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Ethereum price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $12,579,584,227. ETH price is down -1.3% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 110 Million ETH coins and a max supply of ∞. FTX is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io, ethplorer.io, blockchair.com, and eth.tokenview.com. Additional information can be found at https://www.ethereum.org/.

What is Ethereum?

Ethereum is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. In other words, the vision is to create a world computer that anyone can build applications in a decentralized manner; while all states and data are distributed and publicly accessible. Ethereum supports smart contracts in which developers can write code in order to program digital value. Examples of decentralized apps ( dapps) that are built on Ethereum includes token, non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance apps, lending protocol, decentralized exchanges, and much more.

What is a Smart Contract?

A smart contract is a programmable contract that allows two counterparties to set conditions of a transaction without needing to trust another third party for the execution.

For example, if Alice wants to set up a trust fund to pay Bob $100 at the start of each month for the next 12 months, she can program a smart contract to:

1. Check the current date

2. At the start of each month, send Bob $100 automatically

3. Repeat until the fund in the smart contract is exhausted

Using a smart contract, Alice has bypassed the need to have a trusted third-party intermediary (lawyers, escrow agents etc) to send the trust fund to Bob and made the process transparent to all involved parties.

Smart contracts work on the "if this, then that" principle. Whenever a certain condition is fulfilled, the smart contract will carry out the operation as programmed.

What are the programming languages that are used to write smart contracts on Ethereum?

There are two popular programming languages that are typically used to write Ethereum smart contracts. The first one is called Solidity which has very close similarities to Javascript and C++. The other language is called Vyper which is relatively new that has very close similarities to Python.

Who created Ethereum?

Unlike bitcoin in which the creator who is known as Satoshi Nakamoto is unknown. The founding team of Ethereum are known individuals which includes Vitalik Buterin, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di lorio, Charles Hoskinson, Amir Chetrit, Joseph Lubin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilke. Not all the founding members are still with the Ethereum Foundation, as some has moved on to work on other projects. For example, Charles Hoskinson has moved on to work on Cardano, while Gavin Wood has moved on to work on Polkadot.

What is Ether?

While Ethereum refers to the blockchain network. The native currency that flows within the Ethereum economy is called Ether (ETH). Ether is typically used to pay for transaction fees called Gas, and it is the base currency of the network.

What is Gas?

On Ethereum, all transactions and smart contract executions require a small fee to be paid. This fee is called Gas. In technical terms, Gas refers to the unit of measure on the amount of computational effort required to execute an operation or a smart contract. The more complex the execution operation is, the more gas is required to fulfill that operation. Gas fees are paid entirely in ETH.

The price of gas can fluctuate from time to time depending on the network demand. If there are more people interacting on the Ethereum blockchain such as transacting in ETH or executing a smart contract operation, due to the limited amount of computing resources on the network, Gas price can increase. Conversely when the network is under utilized, the market price of gas would decrease.

What options are there to store Ether and ERC-20 tokens?

The 3 most popular Ethereum based wallets are Metamask, MyEtherWallet, and MyCrypto. However there are many other options available as well such as Argent, Trust Wallet, and Coinbase Wallet.

I heard that a new version is launching called Ethereum 2.0. What is that about?

Ethereum 2.0 is an upgrade that aims to solve the blockchain trilemma - security, scalability, and decentralization. In alternative smart contract platforms, they are designed to be highly scalable but compromises on decentralization. Whereas a highly secured and decentralized blockchain network would have the trade off being highly unscalable. Ethereum 2.0 brings a very different flavor of design that aims to addresses those issues by way of using Proof-of-Stake (POS), Beacon Chain, Sharding, and Execution Environment. Due to the complexity of the project, the developement will take place in 3 phases.

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Theta Network price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $38,772,844. THETA price is down -3.1% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 1 Billion THETA coins and a max supply of 1 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as explorer.thetatoken.org. Additional information can be found at https://www.thetatoken.org/.

Theta is a decentralized video delivery network, powered by users and an innovative new blockchain. Theta is an open source protocol purpose-built to power the decentralized streaming network and will allow for vertical decentralized apps (DApps) to be built on top of the platform to enable esports, music, TV/movies, education, enterprise conferencing, peer-to-peer streaming, and more. SLIVER.tv's DApp will be the first application built on the Theta network leveraging its existing user base of millions of esports viewers.

DSN and the Theta protocol solve various challenges the video streaming industry faces today. First, Theta tokens are used as an incentive to encourage individual users to share their redundant memory and bandwidth resources as caching nodes for video streams. This improves the quality of stream delivery and solves the "last-mile" delivery problem, the main bottleneck for traditional stream delivery pipelines, especially for high resolution high bitrate 360° virtual reality (VR) streams. Second, with sufficient amount of caching nodes, the majority of viewers will pull streams from peering caching nodes. This significantly reduces content delivery network (CDN) bandwidth costs, which is a major concern for video streaming sites.

Lastly, the Theta network greatly improves the streaming market efficiency by streamlining the video delivery process. For example, advertisers can target end viewers at a lower cost and reward influencers more transparently.The Theta blockchain introduces three novel concepts: Reputation Dependent Mining: In the Theta protocol, the caching nodes play the role of miners in the blockchain. The block reward is not a constant, but depends on the reputation score of the caching node that mined the block. To obtain more mining rewards, miners not only spend computation power to mine blocks, but also relay video streams to downstream viewers to increase their reputation scores.

Global Reputation Consensus: We propose a mechanism for the Theta network to reach the global consensus on the reputation scores for each caching node. Proof-of-Engagement: We introduce a novel Proof-of-Engagement scheme to prove that viewers legitimately consume the video streams, providing better transparency to advertisers and a basis for viewers to earn Theta tokens for engaging with the content.

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Zilliqa price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $219,209,340. ZIL price is down -10.5% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 12 Billion ZIL coins and a max supply of 21 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as viewblock.io. Additional information can be found at https://www.zilliqa.com/.

