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Foresight News reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that he hopes more researchers in zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) can provide the time ratio between encrypted computation and raw computation—that is, the ratio of encrypted computation time to raw computation time—instead of only providing the number of operations that can be executed per second (N ops). This ratio is more hardware-independent and can provide more valuable information: when using cryptographic techniques instead of trust-based approaches, how much efficiency am I sacrificing? In addition, for developers, such a ratio is easier to estimate, as developers usually already know the time required for raw computation and can directly perform multiplication. Although he acknowledged that this is difficult because the required operations are heterogeneous between execution and proof, especially in terms of SIMD/parallelization and memory access patterns, so even the ratio to some extent depends on hardware, he believes that despite these shortcomings, the overhead factor is still a valuable metric.

Foresight News reports that Falcon Finance has announced the upcoming launch of its first NFT series, "Perryverse." Users are required to stake 1,000 FF to gain a chance to enter the whitelist, with winners randomly selected from eligible stakers. Each NFT egg is unique, featuring different colors, hidden rarity, and mysterious boosts, with holders unable to know the rarity before the reveal. The total NFT supply is 3,500. The whitelist mint price is 1,000 FF, while the public mint price is 2,000 FF. Eligible stakers or whitelist users who miss the minting window can enjoy a special mint price of 1,900 FF (a 5% discount). Key dates include: October 20, FF staking snapshot; October 21, whitelist eligibility announcement; October 22, whitelist minting begins; October 23-24, public minting opens (2,000 FF, or 1,900 FF with staking discount). To participate: stake 1,000 FF before October 20, check the whitelist results on October 21, mint Perry on October 22 if whitelisted, or join the public mint on October 23 if not.