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Nifty All-Star: Fun for your wallet
By: Nifty All-Star
Tags: Game Development, Games, Nftgaming, Nft, Playtoearn

Thank you for the amazing response on the launch of the first gameplay teaser of NAS, a play-to-earn shooter game staring your NFT superstars!

Here is a bit more info on how monetization will work in the game.

NIFTY ALL-STAR’S NFTs

Own your items

Nifty All-Star weapon skin, accessories, emotes, etc. are sold directly on OpenSea. These NFTs will be used as both in-game items and resalable collectibles. Since these items are stored in the blockchain, they can never be taken away from your wallet.

Limited Edition NFTs

The Founders Assault Rifle weapon skin are separated into 3 tiers: Rare, Epic and Legendary. These will be the first NFTs from Nifty All-Star to be sold on OpenSea. Having a Founders Edition NFT in your wallet grants you an early access window to future sales of weapons, accessories, emotes, etc., as long as you hold it.

*The Legendary tier will be revealed on the Official Discord launch day!

Update: discord.gg/MTk62sVGu9

NFT items vs. Microtransactions

Unlike microtransactions in other games, the items of a season will never be re-run in future seasons. To acquire prior season items, you will have to buy them through the secondary market on OpenSea.

Joining Nifty All-Star

Owning at least one of the Nifty All-Star NFTs grants you access to the game. They will also provide you access to new game maps, alpha, beta and gameplay mechanics.

WICKED CRANIUMS CHARACTER SKIN

The Wicked Craniums are the pictorial representation of the 10,762 Craniums that belong to the island of Osseous.

Chapter 1 will be themed after The Craniums. You will be able to generate a 3D skin from the 2D WCs you hold for a fee+gas.

Play and Rent

As the owner of the WC NFT, you will be able to play with it as long as you hold the original 2D NFT. You will also have the opportunity to rent your 3D cranium skin to other players through the in-game marketplace.

Passive Income

A percentage of all 3D skins being rented will be shared among owners who have listed their 3D cranium(s) skin for rent in the in-game marketplace.

PLAY2EARN

This game will feature 3 modes: PVE, PVP and Battle Royal. These modes will be released throughout version updates as other features such as multiple classes and a variety of weapons are implemented. Those modes will generate ERC-20 tokens through wins and daily tasks.

WHAT’S NEXT

The upcoming post will cover more details on the skin rental system and passive income.

Finally, since NAS is a game build with the community, feedback is extremely welcome. Please share your thoughts on what you think of NAS.

Follow Nifty All-Star Twitter for all updates
Why collect NFTs, what can it bring to you?
Tags: Nft, Nft Marketplace, Nftart, Nft Collectibles

There are many reasons to collect NFTs, Digital Art registered in the blockchain.

Here you have some:

Becoming a patron of the arts — Digital art breaks borders, allowing artists to reach global collectors. The purchase process through the blockchain guarantees the rights of the artists and is the foundation of a stable future for the artists. To invest — The same that happens with physical art, digital art is an investment option. Artworks can be resold for a profit on the many public secondary markets, with collectors already realizing returns of 10x+ in only a few months. The pleasure of collecting — The acquisition of a work of art that represents a moment, a feeling, an emotional concept that is difficult to convey in any way other than through art. The sensation of acquiring something unique and with at the same time it is cooperating in the stability of creation at a global level in a way that guarantees that in the future (and in the present) artists can make a living from art. Exhibit online — There are a lot of online options available for displaying your digital art pieces, such as virtual galleries, museums and events that exist online. Share it in physical dispositives — You can display your NFT artwork in your personal space, using a digital frame or tv. You can have it in your home or business like other art portrayal.

Don’t you think it’s now the time to switch to digital art?

Discover the exquisite creations that we have created for your collection at StadioPlus.
Taboo Weekly Update 8/1–8/8
By: Taboo Token
Tags: Crypto, Updates, Nft, Taboo, Cryptocurrency

This last week has been a week of extensive marketing campaigns and spend, along with behind the scenes product development.

The Taboo Radio Show is now in development. It will be an opportunity for Taboo to allow our models to share their stories and for Taboo to start providing entertaining content to our fans! We were featured in NewsBTC: https://www.newsbtc.com/sponsored/taboo-set-to-launch-first-ever-nft-collectibles-for-supermodels/ We have another NFT Giveaway contest. Promises to be super exciting, with the addition of our new models. https://gleam.io/competitions/26kpC-taboo-rare-exclusive-nft-contest-giveaway We added the lovely Holly Barker, to our roster of content creators! https://www.instagram.com/hollybarkerofficial/ Playmate of the Year, for Playboy Magazine! We have some heavy hitting marketing spend hitting the internet, today August 9, 2021. It promises to move our Market Cap in ways we have yet to see!