Zilliqa (ZIL) is a token developed in the year 2017. Zilliqa is mainly based on the concept of Sharding and primarily aims at improving the scalability of the cryptocurrency networks as in case of Bitcoin or Ethereum. The white paper mentions that the transactions speed would be approximately a thousand times more than that of Ethereum network. Ziliqa is fast, secured and decentralized. Zilliqa's high throughput means that you can focus on developing your ideas without worrying about network congestion, high transaction fees or security which are the key issues with legacy blockchain platforms.

Zilliqa network uses a concept called Sharding where the transactions are grouped into smaller groups and divided among the miners for the parallel transactional verification. Developing smaller groups for transactional verification means the Consensus can be reached faster and hence a higher number of transactions can be processed in a given time frame. The capacity of the network linearly increases in other cryptocurrencies as the number of people joins the network, but in this case, the capacity is increased at a higher variable rate than the number of members joining the network. By incorporating the Sharding Technology, it can completely revolutionize the smart contract functionality too.

Ziliqa has few pros as it has a great new technology. Zilliqa is the first platform to use sharding technology. This puts it ahead of the rest of the market. It's a completely new kind of blockchain designed to solve the problem of scalability. Third-generation platforms like Zilliqa could be the big winners in the future of cryptocurrency. Ziliqa has a strong community. The platform has a lot of fans. The Zilliqa ICO only happened because there was so much demand for it. The Zilliqa ICO also shows that the crypto community is ready to see blockchain technology move to the next phase of its development.

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Chainlink price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $730,017,938. LINK price is down -0.8% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 400 Million LINK coins and a max supply of 1 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io, ethplorer.io, blockchair.com, and explorer.chain.link. Additional information can be found at https://chain.link/.

Chainlink is a decentralized oracle service, the first of its kind. When Ethereum went live in 2015, it revolutionized what blockchain could bring to enterprise solution and traditional business. Blockchain was no longer just a medium for new age financial transaction, confined to Bitcoin's potential to disrupt traditional currency exchange. With Ethereum powered smart contracts, Vitalik Buterin opened up a Pandora's Box of use cases for blockchain technology. Problem is, per their design, smart contracts can only manage data on the blockchain. Their potential, the ability to provide tamperproof, decentralized applications for uses the world over, is still largely untapped, as many of the smart contract programs built on Ethereum lack a bridge to the real world industries they're trying to improve.

Chainlink's first component consists of on-chain contracts deployed on Ethereum's blockchain. These oracle contracts process the data requests of users looking to take advantage of the network's oracle services. If a user or entity wants access to off-chain data, they submit a user contract (or requesting contract) to Chainlink's network, and the blockchain processes these requests into their own contracts. These contracts are responsible for matching the requesting contract up with the appropriate oracles. The contracts include a reputation contract, an order-matching contract, and an aggregating contract. The first of these, the reputation contract, is exactly as it sounds: it checks an oracle provider's track record to verify its integrity. In turn, the order-matching contract logs the user contract's service level agreement on the network and collects bids from responsible oracle providers. Finally, the aggregating contract accumulates the collective data of the chosen oracles and balances them to find the most accurate result.

Unfortunately, the Chainlink team does not offer a roadmap, but a testnet of Chainlink's services should come sometime within Q1 of 2018. Generally, the project's general lack of marketing and concrete updates have frustrated community members in the past. Sergey Nazarov, the project's CEO, is known for a quiet community presence that favors of behind-the-scenes work on Chainlink. The team may not hype their project much, but for what it's worth, they sacrifice brand marketing in favor of product development-and some community members find this focus to be refreshing. For instance, they've established an oracle with Swift Bank, and have a few quiet partnerships with zepplin_os and Request Network.

Chainlink has the potential to connect smart contracts with the outside world. It may allow parties to smart contracts to be able to receive external inputs that prove performance and create payment outputs that end users want to receive, such as bank payments. This has the potential to allow smart contract to mimic the vast majority of financial agreements currently available in the market. With the Chainlink Network, anyone can securely provide smart contracts with access to key external data and any other API capabilities, in exchange for financial reward. Although it remains to be seen how the incentive system will operate, there is potential for rewards similar to those available for crypto miners to be available to Node Operators that provide useful data to the Chainlink network."

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Monero price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $366,981,207. XMR price is up 0.1% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 18 Million XMR coins and a max supply of ∞. Bitcoin.com Exchange is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as xmrchain.net, moneroblocks.info, monerovision.com, blockchair.com, and xmr.tokenview.com. Additional information can be found at https://getmonero.org.

What is Monero?
Monero (XMR) is the top privacy-centric cryptocurrency based on the CryptoNote protocol, a secure, private and untraceable currency system. Monero uses a special kind of cryptography to ensure that all of its transactions are remain 100% unlinkable and untraceable. In an increasingly transparent world, you can see why something like Monero can become so desirable.

Origins of Monero
In July of 2012, Bytecoin, the first real life implementation of CryptoNote, was launched. While Bytecoin had promise, people noticed that 80% of the coins were already published. So, it was decided that the bytecoin blockchain will be forked and the new coins in the new chain will be called Bitmonero, which is was then renamed Monero, meaning "coin" in Esperanto language. In this new blockchain, a block will be mined and added every two minutes.

Why Monero?

#1: Unlinkability - Your identity is completely private

You have complete control over your transactions. You are responsible for your money. Because your identity is private no one will be able to see what you are spending your money on. When you send funds to someone's public address, what happens is that you actually send the funds to a randomly created brand new one-time destination address.

This means that the public record does not contain any mention that funds were received to the recipient's public address. In Monero, your public address will never appear in the public record of transactions. Instead, a 'stealth address' is recorded in a way that only you, the recipient, can recognize the incoming funds.

#2: Fungibility

Fungibility is interchangeability between one asset and another asset of the same type.

Suppose you borrowed $50 from your friend, you can even return the money in the form of 1 $50 bill or 5 $10 bill, It is still fine. This shows that the dollar has fungible properties. However, if you were to borrow someone's car for the weekend and come back and give them some other car in return, then that person will probably punch on the face. Cars, in this example, are a nonfungible asset.

