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The country is officially on the countdown to either the abolishment of the Electoral College or…
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: Electoral College, Current Events, Voting Rights, Politics, Voting

Thanks to Republican chicanery, I think the country is officially on the countdown to either abolishing the Electoral College or the passing of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. An election where one side wins by more than seven million votes is NOT a close election.

And as we’ve seen, the Republicans have tried to pull all manner of dirty tricks to try to overturn the popular vote to give the election to Donald Trump. As of this writing, they are 1~58 in court cases, including Texas having the presumption to sue four other States over their voting procedures. They have put pressure on election officials (including death threats) to not accept the results. Trump has personally petitioned Governors and State legislatures to set aside their States’ certified results. (And blasting the governors when they refuse to do so.) The Electoral College meets on Monday, and there is almost certainly pressure being put on Electors to be “faithless.” (In Michigan, the Electors will be escorted into their meeting place by armed police because of anticipated protests.) There will be objections to the Electors as they cast their votes on Monday. And as a last-ditch effort, there will be attempts on January 6th, when the Senate and the House meet in a joint session, to stop the formal declaration of the winner. After today’s truly crazy rally in Washington, who knows what else will be attempted?

Let’s set aside for the moment that all this is being done to essentially assuage the ego of our 74-year-old-chaos-agent-man-baby of a President. The reports are privately most Republicans in Congress and even in the White House do know that Biden won the election. It is an unbelievably cynical exercise in political calculation for them to go along with it. For Trump’s part, I believe he started just trying to see how far he could push things, but lately, he seems to genuinely believe the election was stolen from him. And he’s pulling millions of gullible Americans along with him. It’s creating a genuinely dangerous inflection point in our history. I think the transition will ultimately be peaceful, even if it means Trump goes to Mar-a-Lago for Christmas and stays there. But the fact there’s a non-zero chance it won’t be is terrifying. All the more remarkable that it’s taking place in the middle of a pandemic when the country should be focused on the coming vaccine.

This brings us to the point of this post. When the current fever starts to break, I think we will collectively realize that when one side refuses to be a gracious loser, our current system does not remotely resemble participatory democracy. So one way or the other, either by the abolition of the EC or the adoption of the NPVIC, we will have a direct national popular vote for the Presidency.

And good luck with that, o’ Grand Old Party on-the-wrong-side-of-every-major-demographic-trend.
A proposal for voter reform.
Tags: Elections, Voting

A proposal for voter reform.

Our elections are a mess.

I know some people are all about state’s rights, but I’m in the middle — I think it’s OK for the federal government to take charge when it’s in the best interests of the people. And federal elections need federal intervention to make things reasonable again. Congress has the power as stated in the constitution:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations…”

What I’d like to see for federal elections:
Blaze of Blue
By: Chuki Lord
Tags: Resistance, BlackLivesMatter, Voting, Poetry

Stand back and stand by

Hear the chief child’s chilling cry

Ask not when, wonder not why

Hop high to my hate

Pile pride on my lie

That was no candid condemnation

But a crystal clear cloaked call to action

A pure white pride provocation

Holla to my fave white supremacist faction

His call to arms should make you shiver

Light your fuel and overflow your cup

Whittle waning doubt beyond a sliver

If they stand by, WE must stand up

Our democratic duty is to turn the table

Clear our conscience with course correction

Because he cannot stop you from being able

To determine the outcome of this election

So take to the streets, march to the poll

Heed wisdom’s words spoke straight to you

Uphold your awesome crucial role

Be a spark of hope on the blaze of blue
VTNG Solution
Tags: Defi, Vtng, Crypto, Blockchain, Voting

Industry Challenges

The online voting industry is afflicted by a number of serious problems. Among other considerations, odds are vastly in favour of the organizer, payouts are not always honoured, and regular winners are restricted or banned. There is a lack of transparency and security, high fees and low returns, and low social involvement. These factors alienate a significant number of potential voters from taking part in such systems.

The VTNG Solution

In a nutshell, VTNG addresses the most profound challenges of conventional voting by shifting power away from the voting provider and into the hands of the voter community. Voters create the votes, set the rules, and provide the liquidity for fulfilling payouts. The whole process is fully decentralised, transparent, and self-regulating.

Blockchain technology makes it possible to operate the network without a middleman (the main source of structural issues and vulnerabilities in conventional systems). While Smart Contracts not only ensure that voting terms are respected and immune from manipulation, but also protect voter funds in an escrow account. Only when a vote ends, will such funds be released to the vote winner(s). All this, automatically and seamlessly.
ජාත්‍යන්තර මානව හිමිකම් දිනය — 2020
By: Dr. Shirani A. Bandaranayake
Tags: Human Rights, United Nations, Human Rights Day, Democracy, Voting

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Market Opportunity
Tags: Defi, Vtng, Crypto, Blockchain, Voting

The market potential for a superior social voting platform is absolutely massive. Recent estimates place the global voting market at a value of up to 3 trillion USD (both regulated and unregulated). Licensed voting alone exceeds half a trillion USD.

As broadband and smartphone penetration keep rising, the market is inexorably shifting from traditional to online channels. The online voting industry is already worth nearly 50 billion USD, with mobile-based platforms experiencing explosive growth of over 40% per year.

