and ethers.js.
- **Go (Golang):** Favored for its simplicity, concurrency model, and efficiency, Go is used in several blockchain projects, including Go Ethereum.
- **Haskell:** Cardano's smart contract language, Haskell's functional programming paradigm emphasizes correctness and formal verification.
- **Python:** Python's simplicity and readability make it a popular choice for rapid prototyping, scripting, and data analysis in the blockchain space.
- **Java:** With its extensive libraries and enterprise-level capabilities, Java is utilized in projects like Hyperledger Fabric for building permissioned blockchains.

## How to Choose the Right Blockchain Programming Language
Selecting the optimal blockchain programming language depends on several factors:

- **Project Goals:** The nature of your dApp (DeFi, NFTs, gaming, etc.) will influence your language choice. For example, Solidity is well-suited for DeFi on Ethereum, while Rust's performance shines in high-throughput scenarios.
- **Blockchain Platform:** Different blockchains support specific languages. If you're building on Ethereum, Solidity is the default choice. Solana favors Rust, and Cardano uses Haskell.
- **Development Team:** Consider the skills and experience of your team. If they are familiar with JavaScript, Solidity might be easier to adopt. If they are proficient in Rust, it opens up a wider range of blockchain options.
- **Community and Ecosystem:** The strength of a language's community and the availability of tools and libraries can significantly impact development speed and ease.
- **Security Requirements:** If formal verification and stringent security are paramount, languages like Vyper and Move offer advantages.

## How to Learn a New Blockchain Programming Language
- **Choose Your Language:** Align your choice with your project goals and personal interests.
- **Master the Basics:** Start with official documentation, tutorials, or online courses to grasp the language's syntax, data structures, and core concepts.
- **Build Projects:** Hands-on practice is key. Begin with simple dApps or smart contracts to apply your knowledge and gain practical experience.
- **Join the Community:** Engage with fellow developers through forums, Discord servers, or social media channels to ask questions, share ideas, and learn from others.
- **Contribute to Open Source:** Participate in open-source blockchain projects to gain real-world experience, collaborate with experienced developers, and contribute to the community.
- **Stay Updated:** Blockchain technology evolves rapidly. Keep up with the latest developments, best practices, and security trends through blogs, newsletters, and conferences.

## No-Code Platforms: The Democratization of Blockchain Development
No-code platforms are empowering individuals with limited coding skills to build blockchain applications. These platforms abstract away the complexities of blockchain programming, allowing users to create dApps using visual interfaces and drag-and-drop components.

While no-code platforms may not be suitable for highly complex projects, they offer a valuable entry point for beginners, entrepreneurs, and non-technical users to experiment with blockchain technology and bring their ideas to life. Some popular no-code blockchain platforms include:

- **Asphere:** A platform letting anyone launch a new layer 2 blockchain and token in minutes using their no-code RaaS tools. 
[Launch a new blockchain now → ](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

- **Moralis:** A comprehensive platform offering various tools and services for dApp development, including a no-code backend builder.
- **Bunzz:** Bunzz is a no-code platform that allows anyone to create decentralized applications (dApps) without writing a single line of code. 
- **Bildr:** Bildr is a no-code platform specializing in creating single-page applications (SPAs). It offers a visual interface and pre-built templates to streamline the development process.

## Final Thoughts
The world of blockchain programming languages is a vibrant and evolving landscape, with a language to suit every project and skill level. By understanding your project's requirements, assessing your team's capabilities, and leveraging the resources available, you can choose the ideal language and embark on your journey to build the decentralized future.

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Solidity, Rust, Vyper, or something else? This comprehensive guide breaks down the top blockchain programming languages, their pros/cons, and ideal use cases.

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Blockchain Programming Languages: Choosing the Ideal Language for Web3 Apps

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Decentralization.

One of blockchain’s simplest (and most important) principles is in the spotlight once again.

Last Friday, a widespread tech outage crippled businesses, grounded flights, and disrupted everyday life, with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike at the center of the turmoil. The disruption, affecting everything from banks and airports to hospitals, exposed the fragility of a world increasingly reliant on centralized digital systems with apparent single points of failure.

The disruption begs the question, what happens one day when systems don’t come back online as easily? Worries of ‘techmageddon’ are all the more significant as hacks become more advanced and AI tools are thrown into the mix.

So what lessons have we learned, and how can we use decentralization to defend against the threat of the world going dark more often? Let’s take a look.

## Serious Outages Caused by Centralization Vulnerabilities

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*“All too often these days, a single glitch results in a system-wide outage, affecting industries from healthcare and airlines to banks and auto-dealers. Millions of people and businesses pay the price. These incidents reveal how concentration can create fragile systems.”*

*– Lisa Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission [on X](https://x.com/linakhanFTC/status/1814395610788929649)*

In an Era where routine software updates can wreak massive havoc on the world as seen in events like the [SolarWinds hack](https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/985439655/a-worst-nightmare-cyberattack-the-untold-story-of-the-solarwinds-hack), [Meta outage](https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/), and the most recent CrowdStrike debacle, we should take note of prominent outages of the past 4 years.

- **Google 2020:** Affected Google's core services, including YouTube, Gmail, and Google Drive, caused significant disruption for users worldwide. The incident emphasized the company's service dominance and the reliance of many on its services.
- **Fastly 2021:** Caused significant disruptions to a wide range of websites and online services that relied on Fastly's content delivery network (CDN). Major platforms like Amazon, Reddit, The New York Times, and others were affected.
- **Twitter and Instagram 2022:** A simultaneous outage of both platforms caused a significant disruption in social media usage.
- **Amazon Web Services 2023:** In June 2023, AWS experienced a significant outage in its Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) region. This region is a critical hub for many large enterprises and high-traffic websites.

In each of these cases, there was a failure due to the centralization and concentration of digital services and infrastructure. This leads to [cascading failure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure) as services and companies that rely on each other are taken offline. There is a clear need to take a hard look at the structure of our infrastructure to disperse operations and improve resilience.

At its core, the Web3 movement is about decentralizing not only the digital infrastructure itself but also the applications and services that run on top of it. Next, we can take a look at why blockchain is uniquely suited to bolster reliability in our critical systems.

## How Do Decentralized Systems Upgrade Resilience?

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If one node goes down, a different one remains up.

That is the core premise of decentralization and distributed networks and the reason why blockchains like the bitcoin network are nearly impossible to take offline by governments or bad actors.

Blockchains are comprised of thousands or millions of different nodes being run by a wide variety of different parties. That means when applications are built on top of blockchains, they inherit the security and *immutability* of these networks.

Imagine a blockchain-based email application such as LedgerMail or W3 Mail. These dApps use blockchain for decentralized message-sending and storage via other protocols like Interplanetary File System (IPFS). This is a much better service framework in terms of resilience as it is not prone to the same centralized storage vulnerabilities that took out Gmail and many other applications during Google’s 2020 outage.

Blockchain projects like Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) are betting on the need to implement more blockchain-based decentralization into everything from gaming to enterprise cloud solutions with their [Utopia](https://medium.com/@ICPHubPH/utopia-project-revolutionizing-enterprise-cloud-technology-with-internet-computer-f35d028db775) project. As a decentralized cloud computing platform, Utopia could help prevent the cascading effects of cloud provider outages like those from AWS with diverse multi-cloud infrastructure for increased resilience.

It’s easy to imagine how blockchain can help decentralize the systems that we rely on every day, but what keeps blockchain’s themselves decentralized and operating smoothly? Let’s check that out next.

