Privacy focused Brave browser currently serves 61 million monthly active users
March 2024 growth stats:
Browser: 61.20 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +1.2%)
Search: 829.09 million monthly search queries (-0.4%) 25.79M Daily Active Users (DAU +0.9%)
The native crypto-asset for Brave is Basic Attention Token (BAT) and is paid to users through ad revenue sharing
Punk 7804 was sold for 4,850 ETH ($16 million) by 0x9bc2d5 from 0xf4b4a5. (purchased on March/20/2024)
US federal prosecutors have charged crypto exchange, Kucoin, with violating the US Bank Secrecy Act breaking Anti-money laundering laws
A deep dive on Filecoin - Aarsh Shah
Filecoin is the largest deployment of SNARKs in the industry (Circuit sizes of ~100 million constraints)
A breakthrough SNARK aggregation mechanism that not only reduces gas costs for the prover but also dramatically reduces verification time and on chain space usage (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/529.pdf can aggregate "8192 proofs in 8.7s and verify them in 163ms