double spending of a cryptocurrency, but problems that prevent new users from coming on the blockchain seamlessly.  Enter Aelf. Aelf aims(and succeeds) to solve many of these problems posed by current blockchains. By the end of this post, you'd have understood what exactly Aelf is, how it works and what you can do with it.   Simply put, Aelf is a customisable operating system, that is built specifically for blockchains. As we all know, Bitcoin paved the way for blockchain technology by being the pioneer digital currency to embrace the power of blockchain technology. From the inception of Bitcoin, Ethereum was born to correct Bitcoin's mistakes, and add a very wonderful feature: Smart contracts which enabled the use of Decentralised apps, or DApps. However, there is a problem with these DApps, which is that they can't run efficiently on Windows, MacOS and Linux,  our current operating systems. So how do we implement blockchain tech that can be run easily on our current operating systems? Easy. With Aelf! But how? To answer that question, we'll have to know how Aelf works.   Aelf has envisioned to solve the problems of current blockchains by implementing two innovative properties into the blockchain. These innovative properties are side chains and a very unique governance system. These two will be explained in detail in the following lines. SIDE CHAINS: Aelf consists of two chains: The main chain and the side chain. The main chain is the backbone of all operations. The main chain can equally communicate with all other chains in the network. The side chains however are where things get interesting. The side chains have each one dedicated to s specific smart contract, which makes everything run very, very smoothly. It's like having one RAM chip for every process you want to implement on your mobile device. However, each side chain cannot communicate with another. They have to go through the main chain to be able to communicate with each other. All side chains are connected to the main chain through a side chain index system. The system categorises side chains into the following groups: THE UNIQUE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM Aelf makes use of a unique consensus system to record information from all the side chains to the main chain. Because of the complexity of this network, a regular proof of work or proof of stake consensus system won't work. Rather, the Aelf main chain makes use of the Delegated Proof of Stake consensus system. As an Aelf holder, you have a say in which nodes become miner nodes by exercising your ability to vote for them. As a reward for this vote, the elected nodes then decide how to share the bonuses they obtained form mining to the nodes that voted them in. The Aelf network determines how many miners are on the network through the formula: Miners = 2N + 1. The integer "N' starts at 8 and increases every year. Just like miners on the bitcoin blockchain, the mining nodes on the Aelf network are responsible for confirming transactions, adding transactions to blocks and transferring data across the blockchain. Back in December 2017, the Aelf team held a token sale for its inside investors. The team distributed 25% of the total ELF token supply to the investors, with the remaining 75% of tokens reserved for special use. The tokens were shared as thus:   Aelf has a lot of great minds behind its development. Aelf was developed by Ma Haobao, who is equally the CEO of Hoopox. The team's advisory board comprises of Michael Arrington (who is the CEO of TechCrunch). The team is planning on releasing the blockchain's potential to be put to use in industries. The team also promised to improve other chains in the ecosystem by providing a template for interaction among all side chains in the network. The team has also partnered with a great many famous startups and companies, including AlphaBit, BitMain and Hashed, to mention a few.     ELF is an ERC-20 compliant token, and can be stored in any wallet which supports ERC-20 tokens, such as the Trust wallet and Atomic wallet. You can equally store it in the Exodus wallet on desktop and the Ledger and the Trezor hardware wallets. The ELF token can be purchased from Changelly with credit it debit cards through an integration with Simplex.  ELF is also traded on all major spot exchanges like Binance and Huobi. It has numerous trading pairs, and has performed well over the years.     As of today, the Elf token has a market cap of over 30 million dollars with a maximum supply of 180 billion tokens. The token was launched at a price of just $1.10, and within a month rose by 161% to be traded at $2.61. Many renowned analysts say the price may rise to as high as over $100 in 2023, when there is an increased demand for the features it provides, and I don't doubt that because of its useful features.   The Aelf protocol differs from other cryptocurrencies in the following ways:   That's all your need to know about Aelf! Thanks for reading. You can visit the Aelf website through this link.  Have a nice day! MadMaxx Shitcoin flipper. Derivatives and options trader. Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and inverse swap contracts. Professional trader. Never financial advice. All you need to know about crypto! Send a $0.01 microtip in crypto to the author, and earn yourself as you read! We pay the tips from our rewards pool. costanza 16 hours ago 1 minute read Djordi 22 hours ago 4 minute read MarkHelfman 16 May 2020 9 minute read Get FREE CRYPTO Just for Tipping this Article. Register now at Publish0x to claim your $$$. It only takes 15 seconds and it's free.