As we develop our marketplace and work on brand awareness, Taboo will continue to move forward. To those following these weekly updates, your faith will be rewarded. Stay Tuned!
Povo Gaming-NFT Airdrop Is Now Live, ($25K WORTH) Povo Tokens Reward
Tags: Bsc, Airdrop, Nft, Staking, Defi

Total Reward: $25k

1 token = $ 0.08

Winners: 5000 random winners = 50 Tokens

Top 625 referrals = 100 Tokens

Website: https://povo.finance/

Airdrop end date: 20th Aug

Distribution date: 25th Aug

Instructions:

1) Follow POVO Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/Povofinance

2) Join POVO telegram group:

https://t.me/povofin

3) Join Our Reddit Community:

https://www.reddit.com/r/povofinance/

4) Retweet POVO CoinMarketCap campaign pinned on on.

5)UpVote & Comment Reddit Post

https://povo.finance/reddit

6) https://twitter.com/Povofinance/status/1424286240682164224

twitter and tag at least 3 of your followers.

7) Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/Povofinance-109153461407796

NOTE: Fill out the Airdrop Participation form and leave your BSC address to receive your POVO!

https://forms.gle/FdwYkcD3fezUstSE7

When Airdrop Campaign starts?

POVO Gaming airdrop campaign will be live on Aug 10th and ending on August 20th.

When Airdrop Distribution?

POVO will select the winning participants who completed all steps for the POVO Airdrop campaign. The list of winners will be announced on August 25TH.

Social Links:
Airdrop/Whitelist Complete Guide — Hexarchia(Polygon)
Tags: Blockchain, Nft, Defi, Playtoearn, Cryptocurrency

Follow us to receive the latest airdrop and whitelist updates.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalendarDefi

Medium: https://medium.com/@CalendarDefi.

Telegram channel: https://t.me/deficalendar

Update on 22/8:

Hexarchia is giving away a total of 10 Genesis NFTs for the 10 best suggestions on how to improve Hexarchia.

You will need to join their discord at discord.gg/RmACn4Ua.

Go to https://gleam.io/qLBR4/hexarchia-discord-contest to enter the giveaway.

Update on 16/8:

Hexarchia is now giving away a total of 10 Genesis NFTs: ​

x1 Legendary NFT

x3 Epic NFTs

x6 Classic NFTs

Go to https://wn.nr/nxZVsJ to enter the draw.

Hexarchia is an upcoming Play-to-Earn game on Polygon developed with Unreal Engine. It is a war & strategy game inspired by chess.

You can now subscribe to them at https://hexarchia.com/ to get a chance to join their closed alpha launch. They will also be giving away their Genesis NFTs later in several events.

They are now offering a “Standard Access” subscription for free and a “Premium Access” subscription for 0.99 EUR. I have signed up for Premium Access as it is not expensive.

This project is not as popular as the other P2E projects at this moment, so signing up earlier for the free option might give you a better chance of getting whitelisted and joining the pre-sale.
This Big Chill —we wish you know that success will come with time
Tags: Smart Contract Blockchain, Oneroot Project, Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain Technology

This Big Chill —we wish you know that success will come with time ONEROOT Jan 20, 2019·1 min read

While the Winter Solstice occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun, it isn’t the coldest day of a year in China but today, the Big Chill is. The Big Chill is the 24th Solar Term. A solar term is any one of the 24 points in traditional Chinese lunisolar calendars that matches a particularly astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon.

This is an hysteresis effect. Some people often can’t wait to see the results and switch to another track in a hurry, with ignorance of the success may arrive late. Today’s success often comes from yesterday’s efforts. On January 20, 2019, this Big Chill, we wish you know that success will come with time.

This Big Chill

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Telegram-en/ONEROOT network/R1 protocol/Reddit/Twitter/Medium/Linkedin/Facebook/Github

Instagram: @onerootnetwork

Youtube: @OneRoot Project

Korean:

Naver blog/Kakao

Chinese:

Telegram-cn/Weibo

Official QQ group: 6644849

Official WeChat account: oneroot_admin
IU Pixel and OPES.finance partnership in a DeFi Index Pool!
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Defi, Yield Farming, Cryptocurrency

IU Pixel and OPES.finance partnership in a DeFi Index Pool! iUPixel ·Oct 22, 2020

We are proud to share that IU Pixel was selected as a top DeFi project by OPES Finance. These are good news for IU Pixel because now we can be part of the the DeFi Index pool in opes.finance.

This means that IU Pixel will get the opportunity to grow along with 7 other DeFi communities, each growing fast every day. IU Pixel has already started the Harvest pool for the first 2.5 million pixels. Having your Pixel in the Blockchain forever is now one step closer to reality.

What is OPES.finance?

OPES.finance aims to disrupt the current financial system and put people back in control of their money through a decentralized financial system. Using DeFi (Decentralized Finance), they aim to have the fairest distribution model the world has ever seen. allowing anyone in the world the opportunity to gain an insdie position in the new financial system and have a voice and voting power to shape the new financial system, without corrupt entities, governments or centralized institutions. DeFi is the evolution of finance, disrupting the traditional CeFi (Centralized Finance), built upon blockchain.

