SonicBeginnerSonic is a new EVM chain from the Fantom team: S replaced FTM 1:1, a rewritten client targets higher throughput with aBFT finality, apps can earn up to 90% of their gas fees, and the Sonic Gateway bridges to Ethereum.
#basics#bridges#gas-&-fees
SeiIntermediateSei executes a block's transactions in parallel, tracks what each one read and wrote, and re-executes any that conflict, so results match serial order. Contracts need no changes, but shared hot storage slots still serialize.
#consensus#performance#scaling
FlowIntermediateCollection nodes batch, consensus orders, a few heavy execution nodes run transactions and many light verifiers check chunks. Cadence resources are typed assets that can't be copied or lost, guarded by entitlements.
#consensus#nodes#scaling
InjectiveIntermediateInjective's exchange module matches orders once per block. New orders on the same side clear at one uniform price, so a transaction's position in the block doesn't matter and sandwiches have nothing to capture.
#defi#mev#security
Ethereum ClassicBeginnerETC is the original chain that rejected the 2016 DAO-hack fork. It stays proof of work on Etchash, caps supply near 210.7M, uses chain ID 61 and legacy gas pricing, and needs deeper confirmations.
#basics#mining#security
LineaIntermediateDeposits are anchored on Linea within minutes. Withdrawals wait until a proof covering them is finalized on Ethereum, then need a separate L1 claim. Fast bridges skip the wait by adding trust.
#bridges#scaling#transactions
Bitcoin CashBeginnerBCH forked in August 2017 to scale with bigger blocks instead of SegWit. Today it has a 32 MB adaptive limit, native CashTokens, CashAddr addresses, no SegWit or RBF, low fees and far less hashrate than BTC.
#basics#scaling#tokens
MonadAdvancedMonad runs transactions optimistically in parallel and re-executes conflicts while committing in order, executes after consensus instead of during it, and uses MonadDb for parallel state reads. Gas is charged on the limit.
#consensus#gas-&-fees#performance
SolanaIntermediateThe priority fee is CU limit × CU price in micro-lamports, on top of 5,000 lamports per signature. Simulate to size the limit, price from recent fees on the accounts you write, and never request 1.4M by default.
#gas-&-fees#performance#transactions
KaspaIntermediateEach Kaspa block references every tip it sees, so parallel blocks are merged, not orphaned. GHOSTDAG colours well-connected blocks blue and orders the DAG, supporting 10 PoW blocks per second since Crescendo.
#consensus#mining#scaling
CelestiaIntermediateA DA layer guarantees rollup data was published. Celestia erasure-codes blocks into a 2D square, so light nodes sampling a few random shares catch withholding; fraud proofs catch bad encoding.
#cryptography#nodes#scaling
BitcoinIntermediateOrdinals number every sat and track it first-in-first-out; inscriptions put files in Taproot witness data on a sat; Runes are UTXO-based tokens in OP_RETURN. Indexers, not nodes, interpret all of them.
#nfts#tokens#transactions