growth in total locked value and market cap of DeFi projects over the last two weeks, it seems the meteoric growth has given way to a more moderate rate. Following DeFi, cross-chain became all the rage. On August 22nd, DOT, Polkadot’s token, was split at a ratio of 1:100. After that, the prices of DOT began to skyrocket on major exchanges. In fact, the popularity of cross-chain was partly helped by DeFi. Although DeFi aspires to reshape the financial ecosystem, it is in a difficult situation, the main reason being the poor infrastructure. Since the end of 2017, Ethereum has been running at high capacity, and as its gas fees rise and transactions are being processed increasingly slowly, there was even the news that some star DeFi projects might consider turning to other public chains because of Ethereum’s high gas fees. In order to solve the problems faced by Ethereum 1.0, upgrading infrastructure is necessary. However, since the upgrade of Ethereum 2.0 has been delayed time and time again, and due to the complexity of sharding technology, people are turning their attention to some star cross-chain projects. In the future, the combination of cross-chain and DeFi will be the prevailing trend. What problems and difficulties is cross-chain technology facing? As of today, there have been numerous blockchains, but the information isolation of many chains has inevitably made blockchains isolated islands independent of each other. Cross-chain, as the name suggests, is aimed to build a bridge between two isolated islands, connecting different blockchains together. In practice, the problem to be solved in cross-chain is how to transfer tokens from one chain to another. This process is not only the transmission of information flow, but also the value transfer behind the information flow that needs to be accurately recorded. At present, the problems and difficulties cross-chain technology is facing are mainly in two aspects: one is how to verify the transaction status of the original chain in a distributed way, the other is how to verify cross-chain data to ensure security. Cross-chain interaction can be divided into homogeneous and heterogeneous cross-chain depending on the underlying blockchain platform. Mainstream cross-chain solutions include notary mechanism, hash locking, side chain / relay chain, and distributed private key control. Polkadot’s vision is to use a Relay chain to verify the transactions of other chains and to establish a parallel chain to realize the transaction and communication with the original chain. Cosmos is similar to Polkadot in some concepts, but it also hopes to create a heterogeneous system to solve cross-chain problems. However, the compatibility of the two chains will not be easily solved by the heterogeneous design. Aelf, which uses the side chain scheme, proposed its own cross-chain model to solve the above two difficult problems. In the cross-chain process, aelf uses a method called “indexing” to achieve cross-chain communications. Indexing refers to the transfer of data from one chain to another according to the defined structure and is the premise of any cross-chain function. Aelf also adopts the concept of “joint mining”, that is, miners can complete the indexing process on their own. This kind of design can effectively solve two problems: the first is whether a certain chain can be trusted or not. The concept of “joint mining” solves this problem in a fundamental way. It can take into account the normal running of the main-chain and side-chain, without the need to design a redundant trust mechanism. The second problem is whether data indexing is decentralized. The strategy is that the miners can complete indexing independently, and then consider the indexed data participating in the consensus verification process as common data. Therefore, the indexing process and data source of aelf are completely decentralized, which can ensure the security of indexed data. Cross-chain + DeFi For example, Telegram’s blockchain project TON was also popular for a time, being known as the combination of Ethereum 2.0, EOS and Polkadot. TON proposed an extensible multi-chain blockchain architecture and prepared a slew of network infrastructures to support various on-chain services, cryptocurrencies and applications. However, TON went belly-up in the end. Telegram terminated its blockchain project TON in May 2020, but its testnet still ran for nearly a year. In the update on July 6th, TON’s dev team announced that it would stop supporting the TON testnet, and the remaining TON validators would be shut down on August 1st. TON advised all testnet participants to save all relevant data and stop their testing process. Telegram, which raised $1.7 billion in an ICO, has failed. In the meantime, aelf has built its blockchain network with little funding which is not an easy task. Recently, aelf has updated the aelf product landscape on its website, which offers an overview of aelf’s architecture, including basic cloud environment, core services, components and instances, and scenario applications. As can be seen from the aelf product landscape, aelf has been working on DeFi for a long time. Aelf will start with AESwap and lending and strive to cover the entire DeFi ecosystem in the future. At present, Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem is relatively complete, but there are still a lot of possibilities out there. It is believed that aelf’s “cross-chain + DeFi” combination will continue to surprise the blockchain industry. Aelf has built strong technical features for DeFi that will make it better prepared for applications. First, it will increase speed and reduce costs, which is critical to user experience. Second, aelf’s cross-chain capabilities will allow assets to flow freely between chains. In addition, aelf provides a well-designed governance module for DeFi, allowing them to customize their approach and engage with the community. These features will enable DeFi to perform better on aelf. As cross-chain technology continues to develop, we may see the transition from the prosperity of a single chain to the value flow between numerous chains. 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of the most prominent bottlenecks that are hindering the mainstream adoption of distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions is their interoperability. However, the rapid pace of development of blockchain interoperability solutions comes as a ray of hope that seeks to close the informational gap between different isolated blockchains. At a broad level, blockchain can be viewed as both – a distributed and an independent ledger. An interoperability or a cross-chain solution is of particular significance in the DLT ecosystem as it would function as a catalyst that transforms an isolated blockchain into an interconnected one. It won’t be an exaggeration to state that robust blockchain cross-chain solutions hold the potential to increase blockchain’s utility exponentially and play a key role in fostering the maturity of the DLT ecosystem. As a decentralized open-source blockchain project, has successfully developed a cross-chain transfer protocol based on its multi-level “main chain – multiple side chains” structure. The cross-chain protocol developed by aelf specifically focuses on ease of use, scalability, and security. Per sources close to the matter, the newly developed protocol processes smooth cross-chain transfers between independent blockchain systems. What’s more, it also supports applications that demand the transfer of assets between different blockchain systems. aelf’s protocol provides a standard solution for cross-chain transfers and a unified specification for cross-chain asset transfer between DLT systems. Additionally, it also offers a standardized interface and data structure that enables decentralized cross-chain asset transfer services thereby functioning as a common solution for developers. The protocol’s goal is twofold. First, it seeks to eliminate the issues pertaining to lack of data connection and low interoperability resulting from the incompatibility of different blockchain protocols. Second, the protocol wants to solve the notorious problem of low efficiency/high cost of cross-chain asset transfers. The cross-chain protocol is applicable to the following three scenarios: 1. Cross-chain asset transfers between blockchain systems. 2. Cross-chain asset exchange between blockchain systems. 3. Finish existence proof between blockchain systems. The need for the establishment of unified data format standards is the need of the hour to facilitate seamless interaction among different blockchain systems using different governance protocols and data structures. These data standards must be compatible with various blockchain protocols so they enable cross-chain transfers and, subsequently, help establish common assets cross-chain standards. In essence, there’s an immediate need to define the standard structure of asset cross-chain transfer data. At the same time, it’s also worth noting that the cross-chain asset transfer process is based on cross-chain Existence Proof, which, in turn, is dependent on the Merkle Proof mechanism. This necessitates the need for a unified verification method to foster cross-chain verification across different blockchain systems which can only be achieved by defining the standard method of cross-chain Existence Proof. There’s no doubt that a future where blockchain solutions and services are the norms, there will be no dearth of cross-chain and interoperability solutions. The blockchain-enabled world of the future will inarguably comprise of chains that are able to interact with one another without any hiccup. As the vast majority of chains today are heterogeneous in nature, the free flow of information from one chain to another is central to creating value and utility around these networks. This can only be achieved by establishing a unified cross-chain protocol that stretches the corners of today’s blockchain ecosystem. Concluding, aelf’s cross-chain transfer protocol is a testimony to its commitment to foster a tomorrow that is not only decentralized and secure but also communicates freely. Through its protocol, aelf aims to enable seamless cross-chain interaction between chains. The of the aelf ecosystem will directly lead to increased use-cases and value of its cross-chain protocol.

