Cryptocurrency futures exchange CoinFlex targets Asia traders with physical delivery of bitcoin contracts 30957

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New cryptocurrency futures exchange CoinFlex, which claims to be the world’s first exchange that offers physical delivery for bitcoin futures contracts, wants to ramp up business from Asian retail investors who want to avoid falling victim to price manipulation that it says is rampant in cash-settlement contracts.

Mark Lamb, Hong Kong-based chief executive of the company, said contracts that physically deliver bitcoin and other tokens at settlement will benefit traders, who can be certain the spot and futures prices have not been manipulated and that they closely track the spot bitcoin price. This is because cash-settlement contracts, whose price is often calculated using a formula based on the spot bitcoin prices of other exchanges, can be easily manipulated.

“Professional and retail traders alike are affected by price manipulation in the cash settled futures market. In physical delivered contracts, anyone long at expiry receives the underlying bitcoin. There are no formulas involved,” Lamb said.

He did not comment when asked if CoinFlex was offering services to Hong Kong-based customers. The city’s Securities and Futures Commission proposed a regulatory framework on cryptocurrency exchanges in November 2018, and has said it was unlikely to grant licences to exchanges that offered the trading of futures and derivative contracts.

Lamb said he had seen an increase in attempts to manipulate prices over the past few months, by traders who moved the underlying spot prices that go into the formula in their favour, as they took advantage of the thinner trading volume of the cryptocurrency spot market compared with that of futures. Currently, the trading volume of bitcoin futures is 1.5 times that of spot.

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AuroraFS DApps Development Capabilities to Be Enhanced 5153

Recent news reveals that AuroraFS has progressed in its vision and direction concerning the development of the next generation of DApps which will be deployed on the decentralized P2P cloud storage and distribution network. AuroraFS announced intentions to begin building DApps which will run on the content storage and streaming network, in addition to Web3Tube.

Web3Tube is the decentralized video storage and sharing application which has been in full test mode for over a month now. Web3Tube was the first decentralized application to display the power and ability of the decentralized cloud network known as AuroraFS. Now, with the expansion into development of more DApps, the search for DApps developers is on.

What do the New Development Plans Look Like?

The development of the next generation of DApps has triggered a search for Decentralized Application Developers to bring talent to AuroraFS in order to deliver just that. In order for the AuroraFS blockchain network to begin generating future DApps that will run on and demonstrate the power and expansiveness from the peer-provided global data resource pool, it will require fresh ideas and talent, so the network set out to find both.

The ideas are not only coming from contributors and advisors to the network, but also the AuroraFS network community has been asked to weigh-in and submit ideas for the next wave of DApps to be developed. It certainly presents as a sensible move since the community would be expected to have an instrumental part in operating those DApps on the front end. The community has been asked to play an intricate role in the development of the network in this way, as AuroraFS demonstrates by action, an evidential degree of trust in the opinions and views of its community, Web3Tube video creators, network users, AuroraFS and Web3Tube contest and campaign winners and airdropped AUFS token holders.

“We were excited to get feedback from the AuroraFS community. They’re using the network actively on Web3Tube and involved in all of the contests and upgrades that have been made to the decentralized network, so it is certainly a good idea to consider their valuable feedback for the next phase of AuroraFS DApps.” – Warwick Powell, Gauss Aurora Lab Design and Research Leader

DApps on AuroraFS up Until Now

Until now, the focus has almost exclusively been on Web3Tube, the initial DApp developed to demonstrate the vast capabilities of the AuroraFS decentralized content network. It took a great deal of time, while Web3Tube was in its conceptualization stage as AuroraFS was still deep in its development phase, just beyond theory and hypothesizing. Since that time, a downloadable version of Web3Tube went live and has been available since March, when future airdrop campaigns began.

Web3Tube is comparable to a platform such as YouTube, but innovative in that it is fully decentralized. To accomplish this, Web3Tube depends on the fully decentralized, yet fully secured AuroraFS innovation which combines state of the art technologies to create data efficiency advanced enough to deliver HD quality in a fully decentralized and secured environment. To pull this off and still maintain anonymity and integrity simultaneously, has in fact been an achievement thus far for AuroraFS, which motivates the decision and drive for the development of more DApps in this season.