What is CryptoNote?
CryptoNote is the application layer protocol that fuels various decentralized currencies. While it is similar to the application layer which runs bitcoin in many aspects, there a lot of areas where the two differ from each other. CryptoNote features an entirely new code base and is not a fork of Bitcoin. More info about CryptoNote can be found at their website.

CryptoNote uses Ring Signatures to conceal sender identities via mixing and it also has unlinkable transactions that is achieved using 1-time keys for each individual payments. Ring signatures enable 'transaction mixing' to occur. Transaction mixing means that when funds are sent, the sender randomly chooses several other users' funds to also appear in the transaction as a possible source of the funds being sent.

The cryptographical nature of the ring signature means that no one can tell which of the funds were really the source of the transaction - not even the person that gave the funds to the sender in the first place. A system of 'key images' associated with each ring signature ensures that although no one can tell the true source of the funds, it can be easily detected if the sender attempts to anonymously send their funds twice.

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Cardano price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $541,743,067. ADA price is down -0.4% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 31 Billion ADA coins and a max supply of 45 Billion. ZBG is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as cardanoexplorer.com, cardanoscan.io, blockchair.com, adaex.org, and adastat.net. Additional information can be found at https://www.cardano.org/en/home/.

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DigiByte price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $11,282,932. DGB price is down -1.7% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 14 Billion DGB coins and a max supply of 21 Billion. Bitcoin.com Exchange is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as digiexplorer.info, chainz.cryptoid.info, altexplorer.co, digibyteblockexplorer.com, and dgb.tokenview.com. Additional information can be found at https://digibyte.io/.

What is DigiByte?
DigiByte is more than a faster digital currency. It is an innovative blockchain that can be used for digital assets, smart contracts, decentralized applications and secure authentication.

What makes DigiByte stronger than others?
DigiByte is a rapidly growing open-source blockchain created in late 2013 and released in early 2014. After 6 years of forward thinking development, DigiByte has become one of the safest, fastest, longest and most decentralized UTXO blockchain in existence.

Truly Decentralized.
DigiByte has never been funded through an ICO or significant amount of premined coins. There is no CEO or a company controlling the DigiByte blockchain. It is a volunteer based and global community driven project.

More secure.
DigiByte uses 5 cryptographic algorithms and real time difficulty adjustment to prevent malicious mining centralization and hash power fluctuation. One of which is Odocrypt that changes itself every 10 days for ASIC resistance.

Much faster.
DigiByte blocks occur every 15 seconds which is 40x faster than Bitcoin and 10x faster than Litecoin. Early SegWit implementation and blockchain rigidity enable up to 1066 on-chain transactions per second with negligible fees.

Forward thinking.
Over the past 6 years, DigiByte has repeatedly set itself apart with multiple blockchain firsts, such asDigiShield guard, MultiAlgo mining, SegWit implementation, Odocrypt algorithm, Dandelion++ privacy protocol, DigiAssets and Digi-ID.

This is how the DigiByte blockchain works.
The three layers are the most innovative parts of the DigiByte blockchain providing the network infrastructure, security and communications to function with cutting edge speed.

Applications / DigiAssets.
The top layer is like an app store with clear real-world uses. All types of digital assets can be created with the DigiAssets protocol on top of the DigiByte blockchain. Decentralized applications (dApps) can be built on top of the DigiByte blockchain. Also smart contracts that leverage the rigidity and security of the DigiByte blockchain can be encoded easily.

Digital asset / Public ledger.
The middle layer provides security and administration. A Digital Byte of data, a representation of larger data or a unit that holds value, and cannot be counterfeited, duplicated or hacked. An immutable public ledger where all transactions of DigiBytes are recorded. DigiByte uses five proof of work algorithms for security. New DigiBytes come from mining only.

Core protocol / Global network.
The bottom layer provides communication and operating procedures. A very low-level way nodes on the DigiByte global network communicate. Thousands of people are running DigiByte software all across the planet. Any server, computer, tablet or mobile phone connected to the DigiByte network becomes a node that helps relay transactions.

Open source / Permissionless.
Just like the DigiByte.io website, the DigiByte blockchain is completely open source and free to use released under the MIT license, which gives you the power to run and modify the software. Transparency allows for independent verification of binaries and their corresponding source code.

A digital currency you would absolutely love.
DigiByte (DGB) is a highly scalable peer-to-peer digital currency that enables industry-leading transaction speeds with negligible fees. DigiByte is the best way for payments.

Easy to use.
Getting started to use DigiByte is even easier than sending an SMS. You can send and receive DigiBytes using the devices you already know and love. All you need is installing a DigiByte supported wallet then click scan, scan the QR code and send DigiByte. As easy as 1..2..3.

Not an ICO.
DigiByte has never been funded through an ICO or significant amount of premined coins (0% remaining). There is no CEO or a company controlling the DigiByte blockchain. The founder, developers and the community are unpaid volunteers that eliminate the bankrupt risk.

Much faster.
DigiByte transactions are confirmed in approx. 15 seconds, which is 40 times faster than Bitcoin and 10 times faster than Litecoin. SegWit enables up to 1066 on-chain transactions per second and negligible fees make DigiByte the ideal currency for daily payments.

Always secure.
DigiByte has been built on the uncrackable technology of the Bitcoin blockchain and implemented various advanced enhancements over it such as DigiShield guard, MultiAlgo mining and the Odocrypt algorithm. Also Dandelion++ privacy protocol helps keep you safe by hiding your IP and physical location. Learn more.

Mineable.
DigiByte is a 100% Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain that can be mined with five algorithms called Sha256, Scrypt, Skein, Qubit and Odocrypt. MultiAlgo mining contributes to decentralization, security of the network and gives you the freedom to use different kind of hardware's such as an ASIC a FPGA or a GPU. Learn more.

Manageable units
Compared to 21 million Bitcoin, 21 billion DigiByte (1000:1 ratio to BTC) have been designed to be ready for mass adoption. DigiByte block rewards reduces by 1% every month instead of halving every 4 years. All 21 billion DigiByte will be mined by the year 2035. After 2035 the miners will then rely on transaction fees alone. Learn more.