of 2017. But, with the arrival of a new year, there came new solutions, and that is when we heard about ELF again. But, as ELF has new solutions upcoming as well, in the form of a private sale organized to sell as much of this token as possible, we are witnessing a change in trending on behalf of this digital coin. To keep up with this digital token, we first need to explain what ELF exactly is and which idea it represents. ELF or Aelf is a digital coin launched and created to serve a decentralized platform which would allow utilization of Blockchain in the physical world of business. That means that developers behind this token have the idea of increasing scalability within blockchain technology so that the current model of business doing could be modified and improved. To solve the problem of scalability within blockchain technology, the developers have concluded that the best option for reaching their goal would be to create a blockchain ecosystem that would be decentralized but working in a similar way operative systems like Linux do. That is how ELF token is planning on running its platform, Aelf, based on nodes that would be organized in clusters. To put this simply, Aelf would be running on nodes that would allow transactions within different groups. So, while there would be transactions being processed in one group, other groups would be able to simultaneously perform different transactions within their network, but unrelated to other groups. The idea behind this type of system is to ensure that the groups for transactions are organized by similar “interests.” That means that different businesses would be organized in different groups, that way creating a well-organized ecosystem that would enable easy business doing and turn-key solutions. So, Aelf has the main goal to become a blockchain decentralized platform that would meet business and mainstream institution needs with each smart contract running on its own network in the form of nodes, which would at the same time solve the scalability issue most platforms have. The goal of this project is to revolutionize the way people are doing business today, but at the same time, creators of this platform are looking into efficiency and security problems that have to be solved. In that spirit, each smart contract and each transaction group will run on separate chains, that way posing a new business model and revolutionizing several mainstream markets. The idea is to accept any type of business and create a versatile community that will be able to obtain a self-sufficient status. Think about it as a reality within a reality where virtual world is actually connected to the physical world. The result would be simplified business ventures, safe and fast transactions and low fees. The ecosystem supported by this token should take on the announced novelties pretty soon, potentially creating an incentive business ecosystem that would be ready for several business types, models, and scenarios with a turn-key solution. To make this project more desirable and boost ELF sales, the team has organized a private sale where they managed to collect 55.000 ETH on behalf of ELF token, that way boosting the price of this coin along the way. Another project with the idea of promoting ELF was recently launched when the team behind this coin invited people to join a project called Azeroth. The launched project is supposed to reward anyone who applies and registers with free ELF tokens in a way known only to the registered parties that are participating in this project. All these projects, including the private sale, probably represent a way of making this no longer forgotten coin, well remembered and running across mainstream waters. It seems that this strategy is working pretty well as ELF is experiencing increases in price, leading from the original major increase in 2018 that happened on January 18th when a whole lot of different tokens were actually suffering from major decreases. And, on January 26th, ELF had another jump marked at 21% of increased price thanks to the launching of Azeroth, a free rewarding program. Look for the team behind ELF to have all the announced changes implemented into a functional community. Once implemented, the price will most certainly rise. We will be updating our subscribers as soon as we know more. For the latest on,  sign up below! Disclaimer: This article should not be taken as, and is not intended to provide, investment advice. Global Coin Report and/or its affiliates, employees, writers, and subcontractors are cryptocurrency investors and from time to time may or may not have holdings in some of the coins or tokens they cover. Please conduct your own thorough research before investing in any cryptocurrency.