Final Mentions and Next Steps for AuroraFS

With development plans for the next phase of DApps certain, AuroraFS moves closer to its expected token and mainnet launch in Q3 of this year. The exact date in Q3 has not been determined, as improvements in a strive for the utmost quality, are still regularly being made to the network and the Web3Tube application alike.

The final round of the third official future airdrop contests and campaigns also recently ended, and the Gauss Aurora Labs team of AuroraFS contributors, have made multiple appearances in blockchain and tech events. Members of the team were present at Blockchain Week in Australia at the end of March, and also FinTech21 which was held in Melbourne on May 18th and 19th. So then exposure has been a focus as the Gauss Aurora Labs team looks to educate individuals about the new blockchain development still not fully released.

CryptoDao community of Web3 specialists 1727

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A global, decentralized and open platform for interaction between independent web3 specialists that connects the worlds of media and web3 technology. The company was founded by CEO Dmitry Kotov in 2022.

The simplicity of the approach in the exchange of information and the possibility for new specialists to integrate into the work of the project without too much effort, allows the project to develop successfully and to attract more and more new participants. The success lies in the innovative approach to the implementation of a safe, expert and reliable news platform for users around the world as the main direction of the company.

Articles about the Web3 world are in demand on the CriptoDao platform. And the project itself actively attracts specialists in the field of web3, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The main goal of the project is to write academic articles about the world of decentralized technologies and major trends in the cryptoindustry.

What makes this project stand out from others, why do specialists and editors specializing in the crypto industry come and stay on CryptoDao?

Starting from the pleasant atmosphere in the project, where hundreds of like-minded people have gathered with similar ideas and belief in the dominant position of decentralized technologies in the future, as well as the possibility to publish their works all over the world in several languages, and finishing with the pleasant “bonuses” from the platform that encourages its most active members.

What are these bonuses? On CryptoDao platform, distinguished participants are awarded with cryptocoin and diploma of participant of this community in the form of nft with a mention of your contribution to the development of the community.

It turns out that in addition to the recognition of your works in the world field and strengthening or creating your reputation, you get a financial benefit from writing academic articles on this platform.

In conclusion, we can say that CryptoDao is a combination of professionalism of the project team, the absence of censorship and the ability to publish worldwide. And it is not surprising because at the origins of this company are the best crypto-specialists from all over the world.

Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends NFTs, First Sale on Binance NFT 5548

BBF Inc. has announced that ‘Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends‘ NFTs will be released on the Binance NFT, the official NFT marketplace of Binance, on the 10th of this month. Featuring the beloved characters of Pinkfong Wonderstar, these will be the first collection of the ‘Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends’ NFTs.

For its first collaboration with Binance NFT, BBF Inc. plans to release 2,504 Mystery Box NFTs featuring the adorable characters from Pinkfong Wonderstar, the hit 3D animated series of The Pinkfong Company, on the Binance NFT on the 10th. The Binance NFT Mystery Box ‘Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends NFTs’ is designed to enable Play-to-earn and token mining within the game. Detailed sales and event information will be released later on the Binance NFT official website and social media channels.

‘Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends’ is a P2E game developed by Day1 Entertainment based on the Pinkfong Baby Shark IP, the world-renowned IP of The Pinkfong Company, after Day1 Entertainment entered into a license agreement with The Pinkfong Company.

Meanwhile, ‘Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends’ is currently holding a Pre-Registration Event through the official Pre-Registration page (bbfpreregistration.io/) for global user. Those interested can find detailed information about the event on the website and through community channels.

‘Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends’ is a classic arcade bubble shooter P2E game that is fun and easy to enjoy. Along with various game contents, it is scheduled to be released globally within the first half of this year except South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, North Korea, and China pursuant to the regulations of each country.

About BBF Inc.

BBF Inc. is a U.S.-based operating corporation that oversees the global operation and business of P2E game Baby Shark BubbleFong Friends.

