协议：选举，阴谋。区块链还有很多工作要做

随着美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普赢得连任，并承诺信守承诺，包括一长串与比特币和加密货币相关的承诺，区块链行业可能会得到提振。

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

CoinDesk 内部的很多人都说，周三没有人会阅读与选举无关的任何内容。

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，也许他们不知道我们在本周的协议时事通讯中收集的所有令人难以置信的内容？甚至还有正在进行的选举让您尽兴而归。

U.S. ELECTION COVERAGE HIGHLIGHTS:

美国选举报道亮点：

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.

在另一场投票中，距离结束还有几个小时，DeFi 项目 MakerDAO 的社区成员就如何处理 Sky 品牌表达了自己的意见。正如《The Protocol》上个月报道的那样，该项目之前的名称为 Maker，于 8 月份更名为 Sky，但此举反响冷淡，现在 MKR 代币的持有者被要求权衡是否应考虑取消品牌重塑。据 CoinDesk 的 Sam Reynolds 报道，该民意调查不具有约束力。早期的参与相当有限。

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.”

以太坊基金会研究人员 Dankrad Feist 和 Justin Drake 辞去 EigenLayer 的顾问职务，几个月前，以太坊社区内部因潜在利益冲突而引发争议。今年春天，Drake 和 Feist 公开证实，他们已分别接受 EigenLayer 的顾问职位。每位研究人员都被分配了大量 EIGEN 代币，以换取帮助指导即将到来的项目及其路线图。 Feist 在 X 帖子中表示：“虽然我相信这个角色是出于善意协商的，目的是确保 EigenLayer 与以太坊保持良好一致，但我理解人们对这种关系的看法有所不同，并且对于许多人来说，这造成的利益冲突很难与我作为以太坊研究员的角色相协调。”

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.

事实证明，在加密货币中赚钱并不像看起来那么容易：多年来多次被烧毁的加密货币买家对新来者相当警惕，并且在审查新的代币产品时持怀疑态度。 World Liberty Financial 的情况似乎就是如此，该加密货币项目由前总统、现任当选总统唐纳德·特朗普及其儿子小唐和埃里克支持。正如上个月《协议》中详细介绍的那样，项目官员最初谈到了他们的宏伟计划，筹款目标为 3 亿美元，并发布了一份包含大量精美文字的“金皮书”，其中包括透露最初 3000 万美元的“网络协议” “收入”将被留出用于支付费用、赔偿和义务。其余的将流向一家名为“DT Marks DEFI LLC”的公司，该公司的所有者和负责人包括唐纳德·特朗普。但代币的销售额从未超过 1500 万美元。据 CoinDesk 的 Danny Nelson 上周报道，该项目现已向美国证券交易委员会提交文件称，一旦达到 3000 万美元的目标，销售将立即终止。对市场现实的让步可能会结束这种奇怪的努力，这让许多分析师对特朗普在激烈的总统竞选中如何有时间推广加密货币项目感到摸不着头脑。

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 首席执行官布莱恩·阿姆斯特朗 (Brian Armstrong) 在 X 上的一篇帖子中声称，在美国加密货币交易所上市是“免费”的，这引起了包括 Sonic Labs 的 Andre Cronje 和 Tron 的 Justin Sun 在内的项目负责人的抗议。 Bitget 是一家竞争对手的加密货币交易所，利用该话题的显着性，在其平台上开设了一个新的上市申请门户，并表示其“上市程序透明，并致力于为代币项目提供易于曝光的最佳初始投资”。其社区”，并附有以下声明：“重要的是，Bitget 强烈强调，它不收取任何与上市申请流程相关的费用，例如佣金、经纪费、申请费或评估费。项目团队提供的代币将根据商定的营销和推广计划全额分配给Bitget用户。”

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.”

自从 Crypto.com 推出由马特·达蒙 (Matt Damon) 主演的臭名昭著的“财富眷顾勇敢者”广告以来，加密货币广告已经取得了长足的进步。本周流传的几个视频实际上达到了“令人惊讶的聪明”和“令人耳目一新的黑暗”的三重成就，同时又保持了“令人难以置信的加密原生”。

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 年以太坊上领先的 Layer-2 项目的最大趋势之一是“盒子里的区块链”的出现，团队鼓励开发人员克隆他们的代码以启动新的 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.

现在，有一个项目似乎正在逐渐成为明显的领导者。正如区块链开发中经常出现的情况一样，一个关键因素是资金在幕后易手。

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 层网络之一，它已成功吸引大量客户和公司使用 Optimism 的技术以及 OP Stack，在开源软件许可下部署自己的区块链。

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

这是更广泛的区块链宇宙演变中的一个关键发展，因为第二层网络处于核心地位