momentum, if assessed by its distance from its 20 day moving average, is pretty far negative compared to the other coins were covering, and thus may be due for a correction upwards or some kind of a period of low volatility. In terms of volatility, aelf exhibits greater price volatility than approximately 73% of coins in our index, so traders can expect a bit more volatility than usual. Looking ahead, if the upcoming week mirrors the volatility of three past three weeks, the price range for aelf in US dollars is expected to be between $0.1700481 and $0.2628219. Where to trade Aelf (symbol: ELF): Gate, Binance, DDEX, EthfinexVolume Update In the week prior, the daily volume for aelf has ranged between 10,778,070 and 23,329,607 currency units. Looking back over past 21 days, the trend in volume does not have a clear direction, while the price trend is clearly down. The past 7 days saw aelfs trading turnover meaning the percentage of its available supply that was traded come in at 3.69%. Its trading turnover percentage is higher than about 64.95% of the coins were tracking, so its above average and thus will have enough liquidity for many investors/traders. Engagement Update aelf saw the number of wallets holding its coin go from 50,846 to 50,929 over the past week a change of 0.16%. In terms of blockchain-recorded transactions made by these wallets since their inception, that number changed from 313,562 to 316,537, which translates to growth of 0.95% for the week. This translates to a combined engagement growth rate of 1.11% for aelf which is higher than 48.57% of the cryptocurrencies were reporting on. One interpretation of this may be that the coins weekly growth in engagement is fairly mediocre. Technology Development Status At the moment, aelf has 16 repositories open to the public on GitHub, with the oldest one now being 1.76 years young. Its most recent public update was within the past day, which is pretty good, as it suggests the coin is still under active and rapid technical development. aelfs repos that are visible to the public collectively have 625 watchers thats more than approximately 59 % of coins in its index. The coin has 169 total outstanding issues across all 16 of its public repositories on GitHub. Its number of watchers, when viewed against its open issues count, is a bit below average, and thus potentially concerning. We view the ratio of open issues on aelfs GitHub repos relative to the number of developers who follow its repos as a way to quantitatively assess the health of a coins software development processes, and for aelf we see that it fares better than only 22% of the coins we group aelf in. aelf News and Commentary Over the past week, we found one link about aelf that we thought was particularly interesting. If available, we added an excerpt from the article to help give a taste of what it is about. Amazon Web Services Lists its First Blockchain Platform with Cross-Chain CapaKey Extract: Every one of these cloud computing companies are pro blockchain by either supporting blockchain projects or developing their own blockchain solutions.There are four broad categories in which cloud computing services can fall under: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Serverless and Software as a Service (SaaS).Within the cloud computing infrastructure, there are typically three types of cloudsPublic clouds, Private clouds, and Hybrid clouds.Platform as a service refers to cloud computing services that supply an on-demand environment for developing, testing, delivering and managing software applications.aelf Enterprise 0.7.0 beta will provide high performance blockchain BaaS through massive cloud data storage, one-click-deployment blockchain toolkits and flexible DApp development modulesall functions attuned to test and implement blockchain with ease and precision by enterprises.Generally blockchain platforms only offer one of these architectures, but aelf offers all three, just like AWS offers all three type of cloud computing deployments.Where to BuyYou can trade Aelf, listed under the symbol ELF, through the following exchanges: Gate, Binance, DDEX, Ethfinex. Article by SixJupiter