Stay tuned because soon we will publish another article with information for new and advanced cryptocurrency users on how to get IU Pixel tokens.

IU Pixel — Your pixel on the blockchain forever!
YFIN: New MasterChef contract, news…
By: Yfi New
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Staking, Defi, Yield Farming

YFI NEW finance contracts:

$YFIN Token contract: 0x792348668c8d4B640Bb7C09D7127234d4C29053E

$YFIN MasterChef contract: 0x1F024Da90b7C23E62ebdfEB18C05C2e24278867C

Updates:

1) I created and deploy a MasterChef contract in the mainnet.

MasterChef is a contract for managing the YFIN token.

This MasterChef contract is able to create new YFIN’s to pay out rewards to staking participants and manage the token and rewards.

2) I(YFIN developer) removed myself from the YFIN token contract administrators.

Now the owner of the YFIN token contract is the MasterChef contract! Only!

With this action, I completely protected the YFI NEW project from myself. It means: I can’t create new YFIN tokens in my wallet. I also can’t do token manipulation.

This gives 100% protection to YFIN token holders.

I will be able to get a YFIN token on an equal basis with all participants of the staking.

I think this is a great step to protect the project!

BUT! I can manage the MasterChef contract (I can add new pools, and edit block rewards).

This is great for the project!

You can analyze the contract codes to make sure that I am honest!

Contract links:

Token contract: https://etherscan.io/token/0x792348668c8d4B640Bb7C09D7127234d4C29053E

MasterChef contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1f024da90b7c23e62ebdfeb18c05c2e24278867c

Our site: https://yfinew.com/

How to BUY YFIN token on SITE: https://telegra.ph/How-to-BUY-yfi-new-token-10-19

Our TG group: https://t.me/yfinew
Hop supports instant $MATIC withdrawals
By: Lito Coen
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Polygon, Defi, Cryptocurrency

Instant $MATIC withdrawals and liquidity mining rewards for liquidity providers on Hop

We’re thrilled to announce that Hop now supports instant $MATIC withdrawals from Polygon to Ethereum and other supported scaling solutions.

While the native Polygon bridge has seen considerable improvements over the last couple of months, cutting withdrawal times down from an average of 3 hours to merely 1 hour, one asset has been largely unaffected by these upgrades: $MATIC.

Today, there are primarily two bridges to move assets between Ethereum and Polygon. The first one is the Proof of Stake (PoS) bridge and the second one is the so-called Plasma bridge. If you have ever deposited or withdrawn a token such as USDC or ETH to or from Polygon, odds are that you have used the PoS bridge.

The Plasma bridge on the other hand is used for $MATIC withdrawals. It provides increased security guarantees but it also comes with longer withdrawal times of up to 7 days which has been a major pain point to Polygon users wishing to withdraw their $MATIC to a centralized exchange for example.

Hop your $MATIC from Polygon to Ethereum in minutes

Hop is the first bridge protocol to unlock instant $MATIC withdrawals. As such, we’re eager to monitor how the transfer volumes will compare with the assets supported by Hop so far, where the cost and time savings from using Hop over the native Polygon bridge were more negligible. $MATIC withdrawals with Hop will take 4–5 minutes vs. 7 days and gas costs will amount to cents as costs are socialized across many Hop users. In most cases, depending on the liquidity, it will not only be faster but also cheaper to use the Hop bridge!

Plasma bridge withdrawal vs. Hop

To top things off, the Polygon team is granting $400,000 worth of $MATIC rewards to Hop liquidity providers in the $hMATIC — $MATIC AMM over the next year to help us attract and sustain deep liquidity. In other words, liquidity providers will earn trading fees on every $MATIC transfer through Hop and $MATIC liquidity mining rewards on top. The first tranche of rewards will be lasting 1 month and distribute 30,000 $MATIC to LP’s.

How do I become a liquidity provider?

If you have previously provided liquidity on Hop the process is identical to previous assets listed. Here is a video tutorial showing how to do it with USDC.

1) Go to Hop.exchange

2) Head to “Pool”

3) Provide $MATIC or $hMATIC (or both) into the pool in any proportion that you like. You can e.g only add 1000 $MATIC or only 1000 $hMATIC or provide both in any ratio.

4) You will receive LP tokens that reflect your ownership in the pool

5) Head to “Stake” section

6) Approve your LP tokens

7) Stake your LP tokens

8) Earn $MATIC

If you have any questions about the process, hop into our Discord or check out our user FAQ.

Get Involved!

👾 Join us on Discord

🌉 Try out the Demo

🐦 Follow us on Twitter

📝 Join the team

📖 Read the whitepaper
Ethereum on a roll as cryptocurrency takes steps towards greener future
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency News, Cryptocurrency Investment, Cryptocurrency

Ethereum on a roll as cryptocurrency takes steps towards greener future Carbonyte Aug 10·3 min read

At the time of publishing, one Ether (the token of the Ethereum network) was worth $4,252.