Social voting dominates the industry, with an estimated 50%-60% share of total spend. For this reason, VTNG will initially focus on social voting, allowing us to scale our business and reach an operating profit as rapidly as possible.

Thanks to our focus on simplicity and security, we believe we will appeal to non-voters as well: the mass of casual voters who has not yet dared to place an official vote, intimidated by the complexity and lack of transparency of conventional voting solutions.
What is VTNG, and why?
Tags: Defi, Vtng, Crypto, Blockchain, Voting

Broadband and mobile connectivity literally put voting in the hands of millions. But centralised, conventional voting suffers from serious structural shortcomings. The advent of Blockchain technology ushers in the opportunity to redefine the industry, delivering a solution with all the advantages of conventional voting and none of the drawbacks.

At its core, VTNG is a social voting platform, allowing people to vote on events with other voters without going through a “middle man. It operates as a fully decentralised, secure solution built on Ethereum-based Smart Contracts. All votes are carried out using VTNG, our purposefully designed digital token.

VTNG is safe, transparent, provably fair, and simple to use. It’s this easy: you create a vote on one or more events, designating the minimum amount and how winnings will be split. Others join the vote (with their own event predictions). After the events end, Smart Contracts automatically calculate the winnings and award VTNG tokens based on the agreed split (e.g., winner takes all).

But beyond the basic voting mechanics, VTNG will deliver a set of industry-winning features and advantages, including:

1. Strong support for social and community-building elements

2. High simplicity to bring in casual voters, but with advanced functionality for professionals

3. Designed from the ground up to deliver viral uptake (minimising voter acquisition cost), well beyond the standard friend-get-friend referral programs

4. Support for limitless rewards and massive vote wagers (High Roller Club)

5. Powerful gamification elements (aimed at higher voter retention and engagement)

6. Privacy respect (planned support for self-sovereign ID integration, such as Civic)

7. Ready for AI-based robotisation, to improve user experience and platform profitability 8. Multi-channel experience: Web, iOS, Android (plus other platforms as market relevant)

9. Future-proof and ready to include voting content

10. Designed for rapid ecosystem uptake (e.g., open-source, third-party integration)

11. Built as modular technology components, enabling offering of near-turnkey white-label solutions with low customisation cost

12. A custom solution delivering fast processing time at a lower cost and supported by our digital token (VTNG)
Huge Cons of Classic Voting Approach
Tags: Defi, Vtng, Crypto, Blockchain, Voting

Through its unique combination of risk, excitement and potential financial gain, voting has been blessed with everlasting appeal. From the times of Roman gladiators to the rise of social networks, voters have wagered on the outcome of their favourite events. The global voting market is worth a massive 3 trillion USD. And as online and mobile channels continue to thrive, the industry is poised to grow even further.

Nevertheless, voting has always been plagued by a dark side. Regular scandals involving malicious organizers and fraudulent agencies have seriously undermined the industry’s reputation. When voters lose, they lose everything. And when they win, they may not receive the promised amounts. Furthermore, exorbitant fees and unwarranted complexity discourage potential voters from voting at all. Somewhere along the lines, voting went from being a social, engaging activity to becoming an individual, risk-ridden peril.

Even in its fairest implementation, traditional voting remains a highly centralised endeavour, taking power away from the players and placing it in the hands of organizers. Simply stated, in the long run individuals inevitably lose all their funds against “the House.”
Ignore the Noise. GOTV is All that Matters.
By: Nelson Lowhim
Tags: Voting, Gotv, Politics

Lots of circular firing squads (some on the right, though I think that’s for show).

Screw that noise. GOTV.

Some of this, on the liberal/left side of things, sounds familiar. In fact, right before this most recent election all I saw in the liberal sites was chicken counting and people arguing about how much of a Green New Deal should be passed. I kept saying stop and just GOTV. That got me banned, and again I’ve been banned from liberal sites that would rather hand-wring and hippie punch than actually help to get out the vote. Better to keep the scream machine going, I suppose. So forget them.

And GOTV.

Don’t listen to the GOP in disarray bs, they’re not. They always fall in line ( I sometimes think, with Trump being as good as he is at creating a reality TV show for America, he’s trying to make it seem like he’s confused, when there’s a thrust to that chaos). Good for them.

What was that? Oh yeah, GOTV and never look back.

Dec 7th is the votefwd.org deadline to send out letters , btw, so get to letter writing (as I am).

Yeah, sure the right and iTrump are trying to steal the POTUS election, but there’s still Georgia that we need to stay on top of.[1] So, here are some good campaigns for you to spend time on.

You from GA? (or you have friends and family there, then contact them and make sure they’re good to go). Well make sure you’re registered to vote.

Votefwd is all about letter writing. Right now it’s voter registration and next it will be getting people to vote. So start up!

Fairfight is Stacey Abrams and given that she’s mainly behind the GA flip, well, do as she says! The donate button on that page takes us right to this. So splurge some cash. Volunteer nationally or in GA. Seems that you can text and call (non-GA peeps).

Then there’s the two Senator’s campaigns.

Warnock is here.

Ossoff’s campaign is here.