A simplified way to create digital assets.
DigiAssets is a secure, scalable layer on top of the DigiByte blockchain that allows for the decentralized issuance of assets, tokens, smart contracts, digital identity and more.

Limitless possibilities.
DigiAssets can be used to securely represent anything we find in the physical world. From tangible assets such as real estate or cars, through to scarce digital pieces of art. Signed documents such as deeds and medical bills can be protected.

Growing confidently.
DigiAssets as an ecosystem and platform already has interested parties either planning on or currently building platforms in real estate, finance, remittance, identity, point of sale, racing, trade, healthcare, supply chain, government and more.

Solid technology.
DigiAssets leverages unique aspects of a truly decentralized blockchain only found within a permissionless blockchain like DigiByte. This allows DigiAssets to be more secure, scalable and decentralized than any other platform in the market.

Authentication at its best.
Digi-ID is a security protocol built on DigiByte blockchain technology that empowers users to effortlessly sign-in to websites, applications, and even into the internet of things.

Easy authentication.
Digi-ID eliminates the username, password and 2fa requirements for authentication. Because Digi-ID uses public / private key cryptography, there are no passwords or usernames at risk. This method not only protects the consumer, it also protects the services that the consumer uses.

Flawless security.
Digi-ID does not store any data about its users on the DigiByte blockchain. This further strengthens the security while also bolstering end-user's confidence that their data is neither tracked nor at risk by others negligence. There is no external point of failure for an hacker to exploit your platform.

Simple and free.
Digi-ID is completely free! There are no fees, subscription services, or maintenance costs. But the cost is its second best feature. Its primary feature is that, in accordance with DigiBytes security prioritization, Digi-ID is a more secure, yet simple method available to log in to websites, apps and more.

The most passionate community ever!
Tens of thousands of volunteers from all over the world have contributed to DigiByte in countless ways for years to make it what it is today. It is a truly grassroots movement. We warmly welcome you to join us!

DigiByte Foundation.
The DigiByte Foundation is a volunteer managed organization that operates in a non-profit way. They protect and promote the true principles of decentralization and empower DigiByte and its community to establish and maintain a sustainable decentralized world.
Learn more.

DigiByte Awareness Team.

DGBAT is a community-driven outreach initiative. They are led by a team, whose members in turn manage teams across social media, outreach, education, writers and developers. They aim to promote the DigiByte blockchain through education, outreach and marketing campaigns.
Learn more.

DigiByte Developers.

Everyone that is working on the DigiByte blockchain is an unpaid volunteer who devoted their time and skills to a project they believe in. Start contributing to the DGB development today or build your own app on top of the DigiByte blockchain.
DigiByte Protocol on GitHub.
DigiByte Core Development on GitHub.

The DigiByte Wiki.
The DigiByte Wiki is an online encyclopedia built by the community, for the community. It contains useful and up to date data such as the DigiByte Ecosystem and how to guides. Anyone can positively contribute to the Wiki by creating a free user account and start adding or updating information on the DigiByte Wiki.

Meet the creator of DigiByte.
Jared Tate is the founder and creator of the DigiByte blockchain. Jared dedicated full-time development towards DigiByte since October 2013. He has been invited by MIT, Harvard and the US Capitol to speak on blockchain tech. He is also the author of the book Blockchain 2035 The Digital DNA of Internet 3.0, which is the first book written by a blockchain founder.

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Theta Fuel price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $4,322,180. TFUEL price is down -1.7% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 0 TFUEL coins and a max supply of 5 Billion. Upbit is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as explorer.thetatoken.org. Additional information can be found at https://www.thetatoken.org/.

The operational token of the Theta protocol. TFUEL powers on-chain operations like payments to relayers for sharing a video stream, or for deploying or interacting with smart contracts. Relayers earn TFUEL for every video stream they relay to other users on the network. You can think of Theta Fuel as the "gas" of the protocol. At Mainnet launch on March 15th, TFUEL will be created as a native token on the Theta blockchain.

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OriginTrail price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $1,213,411. TRAC price is down -6.2% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 290 Million TRAC coins and a max supply of 500 Million. Uniswap (v2) is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io and ethplorer.io. Additional information can be found at https://origintrail.io/.

OriginTrail provides a helpful protocol solution to the problem of maintaining trust among all players involved in bringing a product to market by making the "chain" in "supply chain" more literal. Using blockchain technology, OriginTrail can append immutable data to products as they take each step along the supply route. Thus, each participant not only verifies that their conditions are being met but that at every previous stage, the right conditions were also met by everyone else. This is achieved by making an application layer that allows data to be collected in the real world, and then stored on the blockchain. OriginTrail started out by testing their tracking with organic beef products in 2014, and they are still mostly involved in the tracking of food products in general. It wasn't until 2016 that they introduced a blockchain into their system.

In January 2018, they raised US$22.5 million in their ICO. Since their ICO they've successfully launched their testnet, implemented privacy features, and achieved compliance with the GS1 standards that are integral to their business model. Their roadmap is robust and full of details, citing certifications with international bodies, alliances with companies, and entering new markets. Their mainnet is scheduled for launch in Q3 2018, and thereafter they appear to be on track to having all their services fully operational by 2020.

OriginTrail is not the first or only company to recognize that supply chains could benefit a great deal from blockchain technology. Ambrosus is also going for the same market, though they seem to be focused on food and pharmaceuticals specifically. It should be noted that most supply chains have their own specific quirks, and so specialization might be be a good option. Another potential competitor of OriginTrail is Waltonchain, a company based in China that puts heavy emphasis on RFID chip scanning as part of their business model. In other words, where OriginTrail wants to leverage existing systems for their infrastructure, Waltonchain wants to try and establish new standards and methods. OriginTrail's token is called TRAC, and it's an ERC-20 token, making it storable on any ERC-20 compatible wallet. The total supply is capped at 500 million tokens. The value in TRACE tokens comes from their utility on the OriginTrail network. Tokens are spent to store, retrieve, and send data about supply chains. Since TRACE can be bought and sold in a speculative market, that creates the potential for the price to go up, which would be counter to the needs of people on the network looking for stable prices for setting and getting data. However, prices for data saving and retrieval will be determined by auction, which should counter increasing token value for those using OriginTrail as a service.