Less than a month ago one Ether was worth a staggering 42 per cent less at $2,434.

If you bought $1000 of Ether on July 20 — a little over 21 days ago — you’d have already made more than half your money back by today.

The cryptocurrency hit its highest ever price in early May this year, where it levelled off just one dollar shy of the $AUD 5000 mark.

Simon Peters, market analyst and cryptocurrency expert at eToro, said Ethereum was making inroads in being “greener”, given a major criticism of Bitcoin is the amount of electricity used to mine coins.

“Ethereum’s London hard fork finally took place on Thursday, with the cryptoasset’s creator Vitalik Buterin hailing the moment as a step toward making it more energy efficient,” Mr Peters said.

“The hard fork is the single biggest upgrade to the Ethereum network since 2015 and has significant implications for the cost of fees on the blockchain — so-called ‘gas’ fees.

“But according to the founder Buterin, it has implications for the energy efficiency of ETH. Speaking to Bloomberg News in Singapore, Buterin said EIP-1559 could reduce emissions caused by the network by 99 per cent.”

Any step a cryptocurrency takes towards being more environmentally friendly is likely to drive up its price.

“Cryptoassets such as ETH and bitcoin have come in for criticism in recent times for high energy usage,” Mr Peters said.

“Tesla chief executive Elon Musk triggered a major selloff in May with comments on the high emissions of the bitcoin mining process.”

The information provided on this website is general in nature only and does not constitute personal financial advice. The information has been prepared without taking into account your personal objectives, financial situation or needs. Before acting on any information on this website you should consider the appropriateness of the information having regard to your objectives, financial situation and needs.
On-Chain Copyright management PoC by ETHTurin
Tags: Copyright, Music, Dapps, Ethereum Blockchain

The ETHTurin Meetup emerged from the community of the ETHTurin 2020 local impact hackathon and channeled into a project-oriented community throughout 2020 and 2021. Anticipating EthCC’s hot-thread on regulations and harmonization design-thinking, we worked around an existing need for an international, public system for music copyright deposit and payment, following guidelines indicated directly by representatives of the Italian SIAE and the German GEMA.

This need can be summarized as following:

Copyright Management is one of the hardest systems to improve, mostly due to consolidated monopolies in each country

There is no global database of copyright deposits (there is for artists/authors), and national CMOs (copyright management organizations) around the world are looking for a solution

Europe’ Digital Single Market strategy has breached through these monopolies with the 2014 EU “Barnier” Directive (‘Collective management of copyrights and the multi-territorial licensing of rights for the online use of musical works’) which opens de iure the copyright market to other non-institutional players, corporate and non profit

EU States have only partially implemented the directive, allowing copyright holders to choose whatever management they want, but confirming their state-owned CMOs as the only one with the mandate to mechanically collect the copyrights. In addition, some EU States governments declared that new proposing CMOs must be only non-profit

There is a fundamental difference between royalties and copyrights. In short, the first administers revenues coming from a given finished content-product, the latter policing the intellectual property (IP) behind that piece of original content

e.g. using a cover version of Don’t Stop Me Now for a commercial will pay the copyright to Queen, but not the royalties since it’s not using the original recording

using a cover version of Don’t Stop Me Now for a commercial will pay the copyright to Queen, but not the royalties since it’s not using the original recording Many blockchain music startups are addressing the realm of royalties, but none have thought about solutions for depositing and collecting copyrights on-chain only

Here came our proposal as in:
3rd Round of RGP Token Presale Whitelist Now Open!
By: Rigel Protocol
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Binance, Defi, Token Sale, Cryptocurrency

3rd Round of RGP Token Presale Whitelist Now Open! Rigel Protocol ·Feb 20

Submit your Whitelist application for the 3rd Round of RGP Presale!

All selected whitelisted addresses would receive a 5% Bonus. Reserve your spot Now!!!

RGP Token Presale Whitelist details:

Presale price: 1 RGP = 1.50 USD

Presale Bonus: 5%

Bonus Lockup: 12 months

Currencies accepted: BUSD and USDT

Minimum investment: 1,000 USD

Maximum investment: 25,000 USD

Submit your Whitelist Presale application by filling this FORM.

Whitelist registrations will last till Presale is officially launched.

There are no countries restrictions or KYC requirements to participate in the Presale.

Selected Whitelist participants will be contacted by email from invest@rigelprotocol.com with further instructions.

A spreadsheet will be published with the list of the selected participants.