PEC has this GA voter registration Drive including some other methods you can use to help. (and PEC here showing letter writing could work though in person canvassing is the best)

Let me know if I should add any!
Mirror Wallet Guide: How to Buy/Sell Mirrored Assets
By: Mirror Wallet
Tags: Blockchain, Defi, Mirror Protocol

Mirror Wallet Guide: How to Buy/Sell Mirrored Assets

In this step-by-step guide, we will show you how to easily buy/sell Mirrored Assets on the Mirror Wallet. If you have not funded your Mirror Wallet, please check out the guide “How to Deposit TerraUSD (UST)”.

Mirror Wallet, the very first mobile wallet built on Mirror Protocol, is now live on Google Play and Apple Store! Download it today!

How to Buy Mirrored Assets

Navigate to the Invest tab

Select the Mirrored Asset that you wish to purchase

Click Buy

Enter in the amount to purchase (in UST), and click Next

Review the Price, Amount, Fees and Total Cost. If you need to change the order quantity, click Reset Buy Order and enter the new quantity.

Click Confirm to place the order

to place the order Review the executed Buy order quantity and click Done

To verify the newly purchased Mirrored Asset quantity in your wallet, scroll down to Invested Detail to view the Amount and Current Value etc.

The balance can also be viewed under the listing of mAssets on the Wallet page

How to Sell Mirrored Assets

Navigate to the Invest tab

tab Select the Mirrored Asset that you wish to sell

Click Sell (note: the Sell option is only visible if you do have available quantity to sell)

Enter in the amount to sell (in mAsset), and click Next

Review the amount, price, fees and total cost. If you need to change the order quantity, click Reset Sell Order and enter the new quantity.

Click Confirm to place the order

to place the order Review the executed Sell order amount (in UST) and click Done

Thank you for using Mirror Wallet! Our technical team is working closely with Terra to continuously improve and integrate additional features to the current platform. Stay tuned for new projects built by the community on Mirror Protocol!

Disclaimer: Mirror Wallet may not be available for use in some jurisdictions, and may have limited functionality in others. Users should do their own research to determine whether using Mirror wallet is compliant with local securities regulations. Cryptocurrency investment is subject to high market risk. Mirror Wallet is not responsible for any direct, indirect, or consequential losses as a result of the trading. Please make your investments with caution.

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Medium: Mirror Wallet
Dreamswap begin today
Tags: Defi, Btc

Look up to the sky, feet on the earth！
Try C.R.E.A.M. on BSC
Tags: Finance, Defi, Ethereum, Blockchain, Bitcoin

https://app.cream.finance

Want to join Defi but don’t know how to start? Use C.R.E.A.M on Binance Smart Chain for cheaper gas fees and faster transaction speed.

For a limited period from 28 to 30 December 2020 UTC+8, new users of C.R.E.A.M. finance BSC can receive some BNB to cover gas fees.

How to use C.R.E.A.M. on BSC?

Create a BSC Wallet First.

- For Metamask:

https://docs.binance.org/smart-chain/wallet/metamask.html

- For Trust wallet:

https://docs.binance.org/smart-chain/wallet/trustwallet.html

Now you have a BSC wallet, you can supply and borrow BEP20 crypto assets on C.R.E.A.M. at https://app.cream.finance

Get Some BEP20 Assets

You can go to Binance.com to deposit your assets and withdraw the assets out in BEP20 assets.

Withdraw page on Binance.com

Supply Assets

1. Choose the BEP20 asset you want to supply

2. Type the amount and click on the ‘Supply’ button.

Supply pop-up window

You will need about $0.05~$0.5 value of BEP20 BNB for paying the gas fee per transaction. In this transaction, we paid 0.004652 BNB for gas fee.

Congratulations! You are earning supply interest of your supplied asset now.
Open Season for BORG Farming
By: Locutus Of Borg
Tags: Decentralized Finance, Defi, Ethereum, Bitcoin

FAQ

Question: Why did my rewards go down?

A‍nswer: If your claimable rewards went down, this is likely due to another user unstaking with a large bonus multiplier, reducing the overall rewards pool.

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But fear not! You now have a higher proportion of the global share seconds, so you will see your claimable rewards increasing at a faster rate as more rewards unlock.

For more information see the Gyser documentation.
$ORO was listed on @swapswopio Wich is is a safe and legal cryptocurrency exchange platform.
By: Muhammad Rabiu Umar
Tags: Openefi, Oropocket, Defi

$ORO was listed on @swapswopio Wich is is a safe and legal cryptocurrency exchange platform. @oropocket #OpenDeFi https://t.co/israMveEG5
Update on The $Easyfi Dual Farming Launching
By: Adeyeye Oluwafemi Abraham
Tags: Defi, Launching, Farming, Easy

Good News!!!🤩😍😍😍

The much awaited #Easyfi Dual farming would be launching tomorrow 28th Dec, 2020!📆📆

Get your $Easy ready!!!!!🤑🤑🤑
Gochie, Gochie, Aavegochie
Tags: Aavegotchi, Aave, Defi, Nft Collectibles, Dao

Hi frens! How are you doing today? Are you making them sick gains by shorting BTC? Are you in alts, waiting for the alt season? Are you feeling bad because it feels like it takes too long…? Perhaps… even worried? I don’t think there is any reason to be worried, however I could bee wrong too. Who cares anyway! Let’s cheer up, shall we?