The Internet of Things is a topic that gets a lot of press, and the general consensus is that it will be standard practice in the future for almost everything in the world to be tracked and traced for a wide variety of purposes. OriginTrail is one company that is demonstrating a concrete plan for exactly how that will be manifest. There really isn't much to criticize in terms of the overall intention of the project. OriginTrail has identified a weak point in the very important world of supply chain management, that of reliable transfer of information all the way up and down the chain, and aims to provide a workable and clearly understood solution.

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OriginTrail price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $1,213,411. TRAC price is down -6.2% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 290 Million TRAC coins and a max supply of 500 Million. Uniswap (v2) is the current most active market trading it.

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Cosmos price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $171,342,062. ATOM price is down -4.0% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 240 Million ATOM coins and a max supply of ∞. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as mintscan.io, cosmos.bigdipper.live, stargazer.certus.one, hubble.figment.network, and atomscan.com. Additional information can be found at http://cosmos.network/.

The Cosmos network consists of many independent, parallel blockchains, called zones, each powered by classical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols like Tendermint (already used by platforms like ErisDB). Some zones act as hubs with respect to other zones, allowing many zones to interoperate through a shared hub. The architecture is a more general application of the Bitcoin sidechains concept, using classic BFT and Proof-of-Stake algorithms, instead of Proof-of-Work.Cosmos can interoperate with multiple other applications and cryptocurrencies, something other blockchains can't do well. By creating a new zone, you can plug any blockchain system into the Cosmos hub and pass tokens back and forth between those zones, without the need for an intermediary.

While the Cosmos Hub is a multi-asset distributed ledger, there is a special native token called the atom. Atoms have three use cases: as a spam-prevention mechanism, as staking tokens, and as a voting mechanism in governance.

As a spam prevention mechanism, Atoms are used to pay fees. The fee may be proportional to the amount of computation required by the transaction, similar to Ethereum's concept of "gas". Fee distribution is done in-protocol and a protocol specification is described here.

As staking tokens, Atoms can be "bonded" in order to earn block rewards. The economic security of the Cosmos Hub is a function of the amount of Atoms staked. The more Atoms that are collateralized, the more "skin" there is at stake and the higher the cost of attacking the network. Thus, the more Atoms there are bonded, the greater the economic security of the network.

Atom holders may govern the Cosmos Hub by voting on proposals with their staked Atoms.

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Cosmos price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $171,342,062. ATOM price is down -4.0% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 240 Million ATOM coins and a max supply of ∞. Binance is the current most active market trading it.

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Reserve Rights Token price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $43,677,038. RSR price is down -6.3% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 9.3 Billion RSR coins and a max supply of 100 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io and ethplorer.io. Additional information can be found at https://reserve.org/.

Reserve aims to build a stable, decentralized, asset-backed cryptocurrency and a digital payment system that scales supply with demand and maintains 100% or more collateral backing. Ultimately, Reserve's goal is to create a universal store of value - particularly in regions with unreliable banking infrastructure and regions where hyperinflation is an issue. The Reserve system will interact with three kinds of tokens:

(1) The Reserve token (RSV), which is a stable cryptocurrency that can be held and spent the way we use normal fiat money;

(2) The Reserve Rights token (RSR), a protocol token used to facilitate the stability of RSV.

(3) A growing variety of tokenized real-world assets (such as other stablecoins) that are held by the Reserve smart contract to back RSV.

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Reserve Rights Token price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $43,677,038. RSR price is down -6.3% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 9.3 Billion RSR coins and a max supply of 100 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it.

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VIDT Datalink price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $5,839,640. VIDT price is down -17.5% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 46 Million VIDT coins and a max supply of 56.7 Million. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io and explorer.binance.org. Additional information can be found at https://about.v-id.org/.

Road To $1 Billion Market Cap! VIDT Datalink with Marnix Van Den Berg and Joshua Jenster of V-ID

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VIDT Datalink price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $5,839,640. VIDT price is down -17.5% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 46 Million VIDT coins and a max supply of 56.7 Million. Binance is the current most active market trading it.

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Polkadot price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $211,690,492. DOT price is down -4.4% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 950 Million DOT coins and a max supply of 1.03 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as polkascan.io, polkadot-cc1.subscan.io, and hubble.figment.io. Additional information can be found at https://polkadot.network/.

Polkadot is a platform that allows diverse blockchains to transfer messages, including value, in a trust-free fashion; sharing their unique features while pooling their security. In brief, Polkadot is a scalable heterogeneous multi-chain technology.

Polkadot is heterogeneous because it is entirely flexible and makes no assumption about the nature or structure of the chains in the network. Even non-blockchain systems or data structures can become parachains if they fulfill a set of criteria.

Polkadot may be considered equivalent to a set of independent chains (e.g. a set containing Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Namecoin and Bitcoin) except with important additions: pooled security and trust-free interchain transactability.

Many of the native parachains of Polkadot will be written using a Polkadot Runtime Environment SDK (e.g. Parity Technologies' Substrate).

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Polkadot price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $211,690,492. DOT price is down -4.4% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 950 Million DOT coins and a max supply of 1.03 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it.

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The Graph price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $3,105,599,926. GRT price is up 56.4% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 1.2 Billion GRT coins and a max supply of 10 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io. Additional information can be found at https://thegraph.com/.

What is The Graph?

The Graph is an indexing protocol and global API for organizing blockchain data and making it easily accessible with GraphQL. Developers can use Graph Explorer to search, find, and publish all the public data they need to build decentralized applications. The Graph Network makes it possible to build serverless dApps that run entirely on public infrastructure.

Who are the founders of The Graph?

The Graph is founded by Yaniv Tal (Project Lead), Jannis Pohlman (Tech Lead), and Brandom Ramirez (Research Lead)

Who are the investors of The Graph?

The Graph closed a $5 million private token sale funded by Coinbase Ventures, Framework Ventures, Digital Currency Group, and more; while also did a $2.5 million seed round led by Multicoin Capital. A public sale round of $12 million was also concluded few months before the launch of mainnet.