LABEL Foundation Integrates With Binance Custody To Offer Cold Storage Support For $LBL Token 6153

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LABEL Foundation has announced that it has officially integrated with Binance Custody to take advantage of their highly secure cold storage solution. With this integration, LABEL’s native tokens can be kept safely as the $LBL is now supported by Binance Custody and the tokens are safely stored using their institutional and insured cold storage feature. Moreover, both BEP-20 and ERC-20 are available for deposits as well as withdrawals. If all goes well, the LABEL team hopes to further expand its partnership with the Binance ecosystem in the future as well.

A budding relationship

Binance Custody was only released in 2021, but there is still nevertheless plenty of faith in the high level of user protection being offered by the service. LABEL had been searching for a reliable custody service for quite a while, and when choosing a custody service, the main aspects that LABEL primarily focused on were security and insurance coverage. Keeping that in mind, Binance Custody indeed appeared to be the optimal choice as it uses industry-leading secure MPC (Multi-Party Computing) , threshold signing schemes, and offline key-sharing storage to decentralize fund management, all of which are vital components to ensuring the safety of users’ digital assets.

Also, in terms of insurance, Binance Custody obtained insurance from Arch Syndicate 2012 at Lloyd’s of London, which was mediated by Lockton’s Emerging Asset Protection (LEAP), the world’s largest independent insurance broker, to further enhance investor protection. Insurance is one of the most important factors when it comes to a custody service, as it provides peace of mind to the customers as even if something does go wrong, the losses can be recovered.

The benefits of transferring ownership of digital assets to Binance Custody are hence not only limited to security from hackers and malicious individuals, but also delegation of authority. By sharing access with the custodian and delegating this authority, users can hence potentially prevent the loss of assets in the event of lost cryptographic inheritance, private passwords, or any other kind of data loss or hack.

Why choose Binance Custody?

Choosing Binance Custody was an easy choice for LABEL Foundation because of its aforementioned safe cold storage solution. As LABEL is all about revolutionizing the music industry through Web 3.0 technology, integrating with Binance Custody provides another level of security by protecting users’ $LBL tokens with the institutional-grade digital asset management infrastructure and security features. Once again, this provides some much-needed peace of mind to LABEL’s customers as reliable security measures have quickly become mandatory for any project in this industry. According to CSO Hyung Soon Choi, there will also be discussions on potentially considering further strategic collaboration with Binance Custody and the broader Binance Ecosystem.

What is Binance Custody?

Binance Custody is widely considered to be a top service as it is completely regulated, insured and effortlessly integrated with the overall Binance ecosystem. Fully customized solutions are offered via the service, as it essentially acts as an uncompromising platform between top-notch security and a simple as well as efficient user experience which provides a customizable multi-permission scheme. This in turn enables institutions and individuals alike to operate crypto assets in a systematic, secure and controlled manner.

The core technology behind Binance’s Custody is additionally certified to ISO 27001 and 27701, the world’s most recognized and sought-after quality control standards for information security and privacy, which is yet another reason as to why so many are actively choosing Binance Custody.

About LABEL Foundation

LABEL Foundation is a blockchain-oriented NFT copyright fee sharing platform that supports investment, distribution and advertising processes, removes significant barriers to modern content production and investment, and strives to eliminate the biased profit sharing structure that currently exists in this industry.

Essentially, LABEL Foundation represents an incubation system designed to disrupt the DeFi industry and it uses the native $LBL token, which is Ethereum-based governance and utility token, to do so. The native token may also be used in a variety of ways to help bolster the expansion of the LABEL ecosystem. Furthermore, the tokens are mainly used to establish the basic token economy of the platform by acting as payment, staking and governance entities. Lastly, the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) voting infrastructure allows contributors to claim profits via the non-fungible token shareholding system, which adds a strong sense of community that is actively associated with LABEL and everything that it does.

For more information and regular updates, be sure to check out the official website and Medium, Telegram and Twitter channels.