So here’s a short story. I am and was, at the same time, a long term alt hodler. I have had some terrible performers until I didn’t. I have decided to sell some poor alts at a 50% profit loss; At a perfect bottom even. I don’t care.

What have I done next? I bought GHST and went straight for staking. I am currently earning a decent amount of FRENS each day. For those that may not know, FRENS allow you to buy tickets for wearable NFTs in the Aavegotchi meta-verse. One can either sell the tickets or participate in the upcoming raffles. I tend to believe that these will be pretty valuable. Why? Well, wearables can be equipped on your Aavegochies to increase their traits, therefore their rarity, value and earning. Wow! How? Aavegochie NFTs will use aTokens as collateral to generate yield via Aave’s lending pool.

Here’s how I see it: Aavegochie rarity + aGHST collateral(not yet announced)+ yield farming = idk how one could lose with this; Maybe if there would be a vulnerability. Keep in mind that this is my pure thoughts over the project. Think of me as a gambler. I see potential, however, I am not afraid of taking a loss.

What’s the purpose of GHST?

GHST will be used for staking, exchange of value, votes in AavegotchiDAO and, it will be earned through rarity farming.

What’s my take on 12x price increase since the private sale?

Let’s have a look at the tokenomics — 360 days vesting, with 160 days cliff (starting in Q3 2020).

- 5.000.000 GHST sold in the private sale for $0.05. - 500.000 GHST sold in the presale for $0.1. - public sale started on the bounding curve at $0.20 and now trading in the range of $0.60. Please note that I am still researching the tokenomics and any new findings or errors will be updated.

That being said, sales have gone for really cheap; However, many DeFi degens bought in, therefore there are not many big holders within all 4,256 addresses. On the other side, new people keep coming in, and other hodlers accumulate and stake GHST for tickets(which can offer returns). The market cap is pretty small too. Take for example Aave, the main project. The current market cap is $900m while Aavegochis’ is $11m. See what I did there? That could be an almost 90x from here.

It’s important to remember that the project is quite unique and it will benefit from both DeFi and NFT hypes.

On top of all being said, the mainnet will be launched on the 4th of Jan 2020.

I believe the project is still very cheap and a bit under the radar. With time, it could be a great way to secure wealth.

Please, read the whitepaper if you want to be blown away even more. This article is a piece of cake compared to the whitepaper.

*ALERT* this is not shilling(debateable), nor financial advice.
New Listing on Bitwired
By: Adeyeye Oluwafemi Abraham
Tags: Listings, Defi, Easy

#EasyFiNetwork

is officially listed on

#BitwiredGlobal

with the $EASY / $USDT Trading pair.

$EASY Deposit started: 24/12/2020 12:30 pm (UTC)

$EASY Trading started: 25/12/2020 12:30 pm (UTC)

Get more info here: https://bit.ly/38v1oUx
tl;dr — Pseudoabflation for Dummies
By: Pseudo Finance
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Ethereum

What makes Pseudo different from every other deflationary protocol, even ones with treasuries implemented? It’s our distribution and dedication to post-launch fairness — a concept many DeFi platforms have struggled with and one that has yet to be provably solved. It’s our completely new mechanism known as PseudoAbflation. Pseudo because its kind of like deflation and inflation but really its there’s no change, just movement. Abflation because its Abstracted In/Deflation.

Assume for a second that there are 100 $PSEUDO in circulation.

WHALE CHAD sends 90 (!) Pseudo to DOUG.

DOUG receives 89.1 Pseudo and 0.9 Pseudo are burned (recall the 1% burn fee).

KAREN with her 10 Pseudo(10% of the protocol here), unrelated to that transaction and on the opposite side of the crypto world, gets her 10% of that 0.9 Pseudo burn from WHALE CHAD’s transaction. KAREN now holds 10.09 Pseudo — the original 10 Pseudo plus (0.9 burned Pseudo x her 0.1 ownership in the protocol). She didn’t have to claim or stake anything. By simply holding Pseudo in her wallet, they increased instantly as passive income.

But the key to all of this? The reason why YOU should care is because Karen’s account isn’t the only one going up thanks to WHALE CHAD paying DOUG for beer money. All accounts holding Pseudo go up. Instantly. With no need to claim tokens.

In fact, we actually oversimplified. Accounts performing the very same transactions triggering burns are also receiving part of the burn fee. So the burned Pseudo will even still appear in WHALE CHAD’s and DOUG’s accounts! DOUG in reality will get a fraction more than 89.1 Pseudo (adding his share of the protocol-wide burn fee) and yes, WHALE CHAD gets a tiny fractional rebate in the form of his share of the protocol-wide burn fee.

So now you understand how PseudoAbflation works, how it affects your transactions and your balance. Allowing you to get your fair share of the networks fees. Now you hopefully can see how this fundamentally flips the current inflation of central banks. Where the poor pay the rich through inflation, without receiving any of it to their own holdings. By redistributing the wealth generated through the fees fairly, all holders are incentivised to use a currency which isn’t inflationary since the actual circulating supply is contstant, isnt deflationary causing anyone to feel like the need to hold their money without spending it, and allows for wealth redistribution in a fair way.