and the more people will have OpenCL compatible video cards…Maybe my effort to maintain GPU innocence is running out of time. It’s worked out so far.”, said Satoshi in his reply to Laszlo Hanecz, the man responsible for Pizza Day.SpecializationSatoshi did foresee the evolution in mining gear. As Bitcoin gains more recognition, distributed Proof of Work (POW) ledger-nodes have been dramatically declining, and are being replaced by mining pools. These pools function as an upgraded specialized ledger system, because together they can ensure a stable speed of block formation. Demand for high-performance mining chips were also on the rise. This triggered a transition from CPUs to GPUs, then to the birth of ASIC, setting a very high entry barrier for common people to mine bitcoins.When Bitcoin becomes even more difficult to mine, the correlation between mining power and Bitcoin market price is quite obvious — the more specialized POW becomes, the higher Bitcoin price will be.But, the debates do not end here. People began to reconsider if POW is the best way to reach consensus, because it wastes power and energy and must be sustained by expensive mining chips. POS, on the other hand, seems to be a promising alternative. Common people can easily hop on the network simply by buying and trading coins on the market, making it more like trades of equities. Besides, it is environmental-friendly. But one problem remains unsolved — essentially, both POW and POS are designed as a game with money. In fact, people reach a consensus through POM (Proof of Money).DecentralizationThe key issue here is about the distribution of the resources/ Money. Ripple and BTS are two good examples. Ripple uses a fully distributed consensus, through which transactions are circulated among servers on the network. Only transactions that agreed upon by a “supermajority” of peers are considered valid. BitShares elects witnesses to validate and apply the updated database in proper order and keep it consistent and universally agreed upon. Their DPoS is used to settle the order of which updates should be applied. Similarly, aelf is trying to arrange resources as distributed as possible by giving the duty of keeping the network in order to various influential nodes, so that everyone can benefit from the dividend of network upgrading.First, the efficiency of the whole network is guaranteed. While aelf distributes the computing power to a variety of nodes, it keeps the specialization of the ledgers. This increases the cost for network maintenance and threshold of being a ledger, but increases the speed of block formation and keeps the process stable as well. Each time delegates produce a block, they are paid for their services, and the rate of the payment are settled by all delegates (to be discussed later). Those failing to keep efficiency will be voted out in the future.Second, the benefit of the network will be shared. Those qualified delegates constitutes the robustness of the aelf system. They will also hand out bonus to the stakeholders at a certain rate. Thus all stakeholders are incentivized to choose proper delegates to provide services for aelf, keeping the system healthy, for instance, scaling.Third, decentralization is the goal. It seems the mining power has been concentrated within those delegates. But the truth is quite the opposite.BTC has mining pools, where every miner is equal. ASIC is the only prerequisite of being a miner. This is decentralized indeed, but only exist within the specialized zone. aelf chooses POS delegates to do the work based on their capability through election by all stakeholders. So in general, every node is able to be a ledger because they can leverage the stake they are holding in aelf system. DPoS resolves consensus issues in a fair and democratic way. This is the decentralization aelf really wants to reach.Among all the difficulties lying ahead, the key issue for this design is how to distribute the tokens. We will keep updating on our plans and technical details.Stay tuned with our latest news on Medium.For more information, please visit our official website: http://aelf.io/Or join our lively discussions on Telegram:https://t.me/aelfblockchainMore channels to participate:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aelf.blockchain.1Twitter: https://twitter.com/AelfBlockchainReddit: https://github.com/AelfProject