How does The Graph work?

Developers can define a subgraph which specifies how blockchain data are structured to be consumed by app and dapp developers. App and dapp developers can query The Graph network using the subgraph schema with GraphQL which are paid in The Graph token (GRT).

These data are served by indexers who act as nodes, incentivized with GRT tokens to ensure that the API is always available in a decentralized manner and data are served correctly.

As there can be many subgraphs out there, curators are tasked to find the subgraphs that are most useful to developers. Curators are also incentivized with GRT tokens to find the best subgraph that others would find useful.

Who is using The Graph?

Developers are able to obtain most of the essential Ethereum data through The Graph which includes data for Uniswap, Balancer, Curve, Aave, Moloch DAO, Compound, and more.

Apps and dapps that are using The Graph includes CoinGecko, Uniswap Info, Decentraland, Synthetix, Aragon, and more.

What is GRT token?

GRT is the native token of the network that's used to coordinate work. GRT is an ERC20 token. Node operators, called Indexers, stake and earn GRT for processing queries. Anyone can delegate GRT to Indexers to secure the network and earn rewards. Curators organize data on The Graph by signaling GRT on useful APIs, called subgraphs. Indexers, Delegators, and Curators work together to organize the data for the crypto economy and maintain a useful global API for DeFi and Web3.

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The Graph price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $3,105,599,926. GRT price is up 56.4% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 1.2 Billion GRT coins and a max supply of 10 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it.

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XRP price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $6,194,969,827. XRP price is down -2.5% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 45 Billion XRP coins and a max supply of 100 Billion. Binance is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as blockchair.com, xrpcharts.ripple.com, xrpscan.com, and bithomp.com. Additional information can be found at https://ripple.com/currency/.

What is Ripple?

Ripple is a privately-held fintech company that provides a global payment solution via its patented payment network called Ripple Network (also known as RippleNet). RippleNet is a payment network that is built on top of Ripple's consensus ledger, called XRP Ledger (also known as XRPL). Ripple funded the development of the open-source XRP Ledger.

Unlike most cryptocurrencies out there that cater to peer-to-peer needs, Ripple was made to connect banks, payment providers anddigital asset exchanges, enabling real-time settlement expeditions and lower transaction fees.

What is the XRP Ledger?

XRP Ledger (XRPL) is the open-source distributed ledger that is created by Ripple. The native cryptocurrency of the XRP Ledger is XRP.

Compared to Bitcoin (BTC) which uses a distributed blockchain whose transactions are processed and secured by proof-of-work mining, XRP transactions are processed by a network of trusted validators on the XRP Ledger.

Ripple transactions are publicly recorded on its open-source distributed consensus ledger which has a similar data structure to a blockchain where the successive data block includes the hash of the previous block. However, its consensus mechanism is different from Bitcoin or Ethereum. It does not rely on Proof of Work (PoW) and therefore there is no mining involved with XRP.

XRP instead relies on a consensus algorithm known as the Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm. The XRPL's integrity is maintained by a group of trusted nodes. All transactions must be agreed by a supermajority of these trusted nodes for it to achieve consensus and be included in the XRP Ledger.

How does it reach a consensus if there is no mining?

XRPL uses a different set of rules called the Ripple Consensus Protocol Algorithm (RCPA). The RCPA defines how XRPL is managed by a network of independent Ripple validator nodes. Any Ripple transaction needs to be verified by at least 80% of the nodes on the network.

Anyone can become a validator. However, Ripple maintains a given set of validators that can be trusted. This trusted list of nodes is called the Unique Node List (UNL).

If Alice wants to send 1,000 Japanese Yen to her cousin Bob in India, Alice could send it to the participating financial institutions. The JPY will be converted to XRP and will be validated by the servers in the network. Bob could withdraw the money in Indian Rupee once validated. The remittance can be done within seconds.

What is the difference between XRP, XRP Ledger, Ripple, and Ripple Network?

XRP is the native token and the ticker symbol of the XRP Ledger

XRP Ledger is the distributed consensus ledger

Ripple (formerly known as Ripple Labs) is the company behind Ripple Network

Ripple Network is a global network payment built on top of the XRP Ledger

Who created Ripple?

Ripplewas first started in 2004 by Ryan Fugger, who developed the first version of Ripple, called RipplePay. In 2013, Fugger handed it to Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen. Chris is currently the Executive Chairman of Ripple.

Jed McCaleb was previously the founder of Mt. Gox, the first Bitcoin exchange. He had a falling out with the Ripple team and forked the Ripple codebase to start Stellar. He is currently the CTO of Stellar.

Brad Garlinghouse is currently the CEO of Ripple.

What is the purpose of Ripple?

Mediator

There are many currencies that can't be converted directly to each other. For example, if you want to convert currency A to currency B, you will need to do a double conversion: Currency A to USD and USD to Currency B. In this case, USD is the mediator that acts as a global bridge that connects different fiat currencies from the originators to the beneficiaries. XRP holds the same role but it is much cheaper than USD. The cost of a transaction on the Ripple protocol is about 0.00001 XRP and currently, 1 XRP price is at ~$0.15, which would cost you next to nothing.

Fast remittance.

Compared with the traditional remittance market, it can take up to 48 hours to transfer your money internationally. However, the average transaction time using XRP is 4 seconds.

Can Ripple create more XRP?

No. XRP has been pre-mined with a supply cap of 100 billion tokens.

Is Ripple different from Bitcoin?

1. The total supply of XRP is capped at 100 billion while the total supply of Bitcoin is capped at 21 million.

2. XRP's average transaction speed is 4 seconds while Bitcoin's transaction speed is 10 minutes.

3. XRP Ledger could handle 1,500 transactions per second, which is 600 times faster than Bitcoin. Bitcoin can only handle an average of around 2.5 transactions per second.

4. While XRP outperforms Bitcoin in terms of transactions per second, it has a different underlying consensus mechanism (trusted validators on XRP Ledger vs. distributed miners on Bitcoin) and therefore does not offer the same security that Bitcoin offers.

