
The highest increase of nearly 7 times in half a month, and the sudden rise of Core benefited from BTCFI's new narrative
The Layer 1 public chain Core Chain has received renewed attention due to the increase. It uses an innovative consensus mechanism Satoshi Plus, combined with Bitcoin miners and mining pools to improve efficiency and user experience. EVM-compatible Core can unlock more innovative Bitcoin applications, launch multiple plans to accelerate ecological development, and benefit from the increase in miners' income demand as Bitcoin is cut in half. Author: Nancy has been dormant for a year. Recently, the Layer 1 public chain Core Chain has once again received market attention due to its impressive growth. Core's exponential rise was driven by Bitcoin miner demand and BTCFi's new narrative. According to the official report, Core Chain is a Bitcoin-powered, EVM-compatible Layer1 public chain. It aims to complement Bitcoin and serve as its highly scalable smart contract platform. Currently, the ecosystem has covered multiple tracks such as wallets, DEXs, oracles, cross-chain bridges, NFTs, and gaming. According to the block explorer, as of April 2, Core had achieved over 230 million on-chain transactions and 15.63 million wallet addresses. Core Chain is operated by the decentralized organization Core DAO, with over 50 contributors, from Binance, Coinbase, Huobi, BNB Chain, MoonPay, and Blockchain.com. For example, the core contributor Rich Rines is the founder of AutoReach, a smart external dispatch. He worked as an engineering director in the Coinbase capital flow department and has processed more than 1 trillion US dollars in capital. Prior to that, Core was the “originator” of mobile mining. It launched a free mobile mining client, which allowed players to participate in mining after registration processes such as face recognition and KYC, and introduced methods such as single person, team up, or participation in project contributions to increase user participation. This kind of gameplay is similar to many current staking projects, which also enabled Core to quickly gain tens of millions of downloads. It wasn't until December 2022 that Core officially announced the cessation of mobile phone mining. In January 2023, Core announced the launch of the main network and then launched an airdrop. According to data at the time, the number of receipts reached 4.1 billion times. With the popularity of airdrops, Core has successively landed on many mainstream exchanges such as OKX, Huobi, and Bybit. Judging from CoinGecko's price trend, CORE hit an all-time high in February 2023, which also shows its market popularity. Since then, it has continued to decline until CORE suddenly started a strong rise in the past half month, and the highest increase doubled nearly 6.9 times. Behind this transformation is its bet on the BTCFi circuit. At the end of February this year, Core released the Vision and Practice of “Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi,” a long article stating that currently the market has about 1 trillion US dollars of Bitcoin waiting to be unlocked through BTCFi, but for example, although Bitcoin's second-tier solutions can be scalable, operational complexity, capital efficiency, liquidity issues, and other technical barriers hinder large-scale adoption of Bitcoin, and the user and developer experience is too complicated. Core believes that the key to unlocking Bitcoin DeFi is to expand Bitcoin's incentive alignment from Bitcoin assets to smart contract platforms. To this end, Core announced the launch of unmanaged Bitcoin staking and Core's native Bitcoin CoreBTC encapsulation to release the $200 billion market value of BTC DeFi. Among them, unmanaged Bitcoin staking is implemented using absolute time lock technology, which allows users to directly stake within the Bitcoin ecosystem, without transferring Bitcoin to another platform or package, which can greatly improve the high level of security and trust, and can also obtain CORE tokens as passive income for Bitcoin. CoreBTC aims to create a more native encapsulated Bitcoin, so Core introduces roles such as custodians, handlers, guardians, and liquidators to achieve security, decentralization, no trust, no permission, and censorship resistance. In particular, if there is a decrease in the value of collateral compared to the value of locked Bitcoin, Core will allow liquidators to force liquidate the collateral, buy the collateral token Core at a discounted price and burn CoreBTC, thereby increasing the collateral ratio and restoring the custodian to a healthy state. Currently, CoreBTC has been officially launched and has received Halborn's security audit; atomic exchange technology based on the hashed time-lock contract HTLC can enable untrusted peer-to-peer native assets with other blockchains (such as ERC20, BRC20...