placement and with major VCs like FBG Capital, Blocktower, AlphaBit and others being convinced about AElf raising that kind of money should have been a no brainer. There was also no marketing campaign to launch AElf and that is another reason why many are still unaware of what AElf is. Yet, this new kid on the block deserves attention and could soon be occupying the centre stage. AElf is backed by an impressive board and the team itself is comprised of well known names in the cryptoworld. Satoshi, the pseudonym of the person who created Bitcoin deserves all credit for introducing the blockchain concept to the world. But, the same individual or group of individuals could hardly have imagined that the blockchain technology behind bitcoin would one day significantly change the world does its business. Blockchain technology has evolved over the last decade or more and is positioned today as the backbone of a new kind of internet allowing distribution of digital information sans the ability to be copied. Many developers around the globe are exploring ways to adapt the block chain technology to a wide array of businesses like supply chain management, logistics, cross-country payment processing and more. The technology behind the internet and blockchain are nearly similar except that blockchain has an added in-built robustness. Blockchain can store information in a manner that is indistinguishable across the network and such a blockchain cannot be controlled by any singular entity. Further the system will have only a singular point of failure. The Bitcoin blockchain itself has been remarkably successful throughout the decade of existence. Minor glitches that Bitcoin faced during this period have either been due to unprofessional conduct or hacking. This reaffirms that the glitches are not attributable to any flaws in the fundamentals, but only on account of human error or evil intent. The internet itself has survived the test of time for nearly 3 decades and that track record holds out well for blockchain technology even as it continues to be evolving. Think of a spreadsheet replicated several thousand times through a series of networked computers. Visualize the network updating the spreadsheet frequently and what you get is a basic picture of what Blockchain represents. Information contained in a Blockchain exists as a database that is shared and reconciled repeatedly. There are obvious benefits to using this method of employing the network. The database on the Blockchain is not confined to any single site which means that the records saved on it are essentially public and verifiable with ease. Centralized version of information is nonexistent and therefore hackers cannot corrupt the data. Further, since several million computers simultaneously host the data, anyone connected to the internet can access it. Blockchain represents a web infrastructure and therefore actual users need not burden themselves with the technology behind block chain. Blockchain is already getting plenty of attention from the world of finance and in the coming years cross border money transactions amounting to about $500 billion would be impacted by blockchain technology, significantly bringing down the time consumed for each transaction and also short-circuiting middlemen. Trust and a high degree of accountability are integral to blockchain and therefore we can look forward to a world with near zero machine or human errors, missed transactions or exchanges not permitted by parties to the transaction. But, sitting above all these, is the assured validity of transactions recorded on a main register as well as on a distributed system of registers networked through a validation mechanism that is protected. The Key objectives outlined in AElf’s white paper is mighty impressive. Among other things, it speaks of a customizable OS for commercial applications, performance improvement, cross chain interaction, private chain module, and protocol updates. For the customizable OS, AElf has taken a leaf out of the Linux system which is reckoned as a high popular OS for servers supporting nearly every industry. Similarly, cross-chain interaction is another interesting aspect wherein AElf seeks to simply sharing of information, digital assets and users. The performance improvement objective of AElf aims at designing an effective Blockchain focused on solutions for specific businesses than using a single chain combining all the smart contracts. A slew of measures are planned to simplify the data within a chain and make it easier to manage. The measures envisaged will also address issues of system inflation. Defining the update and voting mechanism clearly with regard to protocol update is another measure contemplated. A consensus protocol is planned to be introduced in the future with new features to avoid disputes and impasse on protocol updates. Another interesting feature outlined in the white paper is the private chain module. AElf believes that there are many businesses that are in a private chain so that they can leverage the advantages offered by Blockchain technology. Usually, these private chains are isolated from the external ecosystem or other business enterprises. The module envisaged is similar to “AMI” or the Amazon cloud service which allows users to create independent chains rapidly with the help of private chain modules and enjoy complete ownership.

gauge ecosystem activity. , , and , respectively, are now the top three most active projects ranked by the number of submitted commits over the last 12 months to data provided by CryptoMiso, June 8, 2020. CryptoMiso ranks blockchain projects according to their developer activity. Herein, “activity” is defined as the number of code contributions to the popular repository platform GitHub. The more the developers, the higher the confidence in the project, a fundamental factor that directly affects the value of a digital asset. More participants also mean more features. Based on this, Lisk, aelf, and Chainlink, respectively, are the most valuable as developers were unfazed by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. For the uninitiated, Lisk is an open-source project seeking to drive blockchain accessibility and interoperability. Lisk developers are provided with a software development kit (SDK) for distributed ledger technology (DLT) applications. Closely following Lisk in terms of developer activity on GitHub is the decentralized self-evolving cloud computing blockchain network aelf. Launched in August 2017, aelf is committed toward providing a high-performance platform for commercial adoption of DLT. The coronavirus pandemic seems to have minimal impact on the aelf ecosystem as it hit its yearly ATH during the lockdown with an impressive 212 commits at the start of March. Interestingly, it only took aelf two days to submit the same number of commits (284) as Ripple had the whole year.  It will be food for thought for traders and investors most of whom are glued to price charts, making decisions solely based on price action.  From this “new” ranking, it will be a double win for , an oracle network. Perched at third in the CryptoMiso leader-board, it could mean its native token LINK may be undervalued. The Chainlink network offers reliable tamper-proof inputs and outputs for complex smart contracts across all blockchain networks. The project’s decentralized oracle network provides a robust security guarantee. The protocol’s structure allows multiple Chainlinks to evaluate the same data before it becomes a trigger. This way, it eliminates any one point of failure and keeps the overall value of a smart contract that is highly secure, transparent, and reliable. While Lisk, aelf, and Chainlink shined on GitHub, other heavyweights in the cryptocurrency ecosystem tumbled. Bitcoin, the premier cryptocurrency although has well over 100 contributors, failed to provide more than 80 commits on any given day. In the same vein, the top altcoin, Ethereum, tumbled down to 41st position despite their highly-anticipated ETH 2.0. upgrade poised to be released soon. Other smart contract projects, such as TRON and EOS displayed similar unimpressive results. Over the past six months, EOS has slid from 11th position down to 19th. TRON, similarly dropped from 18th position to 20th when comparing their 12 months and 6-month activity levels.