## How Ankr Helps Decentralize Web3 Systems

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**Original Article:** [Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Centralized Infrastructure for Web3](https://medium.com/@kevin-dwyer/why-you-shouldnt-rely-on-centralized-infrastructure-for-web3-b4d16cff22f4)

If blockchains become the decentralized cure for the overcentralized digital infrastructure we rely on, then who will run the blockchain infrastructure? A study in 2022 found that nearly [70%](https://cointelegraph.com/news/3-cloud-providers-accounting-for-over-two-thirds-of-ethereum-nodes-data) of Ethereum nodes are deployed on cloud services like AWS, GCP, and Oracle. That is not ideal, of course, if you are shooting for network resilience.

More than that, the majority of dApps rely on [Web3 API](https://www.ankr.com/remote-procedure-call/) providers like Infura or Ankr for a connection to different blockchains. That is why it’s been so important for Ankr to build decentralization into our node infrastructure, which keeps Web3 running.

Ankr has recognized the need for the decentralization of Web3 infrastructure itself. We’ve implemented that thinking into the design of every product and service we offer with a foundation of:

### Bare-Metal Node Infrastructure

Many Web3 infrastructure providers solely use cloud services such as AWS to deploy their blockchain nodes. However, Ankr hosts the vast majority of our nodes on custom, dedicated servers. One of the key differences between cloud and bare-metal infrastructure is that bare-metal servers (or nodes) are physical and identifiable machines within secure data centers.

**Read more:** [Ankr's RPC Performance Advantage: Global Bare-Metal Node Infrastructure](https://www.ankr.com/blog/ankr-RPC-performance-advantage-global-bare-metal-node-infrastructure/)

### DePIN Node Operations

Ankr has created a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure network of nodes that powers a connection to 55+ blockchains for developers and dApps. With a diverse group of partners including Microsoft, Tencent Cloud, IoTeX, and Storj opting into the program, it powers an extremely resilient decentralized program for operating blockchains.

*“Ankr is not only extremely reliable themselves, but they offer a load balancing system with their own servers and others. It’s perfect.”*

– Victor Sanchez, CTO of Kinto

**Read more:** [The Future of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure](https://www.ankr.com/blog/depin-decentralized-physical-infrastructure/)

### Global Load Balancing

As Ankr has nodes and load balancers running in 40+ data centers in more global regions than any provider, we have the unique ability to serve RPC requests closer to their point of origin as well as extremely strong protection against outages even on a regional level. The idea behind geo-based routing is to minimize network latency and improve the overall performance of the system by reducing the time it takes for data to travel between the client and the server.

**Read more:** [Ankr’s RPC Performance Advantage: Load Balancing](https://www.ankr.com/blog/ankrs-rpc-performance-advantage-load-balancing/)

### Web3 Development Products

Ankr not only operates the node infrastructure required to run blockchains, but has created an entire suite of products that make it easier to build new decentralized applications and networks. With tools like our Rollup-as-a-Service, developers can create new blockchains and dApps that are armed with the leading edge of security and resilience.

[See all products](https://www.ankr.com/)

## Bullish on the Decentralized Future

Elon Musk [once surmised](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1656914397141278720?lang=en) that the most entertaining outcome is the most likely. But sometimes, the most boring use case for a technology can be the most important. For all its far-reaching ambitions to decentralize everything from gaming to AI, one of blockchain’s most critical use cases has been staring at us from the beginning—helping keep our systems up and resilient so our society, which is increasingly built on digital infrastructure, can stay safe and secure.

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Read more about the lessons from the recent CrowdStrike outage and how blockchain decentralization can help create a safer, stronger digital infrastructure. 

Single Point of Failure: Security Risks and the Need To Decentralize

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Greetings, Neura Community!

As one of the most exciting projects Ankr has embarked on this year, we are excited to give you an update on our 2024 plans to complete the launch of the Neura mainnet as well as give an overview of what we’ve accomplished thus far. This blog post was written to address all of the most pressing questions we can at this time.

For those new to Neura, you can find more information by reading the blogs below or by visiting our site at [neuraprotocol.io](http://neuraprotocol.io/)!

### Learn more about Neura

[Introducing Neura: A New Era of AI x Blockchain Innovation](https://www.ankr.com/blog/introducing-neura-a-new-era-of-ai-x-blockchain-innovation/)

[Neura Testnet and Road To Mainnet Program Launch](https://www.ankr.com/blog/neura-testnet-and-road-to-mainnet-program-launch/)

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## Q1: Designing the Innovative Neura Stack & Strategy

The first quarter was dedicated to establishing a strong foundation for Neura. We assembled Ankr’s world-class team of blockchain engineers, cryptography experts, and AI specialists. Together, they meticulously planned our strategic direction, designing a platform that went beyond what has been done before in the blockchain x AI space.

March culminated in the release of our comprehensive whitepaper, outlining the vision and technical details of the Neura protocol, including:

- **Comet BFT Consensus:** We detailed the chosen consensus [CometBFT](https://docs.cometbft.com/v0.37/introduction/what-is-cometbft) consensus engine and explained how it ensures secure and scalable transaction processing for AI workloads.

- **IBC Protocol:** Neura also supports the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol ([IBC](https://tutorials.cosmos.network/academy/3-ibc/1-what-is-ibc.html)) through the Cosmos SDK. This offers integration with the wider Cosmos network, including the influential Babylon module.

- **EVM Compatibility:** Aligned with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Neura establishes a foundation for seamless interoperability. This allows applications to utilize Ethereum's development tools, facilitating the deployment of AI models and cloud services.

- **GPU Accessibility and Scaling:** Neura tackles the persistent infrastructure scalability challenge faced by AI projects by creating a vibrant ecosystem of decentralized GPU providers, ensuring that AI and cloud computing projects have immediate access to necessary computational resources.

- **Financial Scalability Via IMOs:** Neura introduces Initial Model Offerings (IMOs), a new funding mechanism designed to democratize investment in AI development while ensuring transparent ownership and equitable revenue sharing with token standards like ERC-404 and ERC-7641.

- **Decentralized Storage Mechanisms:** With only critical transactions occurring on-chain and AI data storage occurring off-chain, Neura offers the best of high performance and data integrity with our decentralized data storage collaborators IPFS, EigenLayer, Arweave, and Celestia.

- **Bitcoin Security:** The whitepaper outlines how Neura’s integration with the [Babylon](https://babylonchain.io/) protocol creates Bitcoin-level security for AI apps using our platform via BTC restaking.

[Read the full whitepaper](https://www.neuraprotocol.io/whitepaper.pdf)

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## Q2: Testnet Takeoff and Security Bulletproofing

April marked a significant milestone with the launch of the Neura Devnet, our dedicated testing environment. This phase allowed developers and enthusiasts to explore the Neura platform's capabilities firsthand. Their invaluable feedback helped us refine and optimize the system for real-world AI applications.

Security is paramount at Neura, so May saw the completion of a rigorous preliminary security audit conducted by the team. This audit assessed the resilience of our smart contracts, consensus mechanism, and overall network architecture against potential vulnerabilities.

June brought the exciting release of our Practice Initial Model Offering (IMO) for our community members. This [test IMO](https://www.ankr.com/blog/participate-in-the-practice-imo-earn-early-access-to-the-first-neura-projects/) served as a valuable practice run for our innovative fundraising mechanism, demonstrating its potential to revolutionize AI project financing.

