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Cardano Is More Than Just A Better Ethereum

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Being utterly imperative on their website descriptions about how they are the best blockchain platform out there, it may be the case that what Cardano is doing is not merely bragging. Their team of researchers and market specialists, called IOHK, led by Charles Hoskinson, former co-founder of Ethereum, claims to be compromised with the scientific philosophy, making use of a different model to build the platform to be, categorically, the blockchain state-of-art.

They are driven by peer-reviewed academic research to deconstruct the concept of cryptocurrency – but that doesn’t mean they disregard previous successful experiences in the blockchain history. It’s quite the opposite. It means that they incorporate them in a much more rigorous albeit less dogmatic way, which, until now, resulted in groundbreaking innovations.

They are always one step ahead of their competitors, including resistance against quantum attacks, faster transactions, and their very own peer-reviewed proof-of-stake (POS) authentication algorithm, baptized as Ouroboros. Besides being much more energy and cost efficient than proof-of-work (POW) protocols (that has been proved to be true for all POS protocols, actually), it was designed to be “mathematically shown to be provably secure,” in comparison to Bitcoin’s POW.

Their dApps can be developed in C, JavaScript, Ethereum’s Soliditly and several others. Through their also unique and groundbreaking virtual machine developed to be the babel fish of programming languages, the IELE. Their cryptocurrency, called ADA, is currently listed for fiat trade on Bittrex, Binance and BitMEX. Remarkably, ADA is also going to be soon available in ATM machines in Japan.

Their own multi-purpose wallet, Daedalus, was also built with the same scientific philosophy they maintain and include features like Customizable Block Exploring and several plugins. Additionally, they seem exceptionally compromised with finding the perfect middle ground between innate characteristics of cryptocurrencies, like freedom and privacy, and official regulation.

With a hardcore team of extremely capable scientists and developers from all over the world, driven by the scientific philosophy, Cardano may be the blockchain platform of tomorrow’s tomorrow. They don’t care about fluff, in contrast to most other cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms popping up every day, and they don’t show the usual pretension about how their currency is going to surpass all the other ones in market value. Although that’s not an impossible event in some years.

Their ICO, albeit raising approximately $63 million USD, was held in a very low-key manner, basically totally focused on the Japanese market. They are, so to speak, awfully pretentious about how they are the team using the best method to develop the best blockchain platform ever, but, laying it on the line, they are probably right about it. ADA prices rise not (only) because of speculation, ADA prices rise because of its intrinsic value, with positive receptions and good expectations being almost a consensus among the cryptocurrency community.

On the very same day it was released, it reached the top 15 cryptocurrencies in market cap without much effort. After dropping steadily since the beginning of the year, Cardano prices seem to have hit the floor now, with a market cap stability and almost linear depreciation in relation to BTC in the last 20 days, remaining almost stable, kind of teddy-bearish, in the last three days. It currently holds the 6th position spot on market cap rankings.

ADA/BTC

ADA/BTC

ADA’s market cap growth

ADA’s market cap growth

The worst-case scenario is, of course, that Cardano’s price didn’t hit the floor and is moving towards a steady value depreciation. But we have to consider how many new assets Cardano is promising shortly. This includes their innovative treasury system, planned to warrant stability and reward any developers who propose improvements to the Cardano protocol, which, according to their latest blog post, they have highly improved; sidechaining, and a “voting center” for updates and protocol changes.

Add that to how much crypto-enthusiasts and investors are positive about them and the fact that, considering their compromise with articulating with regulatory bodies, we somewhat also can rely upon that Cardano is less prone to fluctuations caused by challenges imposed by regulation. Everything points to the conclusion that, yes, Cardano is not only the best blockchain-based platform out there, but its ADA coin is at its very best moment as an investment right now.

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XNO Token of Xeno NFT Hub listed on Bithumb Korea Exchange

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 25th January, 2021, // ChainWire //

Xeno Holdings Limited (xno.live ), a blockchain solutions company based in Hong Kong, has announced the listing of its ecosystem utility token XNO on the ‘Bithumb Korea’ cryptocurrency exchange on January 21st 2021.

Xeno NFT Hub (market.xno.live ), developed by Xeno Holdings, enables easy minting of digital items into NFTs while also providing a marketplace where anyone can securely trade NFTs.

The Xeno NFT Hub project team includes former members of the technology project Yosemite X based in San Francisco and professionals such as Gabby Dizon who is a games industry expert and NFT space influencer based in Southeast Asia.

NFT(Non-Fungible Token) technology has recently gained huge focus in the blockchain arena and beyond, making waves in the online gaming sector, the art world, and the digital copyrights industry in recent years. The strongest feature of NFTs is that “NFTs are unique digital assets that cannot be replaced or forged”. Unlike fungible tokens such as Bitcoin or Ether, NFTs are not interchangeable for other tokens of the same type but instead each NFT has a unique value and specific information that cannot be replaced. This fact makes NFTs the perfect solution to record and prove ownership of digital and real-world items like works of art, game items, limited-edition collectibles, and more. One of the ways to have a successful…

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Should Crypto Projects Devote Resources to Community Growth and Marketing?

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2020 has been an incredible year for crypto as investors have generated windfall profits and crypto projects have seen their businesses gain the spotlight they’ve been looking for.  While Bitcoin has received most of the attention after major institutional investors announced they were accumulating the increasingly scarce asset, many altcoins have also seen their fair share of glory.  When looking at all the big winners of the past year, the first project that probably comes to mind is Chainlink, having appreciated by more than 550% YTD and now valued at over $4.5 billion.  But, the actual biggest winner of the year is HEX with a YTD return of over 5,000%.

I mention both of the above projects as they have each taken slightly different paths to achieve greatness.  Chainlink has devoted resources toward building a fundamentally sound business with many strategic partnerships while HEX has spent vast sums of money on marketing and promotion.  Both approaches are valid, but one thing is certain, it is absolutely imperative for crypto projects to let the crypto community know what makes them special.  Of course, one of the reasons that makes crypto so valuable is the powerful blockchain technology that most projects are utilizing.

Cryptocurrency vs. Blockchain Technology

It’s important to make a distinction between blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.  Although they are often used interchangeably, they are different.  Blockchain technology and crypto were both created after the 2008 financial crisis, but cryptocurrency…

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XENO starts VIP NFT trading service and collaborates with contemporary artist Hiro Yamagata

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 24th December, 2020, // ChainWire //

The XENO NFT Hub (https://xno.live) will provide a crypto-powered digital items and collectables trading platform allowing users to create, buy, and sell NFTs. Additionally it will support auction based listings, governance and voting mechanisms, trade history tracking, user rating and other advanced features.

As a first step towards its fully comprehensive service, XENO NFT Hub launched a recent VIP service to select users and early adopters in December 2020 with plans for a full Public Beta to open in June 2021. 

“NFTs are extremely flexible in their usage, from digital event tickets to artwork, and while NFTs have a very wide spectrum of uses and categories XENO will initially focus its partnership efforts and its own item curation on three primary areas: gaming, sports & entertainment, and collectibles.”, said XENO NFT Hub president Anthony Di Franco.

He also added “This does not mean we will prohibit other types of NFTs from our ecosystem However, it simply means that XENO’s efforts as a company will be targeted into these verticals initially as a cohesive business approach.”

Development and Procurement Lead, Gabby Dizon explained, “Despite our initial focus, we found ourselves with a unique opportunity to host some of the works of Mr. Hiro Yamagata. We are collaborating with Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata to enshrine some of his artwork into NFTs.”

Mr. Yamagata has…

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