these two levels will define ETH in the days ahead. Cryptocurrencies tumbled last week after Bitcoin fell with commodities after a rally in the U.S. dollar. Weakness in the currency had fuelled the end of a strong rally in crypto and ETH also benefitted from the growing buzz in DeFi projects using its blockchain.

Ethereum is now getting close to the full launch of its long-awaited 2.0 upgrade which will bring increased speed, security, and scalability. The release will be good timing for the coin with the current interest in DeFi projects. 

In regulatory news, EU Ministers from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands last week called for regulation in stablecoins in order to preserve the bloc's monetary sovereignty from Big Tech firms. This is part of the bloc’s attempts to lead the way in digital currency regulation and is another sign that government’s fear the loss of power that decentralized crypto could bring.

Tron’s TRX coin was a solid performer in the last two weeks after founder Justin Sun took to Medium to announce the release of a new “meme” coin under the Tron banner. 

The post summarized the new coin as follows:

SUN is community-driven and will aim to capitalize on the decentralized finance (DeFi) potential of TRON. The post also noted that self-governance communities such as Compound, AAVE, YFI, etc. have emerged on the Ethereum network and Tron will seek to launch a rival, but also open the door for other projects to list similar communities on its blockchain.

SUN Genesis mining will formally launch on September 2nd. The total supply of SUN will be 19,900,730 coins.

The price of TRX found support in the mid-March crypto lows at the $0.0100 level and has been on a steady uptrend since then to the current price around $0.0300. The Sun announcement saw the coin spike higher to a price of $0.0500. Resistance for the coin is now at $0.0350 and a close above there could see further gains emerge. The current price level is important due to the uptrend support.

AELF (ELF) was 53% higher on the week but this was after the price corrected from gains of around 150%. The price spike coincided with the launch of a decentralized finance (DeFi) project called SashimiSwap. This was launched as a rival to the recently criticized SushiSwap project. Aelf has called SASHIMI token a “fair version of Sushi,” which has no pre-mine and no team shares.

On SashimiSwap, traders will pay a 0.3% transaction fee, with 0.25% of that going to network participants who provide liquidity. Aelf’s network is built as ‘one main chain + multiple side chains’ which allows developers to deploy or run DApps (Distributed Applications) on individual side chains. By adopting parallel processing and their unique AEDPoS consensus mechanism, Aelf saw major breakthroughs in performance, achieving high throughput.

SushiSwap executed a planned slashing of block rewards from 1,000 to 100 SUSHI for liquidity providers (LPs) on Saturday after a migration of $800 million in assets from Uniswap. The move saw Uniswap overtake its younger rival in locked value. SushiSwap’s coin traded at $11.50 on September 1st before falling to $2.25 per coin.

Aelf currently has a market cap of $73.5 million after the recent price gains and the coin is ranked at number 122 in the list of coins. The ELF token rallied to test the $0.3000 level before settling back at $0.1344 and last week’s high will be resistance going forward. The latest spike and the SushiSwap developments will bring new attention to the coin. 

The UMA coin fell on the week after being one of the coins in the top thirty to avoid big losses in the previous week. The coin is another that operates in the Decentralized Finance world of crypto where the coin is ranked number two behind LINK and YFI with a market cap of $924 million. That is still far behind LINK’s valuation of $4.53 billion, despite the coin’s 50% sell-off recently. 