## Q3: Paving the Way for Mainnet with Enhanced Security and Reliability

We're currently laser-focused on preparing for the grand launch of the Neura Mainnet. July is dedicated to further enhancing platform security and reliability. Our engineers are meticulously conducting penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and stress tests to ensure the Neura Mainnet can withstand real-world threats and deliver exceptional performance for AI applications.

## Q4: The Moment We’ve All Been Waiting for: Mainnet Launch and Ecosystem Explosion

Get ready, because Q4 is going to be monumental! We'll be deploying the full Neura Mainnet, marking the official arrival of the future of AI on the blockchain. This is just the beginning – brace yourselves for:

- **Partial ANKR Token Migration:** A seamless migration of a portion of the ANKR token supply to the Neura chain, enabling enhanced TVL and value capture within the Neura ecosystem.
- **First Movers Advantage with [Initial Model Offerings](https://www.ankr.com/blog/the-future-ai-stack-explained-part-two-im-os/) (IMOs):** The acceptance of groundbreaking AI protocols for the very first IMOs on the Neura Mainnet. This will empower these projects to securely raise capital, obtain GPU resources and fuel the next wave of AI innovation.
- **Seamless DeFi Integrations:** The Neura Mainnet will integrate with leading DeFi protocols, enabling users to leverage advanced financial instruments for AI projects.
- **Advanced Computational Resources Rollout:** We'll be partnering with providers to roll out cutting-edge computational resources specifically designed for AI tasks. This includes access to powerful cloud GPU computing, empowering developers to build and train next-gen AI models on the Neura platform.

## How Can the Community Benefit During Neura’s Mainnet Launch?

The Neura mainnet will provide a plethora of ways Ankr and Neura community members can get involved and earn a variety of benefits and rewards including:

### Contribute to Mainnet IMOs

Assist in crowdfunding new AI projects set to launch on Neura by owning their ERC-404 (share in ownership) and ERC-7641 (share in revenue) tokens. Community members have a large opportunity to be the first to get in on the ground floor of investing in AI models on Neura. **All participants will need ANKR tokens to take part in any IMO.**

### Participate in the GPU economy

In the near future, Neura and its partners will allow for the democratized ownership of GPU resources on the network. This means that community members will be able to **own a portion of GPU power and earn a share of fees** from AI projects using GPU for task completion.

### Join in securing the network

As detailed in the Neura whitepaper, The ANKR token will become the sole currency for all transactions, including AI model usage, IMO token purchases, and network staking for security and consensus. When the network becomes live, those interested can **stake ANKR to secure the Neura blockchain** while providing safety for all apps deployed on the chain.

### Use Neura’s Ecosystem of AI Apps

Neura is already seeing a large amount of interest in companies wishing to deploy to our mainnet ahead of launch. Our community, especially those who participated in the Testnet IMO events, will **be the first to have the opportunity to use the innovative AI applications**

### Questions? Let’s Hear Them.

This roadmap is just a taste of the incredible things we're building together. We're fueled by the passion and support of our amazing community, and we can't wait to embark on this exciting journey with you. Stay tuned for regular updates, and join the conversation with any other questions on our social media channels!

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Learn more about what to expect from the blockchain revolutionizing AI development in 2024.

The Neura Roadmap: A Public Update for the AI Blockchain

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Ankr and Asphere are thrilled to announce our core role in the creation of the Spiderchain L2 built in conjunction with the team at Botanix Labs. The partnership will bring additional accessibility, scalability, and reliability to Bitcoin builders and users in the Spiderchain ecosystem!

## The Botanix Labs Story

[Botanix Labs](https://www.botanixlabs.xyz/en/home) is building the infrastructure to transform Bitcoin beyond sound money to become the programmable layer serving as a foundation for the future of finance. Their approach was to build the first fully decentralized EVM-equivalent L2 on Bitcoin (Spiderchain), where the ease and versatility of EVM is supercharged by the decentralization and security of Bitcoin.

Leveraging Bitcoin's PoW as a Layer 1 for base settlement and decentralization, Botanix will use a Proof-of-Stake consensus model, where the stakes (represented by Bitcoin) are securely stored on the Spiderchain, a distributed network of decentralized multisigs safeguarded by a randomized subset of participants. This will all provide the ability for anyone to stake their BTC on the Bitcoin network.

## Botanix Labs Needs Advanced Solutions for Building Spiderchain

- Engineering assistance from Web3’s preeminent infrastructure provider
- A team well-versed in Layer 2 design, staking, and leading-edge integrations
- High performance RPC node operations and connections for incoming developers

## Ankr & Asphere Are Delivering Bespoke Services

### Engineering Assistance for Creating the Spiderchain L2

The team at Ankr and Asphere have built blockchain solutions from some of the biggest names in blockchain and business, including Microsoft, Binance, Polygon, and many more, making us the natural choice for Botanix. We are assisting the team at Botanix Labs in creating custom architecture for the Spiderchain and helping implement all mechanisms of the chain such as staking, consensus, multisigs, and more. Our team will also be a key player in operating the network and ensuring its smooth functioning moving forward.

### Implementation of Spiderchain Node Infrastructure

Ankr and Asphere are set to deploy and operate a global network of Spiderchain nodes, enabling us to provide public and private endpoints for developers to connect to the blockchain.

### Public & Paid Blockchain RPC Connections for Developers

The RPC (Remote Procedure Call) will become a vital service that connects developers’ wallets, command-line interfaces, and dApps to the Spiderchain mainnet nodes so they can execute read and write interactions on the network.

**Read more:** [What Are RPC Nodes and Endpoints? The Complete Guide](https://www.ankr.com/blog/what-are-rpc-nodes-and-endpoints-the-complete-guide-2023/)

## Why Did Botanix Labs Choose Ankr & Asphere?

Botanix Labs chose Ankr because no other organization has a team as experienced in creating scalable blockchain infrastructure across a wide variety of ecosystems. Our expertise in blockchain design and development was a perfect fit for the team to bring their bitcoin L2 vision to life seamlessly and on schedule.

**Build any custom blockchain solution with Ankr**

[Talk to an expert →](https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/arsalan-evini/)

## What is the New Spiderchain?

Built jointly by the teams from [Botanix Labs](https://docs.botanixlabs.xyz/botanix-labs/get-to-know-the-spiderchain/introduction-to-botanix-labs), Ankr, and Asphere, Spiderchain is a novel blockchain project bringing smart contract functionality to the Bitcoin network. Spiderchain expands the capabilities of the Bitcoin network while maintaining its core strengths of unmatched security and decentralization. Here's a breakdown of its key aspects and potential benefits:

- Leverages a decentralized network of multisig wallets (called Spiderchain) for security.
- Adds a Proof-of-Stake layer to bitcoin that unlocks native yield from dApps deployed to the Spiderchain EVM without any consensus changes to Bitcoin Core.
- Introduces forward security to the Bitcoin ecosystem to protect user funds with a focus on removing attack vectors that threaten traditional rollups.

**Benefits of Spiderchain**

- **Enhanced Functionality for Bitcoin:** Enables developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) on Bitcoin, similar to what's possible on Ethereum.
- **Strong Security:** Inherits the security of the Bitcoin network through its reliance on Bitcoin block hashes for randomness generation.
- **Decentralization:** Aims to be a permissionless network, where anyone can participate in securing the platform.
- **Familiarity for Developers:** EVM compatibility allows developers to port their existing Ethereum dApps to Spiderchain with minimal changes.

[**Learn more about Spiderchain**](https://www.botanixlabs.xyz/en/home)

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Learn about Ankr's hand in helping create the newest bitcoin L2 for Botanix Labs.