Join our community:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rigelprotocol

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/rigelprotocol

Telegram Updates: https://t.me/rigelprotocolupdates

Medium: https://medium.com/rigelprotocol

Website: www.rigelprotocol.com

Whitepaper: https://www.rigelprotocol.com/whitepaper

E-mail: support@rigelprotocol.com
The DeFi Series — Statistics Around DAI Stablecoin
Tags: Stable Coin, Ethereum Blockchain, Decentralized Finance, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency

As can be seen from the table below, their prices all have means near $1.00 USD, with DAI being the closest by mean. Their variances are also small with USDC having the smallest:

Table — Mean and Variance of Price (based on 365-day-window)

Above we also attached statistics for ETH and BTC as the major coin for comparison. The variance are normalized by N-1.

Unlike the rest of the cryptocurrency market, stablecoins should not be subject to dramatic price swings. One measure of the volatility in stablecoin prices is its beta value relative to major cryptocurrency markets such as those for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Here is a table of betas for several major stablecoins relative to Bitcoin and Ethereum:

Table — Beta Coefficient of Stablecoins vs. ETH/BTC (based on 365-day-window)

A token will have a beta coefficient of 1 with itself. It serves as a threshold for risk measurement in practice of stock market analysis:

When beta >1, it means the stock is more volatile than the market benchmark (usually SP500 index for stock market). It can also be interpreted as sensitive to the market changes. For example, when the market fluctuates, the stock will be influenced largely and bring higher yield, as well as higher risk;

When beta =1, they have the same level of volatility;

When 0<beta <1, the stock is less likely affected by the market trend.

Usually stocks are positively correlated with the market, i.e. the beta coefficient are usually positive values. However, there are also cases when the value is negative, where stock’s price will go up when the market is at fall.

For the 5 stablecoins above, we see that all of them have absolute values smaller than 0.1, which means they are all much more stable than ETH and BTC, and are unlikely to be affected by the cryptocurrency market trend. In appendix, we also attached a table of beta coefficients for other top coins, for comparison.

Among them, USDC and TUSD have the smallest values and show a negative correlation with ETH and BTC, this indicates that they serve as “storage” tokens to avoid risks when the market is unstable: when ETH/BTC market is going up, users are likely to sell TUSD/USDC to enter the market; when the market is at fall, users may swap their holdings for TUSD/USDC for asset preservation.
Ethereum block gas limit increase and state growth
By: Alexey Akhunov
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain

EDIT: I have found bug in the code that produced the charts and had to re-generated the charts and republish. Now you can see there was a dip around the time of the block gas limit increase, then the state growth did accelerate, but not above the levels that were before the dip.

Just over a month ago, the block gas limit on the Ethereum main net has been increased from around 8 million to around 10 million. Back then I was asked whether there were any concerns about it. The response was that such increase should give us some useful data about the behaviour of the Ethereum users. The main question for me was: “Will this 25% increase in the block gas limit translate into an accelerated state growth?”. After waiting for a month, we can start trying to see whether this is in fact happening. Here I plotted couple of charts, valid as of yesterday, 20th of October, 2019. First one shows moving average of number of new accounts added per blocks (blue), superimposed on the chart of block gas limit (also moving average), red:

I would say it is inconclusive. Now the similar chart about the new storage items created per block:

Again, it is difficult to tell whether something significant has happened over this month.

We need more time and more data. So far it looks like acceleration did not happen just yet.
Pundi X to Join Wanchain as Validator Node
By: Oliver Birch
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Dear Wanchain Community,

We are pleased to announce that Pundi X will be running a validator node on Wanchain’s Proof of Stake platform. Validators began setting up nodes on August 20th over a two-week setup and preparation period. Users can now delegate their WAN to the Validators of choice. More on Wanchain’s Proof of Stake release here.

This update comes after Pundi X and Wanchain partnered in May of last year to extend distributed financial infrastructure, particularly on transactions in physical retail outlets.

Pundi X recently created the world’s first blockchain-backed point of sale solution called XPOS. Pundi X started mass production of these devices in February of 2018 and have already shipped devices across 30 countries. Pundi X and Wanchain are working towards the goal of making the blockchain onboarding process more accessible to users. Allowing retailers and vendors to transact with multiple currencies across various blockchains. Both projects are looking into how they can improve upon cross-chain technology to make the overall experience better (speed, transaction cost, usability).

Dai on Pundi X Platform

On the 7th of August 2019, Pundi X announced “DAI” as the first stablecoin in the Pundi X Platform. This allows DAI to be transacted across the Pundi X payment network.

Cross-chain DAI on Wanchain

Wanchain integrated Maker’s “DAI” in October of 2018. This marked the first “cross-chain” ERC-20 integration, allowing users to swap “wdai” for “wbtc” on Wanchain.

About Pundi X

Pundi X is a blockchain project that aims to make it easier for people to purchase goods and services using crypto. The development team plans to distribute point-of-sale devices to retailers that accept payment in form of the Pundi X tokens.