We hope this first in our series of TLDRs has helped you understand the complicated mechanism of PseudoAbflation. Follow us for more explainers simple enough that a child could understand and for updates.

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We are glad to inform you that https://t.co/cm1mNolfTO
By: Muhammad Rabiu Umar
Tags: Blockchain, Defi, Opendefi, Oropoket

We are glad to inform you that https://t.co/cm1mNolfTO has listed $ORO for you to exchange both ways in a safe and anonymous way. Be your own bank and choose @oropocket! #OpenDeFi https://t.co/sEjsLSx6Kn
BAF Finance Subscription Round
By: Baf Finance
Tags: Basicdefi, Finance, Defi, Baffinance, Baf

Subscription round rules

Method: Distribution by Proportion

Fundraising limits: 300,000USDC

Personal limit: No personal limit

1. We will announce a ETH address on the official channel #subscription-round at 14:00 PM UTC 27th Dec2020, and investors will invest by using their own wallets (make sure to use the wallets with private key, such as Tronlink, Do not use the exchange to directly withdraw, which will result in the loss of your funds)

2. 300,000 USDC allocation in total for subscription round. After 24 hours, we will divide your investment amount by all USDC received in this address to get your proportion in the entire round.

3. This proportion is multiplied by 300,000 to get the USDC allocation you actually invested, and the excess USDC will be returned to your original address.

Example:

If you invest 5,000 USDC and the address receives 1,000,000 USDC in total, then your proportion is 5,000/1,000,000=0.5% , the final amount you invest is 0.5%*300,000=1,500 USDC allocation, your ETH address will receive 15,000 BAF during the token distribution.

Within 24 hours after the completion of subscription round, you will receive 3,500 USDC refund to your original address.

Please beware of fake token contracts. Do not trust the contracts released by anyone else before publishing on our official channel.

Website: https://baf.finance/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BasicDefi

Discord: https://discord.gg/5E93fjJTT8

Telegram: https://t.me/basicdefiofficial
Proposal 15 ver2 CVP-ETH and YETI rewards: steam statement
Tags: Cvp, Yeti, Defi, Powerpool

This article is devoted to the team’s view on the recently approved Proposal 15 (version 2)

Background: original Proposal 15

Some time ago Proposal 15 was submitted to the PowerPool governance system by a community member. It was devoted to renewing rewards for the CVP-ETH Uniswap pool and the YETI staking/YETI-ETH Balancer pools. Unfortunately, this proposal contained obvious mistakes (for example, 250k CVP for YETI/ETH per week, not per month). During discussions in Discord, this person made a decision to re-launch the proposal with correct numbers (Proposal 15 v2).

Proposal 15 version 2

Proposal 15 version 2 was submitted with correct numbers regarding token rewards (250k CVP/month for YETI/ETH Balancer pool and 200k CVP/month for YETI staking).

Additionally, the proposal changes vesting for YETI pools and CVP-ETH Uniswap pair from 10 weeks to 24 weeks. The text of the proposal contains the phrase “24 weeks (3 months)” two times, but it is not correct (24 weeks ~ 5.5 months)

24 weeks is approximately 5.5 months

Another issue is related to the fact that vesting rules are defined for all pools in the same contract (including PIPT, YETI, CVP-ETH Uni). It means that we cannot change YETI and CVP-ETH rewards vesting separately from PIPT due to technical reasons. So, the question is — do we need to change ALL vesting to 24 weeks or we need to develop separate LP mining contracts for different pools?

Closing notes

Proposal 15 version 2 was approved by the CVP community. But, to make it legit and implement it properly we still need to understand:

Vesting rules:

24 weeks or 3 months Are these new rules applied to ALL pools or only to YETI/CVP-ETH?

If only to YETI/CVP-ETH, we need to develop this solution

So, to move forward we need our community to launch the final proposal with 100% correct text (please, share it on the forum and get approval from other community members that it is free from typos and obvious mistakes) + clarify vesting rules please (are 24 weeks applied ONLY to CVP-ETH Uni and YETI pools, or it is the new rule for ALL PowerPool pools).
Equilibrium Lightpaper
By: Equilibrium Protocol
Tags: Uniswap, Cry, Defi, Equilibrio, Ethereum

Equilibrium is the absolute goal

In our Lightpaper you’ll be able to see with clarity the goal of Equilibrium and how it will achieve it.

Join us at:

www.equilibrium.to

https://t.me/equilibriumprotocol
1inch Foundation has released 1INCH token!
By: Sergey Golubev, Сергей Голубев
Tags: Airdrop, Defi, Binance, 1inch Token, 1inch

Super opportunity

It is a big pleasure to share excellent news from our clients, because we see they hard working that makes 1inch > $UNI

The 1INCH decentralized exchange on Ethereum has launched its token, which has a capitalization potential of $ 4bn, showing excellent investment opportunities.

1INCH thanked everyone who used its services by distributing $1INCH tokens. The situation echoes the success of UniSwap. The token was already listed on Binance and Okex, which shows a lot of trust from the crypto community. This DeFi project meets the existing needs of investors and traders, which qualitatively distinguishes it from other DeFi projects today!

Experts are confident that the price of the 1INCH token will grow for fundamental reasons that drive demand. $UNI and $SUSHI are still number one and two in the ranking of the most used decentralized exchanges (in terms of turnover and liquidity).