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Asphere, a partner company launched by the leadership team behind Ankr as the new home for enterprise-level projects, has just released an innovative no-code deployer feature for the Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. This addition empowers developers to seamlessly launch and manage their own **testnet and mainnet** blockchains, eliminating the need for complex coding and infrastructure management. The tool's first functionality will include the ability to launch Arbitrum Orbit rollups in minutes, as one of the most popular and performant scaling frameworks.

[**Try the no-code deployer app now →**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## Unleashing Codeless Blockchain Development

**The no-code deployer application lets any builder or team customize and launch a modular rollup and token in minutes via an easy-to-use interface.** Developers choose from a variety of options for their rollup framework (starting with Arbitrum), data availability layer, node infrastructure, gas token, and more before deploying their chain. Once options are finalized, builders can deploy the chain immediately, with all infrastructure and engineering needs completed by Asphere with straightforward monthly pricing.

Once you've finalized your selections and launched the mainnet, Asphere takes care of creating any other functionality or customization. Our robust infrastructure handles the entire deployment process, eliminating the need for you to manage complex technical aspects. With straightforward monthly pricing, you can focus on what truly matters – building your groundbreaking applications and business logic on a secure and scalable blockchain.

## A Word From the Asphere & Arbitrum Teams

*“This collaboration with Asphere marks an exciting milestone for Arbitrum. The new deployer for Orbit rollups streamlines access to our technology, allowing skilled developers to launch scalable solutions more efficiently. By simplifying deployment, we're enabling experienced teams to focus on building innovative applications, rather than infrastructure setup. These advancements are crucial for driving the next wave of blockchain adoption and practical enterprise applications.”*

– Steven Goldfeder, Chief Executive Officer at Offchain Labs

*"Asphere’s ongoing mission is to democratize access to blockchain technology. The no-code deployer is a game-changer. Developers and enterprises of all experience levels can now build and deploy scalable blockchain solutions with just a few clicks. This frees them to concentrate on their core applications and business logic, leaving the infrastructure complexities to us."*

– Tyler Sloan, Senior PM for Asphere RaaS

## A Feature-Rich RaaS Platform

The no-code deployer is just one piece of Asphere's comprehensive RaaS offering, designed to be the most advanced solution in the market. Here's what sets Asphere apart:

- **End-to-End Blockchain Solutions:** Asphere goes beyond simple deployment. It provides a full suite of services, including engineering, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of your blockchain.
- **Liquid Staking Gas Tokens:** Enable every user to earn passive income with Asphere's unique liquid staking feature, which allows you to gain automatic yield on the gas tokens used on your chain.
- **DePIN Node Operations:** Enhance the decentralization of your rollup with Asphere's DePIN node operations.
- **Modular Scaling Stack:** Unlock the power of various protocols like Espresso, Hyperlane, and Eigen Layer through Asphere's Modular Scaling Stack with over 15 integrations.

[**See all benefits →**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

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## Final Thoughts

With the no-code deployer and RaaS platform, Asphere is making blockchain development accessible for everyone. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a business with no prior blockchain experience, Asphere empowers you to leverage the potential of blockchain and build the future of decentralized applications.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the driving force behind innovation across various industries. From powering self-driving cars to revolutionizing medical diagnostics and creating life-like special effects in movies, AI relies heavily on a specific kind of processing power: Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

Traditional CPUs struggle with the complex mathematical computations required for AI tasks. GPUs, on the other hand, excel at parallel processing, making them ideal for accelerating AI workloads. However, not everyone has the resources to invest in high-end GPUs. This is where Cloud GPU providers come in.

These providers offer on-demand access to powerful GPUs hosted in their data centers. Users can rent virtual machines with GPUs for a specific period, pay-as-you-go, eliminating the upfront cost of buying and maintaining their own hardware.

## What is a GPU Cloud Provider?
A GPU cloud provider is a company that rents out virtual machines equipped with powerful GPUs. These virtual machines can be accessed remotely via the internet, allowing you to leverage their processing power for various tasks, including:

- Deep learning and machine learning applications
- High-performance computing (HPC) workloads
- Video editing and rendering

## Top 10 Cloud GPU Providers
In no particular order, here's a breakdown of the top Cloud GPU providers and a new, disruptive alternative that's shaking things up. Keep in mind that the “best” GPU provider for your business depends on your unique desires for cost, flexibility, scalability, and more.

- **Amazon Web Services (AWS):** A leader in cloud computing, AWS offers a wide range of GPU instances through its EC2 service. These instances are powered by various NVIDIA GPUs, catering to diverse workloads.
- **Microsoft Azure:** A strong competitor to AWS, Azure boasts a robust selection of N-Series GPU VMs, ideal for tasks like video editing, 3D rendering, and deep learning.
- **Google Cloud Platform (GCP):** GCP provides high-performance GPUs for scientific computing, machine learning, and more. Their GPUs are integrated with other GCP services like AI Platform, simplifying AI development.
- **Paperspace:** This provider offers a user-friendly platform with pay-as-you-go hourly billing for GPU instances. They cater to individual developers and small businesses.
- **Vast ai:** Focused on deep learning, Vast.ai offers high-performance workstations and cloud computing resources specifically optimized for AI projects.
- **Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI):** OCI provides access to a range of NVIDIA GPUs on their cloud platform. They offer competitive pricing and integration with other Oracle services.
- **IBM Cloud:** IBM Cloud offers a variety of GPU configurations to suit different workloads. They also integrate their GPUs with AI development tools like IBM Watson Studio.
- **CoreWeave:** This provider focuses on high-performance computing (HPC) and offers a range of GPU options for computationally intensive tasks.
- **Jarvis Labs:** Specializing in deep learning, Jarvis Labs provides high-performance GPU instances with a focus on ease of use and scalability.
- **Runpod:** This provider offers a unique containerized approach to GPU cloud computing. Users can easily deploy pre-configured containers with specific software and libraries for their AI projects.

## Benefits of using a GPU Cloud Provider for Blockchain x AI
There are several advantages to using the **best GPU cloud provider** for Blockchain x AI activities:

- **Accessibility:** Access powerful GPUs from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. This eliminates the need for physical hardware setup and management.
- **Reliability:** Many GPU cloud provider services offer robust infrastructure with high uptime guarantees, ensuring the smooth operation of your validator nodes.
- **Support:** Evaluate the level of customer support offered by the provider.

## Neura: The New Disruptor for Sourcing GPU
While traditional Cloud GPU providers offer a valuable service, they come with limitations. Here's where [Neura](https://www.neuraprotocol.io/) steps in as a revolutionary alternative:

- **Decentralization:** Unlike traditional providers with centralized data centers, [Neura leverages a decentralized network of individual GPU owners](https://www.ankr.com/blog/decentralized-gpu/). This distributed approach offers several advantages:
  - **Cost-Effectiveness:** By tapping into underutilized personal GPUs, Neura can offer lower costs compared to traditional providers.  
  - **Scalability:** The decentralized network allows for near-infinite scalability, catering to projects requiring massive processing power.
  - **Flexibility:** Users can choose from a wider variety of GPUs based on individual needs and budget.
- **Focus on AI:** Neura is specifically built for AI projects. They offer additional features like:
  - **Crowdsourced Funding:** AI projects can be funded by the community through Neura's token system and Initial Model Offerings (IMOs).
  - **AI Compute-as-a-Currency:** Users can earn tokens by contributing unused GPU resources to the network, creating a unique economic model.