About Wanchain

Wanchain is the infrastructure connecting the decentralized financial world. Wanchain’s live cross-blockchain solution is EVM-based, includes optional private transactions, and provides a decentralized, permissionless, and secure approach for interoperability. Wanchain has employees globally with teams in Beijing (China), Austin (USA), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), and Madrid (Spain).
What is Ethereum 2.0 (Eth2)? — Is It A Separate Blockchain?
By: Nigeria Bitcoin Community
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Altcoins, Ethereum 2, Cryptocurrency

What Risks Are Involved With Using Ethereum 2.0?

Inasmuch as the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade comes with many advantages for the Ethereum network, there are also risks involved.

Some of the risks are listed below:

1. Failure threats

There have been expressions of concern over the success of the 2.0 upgrades.

Many fear that the plan might fail and this will result in a network split or a security breach due to a code vulnerability.

2. Potential expenses might exceed gains

The Ethereum road map states that staking rewards may be as low as 1.56%.

At this percentage, considering the price volatility, it could result to losses instead of gains.

Though there is a chance of winning on the side of the staker, you might not be so lucky to earn from the price surge.

This is because the opportunity might pass you by while unstaking your coins.

3. Hackers and Scammers

This transition can provide a feasting ground for scammers and hackers.

They will just look out for minor coding mistakes and system vulnerabilities and pitch their ball from there.

Again, there are Exit Scams where a fake staking pool makes away with people’s funds.

So be mindful of the pools you are using to stake your coins. To be on the safe side, you can stake through Trusted exchanges like Binance.

4. Miners will become irrelevant

Despite having a field day during the bull period, things will fall apart for Ethereum miners after the Eth2 update.

This is because the PoW model will be scrapped entirely thus, no need for the miners.

Some might have to sell off their mining hardware and with the funds gotten, purchase ETH to become validators.

For the others, they might go into the mining of other coins or carve a different pathway for themselves.

5. Staking returns might not be worth the risks

More people are interested in becoming validators and setting up staking nodes in the Eth2.

This might just result in lesser returns.

Here are some of the risks that might come with the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade.

Below, I provided answers to the FAQs about Ethereum 2.0 below.
StakeWise Releases New Update — Non-Custodial ETH Staking Available Now
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Staking, Staking Rewards, Eth

Hello folks, here comes another update from us!

Our new release just went live and here is what we included:

We added non-custodial solo staking.

This is a major milestone for StakeWise and we’re over the moon to finally have it released! You can now test staking with your own withdrawal key, which allows you to always maintain full custody of the stake. You will find details about non-custodial solo staking below.

We started showing our “Staking fee” in the custodial staking deposit process.

This is the first step towards educating our users about the pricing.

We added “Staking duration” to deposit details.

It will show how much time has elapsed since your deposit started staking. Special thanks to our community for the suggestion!

As always, we invite you to test out new features and give us your feedback. We continue listening to you and will shape our future development work accordingly. And don’t forget about our sign-up promo: the first 100 users to join our Telegram & Discord will receive 3 months of free staking (T&Cs).

Stay tuned for more updates, and please spread the word about StakeWise — we will not leave your effort unnoticed.

❤,

StakeWise Team
Ethereum Unsuccessfully Trying to Reach $240
By: Bitxmi Pte Ltd
Tags: Investing, Crypto, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Eth

Kataryna Kovtun July 7, 2020

BitXmi.Com

Largest altcoin ether (ETH) on Tuesday, July 7, is trading just above $237 on the BitXmi cryptocurrency exchange. Coin from the beginning of June can not overcome the psychological barrier at $ 250.

At the time of publication of this review, Ethereum capitalization was just over $ 26.35 billion.

Analysts at the BitXmi team expect resistance to increase at $ 239. Due to the lack of support, no breakthrough is expected today, although the activity of Ethereum network users continues to grow.

Recently, Daniel Ferraro from the IntiTheBlock team presented data from which it follows that the number of transactions with different amounts of cryptocurrency in the ethereum ecosystem exceeded 1 million per day.

This trend was the result of the activation of DeFi decentralized financial services market participants.

Ferraro blog notes:

Recently, the number of transactions on Ethereum has reached levels not observed since January 2018.

The daily maximum in the number of transfers was recorded on June 23. Then blockchain users completed 1.09 million operations.

At the end of June, the Santiment platform reported that the number of wallets sending and receiving tokens increased daily on the Ethereum network to 490,000.

At the same time, the record high activity of cryptocurrency holders has not yet led to an increase in the value of the coin. According to the analysts of the BitXmi team, the ether will not be able to make any sharp movements until the volatility of bitcoin is aggravated, with which ETH is 90% correlated.

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Tags: Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain

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Meet the 1inch Network’s swap API for Polygon
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, 1inch, Polygon Network, API, Cryptocurrency

Following a recent expansion to Polygon, the 1inch Labs team released an API for swaps in the network.

The 1inch Network’s swap API for Polygon (previously known as Matic) is an innovative aggregating solution that’s clearly ahead of the competition. It offers users faster transactions and improved rates for swaps, while also reducing slippage and gas fees.