5. XRP's transaction fee is 0.00001 XRP (roughly $0.000001), while Bitcoin's transaction fee is about $0.50-$1.00 per transaction.

How many financial institutions have adopted XRP?

There are over 300 financial institutions in over 40 countries that have joined Ripple and its payment network, RippleNet. These financial institutions include American Express, MoneyGram, SBI Remit and more.

Can I long or short XRP?

Yes, you can long or short XRP with leverage. There are more than 10 Perpetual Swaps or Futures to choose from across the many derivative exchanges such as BitMEX, Binance Futures, FTX, and many more.

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Stellar price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $392,075,421. XLM price is down -2.9% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 22 Billion XLM coins and a max supply of 50 Billion. B2BX is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as dashboard.stellar.org, stellar.expert, steexp.com, and blockchair.com. Additional information can be found at https://www.stellar.org/.

The Stellar network is an open source, distributed, and community owned network used to facilitate cross-asset transfers of value. Stellar aims to help facilitate cross-asset transfer of value at a fraction of a penny while aiming to be an open financial system that gives people of all income levels access to low-cost financial services. Stellar can handle exchanges between fiat-based currencies and between cryptocurrencies. Stellar.org, the organization that supports Stellar, is centralized like XRP and meant to handle cross platform transactions and micro transactions like XRP. However, unlike Ripple, Stellar.org is non-profit and their platform itself is open source and decentralized.

Stellar was founded by Jed McCaleb in 2014. Jed McCaleb is also the founder of Mt. Gox and co-founder of Ripple, launched the network system Stellar with former lawyer Joyce Kim. Stellar is also a payment technology that aims to connect financial institutions and drastically reduce the cost and time required for cross-border transfers. In fact, both payment networks used the same protocol initially.

Distributed Exchange
Through the use of its intermediary currency Lumens (XLM), a user can send any currency that they own to anyone else in a different currency.

For instance, if Joe wanted to send USD to Mary using her EUR, an offer is submitted to the distributed exchange selling USD for EUR. This submitted offer forms is known as an order book. The network will use the order book to find the best exchange rate for the transaction in-order to minimize the fee paid by a user.

This multi-currency transaction is possible because of "Anchors". Anchors are trusted entities that hold people's deposits and can issue credit. In essence, Anchors serves as the bridge between different currencies and the Stellar network.

Lumens (XLM)
Lumens are the native asset (digital currency) that exist on the Stellar network that helps to facilitate multi-currency transactions and prevent spams. For multi-currency transactions, XLM is the digital intermediary that allows for such a transaction to occur at a low cost.

In-order to prevent DoS attacks (aka spams) that would inevitably occur on the Stellar network, a small fee of 0.00001 XLM is associated with every transaction that occurs on the network. This fee is small enough so it does not significantly affect the cost of transaction, but large enough so it dissuades bad actors from spamming the network. The collected fee is then redistributed and added to an inflation pool. This inflation pool releases Lumens at a rate of 1% each year.

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Synthetix Network Token price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $59,326,254. SNX price is down -0.7% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 140 Million SNX coins and a max supply of 212 Million. Sushiswap is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as etherscan.io, ethplorer.io, and blockchair.com. Additional information can be found at https://www.synthetix.io/.

What is Synthetix Network Token (SNX)?

Synthetix Network Token (SNX) is an exchange-based token created and issued by Synthetix, a decentralized synthetic asset issuance protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain.

What is Synthetix?

Synthetix is a decentralized synthetic asset issuance protocol founded by Kain Warwick and the Synthetix Foundation. Initially, it was known as Havven when it first launched in September 2017. During its seed round and token sale, it managed to raise $30 million by selling 60 million HAV tokens to investors. In late 2018, the platform expanded its vision and rebranded to Synthetix. Today, the platform is the largest decentralized exchange for derivatives in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, boasting an impressive ~$700M in total value locked (TVL) as of November 2020.

What are synthetic assets?

Synthetic assets or Synths are derivatives that provide exposure to real world assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Similar to derivatives in traditional financial markets, Synths allow users to hedge and reduce their risk, speculate on price movements and gain access to unavailable assets or markets. This is all accomplished without an individual ever holding the underlying asset.

What can Synthetix Network Token (SNX) do?

Synthetix Network Token (SNX) is primarily used as collateral to mint synthetic assets. SNX holders can head over to Mintr to stake their SNX into the Synthetix smart contract and create sUSD - synthetic United States dollars. The amount of sUSD minted will depend on two factors: i) the amount of SNX staked, and ii) the collateralization ratio (C-Ratio) of the platform. At present, the C-Ratio is 600%. This means that in order to mint 1 sUSD, a user would need to stake at least 6 SNX as collateral.

SNX is also used to earn rewards. SNX holders who stake their SNX into the platform are incentivized to do so through two main reward mechanisms: i) exchange rewards and ii) staking rewards. Exchange rewards are generated whenever a trade takes place on Synthetix, the value of which can range from 0.1-1% of the trade value, though it is typically 0.3%. Staking rewards meanwhile, are rewards from the protocol's inflationary monetary supply. The new SNX generated by the protocol is given to SNX holders who stake their tokens. Both these rewards are distributed as SNX on a weekly, pro-rata basis and are escrowed for 1 year. This is subject however, to an individual's compliance with the target C-Ratio.

Synthetix also offers other time-limited incentives such as liquidity provider rewards. These can be viewed on Mintr by clicking the LP Rewards tab.

How do I obtain Synthetix Network Tokens (SNX)?

Synthetix Network Tokens (SNX) can be obtained by buying them from an exchange such as Binance or Uniswap. You can browse through the various centralized and decentralized exchanges by heading over to our exchanges page here. Alternatively, you can check out Synthetix Network Token's (SNX) markets tab for an overview of the different exchanges SNX is traded on.

What kind of Synthetic Assets/Synths are there?