While Neura is a relatively new player in the market, its [decentralized  GPU](https://www.ankr.com/blog/decentralized-gpu/) approach has the potential to disrupt the Cloud GPU landscape. By offering cost-effective, scalable, and AI-focused solutions, Neura could empower a new generation of AI developers and researchers.

## The Future of Cloud GPU Providers
The Cloud GPU market is expected to experience significant growth in the coming years, driven by the increasing demand for AI applications. Traditional providers will likely continue to refine their offerings, focusing on aspects like:

- Performance: Developing even more powerful GPU instances to handle complex AI tasks.
- Integration: Seamless integration with AI development tools and frameworks.
- Security: Enhancing security features to address the growing concerns about data privacy.

However, the rise of decentralized solutions like Neura presents a compelling alternative. As the technology matures and the network grows, Neura has the potential to offer a more cost-effective, scalable, and user-centric approach to AI computing.

## Final Thoughts 
Cloud GPU providers have become an essential tool for anyone working in the field of AI. By understanding the top players and the innovative new entrant, Neura, you can make an informed decision about the best solution for your specific needs. The future of AI computing is bright, and both traditional and decentralized providers will play a crucial role in enabling the next generation of groundbreaking discoveries.

For more insights on GPUs, AI, and the future of computing, check out our detailed articles on top [GPUs for AI ](https://www.ankr.com/blog/top-gpus-for-ai/) and [GPU resources](https://www.ankr.com/blog/gpu-resources/).

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The Ankr team is once again on the way to [EthCC](https://www.ethdenver.com/), and we couldn’t be more excited to meet everyone who plans on going! The numbers are in, and it looks like there will be record-breaking attendance from projects, builders, foundations, and everything in between.

We will be coming in hot on July 8 and departing sometime after July 11, so we hope to see you within our window. Check out what we’ll be up to during our time in Brussels below!

## Don’t Miss Ankr’s Sponsored Events!

### [EuroCup Football Pub Night with Espresso Systems](https://lu.ma/ud8p6oww)

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The theme of the evening is “Ethereum United,” celebrating interoperability, composability, and coordination amongst Ethereum chains and the healthy competition among ecosystems fighting for developers and users. And, of course, a reference to football. The first night's theme will be rollups and chains on Ethereum, and the second night's theme will be interoperability.

Address: [Chemistry & Botanic’s](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chemistry+%26+Botanic%E2%80%99s/@50.8444101,4.3527272,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47c3c47ec5c7bc9f:0xc707dc0ac74091a!8m2!3d50.8444101!4d4.3527272!16s%2Fg%2F11f5jy4cbg?entry=ttu)

Date: Jul 9, 2024 & Jul 10, 2024

Time: 7 PM - 12:30 AM

### [Future of Blockspace & Interoperability with Prom and Hedgehog Protocol](https://lu.ma/prom-hedgehog)

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Discover the future of Modular Synthetic Blockspace and interoperability against the stunning backdrop of a scenic Brussels rooftop. Learn how gas hedging streamlines Account Abstraction. Explore the latest developments and prospects of blockspace.

Address: The exact venue will be announced a few days prior.

Date: Jul 9, 2024

Time: 6 PM - 10:00 PM

### [DePIN Frontiers](https://lu.ma/3blp6e3z)

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This event aims to bring together leading minds to explore and debate how physical consensus can be achieved for major DePINs. Key topics will include innovative approaches and proof systems to achieving physical consensus in DePINs, out-of-the-box discussions on boosting the DePIN economy with new financial instruments.

Address: [Comet Meetings - Louise](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Comet+Meetings+-+Louise/@50.8334377,4.359134,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x47c3c5de700aa13d:0x3c8dca0cd541bf54!8m2!3d50.8334377!4d4.359134!16s%2Fg%2F11qpt_xgfj?entry=ttu)

Date: Jul 11, 2024

Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

### [Telos ZK Brewing](https://lu.ma/z8zx7ydf?tk=thmegL)

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During this gathering, emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges in the current Web3 ZK landscape will be discussed. Topics include blockchain modularity, proof aggregation, data availability, execution optimizations through hw-sw codesign, and the future of ZKP.

Address: [BrewDog Brussels](https://www.google.com/maps/place/BrewDog+Brussels/@50.845999,4.3569924,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47c3c47fc6b026d3:0xf3e707533c2c8771!8m2!3d50.845999!4d4.3569924!16s%2Fg%2F11bw4v5yzb?entry=ttu)

Date: Jul 11, 2024

Time: 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

## Let’s Catch Up and Talk Shop

We want to meet you and chat about projects! Ankr’s ecosystem is growing quickly with new projects that use our infrastructure to power their dApps, web browsers, DeFi platforms, exchanges, games, and more – see how we can help boost yours.

Give us a message on our community channels below to learn more about us and how Ankr can take your project to the next level as a leader in Web3 and infrastructure and DeFi solutions:

- Find instant blockchain development resources, including our [Web3 API](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/) connecting you to 55+ of networks.
- [Build DePIN projects](https://www.ankr.com/blog/depin-decentralized-physical-infrastructure/?page=1) with a full suite of development tools and [scaling solutions](https://www.ankr.com/scaling/).
- Integrate our [liquid staking](https://stakefi.ankr.com/liquid-staking/launchpad) with your dApp and give your users attractive earning solutions.
- Sign up to build the future of [AI x Blockchain](https://www.neuraprotocol.io/) on the Neura blockchain.

Want to find out even more about us? Head to our [website](https://www.ankr.com/) to find our docs, About Us, and more.

## EthCC ‘24 Will Be One for the Ledgers…

EthCC is going to be a massive event this year. And it’s not every day Ankr’s team gets together from all corners of the globe. So we can’t wait to have a drink and talk about this crazy industry – we hope you’ll join us!

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Join Ankr for four days of fun and networking in Brussels for EthCC 2024!

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Ankr and Asphere teams are now beginning the first steps of integrating Gevulot to amplify our Rollup as a Service (RaaS). All RaaS services and integrations are now offered by [Asphere](https://asphere.xyz/), launched by Ankr’s leadership team as the new home for future enterprise-level projects. This exciting development empowers new Layer 2 (L2) chains to leverage Gevulot’s decentralized proving approach to give ZK rollups high-speed and permissionless proving, predictable fees, and easy program deployment across multiple different languages.

***“Integration with Gevulot was another big leap forward for Ankr & Asphere, which are committed to providing the most advanced RaaS offering. Our team is just as excited as they are in working toward the endgame of ZK to drive down the cost of computations and make all the world's compute verifiable.”***

**– Stanley Wu, Co-Founder and CTO Ankr**

[**See all Ankr RaaS benefits**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## What Is Gevulot?

Gevulot is a permissionless and programmable Layer 1 blockchain for deploying proof systems as on-chain programs. Like other PoS chains, Gevulot uses its native token for balances, transfers, and staking. However, it focuses on deploying permissionless proof systems (like lightweight smart contracts) for fast and verifiable computations. Unlike traditional chains, Gevulot utilizes zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for verification instead of re-executing computations. This allows for permissionless program deployment and verification speeds on par with centralized providers.

**[Learn more about Gevulot](https://gevulot.com/introducing-gevulot/)**

## How Does Gevulot Benefit the ZK Rollup Ecosystem?

Gevulot is designed specifically for dApps that require cheap and fast proof generation along with a guarantee of high uptime. The blockchain can be used by any application or network that relies on ZK proofs (except for those requiring privacy guarantees), including validity rollups, privacy rollups, zkVMs, or bridges.

- **Performance on par with centralized provers:** Gevulot leverages lightweight unikernels for secure, high-performance proof systems with efficient workload distribution via Verifiable Random Functions.