Dvision Network Announces Binance Custody as its Custodian with DVI Token Supported 6439

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In another groundbreaking achievement, the blockchain-based metaverse platform Dvision Network has just announced its official onboarding on Binance Custody. As such, Binance’s custody services arm will support deposits and withdrawals of Dvision’s native token, DVI, on its platform. The support for DVI token on Binance Custody will be provided in a cross-chain manner, adding support for both ERC-20 and BEP-20 versions of the Dvision’s native token.

What is there to know?

Through the Binance Custody’s official Twitter account, it has been announced that it is currently accepting DVI token deposits and withdrawals for Dvision Network on its custody service. Binance Custody’s platform is undergoing an independent SOC 2 audit to validate its operational security. With that in mind, Binance employs safe MPC (multi party computation) to disperse control over client funds, thereby significantly reducing the dangers associated with centralization.

Moreover, Dvision Network has established itself as an initiative that values security and transparency in token administration, having previously offered cold storage services using Coinbase Custody early last year. With the latest announcement concerning Binance Custody, the network looks to expand its global influence and continue to offer safe and exciting products, features, and services.

What benefits do DVI holders get?

Thanks to the aforementioned onboarding, DVI token holders may now safely store their DVI tokens in Binance Custody’s offline, cold storage facility. Furthermore, Binance Custody provides institutional investors with the capability to run a completely compatible storage service that can safely store virtual currencies through the use of cutting-edge technology, security breakthroughs, and innovative procedures.

In addition, Binance Custody announced it had secured cold storage insurance in March. This insurance protects cryptocurrency stored in cold storage against named peril. It is underwritten by Arch Syndicate 2012 at Lloyd’s of London and brokered by the world’s largest independent insurance brokerage Lockton Companies’ specialist team LEAP (Lockton’s Emerging Asset Protection)

About Dvision

Based on blockchain technology, Dvision Network is an NFT metaverse network that aspires to be the greatest in the entire industry. Dvision Network uses its own virtual reality technology to build a cutting-edge metaverse environment, decreasing entry barriers for all types of users globally. As a result, designers, companies, and general users may partake in a truly dynamic and memorable metaverse experience. Visit Dvision’s website, Telegram, Medium, and Twitter channels for additional information and frequent updates.

Algorand Looks to Prove Why Algoracle Is Needed in the Contemporary Blockchain and Crypto Sector 4019

As the complexity of current dApps (decentralized applications) on Algorand grows, so must the infrastructure, notably oracles, to enable significantly higher and better feature sets. In the Algorand ecosystem, Algoracle’s opinions on off-chain computing are therefore worth discussing in key detail.

What is it exactly?

Since smart contracts are unable to access external data on their own, all Web 3.0 technology is built on the foundation of the most crucial of blockchain middleware, oracles. The current generation of decentralized oracle networks therefore seeks to connect real-world, off-chain data to blockchains. As the complexity of contemporary dApps grows however, oracles must also mature and expand to accommodate significantly higher and deeper feature sets as aforementioned.

The next major frontier in oracle development is indeed off-chain computing, which essentially allows oracles to handle significantly more advanced programming logic as well as data aggregation requests on behalf of smart contracts in a permissionless way before publishing the data on-chain. As such, streamlining and enhancing the functionality of oracle off-chain computation not only greatly improves smart contract execution, cost efficiency, and scalability, but it additionally provides decentralized applications with an excellent quality of life features that we often take for granted in Web 2.0, which includes things like push notifications and transaction automation, without requiring dApps to rely on multiple services with varying levels of centralization.

Why is any of this important?

It is simple to envision that as teams construct more sophisticated dApps, the kinds of data sourcing, processing, and computing will become increasingly complicated. An application would often need to pull data from numerous sources while applying certain parameters and filtering logic. Aggregating data from several APIs, selected statistical methodologies, and various data types implies that these activities quickly get needlessly complex. As a result, more efficient methods of doing off-chain processing and applying logic to various circumstances and use cases are critical.