Synthetix Exchange lists all its supported synthetic assets under its Synths tab. For a broad categorization of the different Synth types, as well as further explanation of their inner workings, you can check out Synthetix's litepaper. Broadly, there are 5 types of synthetic assets:

1. Foreign Exchange (Forex): Synths that track the price of forex currencies
Examples: sUSD, sEUR, sAUD etc.

2. Commodity: Synths that track the price of commodities
Examples: sOIL, sXAU, sXAG

3. Crypto: Synths that track the price of cryptocurrencies
Examples: sBTC, sETH, sXRP etc.

4. Index: Synths that track an index - a basket of stocks or cryptocurrencies
Examples: sDEFI, sCEX, sNIKKEI etc.

5. Inverse (iSynths): Synths that inversely track the price of assets, such as cryptocurrencies or commodities
Examples: iBTC, iETH, iOIL etc.

How does Synthetix work?

The process of staking and minting synthetic assets is similar in principle to how an individual would obtain an over the counter (OTC) derivative. OTC derivatives are derivatives that are bought through broker-dealer networks, rather than on stock exchanges. This means that they are inherently riskier, bearing significant counterparty risk. Thus, to mitigate this, each party is often required to put up collateral in a transaction.

In Synthetix, the act of obtaining a derivative is similar. A user first needs to lock-in or stake their collateral, SNX, into the smart contract before it issues the synthetic asset in return. However, there are a few key differences.
Firstly, Synthetix operates on a peer-to-contract model, rather than a peer-to-peer model used in traditional OTC derivatives markets. This means that Synths are traded for one another through a smart contract, rather than with a corresponding party or individual. When a trade is executed on Synthetix, the smart contract takes and burns the given Synth and mints an amount of corresponding Synth, determined by exchange rates from Chainlink's decentralized price feeds.

Secondly, users who lock-in their collateral incur debt. Initially, the value of the debt will depend on the amount of Synths the user has minted. However, this value is non-static and will fluctuate. This is because the debt represents a portion of total network debt, whose value increases or decreases depending on the exchange rate and supply of Synths in the protocol.

For instance, if a user mints $1000 worth of sUSD and the total value of all Synths in the protocol is $1 million, then the user would hold 0.1% of total system debt. If then, the total value of Synths doubles, then the user's debt value would also double, and vice versa.

In the event that this occurs, the user's C-Ratio may fall below the stipulated target level of 600%. The individual would then need to either i) burn some minted Synths or ii) obtain more SNX and stake it into the protocol to mint more Synths, to bring his/her ratio back up. No rewards will be given until then. More information on debt can be found in Synthetix's litepaper.

Finally, Synthetix generates rewards for users. As mentioned before, Synthetix offers exchange and staking rewards to users, which incentivize participation and compliance with the protocol. This is unlike traditional derivatives markets, which do not have this rewards feature.

Who governs Synthetix?

The Synthetix Foundation has been responsible for the governance of the protocol since its inception in 2017. It does this through two proposal mechanisms: i) Synthetix Improvement Proposals (SIPs) and ii) Synthetix Configuration Change Proposals (SCCPs). The former deals with proposed changes to Synthetix's smart contract while the latter is concerned with proposed changes to values such as the C-Ratio and exchange fees. The various SIPs and SCCPs can be viewed freely at their respective links.

However, in line with moving towards greater decentralization, the Synthetix Foundation was decommissioned on 28th July 2020. In its place, three decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) were formed: i) ProtocolDAO, ii) GrantsDAO and iii) SynthetixDAO. More information on the roles and responsibilities of these DAOs can be found in Kain Warwick's blogpost here.

Where can I learn more about SNX?

To learn more about Synthetix Network Token (SNX) and Synthetix in general, you may watch Crypto Finder's interview with Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix here:

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Synthetix Network Token price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $59,326,254. SNX price is down -0.7% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 140 Million SNX coins and a max supply of 212 Million. Sushiswap is the current most active market trading it.

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https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/IOTAUSDT/?exchange=BINANCE

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IOTA price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $21,185,733. MIOTA price is down -0.6% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 2.8 Billion MIOTA coins and a max supply of 2.78 Billion. Bitfinex is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as thetangle.org, iotasear.ch, and explorer.iota.org. Additional information can be found at http://iota.org/.

IOTA is a distributed ledger for the Internet of Things. The first ledger with microtransactions without fees as well as secure data transfer. Quantum proof. IOTA is a ground breaking new open-source distributed ledger that does not use a blockchain. Its innovative new quantum-proof protocol, known as the Tangle, gives rise to unique new features like zero fees, infinite scalability, fast transactions, secure data transfer and many others. IOTA is initially focused on serving as the backbone of the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

IOTA is a cryptocurrency that has no transaction fees and requires no miners in order to process transactions. It does, however, require some computational power to submit a transaction, making it perfect for machines to use as a currency and distributed communication protocol for the Internet of Things "IoT". The main purpose of IOTA is to solve some of the major problems with Blockchain technology, the main one being that the bigger the Blockchain (such as Bitcoin), the slower, more expensive, and also more restricting it is to actually transfer funds. Another issue with the Blockchain is size, as more and more Blocks are added, the longer the Blockchain gets, and therefore the less amount of computers are able to mine it. Right now BTC is over 150GB long, and so is ETH. If this size increased tenfold, very few computers would be able to mine it at all. Making them relatively centralized (the top 2 Bitcoin mining pools own about 56% of hashing power).

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IOTA (MIOTA) price, marketcap, chart, and info | CoinGecko

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IOTA price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $21,185,733. MIOTA price is down -0.6% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 2.8 Billion MIOTA coins and a max supply of 2.78 Billion. Bitfinex is the current most active market trading it.

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https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/OMGUSD/?exchange=COINBASE

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OMG Network price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $247,553,496. OMG price is down -3.3% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 140 Million OMG coins and a max supply of 140 Million. Bitfinex is the current most active market trading it. In order to explore addresses and transactions, you may use block explorers such as blockexplorer.mainnet.v1.omg.network, etherscan.io, blockchair.com, and ethplorer.io. Additional information can be found at https://omg.network/.

The OMG Network is the value transfer network for ETH and ERC20 tokens.

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OMG Network price today is with a 24-hour trading volume of $247,553,496. OMG price is down -3.3% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 140 Million OMG coins and a max supply of 140 Million. Bitfinex is the current most active market trading it.