- **Easy, permissionless program deployment:** Gevulot's permissionless layer 1 blockchain lets developers deploy programs in various languages (C, C++, Python, etc.) compiled into easily integrated unikernel images.

- **High uptime and predictable fees:** Gevulot utilizes VRFs and slashing to incentivize fast proof generation by groups of provers to ensure high uptime, while offering predictable fees based on cycles to reduce network strain and user costs.

## How Will Gevulot Work With Ankr & Asphere RaaS Projects?

**Integrating Gevulot with Rollup as a Service:** Ankr & Asphere RaaS will add the customization option for clients to include Gevulot in their modular stack to enhance decentralization, permissionless development, and uptime.

- Enhanced ZK proving for new L2s
- Offers an additional tool for Ankr RaaS
- Provides new opportunities for L2s

[**Build your new L2 today with Ankr & Gevulot**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## Final Thoughts

We at Ankr believe integrating with Gevulot is a game-changer for ZK rollup development. With the combined power of Ankr & Asphere RaaS and Gevulot's permissionless proving, developers have the tools they need to create truly innovative and impactful ZK applications. We invite all aspiring L2 developers to join us in building a more efficient, interconnected, and user-centric blockchain future.

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The first half of 2024 has seen monumental steps forward for the whole of the crypto and blockchain sector. Amidst a new bull market, regulatory wins, and renewed investor interest, Web3 seems to have a revived sense of purpose, leaving aside the current price downtrend.

Besides the bitcoin ETF approval, bitcoin halving, the U.S. Approval of the Crypto FIT21 Bill, and the other landmark drivers of the market this year, Web3’s development and maturation itself have played a big hand in boosting the industry. Builders have been hard at work creating shared security for Web3, new bitcoin utility, leaps forward in [scaling with rollups](https://www.ankr.com/blog/ankr-raa-s-collaborations-reshaping-web3-modularity-and-performance/) and other upgrades moving the needle closer to full adoption.

As one of the largest Web3 infrastructure providers, **Ankr has a finger on the pulse of blockchain development, as we have direct access to the critical data gathered from our array of nodes running on 55+ networks**. These nodes are used globally to serve 8 billion daily requests from dApps, developers, and crypto end-users of all types, powering a large share of all Web3 traffic.

This article breaks down the most important data points gathered over the past month to discover where Web3 developers and users are focusing their efforts.

## 10 Networks Experiencing the Highest Growth Over the Past Month

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This list shows how popular different blockchains are becoming, based on the percentage increase in how often they're used (collected from May 17 - June 17). Imagine these "uses" as conversations between applications (dApps) and the blockchain itself. These conversations, called [RPC requests](https://www.ankr.com/blog/what-are-rpc-nodes-and-endpoints-the-complete-guide-2023/), happen whenever users perform actions on the blockchain. This could be anything from sending crypto to checking their wallet balance or seeing who owns a digital item. The more a blockchain is used, the more RPC requests it will have.

Keep in mind that the above stats reflect only RPC activity via Ankr’s service and may be influenced by factors such as their status as a newly added chain on our platform. However, they should paint a picture of the industry we can learn from.

**1. Xai ⬆️182,522%**

Xai is Layer 3 blockchain created to be powerful enough to unlock open trading for all games, including the AAA sector. Developed by Offchain Labs, Xai just achieved a record-breaking 101 TPS, and has introduced a variety of games that are designed to introduce [seamless in-game trading and ownership for AAA games](https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-xai-the-rising-ethereum-layer-3-gaming-network-on-arbitrum). Paired with their Xai Vanguard promotions, this has led to an explosion of onchain activity, development, and interest.

**2. Stellar ⬆️2161%**

A long-time player as a crypto payments blockchain, Stellar recently expanded its utility to welcome all developers to build applications on the Stellar mainnet via the [Soroban smart contracts platform](https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/65f9d74a58447426f74fa0f1/). Interest and activity are now sky-high as we saw a 2,161% increase in calls to our Stellar Horizon API used to submit transactions that interact with Soroban contracts.

**3. Rollux ⬆️516%**

As the [bitcoin development and scaling](https://www.binance.com/en/research/analysis/the-future-of-bitcoin-3-scaling-bitcoin) trend continues to gain steam, Rollux (an L2 of Syscoin) is proving that other builders see bitcoin's potential to host secure, efficient, and affordable EVM rollups and dApps at scale as RPC requests grew by 516%.

**4. Bitcoin ⬆️273%**

After Ankr launched our bitcoin RPC on March 5th, the OG blockchain has seen tremendous interest as developers seek to explore the potential in L2s, BRC-20, bitcoin staking, and other new functionalities.

**5. Syscoin ⬆️129%**

Continuing the trend of bitcoin development, builder interest seems high in Syscoin as the first protocol to create a dual-chain Layer 1 that blends bitcoin's proven Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus with EVM compatibility and modularity.

**6. XDC ⬆️ 65%**

As the red-hot trend of tokenization for real-world assets and financial instruments continues, XDC calls have been soaring as the chain's express purpose is for digitizing and tokenizing trade finance.

**7. Bitlayer ⬆️56%**

Another bitcoin L2, Bitlayer has gained developer attention as the first Bitcoin security-equivalent layer 2.

**8. Kinto ⬆️55%**

As a newly supported chain on Ankr, Kinto is a Layer 2 designed to specifically address security concerns in DeFi. It's new addition to Ankr's RPC platform and security benefits for DeFi have won the chain an sharp increase in activity.

**9. Nervos ⬆️54%**

Long-time modular blockchain network Nervos may be seeing increased activity due to builder demand for secure, flexible, and interoperable protocols at the rise of the modular revolution driving the blockchain scalability effort.

**10. B² ⬆️48%**

B² is seeing growth from the tide rising all bitcoin Layer 2 ships as well as from its own clear merits as a performant solution bringing fast transactions, seamless wallet access, and a DA layer that allowing any ZK-Rollup to settle to Bitcoin.

## Macro Trends Behind the Top Chains

To no surprise, the same trends leading market appreciation this year seem to be the factors behind the leap in onchain activity and development seen above.

### Bitcoin Evolving Far Beyond P2P Payments

Bitcoin's initial purpose of disrupting traditional finance with peer-to-peer payments was groundbreaking.  However, its limited transaction capacity and functionality restricted its broader impact. This is where the recent surge in Ordinals, Inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, [Bitcoin staking](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/30/bitcoin-staking-project-babylon-raises-70m-led-by-paradigm/), and L2 scaling solutions comes in. These innovations address Bitcoin's limitations and unlock its potential as a foundational technology. **As more developers become interested in unlocking these new use cases for the bitcoin network with chains like Rollux, Syscoin, Bitlayer, B² and more, we have seen a spike in the number of RPC requests to these networks through our service.**

**Read more: [Bitcoin Summer & What’s Coming for BTC: Staking, DeFi, L2s, and More](https://www.ankr.com/blog/bitcoin-summer-and-what-s-coming-for-btc-staking-de-fi-l2s-and-more/)**

### Tokenization of Real-World Assets

Tokenization has been the talk of the town as the largest financial companies seem to be doubling down on their tokenization strategies. Bohemoths like Blackrock are now [directly funding](https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/real-world-assets-boost-blackrock-leads-tokenization-firm-funding/#:~:text=BlackRock%20leads%20the%20tokenization%20charge,push%20towards%20digital%20asset%20offerings.) companies to continue building out the infrastructure it will take to properly move traditional assets onto blockchain rails. **Networks like Stellar, XDC, and more who are focused on asset tokenization and speedy payments seem to be gaining momentum as the future financial markets [steer toward public blockchains](https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/666c0ea4d8580a3f7ccd8b05/).**

