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2025 — Tokenization & Commercialization
$XNY TGE (Jul 23, 2025) and listing live; As the 1st Binance Booster Campaign, it activated distribution and community participation; commercial datasets/APIs shipped so contributors earn ongoing royalties.2
2024 — Mission Extended to Codatta (General Protocol)
Microscope’s mission was extended to build a general protocol for data sourcing, labeling, and on-chain assetification with royalties; staking-as-confidence and contributor reputation were formalized; pilots expanded beyond crypto labels.
(Protocol explainer and royalty model).
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2023 — Microscope (Cross-Org Public-Goods Launch)
Open-source, cross-organization effort to coordinate on-chain account annotation with shared schema, collaborative verification, and multi-party workflows for AML/compliance; co-initiated by Chaintool with near-equal contributions from Coinbase (data team), GoPlus, and engineers from Messari.
(Coinbase blog + Microscope docs).
References (selected)
- Coinbase — Microscope: Protocol for Collaboratively Labeling Crypto Addresses. (Coinbase)
- Microscope Docs — FAQ & schema/verification overview. (Microscope)
- Codatta Medium — “From Fragmented Labels to Shared Knowledge” (recap of ~500M crypto account annotations under CAA). (Medium)
- Binance — Codatta Booster Campaign announcement. (Binance)
- Codatta X (Twitter) — TGE date (Jul 23, 2025) and Booster progress posts. (X (formerly Twitter))
- Avalanche — infraBUIDL(AI) program (grant framework) and third-party notes on Codatta’s selection. (Avalanche Builder Hub)