The ability to mine $1INCH is launched, providing liquidity on the exchange. In this plan, 1INCH will use the SushiSwap strategy, temporarily artificially increasing rewards in order to poach liquidity from UniSwap and SushiSwap.



More details about 1INCH token: https://1inch-exchange.medium.com/1inch-token-is-released-e69ad69cf3ee

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Newsletter 12/26 — Down the RabbitHole
By: Isaiah Leigh Kilby
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Ethereum

Newsletter 12/26 — Down the RabbitHole

Down the RabbitHole

Earn money for using someone’s financial product. In Defi this isn’t a new concept, but Rabbithole is offering a new spin on this concept. The world of Defi is changing rapidly and it’s hard to keep up with new products being released every week. RabbitHole incentivizes users to use the new products by offering payment in the products tokens. You learn how to use the product and get paid to do it. Learn more here.

As the ownership economy continues to grow, protocol communities are continuing to grow and become more involved. However, in order to keep growing the ownership economy, with new protocols being introduced, RabbitHole found a unique way to incentivize retail investors to not just be investors to actively participate in in new defi projects, learn how they work, and see the new value the protocol is adding to the ownership economy.

RabbitHole is an exciting new project that pushes forward the concept of ownership economies. In order for this protocol to be a success, Rabbithole must work to maintain product credibility in what it incentivizes people to invest in. As we enter the next big bull run, akin to 2017, many of these interesting protocols and projects will likely fall apart. It will be RabbitHole’s job to make sure that they’re incentivizing their users to play games in the protocols that will likely have long-lasting returns.
“Cryptocurrencies have no value, they don't produce anything” Warren Buffett
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Passive Income, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Investment

Mr. Buffett was never completely right with his take on the crypto world, but now it’s safe to say he is completely wrong.

One of the major criticisms that Cryptocurrencies received from old economy is, that it does not have any real value. While that is in large parts a very debatable statement for many tokens which actually do have utility and thereby have value, one might admit certain truth to this view on many tokens on the market. The majority of global investors prefers assets that are backed by definable value, such as a business which sells products and services, and create revenue and reward investors with dividends.

Bearing this in mind, TheToken.Network (TTN) developed an ecosystem and solution approach, creating a bridge between crypto and traditional real world economy. The recent surge of DeFi is bringing a whole new range of use cases to crypto and at the same time, eliminates various negatives from centralized crypto products. TheToken.Network is a complete DeFi solution based on a decentralized platform democratically controlled by its token holders. The goal is simple yet revolutionary: make crypto values usable in real world business use cases and vice versa.

The opportunities and use cases are endless, investors participate in the emerging crypto market while at the same have the security of different real world assets backing the value of their investment.

TheToken.Network’s ecosystem is based on two tokens, TTN and TTNP. In short, TTN is the ownership of the platform benefiting, earning and governing. TTNPay (TTNP) is the liquidity token used to participate in TTN use cases, staking and paying relevant fees in the ecosystem. TTN has a fixed limitation to 10.000 tokens, while TTNP is limited to 100.000.000 tokens. On the platform, you can at any time exchange your token for their real given value displayed in its liquidity pool. Therefore, there is no incentive whatsoever to sell your token at lower prices on the market. Unlike many other projects in the DeFi space, this will prevent the dump of the token price as there are no forced theoretical concepts to stabilize price but the mere fact that there is guaranteed liquidity in form of stable coins and assets backing TTN and TTNP token!

TheToken.Network’s founders are public and guarantee for the safety of investor’s liquidity provided creating this game changing DeFi platform. To learn more about TTN, please use the following links:

https://twitter.com/thetokennetwork

https://t.me/TTNCHAT Join our Telegram!
Introducing Seigniorage Protocol (SEIGN) and USDs
By: Jack Leo
Tags: Erc20, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, Defi, Crypto

After succes of the seigniorage coins, we decided to build a more sustainable and a long term protocol.

Seigniorage Protocol forked from SHARE with some main changes:

Epoch: 12 Hours ➡️ 8 Hours

Rewards: DAO : LP, 70% : 30%

SEIGN holders can get USDs by holding or adding to LP.

Seigniorage epoch will be active as long as USDs is above 1 $

%1 tx of SEIGN trades will go to USDs pool and will be locked forever.

USDs Presale:

Users could participate in presale with USDC with a 30% discount (0.7 USDC)

Launch: Right after presale ends or hard cap been reached

Min: 200 USDC

Max: 1500 USDC

Soft cap: 20000 USDC

Hard cap: 40000 USDC

Also 1000 USDC worth of USDx giveaway to the 4 winners. More details are in our Telegram channel.

Telegram : t.me/SeigniorageProtocolOfficial

Website : Coming soon !
Saffron Epoch 4
Tags: Defi, Ethereum, Blockchain

Today marks the beginning of Saffron’s Epoch 4. This epoch contains two new pools, one of which is the second ever implementation of a Saffron tranche adapter in the wild.

Please note: the new pool contract was not audited and users should proceed with caution.