**Read more: [Tokenization’s Emergence and Enterprise Use Cases](https://www.ankr.com/blog/tokenization-s-emergence-in-2023-and-enterprise-use-cases/)**

### The Rise of Modular Scalability

A modular approach to scaling allows for separate execution, consensus, and data availability layers, leading to faster transactions, lower costs, and a more scalable future for blockchains. This paves the way for them to handle complex applications and a massive user base, all while remaining secure and decentralized. **Networks like Nervos are well-suited for the modular future as chains like CKB sport high levels of interoperability and flexibility with support for all cryptographic primitives.**

**Read more: [The State of Layer 2 Scaling and What the Future May Hold](https://www.ankr.com/blog/the-state-of-layer-2-scaling-and-what-the-future-may-hold/)**

## Final Thoughts

Web3 is thriving in 2024 with surging interest, new regulations, and a wave of innovation. Ankr's data shows booming development surrounding Bitcoin's new functionalities, tokenization of real-world assets, and modular blockchains. As Web3 matures, Ankr is here to empower developers and users to build the decentralized future.

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Dive into the data provided by Ankr for an overview of Web3 development trends of the past month.

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## Start building on Kinto for secure, DeFi-focused applications

Ankr is excited to release Kinto on our RPC service,the safety-first L2 featuring user-owned KYC, account abstraction, and a full focus on finance!

This is great news for developers looking to get the jump on building on top of Kinto to build fast and secure dApps. Users will be able to access Kinto Public and Premium RPCs, make request calls, and receive information returns that are identical to the results they would get by running a node themselves.

[**Call the Kinto RPCs now!**](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/kinto/)

## A Word From Kinto’s Team

***“At Kinto, we trust Ankr as our main public RPC provider. They not only provide a reliable RPC service but a load balancer system and interface that allow us to easily distribute load across geographies and providers.”***

***– Ramon Recuero, CEO***

## What is Kinto?

Kinto is a layer 2 (L2) blockchain built on top of the Ethereum network using the Arbitrum Nitro stack. It's designed specifically to address security concerns in decentralized finance (DeFi) alongside addressing user experience challenges. Here are some key features of Kinto:

- **Security Focus:** Kinto incorporates Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks directly at the blockchain level. This aims to prevent the rugs, hacks and scams that often seem to plague the ecosystem.

- **Compliance:** By requiring KYC, Kinto caters to institutions with stricter regulatory requirements. This will bridge the gap between traditional finance and DeFi.

- **User-Centric:** Kinto offers a user-friendly wallet that abstracts away complexities like seed phrases. Kinto believes that setting up a wallet should take 15 seconds, not 15 minutes.

- **Insurance:** Smart contracts on Kinto will come with built-in insurance to mitigate DeFi exploit risks.

[**Learn more about Kinto**](https://www.kinto.xyz/)

## What Are Ankr’s New Kinto RPC Connections?

- Ankr’s Kinto RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) connect your wallet, command-line interface, or decentralized applications with Kinto. They act as a messenger or blockchain router that relays on-chain information between Kinto nodes, chains, and ultimately end-users so they can execute necessary tasks like transactions, populate wallet balances, fetch ownership information, and much more.

- Kinto RPC endpoints are a gateway for developers to interface directly with Kinto — a portal to communicate easily, remotely, and with no need to go through the DevOps of establishing their own Kinto nodes.

- Ankr is providing a geo-distributed Kinto RPC comprised of blockchain nodes running worldwide for incredibly low latency and reliable connections.

[**Get started now with our Kinto RPC endpoints!**](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/kinto/)

## How Do the Kinto RPCs Help Developers?

Building with Kinto is an excellent choice for creating high-performance and secure dApps, but requires access to the information on Kinto nodes to do so. Therefore, Ankr’s RPC solves the following developer troubles:

**Eliminates complex node ops** - Ankr’s Kinto RPCs will completely remove the need for developers to set up their own Kinto nodes, removing hours of time spent building, calibrating, and fixing node issues.

**Grants access to advanced tools** -  Ankr’s [Premium RPC Plan](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/pricing/) instantly grants access to the best tools to build applications quickly, including:

- At least 90,000 Kinto req/minute
- Dedicated Kinto endpoints
- Prioritized requests
- Priority support portal
- WebSockets (WS) capabilities

**Powers chains, applications, and open-source software that need access to Kinto** - Connect with a cluster of high-performance nodes that hold the information you need to build and operate applications with Kinto chain capabilities.

**Supports the Kinto network** - Ankr will strengthen the Kinto network globally by offering easier development and a broader, decentralized node infrastructure.

## How to Make Your First Call to Kinto

You can [get started building](https://www.ankr.com/remote-procedure-call/) on the Kinto network by heading to Ankr’s RPC Service to make your first call! You will be able to use the Kinto endpoint to call the chain using the standard EVM JSON RPC methods.

## Join the Conversation on Ankr’s Channels!

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Use Ankr's newest RPC connections to call the Kinto L2 and build DeFi applications with leading performance.

Develop DeFi Apps On Kinto With Ankr's Web3 API

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Build On the Kinto L2: Ankr’s Newest RPC Connection

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## Start building on Electroneum for enhanced speed, safety, and efficiency.

Ankr is excited to announce a new addition to our RPC service: Electroneum, an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain designed for speed, security, and energy efficiency.

This is great news for developers looking to get the jump on building on top of Electroneum for fast and secure dApps! Users will be able to access Electroneum Public and Premium RPCs, make request calls, and receive information returns that are identical to the results they would get by running a node themselves.

**Electroneum will be running a hackathon in Q3 2024 to encourage developers to build new dApps and utilities on the Electroneum Layer-1 chain. Ankr will post more details on the event as they arise!**

[**Call the Electroneum RPCs now!**](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/electroneum/)

## What is Electroneum?

[Praised by the co-inventor of blockchain](https://medium.com/@ETN-Network/blockchain-inventor-dr-scott-stornetta-praises-electroneum-find-out-how-he-compares-it-to-bitcoin-3b45f7492170) technology, the Electroneum blockchain positions itself as a fast, secure, and energy-efficient platform for various blockchain applications, with a focus on global accessibility and responsibility.

Electroneum features several benefits, including:

- Secure IBFT-based blockchain with known validators
- Compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
- 5-second transaction speeds
- Instant blockchain finality system
- Low-cost smart contract fees
- Minimal energy consumption

[**Learn more about Electroneum**](https://electroneum.com/blockchain/)

## What Are Ankr’s New Electroneum RPC Connections?

- Ankr’s Electroneum RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) connect your wallet, command-line interface, or decentralized applications with Electroneum. They act as a messenger or blockchain router that relays on-chain information between Electroneum nodes, chains, and ultimately end-users so they can execute necessary tasks like transactions, populate wallet balances, fetch ownership information, and much more.

- Electroneum RPC endpoints are a gateway for developers to interface directly with Electroneum — a portal to communicate easily, remotely, and with no need to go through the DevOps of establishing their own Electroneum nodes.

- Ankr is providing a geo-distributed Electroneum RPC comprised of blockchain nodes running worldwide for incredibly low latency and reliable connections.

