協議：選舉，陰謀。區塊鏈還有很多工作要做

隨著美國前總統川普贏得連任，並承諾信守承諾，包括一長串與比特幣和加密貨幣相關的承諾，區塊鏈產業可能會得到提振。

A lot of people are saying, people inside CoinDesk, that nobody’s going to read anything on Wednesday that isn’t elections-related.

CoinDesk 內部的許多人都說，週三沒有人會閱讀與選舉無關的任何內容。

Well maybe they don’t know about all the INCREDIBLE CONTENT we have assembled in this week’s The Protocol newsletter? There’s even an ongoing election to keep you entertained.

好吧，也許他們不知道我們在本週的協議時事通訊中收集的所有令人難以置信的內容？甚至還有正在進行的選舉讓您盡興而歸。

U.S. ELECTION COVERAGE HIGHLIGHTS:

美國選舉報道亮點：

In another vote taking place, not due to close for several more hours, community members of the DeFi project MakerDAO are expressing their opinions on what to do with the Sky brand. As reported in The Protocol last month, the project formerly known as Maker rebranded to Sky in August, but the move received a lukewarm reception, and now holders of the MKR tokens are being asked to weigh in on whether a de-rebranding should be considered. As reported by CoinDesk’s Sam Reynolds, the poll is not binding. Early participation was quite limited.

在另一場投票中，距離結束還有幾個小時，DeFi 計畫 MakerDAO 的社群成員就如何處理 Sky 品牌表達了自己的意見。正如《The Protocol》上個月報導的那樣，該專案之前的名稱為Maker，於8 月更名為Sky，但此舉反響冷淡，現在MKR 代幣的持有者被要求權衡是否應考慮取消品牌重塑。根據 CoinDesk 的 Sam Reynolds 報道，該民調不具約束力。早期的參與相當有限。

Ethereum Foundation researchers Dankrad Feist and Justin Drake have resigned from their advisory roles at EigenLayer, months after a controversy erupted over potential conflicts of interest within the Ethereum community. In the spring, Drake and Feist publicly confirmed that they had each accepted advisory roles with EigenLayer. Each researcher was allotted a significant sum of EIGEN tokens in exchange for helping guide the upcoming project and its roadmap. “While I believe that the role was negotiated in a good faith and with the aim of making sure that EigenLayer is well aligned with Ethereum,” Feist said in an X post, “I understand that the perception of this relationship has been different and that for many the conflict of interest this creates is difficult to reconcile with my role as an Ethereum researcher.”

以太坊基金會研究人員 Dankrad Feist 和 Justin Drake 辭去 EigenLayer 的顧問職務，幾個月前，以太坊社群內部因潛在利益衝突而引發爭議。今年春天，Drake 和 Feist 公開證實，他們已分別接受 EigenLayer 的顧問職位。每位研究人員都被分配了大量 EIGEN 代幣，以換取幫助指導即將到來的項目及其路線圖。 Feist 在 X 貼文中表示：「雖然我相信這個角色是出於善意協商的，目的是確保 EigenLayer 與以太坊保持良好一致，但我理解人們對這種關係的看法有所不同，並且對於許多人來說，這造成的利益衝突很難與我作為以太坊研究員的角色相協調。

It turns out that making money in crypto isn’t quite as easy as it might seem: Crypto buyers, burned so many times over the years, are quite leery of newcomers — and skeptical when it comes to examining new token offerings. That appears to be the case for World Liberty Financial, the crypto project backed by former President and now President-Elect Donald Trump and his sons, Don Jr. and Eric. As detailed in The Protocol last month, project officials initially talked up their big plans, with a fundraising goal of $300 million, and released a “Gold Paper” with lots of fine print, including the revelation that the initial $30 million of “net protocol revenues” would be set aside to cover expenses, indemnities and obligations. The rest would go to a company called “DT Marks DEFI LLC,” whose owners and principals include Donald Trump. But sales of the tokens never passed $15 million. As scooped last week by CoinDesk’s Danny Nelson, the project now has made a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying that the sales will be terminated as soon as the $30 million target is reached. The concession to market realities could put an end to the bizarre effort, which left many analysts scratching their heads at how Trump had time to promote a crypto project while in the throes of an intense campaign for president.

