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How Cardano’s IOHK is enabling the creation of verifiable but private cryptocurrencies

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The debate about privacy when using cryptocurrencies has been a long-standing one. From crypto miners, developers and even investors, embracing anonymity and privacy have almost become a requirement for mass adoption and uptake. Even though privacy and anonymity have been used by financial industry pundits to paint a bad picture for cryptocurrencies in general, these are two features that enable any cryptocurrency enthusiast to redeem their right to have total control over their money. AS IOHK CEO puts it,

Privacy is a human right and has to be protected

After all, one of the magical aspects of cryptocurrencies is that they give control of money back to the people. Although Bitcoin has been the golden standard for cryptocurrencies, it does not provide anonymity as most people would think. This has led to the rise of various altcoins claiming to provide anonymity and privacy. To this regard, Cardano’s IOHK partnered with ZenCash at the beginning of the year to come up with a reliable, private but resilient cryptocurrency.

The partnership between IOHK and Zen Cash

The partnership between ZenCash and Cardano’s IOHK will be a step closer towards establishing purely borderless transactional and communication system that allows parties to interact regardless of their background socioeconomic status or location.

ZenCash is a Blockchain project launched on May 30th last year with a focus on providing a networking and privacy infrastructure for anonymous and secure communication, transaction and collaboration. By partnering with IOHK, ZenCash will not only be able to upgrade its Blockchain protocol but it will also build and implement IOHK’s treasury model so as to ensure efficient allocation of decentralized resources on a community-driven governance system.

Building beyond privacy

The research project, led by Dr. Roman Oliynykov who is an IT researcher and cryptographer, will build on the ZenCash Blockchain to enable a first of its kind end-to-end cryptocurrency that runs on secure nodes. Miners on the newly upgraded network will receive rewards of up to 3.5 percent thus enabling sustainability on the network.

Considering the fact that ZenCash has a capped token supply of 21 million, and is treasury funded, not to mention a wallet and an advanced privacy and messaging capabilities, the collaboration between the two entities is surely set to be a game changer in the crypto space.

The partnership so far

So far, the two teams have been working on the core development of the platform and a bunch of features has already been completed. Plus, a consensus scaling protocol that will allow more transactions on ZenCash is being worked on at the moment.

Basically, the partnership is enabling ZenCash leverage on the expertise and scientific research capabilities of IOHK while on the other hand; IOHK gets to create universal solutions for cryptocurrencies apart from Cardano’s ADA.

With this partnership, not only will the age-old problem of privacy Blockchains be solved, but also the creation of efficient governing systems will be made a reality. According to Oliynykov, the IOHK research team is implementing “liquid democracy” as well as “confidentiality for voters”. Simply put, these two features alone will enable verifiable anonymous transactions on Blockchain networks.

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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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