Tech Deep Dives

The crypto industry is rapidly changing — that’s what makes it so much fun, but it can become easy to get lost in the whirl of new technologies. CMC’s tech deep dives are here to help.
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What Is Sweat Economy? The Move-to-Earn Application and Fitness Ecosystem
By rewarding people with digital tokens, a variety of move-to-earn apps have looked to make fitness more attractive and rewarding.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
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Bitcoin and Energy: Bitcoin Mining — a Revolution in our Energy Production?
We dive into how Bitcoin could potentially change the way we look at energy production and the current power grid.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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Is The ETH Merge Priced In?
With a little over two weeks to the Ethereum Merge, and ETH rallying over 100% since the June lows — many wonder, is the ETH Merge already priced in? Find out below.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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Bitcoin and Energy: Debunking the 7 Biggest Bitcoin Energy Myths
The most common Bitcoin energy and BTC mining myths, debunked.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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All You Ever Wanted to Learn About the Ethereum Merge
Bookmark this article to prepare for the upcoming Ethereum Merge — you'll find all that you need to know.
By Ernesto Frontera
2yr ago
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Everything You Need To Know About the Ethereum Merge: Misconceptions Debunked
The Merge has set a date, following the successful Goerli testnet Merge — but there are still common misconceptions about what will happen to Ethereum post-Merge. Read on to find out.
By Andrey Sergeenkov
2yr ago
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Ethereum Proof-of-Work (PoW) vs Ethereum Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
With the long-awaited Ethereum Merge approaching in a month, recent developments on a potential fork of the ETH PoW chain have emerged. But what exactly does that entail? Read on to find out.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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A Deep Dive Into OdysseyDAO
OdysseyDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on educating, and onboarding, people into Web3 by providing free courses and articles.
By Werner Vermaak
2yr ago
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The Future of Cryptocurrency Mining
Bitcoin and crypto mining has evolved since the days of CPU mining, but what does the future holds for this growing industry? Read on to find out.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
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What Will Be the Next Bull Market Catalyst? A Look at Crypto and Web3 Use Cases in 2025
This article will cover industry-specific trends that could ring in the next bull market — mainly looking at what Web3 is bringing to the table.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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3AC: The Fall of the Crypto Hedge Fund Behemoth
A look at what went wrong under the hood of one of the most prolific investors in the crypto space — eventually resulting in the declaration of Chapter 15 bankruptcy.
By Avyan
2yr ago
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What Is Siacoin? Features and Tokenomics
Siacoin is a decentralized cloud storage platform that aims to protect user data privacy.
By Hassan Shafiq
2yr ago
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What Is Decentraland? Features, Tokenomics
Real estate investment is a difficult process — but not in the metaverse!
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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What Is IPFS?
While blockchain is also a distributed and decentralized protocol, IPFS has much broader goals — read more to see how IPFS plans to decentralize the internet.
By Emi La Capra
2yr ago
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What Is Polygon? The Ultimate Guide to the Polygon Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a deep dive into the Polygon ecosystem, one of the leading layer-2 ecosystems with over 19,000 DApps.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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Technical Walkthrough of EIP-1559
What even is EIP-1559? Take a dive into the technicalities of the Ethereum fee market mechanism upgrade — and how it will affect Ethereum's supply.
By Ernesto Frontera
2yr ago
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What Is Starkware? The Ultimate Guide to the Starkware, StarkNet and StarkEx Ecosystem [Updated]
CoinMarketCap takes a look at the Starkware ecoystem — comprising of the permissionless StarkNet and permissioned StarkEx layer-two scaling solution for Ethereum.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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What Is ZKSync? The Ultimate Guide to the ZKSync Ecosystem
CoinMarketCap Academy takes a look into an Ethereum layer-two zero-knowledge rollup scaling solution — zkSync, its upcoming zkSync 2.0 update, token airdrop and ecosystem of DApps.
By Ivan Cryptoslav
2yr ago
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