Below are the updated Liquidity Mining Rewards for epoch 4. Please note that the epoch mining subsidy halves for each epoch:

DAI/Compound Pool (200 SFI)

SFI/ETH Uniswap LP Pool (410 SFI)

SFI Staking Pool (210 SFI)

SFI/BTSE Uniswap LP Pool (100 SFI)

rSFI Staking Pool (210 SFI)

SFI/GEEQ Uniswap LP Pool (10 SFI)

SFI/ESD Uniswap LP Pool (50 SFI)

SFI/ETH SushiSwap LP Pool (410 SFI)

ibETH/Alpha Pool (50 SFI)

DAI/Rari Pool (200 SFI)

SFI/PRT Pool (25 SFI)

DAI/Rari Pool

The DAI/Rari pool is the first new addition of a Saffron tranche adapter to our web3 app and smart contract system since the beginning of Saffron’s journey. The DAI/Rari pool deposits DAI into Rari’s automated smart contract roboadvisor to earn better yield than supplying DAI to a single underlying protocol.

Composable smart contracts make it possible for Saffron to integrate Rari and for Rari to integrate Saffron. As you can see from these tweets below, Saffron has integrated Rari’s smart contracts…

… and Rari has shared some behind-the-scenes screenshots of their work integrating Saffron’s tranche adapters into their web3 app. This means no matter where you are on the web3 internet you should be able to make use of the code we’ve created. This is the true value of a protocol: composability and proliferation throughout a network of interconnected smart contract systems.

SFI/PRT Uniswap Pool

The SFI/PRT Uniswap pool is a result of our partnership with Portion, a network of digital artists, who will be invited to produce concept art for Saffron. This is a strategic partnership with the goal of increasing our brand awareness by bringing quality artwork to the Saffron media kit. Our partnership with Portion is outlined in these two blog posts from Saffron and Portion respectively:

The SFI/PRT pool is incentivized with 25 SFI from the Saffron protocol mining subsidy and 1,000,000 PRT tokens from Portion’s commitment to matching our rewards.

Community

Join the Saffron community and don’t miss an update:

Web3 app: https://saffron.finance

Telegram: https://t.me/saffronfinance

Discord: https://discord.gg/pDXpXKY

Twitter: https://twitter.com/saffronfinance_

Github: https://github.com/saffron-finance/saffron
How to receive airdrops from exchanges
Tags: Airdrop, 1inch, Defi, Crypto

One way to make money in crypto is to utilize the platforms and receive “airdrops” when the respective tokens launch. Examples include 400 UNI tokens for transacting on uniswap.org and 1INCH tokens for transacting on 1inch.exchange. At the time of distribution, each of these were worth a few thousand USD.

Other decentralized exchanges, market makers & platforms may follow this model to incentivize usage & community engagement. There’s plenty of speculation on Crypto Twitter which platforms may release their own tokens. Given that the effort is low & reward is very high, let’s swap for fun (and profit)!

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to swap on various platforms:
My best and moonshot project this coming bull run.
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Investment, Auction

My best and moonshot project this coming bull run. The tokenomics behind this project just makes you want to hold $BID and enjoy the rewards.
What is Yield Farming in DeFi?
Tags: Crypto, Defi, Amm, Yield Farming

A relatively new use case in crypto is Decentralized Finance, or DeFi for short. In its most basic form, DeFi allows for lending and borrowing loans, much like traditional finance. Unlike a traditional finance loan, there is no middleman. This means less operating costs which means better borrow/lending rates. Furthermore, the interest you earn is in form of some cryptocurrency (may or may not be the same as what you’re lending).

The flexibility and composability of crypto, however, enables for much more esoteric financial structures. One such example is Automated Market Makers (AMM). In traditional finance, a market maker is

“a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a financial instrument or commodity held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the bid–ask spread, or turn” Wikipedia

Exchanges, such as NYSE or NASDAQ, use these quotes in order books to fulfill a transaction.

In DeFi, there may be no order book. A popular AMM is Uniswap. Instead of using order books, they hold a reserve of 2 asset pairs (i.e. the asset you’re selling in exchange for the asset you’re buying). An interested buyer simply makes a trade against the reserve. So how is the price determined? According to Uniswap Documentation, “Pricing is automatic, based on the x∗y=k market making formula which automatically adjusts prices based off the relative sizes of the two reserves and the size of the incoming trade.”. To create asset reserves, Uniswap depends on Liquidity Providers (LP). These are companies or individuals that supply their own crypto. The process of supplying is also known as staking.

Why would people stake their own crypto? AMMs provide financial incentives in form of interest (or yield). Yield farming has become the defacto (comical) phrase to represent this.
What Is Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)? — AAX Academy
Tags: Aax, Defi, Bitcoin

As we’ve explained earlier on in our article about Wrapped Bitcoin, WBTC is an interesting ERC20-based token, backed by Bitcoin. Issued on the Ethereum ecosystem, it acts as a unit that can be stored in wallets, used in smart contracts and transferred to dApps. To date, over 115K of WBTC has already changed hands, currently coming second only to Chainlink in terms of market cap. So, why is this asset so popular?

Why WBTC?

Let’s say you’ve got Bitcoin in your wallet and have heard a lot about DeFi this summer when the aggregated weekly volume on DEXes broke past the $8-billion mark. You really want to put your capital to good use and try this “DeFi thing” even though the numbers have dropped almost twice by December 2020 — what are you going to do to connect Bitcoin and Ethereum?