This API will find the most efficient token swap paths. Much like the original aggregation system for Ethereum, it will go through various liquidity pools, including different market depths in a single go, building call data to be sent to the blockchain.

Put shortly, the user will be able to do a swap at the best rate in no time. One of the API’s main advantages is its low median response time, which is below 400ms.

The API for Polygon can be integrated with any dApp or bot, and integrators can collect fees from users’ swaps.

Some useful links: 1inch API documentation, 1inch API for Polygon, 1inch API for Binance Smart Chain, 1inch API for Ethereum.

Currently, the API supports the following protocols on Polygon:

Aave V2

Cometh

Curve

Dfyn

QuickSwap

SushiSwap

This list will continue to grow, so stay tuned for further updates!
Ethereum Price Analysis: Bear Market Ahead
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Blockchain, Eth, Cryptocurrency

Ethereum is battling at stake after its ongoing Bearish pattern, after a since quite a while ago proceeded with Bullish pattern earlier month. Ethereum which is internationally assigned at #2 in the digital currency market is attempting to destroy itself back to the $200 mark.

Ethereum pursued a drop of 22% with Bitcoin as observed on September 24th, which recorded Ethereum’s fall to $153.46 which was the most reduced of this current month, yet because of progress in the worldwide cryptographic money showcase, the Altcoin Ethereum has figured out how to move back and has kept up an enduring situation at $184.11. Be that as it may, the market pattern has demonstrated a forecast that Ethereum may confront progressively Bearish pattern which will cut down Ethereum from its present cost.

Specialists on this market have made a few expectations on how Ethereum may respond to the up and coming days, they have considered the 12-hour graph and the 1-hour outline to make a close to flawlessness anticipation.

Source: TheCoinRepublic
Mogul, A Smarter Solution for Financiers 🚀🚀
By: Samuel Olapade
Tags: Entertainment Industry, Movies, Ethereum Blockchain, Mogul, Mogul News

Oh my goodness, there is nothing like an explosion of blockchain news when it leaves you thinking, you asked, “Um… what’s going on here! Blockchain is emerging as one way to rebalance the cultural economy in favour of creative practitioners and lovers.

The launch of Mogul productions creates an open door for everyone to have a Voice in the filmmaking process. We have experienced creative industries blockchain platforms experimenting with royalty payments for music and screen works, proving the authenticity of visual artworks and fashion, avoiding ticket scalping and more, what a feeling to see the future of films comes to us via a decentralized film financing platform that brings creators, fans, and film financiers together; allowing everyone to play a part in the next big blockbuster.

Mogul Amazing Boom!

One thing common to blockchain project is token creation that serves as the utility for the project and for Mogul, the utility token is known as STARS and its power the Mogul platform. STARS is an ERC20-based token whose public sale started on 25th March 2021 and within 3 days Red Carpet Access sold out …. 50 ETH between 25 Moguls, that’s amazing! the public sale is still on and you can also be part of this, Enter Here.

It is important to know that, early adopter are liable to Airdrop distribution and you can be one of them. The airdrop distribution for the participant to enter this program has passed but the popularity around this, brought in an extension till April 8th, 2021. Get yourself in! Read More Here

In our day to day activities and engagements as blockchain technology is concerned, one of the criteria to seek when searching for solid, transparent, real, and genuine project is Use Case. You ask, is the use case of that project acceptable in the crypto real-world? Does the project have a roadmap? Who are the team behind the project?

Mogul productions took time to relay every information needed through this article — Introducing Mogul Access Passes. Take your time and read it.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Mogul Productions has a lot to offer but, to start with, the burning of the original art created by Rob Prior will be live on April 6th 2021 and this will launch the NFT for Mogul Productions, you need to see the wonder on this set day.

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In conclusion, Mogul is growing every day and as at the time of writing this article, Mogul productions already recorded over 27,000 signups, indeed the future of film is with Mogul Productions.
Will EIP-1559 be a Solution to Ethereum’ High Gas Fee Issue?
By: Bibox Exchange
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain Technology

It is clear that the continuously congested blocks account for the all-time high gas prices.

According to the report by Coin Metrics, an analytics provider, after having delving into the world of Ethererum transaction fees, it is notable that they remain the highest-ever levels and even a highly anticipated upcoming network upgrade is unlikely to ease the condition. Currently, median fees on Ethereum have been consistently over $10 for most of 2021. Comparatively, the average Ethereum transaction fee reached just $5.70 at the height of the 2017/2018 bullish market.

It attributed some of this increase to the increment in ETH prices themselves which will make gas more extortionate. Since the beginning of 2021, ETH has surged 125% to current prices despite a correction of 19% from its all-time high of $2,050. However, over the same period, the median gas price has increased by 532%.