Furthermore, most EVM oracles currently offer rudimentary ways for requesting certain APIs, allowing users to choose the URL or JSON from which to send data, although they do not natively support data aggregation logic. Aggregated data streams are frequently built up or enabled on a case-by-case basis, resulting in data centralization and inflexibility regarding logic application.

A considerably superior oracle design, from the perspective of a developer, would thus enable off-chain data aggregation for general computation. Simply put, oracles should function similarly to Layer-2 smart contracts, where any high-level programming language may be utilized to execute trustless reasoning. Builders ought to have access to a uniform interface that is pre-programmed with this specific goal in mind.

So what’s the issue and how can Algorand help?

Sadly, due to outdated code and the necessity to manage backwards compatibility for current clients, the previously mentioned crucial quality-of-life changes and additions are extremely difficult to execute in existing V1.0 oracles. Attempting to roll out improvements that would improve off-chain computing in present state oracles would hence be analogous to adding new components to an already-flying airplane. Due to this, most oracle V2.0 upgrades would often still leave developers maintaining a plethora of interfaces, both for data feeds and Layer-2 operations.

Algoracle is working on creating a unified interface with off-chain processing in mind, made possible by the intelligent implementation of the Algorand consensus. The significance of Algorand’s Pure Proof of Stake (PPoS) consensus is that its advantages can be simply duplicated for oracle data. The PPoS strategy, based on the Byzantine consensus, avoids standard Proof-of-Stake (PoS) security issues by fortifying the network with an emphasis on a transparent majority without bias based on each validator’s entire stake.

In other words, instead of forced token lockups and the risk of big stakeholders exerting monopolistic control over the network in PoS, PPoS will instead introduce an egalitarian method which randomly selects validators from the entire validator body, thereby removing entry barriers along with any minimum stake requirements.

Since its inception, Algorand has been able to achieve incredible performance, scale, and 100% uptime because of this random selection mechanism, also known as the Verifiable Random Function (VRF) cryptographic sortition. Silvio Micali, the creator of Algorand, was a fundamental architect behind the concept of VRFs, which are now one of the most important building elements for cybersecurity and cryptography applications.

The importance of VRFs

Essentially, a VRF is a tamper-proof random number generator. Such a resource is extremely beneficial for smart contracts dealing with lotteries, auctions, assignment or selection of roles, or any other activity that requires trustlessly verified unpredictability.

Algoracle can deliver a superior ‘VRF-as-a-service’ offering while also creatively deploying VRFs at the node network consensus level to reach peak oracle efficiency by piggybacking on Algorand’s PPoS consensus and bottom-up creation of a unified interface.

By integrating VRFs at a lower level, Algoracle is hence able to deliver improved reliability and effectiveness. Algoracle’s implementation of VRF in PPoS consensus, which ensures assured random sampling of validators, permits not just next generation off-chain computing, but also many essential functionalities taken for granted in the Web 2.0 world that currently evade the offers of oracle providers today.

About Algoracle

Algoracle, the first dynamic, decentralized oracle network constructed on the Algorand blockchain, was developed in the autumn of 2021 and won first place in the Encode’s Algorand Hackathon.

The goal of Algoracle is to provide easy and accessible oracle solutions to help dApps built on Algorand access off-chain data safely, precisely, and fast. By providing decentralized participation which is guaranteed for all independent node operators and users wishing to contribute to the network for economic stimulation, Algoracle intends to be the most reliable, secure, and easy up-to-date real-world data source.

Algorcale believes that real-time data is incredibly useful and should be transmitted in a straightforward, accurate, and timely manner. It therefore aspires to be one of the blockchain sector’s major open-source oracle networks in the decentralized data processing ecosystem.

Also, Brave New Coin, Amberdata, Kaiko, and Nomics, are just some of the current partners. Meanwhile, Bankrolled, Glitter Finance, Equito Finance, Upside Finance, Prismatic, Webblen Network, Mercury Labs, AlgoGuard, and others are the major clients. In terms of biggest achievements, the seed round was successfully closed, and a vital partnership with Amberdata was also established. The mainnet launch, as well as the launch of the GORA token, along with providing VRF and computation capabilities are among the main points of focus for the next 12 months.