WBTC can solve this problem, and the solution is as elegant as easy. In 2019, the founders of a joint project of three organizations BitGo, Kyber Network and Ren suggested to wrap the oldest and largest cryptocurrency on the market in the ERC20 standard, to integrate Bitcoin into the Ethereum blockchain — et voila!

There’s no more need to run a separate Bitcoin node if you’re a DEX, ERC20 wallet or another dApp. The liquidity associated with the BTC market is brought to the Ethereum blockchain and the transaction time is now reduced.

According to the official custodian of the project BitGo, WBTC users will be able to utilize Bitcoin in a wide variety of new decentralized use cases, including on decentralized exchanges (DEXs), as collateral for stable coins or lending, for payments and flexible smart contracts within the Ethereum ecosystem. The leading use cases will be powered by important decentralized projects including Kyber Network, Republic Protocol, MakerDAO, Dharma, Airswap, IDEX, Compound, DDEX, Hydro Protocol, Set Protocol, Prycto, RadarRelay, and Gnosis.

How WBTC works

As the official website states, to receive WBTC, a user requests tokens from a merchant, the merchant then performs the required KYC/AML procedures and verifies the user’s identity. Once this is completed, the user and merchant execute their swap, with Bitcoin from the user transferring to the merchant, and WBTC from the merchant transferring to the user.

The significance on Wrapped BTC and similar projects is clear. It connects the DeFi space to the market for bitcoin. It also means that the bitcoin held as collateral for WBTC is essentially being HODLed, unless holders of WBTC opt for redemption. With more BTC being HODLed, scarcity increases, which can potentially have a positive impact on the price of bitcoin.
DeFi + Universa = United.FI
By: Alexander Borodich
Tags: Defi, Universa, Ethereum, Défi

Universa Blockchain Founder and CEO, Business angel, accredited investor, serial entrepreneur, addicted to travel and decentralized tokenized economy
Introduction to 4RFI
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Uniswap, Ethereum

It is far over due to Re-write the concept of DeFI Yield finance. The most prominent example of this phenomenon is the recent surge of value flowing into DeFi (decentralized finance). We are witnessing the birth of decentralized protocols that rewards its holders automatically and immediately reflected that in the value of their holdings.

The basic concept of 4RFI is to reward its long-term holders by charging a 2% transaction tax on every transaction and re-distributes to its holders. Further, 4RFI is introducing an automated process of token burns.

Any team or central party is excluded from this concept; the reward will be distributed to its holders and tokens will be burned by the smart contract automaticity and in real-time. We made the contract smooth and seamless so holders will not have to claim the reward and go through any hectic interface to claim the rewards and pay unnecessary gas fee.

1) Transaction Tax

The best way to reward the holders is to keep the team out of equation and no one should be rewarded other than the true owner of the token (4RFI holder). Therefore, 1.5% of 2% transaction tax will be instantly redistributed to all holders in proportion to your 4RFI holdings.

2) Burns

Long-term investors (holders) are the most valuable asset of any project and rewarding them should be a top priority. To reward the long-term holders reaming 0.5% of 2% transaction tax be will sent to a burn address automatically. This will reduce the supply of 4RFI in long run to make 4RFI rare and more valuable over the time.

3) Process Flow

Tokenomics

4RFI will have a max total supply of 10,000 tokens, and the supply will reduce with each transaction due to incredible Auto-burn mechanism. We will start the project with the below mentioned tokenomics.

Max Supply = 10,000

Presale = 5,000

Uniswap Liquidity = 4,000

Marketing = 500

Future Developments = 500

Presale and listing details

5,000 4RFI will be offered to the presale buyers with a hard cap of 80 ETH. Presale will be live for 24 hours or 80 ETH, whichever comes first. Any unsold tokens allocated for presale will be burned.

A proper whitelist will be prepared and buyers will be served as first come first basis.

Max presale contribution = 5 ETH

Min Presale contribution = 1 ETH

Presale details and pricing are:

Presale tokens = 5000 4RFI

Presale Price

1 ETH = 62.50 4RFI

Uniswap listing will be immediately after the conclusion of presale with the following details:

Uniswap Pool;

4000 4RFI/ 80 ETH

Listing price

1 ETH = 50 4RFI

you can find us on:

Website 4rfi.finance

Telegram https://t.me/RFI_public
Key benefits of the Cudos network
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Network, Cudos

The Cudos network is very economical and environmentally friendly. It is a scalable computing network. The network uses the resources of your gadgets to keep them busy. The Cudos network provides additional tools to support owners who donate their equipment.

Cudos is a layer 2 oracle network, governed by smart contracts, connecting blockchain developers and services including DeFi, to a global footprint of computing power on the Cudo platform.

At the moment, about:

- Over 20,000 Nodes

- Over 140,000 Users

-> 500,000 TFLOPS of computing power

- Live in 145+ Countries

The amount of computing power:

- Hundreds of millions of servers

- 2.7 billion smartphones

- Over 2 billion PCs

- Hundreds of millions of game consoles

About $ 1 trillion is spent on IT equipment annually. But more than 50% of all this infrastructure mentioned above is not used for useful purposes, or simply idle.

The Cudos network provides an opportunity to make money on your equipment and properly allocate its resources.