Organically, different types of transactions require different amounts of gas — a simple ERC-20 token transfer uses much less gas than a complex smart contract operation for an automated market maker for example. However, it noted that DeFi itself is cannot result in the high gas fees, it is simply more transactions in general.

Since January 2020, the amount of gas needed per transaction has went downwards. This explains that increased transaction complexity is not accountable for high transaction fees.

Ethereum transactions are currently auctioned, with those paying more gas taking miner priority and getting faster transactions than those that have set a lower gas limit.

The report noted that the current high fees are because the blocks are consistently full, around 95%, and have been since mid-2020 and the DeFi boom. For March 2021, Ethereum blocks have been 97%-98% full, data based on the research.

It is expounded that miners need to specify which transactions to include when mining new blocks and each block can only include a limited number of transactions (on average 160 to 200) due to the maximum block size. Thus, it is still too soon to conclude if the long-awaited EIP-1559 network upgrade, which has been designed to change the auction mechanism and burn some of the fees, can solve the problem of high gas costs, seems like only scaling solutions will be the true long-term fix. It is only can be said that the upgrade will only help make fees more predictable as the root of high fees is the scalability problem.
QiDao Weekly Updates — Week 14 (8/2–8/8/2021)
By: Lao Zi
Tags: Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum, Stablecoin Cryptocurrency, Polygon Network, Blockchain

Recent Announcements

Qi staked 3,158,609 (16% of circulating supply)

Vaults Launching (QIP 015): Sushi

5,609 addresses holding Qi (6% weekly increase)

Vote passed to incentivize borrow MAI through vaults (QIP014)

Transak integration has been completed and will be launched during the week. This will allow users to buy crypto with fiat on QiDao’s website

Upcoming Activities

Voting on QIP016: Cloakwire audit

Voting to add part of USDC Swap fee revenue to Qi staking rewards

Add new collaterals

Product Improvements

New Qi boost page

New eQi analytics page

Protocol liquidity tracker

Things in the works

Improvements to app site UI

WBTC and SUSHI vaults

Vault incentives

Most Recent Fireside Chats

You can find them all on our YouTube channel

Community growth

Lao Zi Twitter: 4,496 followers

QiDao Protocol Twitter: 1,467 Followers

Telegram: 1,506 members

Discord: 3,538 members

Youtube: 277 subscribers

Community shoutouts

Poopster and Wraithers — organizing the UMA AMA

Pingu1 — starting community-run docs for QiDao

QiDao Master and DeFi Master — community activity

Asks for the the community

Vote — The next few weeks will be important in crafting the future of QiDao. We have enabled the Qi Powah boost to give you more voting power.

Partnerships — If you think of partnerships that can help with the following please suggest them or introduce us:

Increase use cases of MAI

Help MAI peg

Increase protocol value

Increase community growth

Fireside chat guests

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Crypto Analyst Says Biggest Altcoin Bull Run in History Coming — Here Are His Top 5 Picks
Tags: News, Bitcoin, Ethereum Blockchain

Crypto Analyst Says Biggest Altcoin Bull Run in History Coming — Here Are His Top 5 Picks Ethone Jan 13·3 min read

A popular crypto trader who made a name for himself by predicting Bitcoin’s plummet to $4,000 in March of last year says that the biggest altcoin bull run in history is on the horizon.

The crypto strategist known as Capo tells his 37,300 followers that the current correction in the broader crypto markets is designed to shake out weak hands.

“They are trying to keep you out of the biggest altcoin bull run in history.”

The trader adds that sharp declines have the tendency to discourage retail investors from buying cheap.

“Funny how everyone wants a dip to buy cheaper but when the dip comes, that’s not enough for them. Pure greed.”

As billions of dollars are wiped out in the crypto space due to the correction, Capo says he is extremely bullish on a number of altcoins.

One altcoin on Capo’s radar is Ethereum (ETH).

The trader believes that the leading smart contract platform is in the midst of a parabolic rally that will catapult ETH to as high as $10,000.

Capo is also looking at Syntropy (NOIA) which he says is also in a strong uptrend that can potentially send the coin to $0.8, representing an increase of 344% from its current price of $0.18.

“And another opportunity below $0.20. Clear reaccumulation in my opinion.”

Another altcoin on Capo’s list is Cardano (ADA).

He says the fifth-largest crypto asset can surge over 270% if it can take out a key level.

“Nothing has changed since the last analysis. It’s reaching the first target ($0.36–0.39). Above that level, it goes to $1.”

As for Solana (SOL), the trader expects the web-scale blockchain for DApps and marketplaces to rally and breach its all-time high of $4.89.

“BuT SuPpLy iS gOinG to iNcreaSe sOon… Trade the charts. Ignore the news.”

The trader is extremely bullish on Litecoin (LTC) as well.

He expects the coin dubbed as the digital silver to soar more than 681% from its current price of $129 after breaking out from a bullish reversal pattern.

“Bullish. It has broken a key level with a high timeframe Adam and Eve bottom. It can reach $1,000.”

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