事實證明，在加密貨幣中賺錢並不像看起來那麼容易：多年來多次被燒毀的加密貨幣買家對新來者相當警惕，並且在審查新的代幣產品時持懷疑態度。 World Liberty Financial 的情況似乎就是如此，該加密貨幣項目由前總統、現任當選總統唐納德·特朗普及其兒子小唐和埃里克支持。正如上個月《協議》中詳細介紹的那樣，項目官員最初談到了他們的宏偉計劃，籌款目標為3 億美元，並發布了一份包含大量精美文字的“金皮書”，其中包括透露最初3000 萬美元的「網路協議」 「收入」將留出用於支付費用、賠償和義務。其餘的將流向一家名為“DT Marks DEFI LLC”的公司，該公司的所有者和負責人包括唐納德·特朗普。但代幣的銷售額從未超過 1500 萬美元。據 CoinDesk 的 Danny Nelson 上週報道，該項目現已向美國證券交易委員會提交文件稱，一旦達到 3000 萬美元的目標，銷售將立即終止。對市場現實的讓步可能會結束這種奇怪的努力，這讓許多分析師對川普在激烈的總統競選中如何有時間推廣加密貨幣計畫感到摸不著頭腦。

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s claim in a post on X that listings on the U.S. crypto exchange are “free” drew protests from project leaders including Sonic Labs’ Andre Cronje and Tron’s Justin Sun. Bitget, a rival crypto exchange, took advantage of the topic’s salience to open a new listing application portal on its platform, stating that it’s “transparent about its listing procedures and thrives to provide token projects with the ease of exposure at best possible initial investments for its community,” along with the following testament: “Importantly, Bitget strongly emphasizes that it does not charge any fees related to the listing application process, such as commission fees, brokerage fees, application fees or assessment fees. Tokens provided by project teams will be fully allocated to Bitget users based on the agreed-upon marketing and promotional plan.”

Coinbase 執行長 Brian Armstrong 在X 上的一篇貼文中聲稱，在美國加密貨幣交易所上市是「免費」的，這引起了包括Sonic Labs 的Andre Cronje 和Tron 的Justin Sun 在內的項目負責人的抗議。 Bitget 是一家競爭對手的加密貨幣交易所，利用該主題的顯著性，在其平台上開設了一個新的上市申請門戶，並表示其「上市程序透明，並致力於為代幣項目提供易於曝光的最佳初始投資」。其社區”，並附有以下聲明：“重要的是，Bitget 強烈強調，它不收取任何與上市申請流程相關的費用，例如佣金、經紀費、申請費或評估費。專案團隊提供的代幣將根據商定的營銷和推廣計劃全額分配給Bitget用戶。

Crypto commercials have come a long way since Crypto.com’s notoriously cringe-y “Fortune Favors the Brave” ad starring Matt Damon. A couple videos circulating this week actually approached the not-inconsiderable triple-achievement of “surprisingly clever” and “refreshingly dark” while remaining “uncannily crypto-native.”

自從 Crypto.com 推出由 Matt Damon 主演的臭名昭著的「財富眷顧勇敢者」廣告以來，加密貨幣廣告已經取得了長足的進步。本週流傳的幾個影片實際上達到了「令人驚訝的聰明」和「令人耳目一新的黑暗」的三重成就，同時又保持了「令人難以置信的加密原生」。

One of the biggest trends of 2023 among the leading layer-2 projects on Ethereum was the emergence of “blockchain in a box,” where the teams encouraged developers to clone their code to spin up new layer 2s.

2023 年以太坊上領先的 Layer-2 專案的最大趨勢之一是「盒子裡的區塊鏈」的出現，團隊鼓勵開發人員克隆他們的程式碼以啟動新的 Layer 2。

Now, one project in particular appears to be pulling away as the clear leader. And as is often the case in blockchain development, a crucial factor is the money changing hands behind the scenes.

現在，有一個項目似乎逐漸成為明顯的領導者。正如區塊鏈開發中經常出現的情況一樣，一個關鍵因素是資金在幕後易手。

Optimism, one of the major layer-2 networks, has managed to get a slew of clients and firms to deploy their own blockchains using Optimism’s technology, with the OP Stack, under open-source software licenses.

Optimism 是主要的第 2 層網路之一，它已成功吸引大量客戶和公司使用 Optimism 的技術以及 OP Stack，在開源軟體許可下部署自己的區塊鏈。

It’s a crucial development in the evolution of the broader blockchain universe, since layer-2 networks stand at the heart

這是更廣泛的區塊鏈宇宙演變中的關鍵發展，因為第二層網路處於核心地位