[**Get started now with our Electroneum RPC endpoints!**](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/electroneum/)

## How Do the Electroneum RPCs Help Developers?

Building with Electroneum is an excellent choice for creating high-performance and secure dApps, but requires access to the information on Electroneum nodes to do so. Therefore, Ankr’s RPC solves the following developer troubles:

**Eliminates complex node ops** - Ankr’s Electroneum RPCs will completely remove the need for developers to set up their own Electroneum nodes, removing hours of time spent building, calibrating, and fixing node issues.

**Grants access to advanced tools** -  Ankr’s [Premium RPC Plan](https://www.ankr.com/rpc/pricing/) instantly grants access to the best tools to build applications quickly, including:

- At least 90,000 Electroneum req/minute
- Dedicated Electroneum endpoints
- Prioritized requests
- Priority support portal
- WebSockets (WS) capabilities

**Powers chains, applications, and open-source software that need access to Electroneum** - Connect with a cluster of high-performance nodes that hold the information you need to build and operate applications with Electroneum chain capabilities.

**Supports the Electroneum network** - Ankr will strengthen the Electroneum network globally by offering easier development and a broader, decentralized node infrastructure.

## How to Make Your First Call to Electroneum

You can [get started building](https://www.ankr.com/remote-procedure-call/) on the Electroneum network by heading to Ankr’s RPC Service to make your first call! You will be able to use the Electroneum endpoint to call the chain using the standard EVM JSON RPC methods.

## Join the Conversation on Ankr’s Channels!

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Use Ankr's Web3 API and RPC endpoints to call Electroneum and build new dApps that can connect seamlessly with the blockchain's data.

Build on Electroneum With Ankr's RPC Endpoints

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For AI companies and projects, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are the essential workhorses. While CPUs handle general computing tasks, GPUs excel at the parallel processing that's crucial for training and running complex AI models. This article dives into the world of GPU resources for AI, exploring what they are, how to leverage them, and where to find the processing power you need.

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- Global GPU Marketplace 
- Decentralized Data Storage 
- Initial Model Offerings (IMOs)

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## What are GPU Resources?
**“GPU resources” is the term we use to describe deploying GPU as a critical component necessary for AI development**. Imagine a highway. A CPU is like a single lane, efficiently handling one task at a time. A GPU, on the other hand, is a multi-lane highway, capable of processing multiple tasks simultaneously. This parallel processing architecture makes GPUs ideal for tasks that can be broken down into smaller, independent steps – precisely what AI model training involves.

[See also: Top 5 GPUs for AI in 2024](https://www.ankr.com/blog/top-gpus-for-ai/)

## Harnessing the Power of GPU Resources for AI
To put GPU resources to work for AI, you'll need to utilize specialized software frameworks like CUDA (developed by NVIDIA) or OpenCL that allow your code to interact with the GPU's architecture. These frameworks distribute the workload across the GPU's numerous cores, significantly accelerating training times.

### Finding the Right Fit: Where to Get GPU Resources
There are several ways to obtain the GPU resources your AI project needs:

- **Building In-House Infrastructure:** This offers maximum control but requires significant upfront investment in hardware and expertise for maintenance.
- **Cloud Computing Platforms:** Cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure offer access to a vast pool of GPUs with pay-as-you-go pricing. This is a popular option for its flexibility and scalability.
- **Specialized AI Cloud Services:** Several companies offer cloud-based platforms specifically designed for AI development, often pre-configured with popular frameworks and optimized for machine learning workloads.
- **Decentralized GPU Marketplaces:** Emerging solutions allow you to tap into a network of individual GPUs, offering a more cost-effective option for smaller projects.

[Read more on The Future AI Stack](https://www.ankr.com/blog/decentralized-gpu/)

## A New Alternative: Using Neura’s Decentralized GPU Marketplace
The core of Neura is a decentralized marketplace that gives developers scalable access to plentiful GPU resources in a way that is more cost-efficient, transparent, and secure. This ecosystem democratizes access to computational power, bridging the gap between GPU providers and developers.

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[Sign up for early access](https://form.typeform.com/to/y6Mlb6N2?typeform-source=www.neuraprotocol.io)

## Beyond the Basics: Important Considerations about GPU Resources

- **GPU Type:** Different GPUs cater to specific needs. NVIDIA dominates the AI space, but AMD offers competitive options as well. Consider factors like memory size and processing power based on your project's requirements.
- **Cost Optimization:** Techniques like model quantization and gradient accumulation can help reduce the computational workload, leading to lower GPU resource consumption and cost savings.
- **Future-Proofing:** As AI models grow in complexity, ensure your chosen platform can scale to meet your evolving needs.

## Final Thoughts
By understanding GPU resources and how to leverage them effectively, AI companies and projects can unlock the true potential of their machine learning models. From cloud-based solutions to in-house infrastructure, there's a path to secure the processing power you need to bring your AI vision to life.

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Dive deep into the world of GPU resources for AI with this comprehensive guide. Discover traditional and blockchain-based solutions,

GPU Resources: All You Need to Know for AI Success

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Ankr is thrilled to announce the integration of Espresso Systems with our industry-leading Rollups as a Service (RaaS) product. This exciting development empowers new Layer 2 (L2) rollup chains built on Ankr to leverage Espresso's coordination capabilities for sequencing, unlocking a multitude of benefits for interoperability, efficiency, and more. 

Integration with Espresso was an important step forward for Ankr, which is committed to providing the most advanced RaaS offering.

[**See all Ankr RaaS benefits**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## What Is Espresso? Coordination & Interoperability

- Espresso Systems provides a coordination layer consisting of a consensus system and a marketplace that allows rollups to share sequencer nodes for faster, cheaper, and more interoperable transactions.
 
- Coordination: Instead of each rollup running its own sequencer, Espresso allows them to opt into the possibility of sharing a sequencer for a given timeslot via a marketplace. This can be more efficient, cost-effective, and value-accretive.

- Fast Finality: Their unique HotShot consensus system ensures transactions are finalized quickly and securely.

- Enhanced Interoperability: By connecting rollups in this marketplace, Espresso makes it easier for them to communicate with each other. This is crucial for a future where different blockchains work together seamlessly.


[**Learn more about Espresso Systems**](https://www.espressosys.com/)

## How Does Espresso Benefit the Ethereum Rollup Ecosystem?

Espresso Systems injects a triple shot of efficiency into the Ethereum rollup ecosystem:

- **Faster Transactions:** It creates a shared sequencer marketplace, allowing rollups to compete for faster block processing, leading to speedier transactions.
- **Value Creation:** By sharing sequencers, rollups can conduct cross-chain transactions, creating greater value for their users and capturing more value for their ecosystems.
- **Enhanced Interoperability:** The marketplace and fast finality layer facilitate communication between rollups, paving the way for a more interconnected and user-friendly blockchain landscape.

## How Will Espresso Work With Ankr RaaS Projects?

**Integrating Espresso with Ankr RaaS:** Ankr’s Rollup as a Service will integrate Espresso to provide developers with the choice of having integration with Espresso for shared sequencing to enhance scalability, decentralization, and interoperability.

- Enhanced interoperability for new L2s
- Offers an additional tool for Ankr RaaS
- Provides new opportunities for L2s

[**Build your new L2 today with Ankr & Espresso**](https://www.ankr.com/rollup-as-a-service-raas/)

## Final Thoughts

We at Ankr believe this integration is a game-changer for L2 rollup development. With the combined power of Ankr's RaaS and Espresso's shared sequencing, developers have the tools they need to create truly innovative and impactful blockchain applications. We invite all aspiring L2 developers to join us in building a more efficient, interconnected, and user-centric blockchain future.

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