The UMA project is focused on smart contracts in derivatives and other financial innovations. The project also boasts big-name investors such as Bain Capital Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. One of the recent projects from developers was the creation of a synthetic coin that tracked the relationship between ETH and BTC. Developers have the ability to create similar coins on the network in any assets and this could open up some disruptive ideas in the financial markets. 

UMA saw a high of $30.00 at the start of September but has since fallen to $10.00 and trades at $16.90 after a bounce. The $20.00 level will be key to another test of the highs at $30.00.

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products have come to light in recent weeks. 

Decentralized finance on Tron continues to grow and evolve. The Just ecosystem is thriving, and more tools are coming shortly. One of these tools is JustLend, a decentralized lending platform. It will be accessible to Tron users only, bringing some much-needed competition to DeFi on Ethereum. According to the team, the launch of JustSwap will occur on December 7, 2020. It is one of the many developments to come for Tron enthusiasts.

Justin Sun initially announced JustLend in July of 2002.  It has taken a while to put together the working code for this decentralized lending platform. JustLend is one of the three main products developed by the JUST DeFi team, with the other two being JustSwap and JustBTC. All of these tools will help Tron’s DeFi ecosystem thrive over the months and years to come. 

The Aelf project is well-known among cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiasts. Developers have been working hard on putting together the mainnet for this project. It will launch on December 10, assuming there are no last-minute hiccups to address. As a decentralized cloud computing network, Aelf has high expectations to meet. Its focus on high performance and flexible governance may introduce some intriguing options for users to explore. One of the more exciting upcoming developments from a technology point-of-view. 

As we recently highlighted, the SPARK airdrop is coming closer. More specifically, the Flare Network team will take the snapshot on December 12, 2020.  Based on that information, they will distribute the SPARK tokens in a few months from today. For now, there is no exact data for the token airdrop itself. It will take place in the first half of 2021, but no further details are available today. Of all the developments on the list, this one has the most hype attributed to it. 

Crypto.com, the project formerly known as MonaCo, prepares to launch the mainnet for its CRO token. In doing so, all CRO transactions and smart contract activity will take place on a native blockchain instead of relying on Ethereum.  No exact date for the mainnet launch is known, other than “December 2020”.

These developments will also introduce on-chain governance for CRO holders, assuming that will ever be a factor. Furthermore, there is a rumor of how the CRO mainnet will support native tokens. What that will entail exactly remains to be determined. 

The Serum ecosystem will undergo two significant changes in December of 2020. First, the Serum DEX will be upgraded to include more functionality and improve the user experience. Second, the Serum Swap project – which acts as an AMM exchange similar to Uniswap – will receive a significant update as well. Both of these upgrades will strengthen the Serum ecosystem. 

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publicly-traded company, Ether Capital Corporation, after it revealed that it began staking on the Ethereum 2.0 network back on 1 December. That’s not all either as the company has also committed itself to run a validator node on the network.

With Ether Capital having a balance of 32,407 ETH and 2,300 MKR at press time, it would seem that the company is looking to increase its participation and involvement in the space. In fact, the company also holds shares in Wyre, a cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. The aforementioned announcement added,

The company began with the minimum requirement of staking 32 ETH in the 2.0 deposit contract. The new staking protocol will make the validators eligible to earn rewards for verifying transactions on the Beacon Chain, while simultaneously participating in the network consensus. This will allow them to earn inflationary block rewards. As the announcement was quick to point out, “the annual Ether-denominated staking return, or yield, is currently over 16%, based on the number of Ether currently staked.”

CEO CEO Brian Mossof had this to say about the development,

Ether Capital Corporation is the first publicly-traded company to run the Ethereum stake, but it won’t be the last one. In fact, Ryan Sean Adams, a crypto-investor and founder of Mythos.Capital, believes that “most Fortune 500 companies in finance and tech will run staking nodes by the end of this decade.”

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fork capable of massive transaction volume, digital asset management, cyber security, and capacity is announcing its official pre-sale launch. Bitcoin Latinum will trade under the symbol LTNM with a total supply of 888,888,888 LTNM [verifiable by LTNM].

Bitcoin Latinum is now available for pre-sale on www.bitcoinlatinum.com and will be available on exchanges in 2021.

Marsh & McLennan, one of the world’s leading specialty insurance brokers and risk advisers, has been appointed to arrange a comprehensive insurance program for Bitcoin Latinum. The insurance coverage, to be arranged by Marsh Asia, will protect Bitcoin Latinum holders in case of external theft and internal collusion, potentially up to the full value of their holdings. This contemplated insurance coverage will make Bitcoin Latinum the world’s largest insured digital asset.

Draper Dragon Fund will be playing a major role with Bitcoin Latinum. Draper Dragon Fund has invested in blockchain companies Telegram, Ledger, Vechain, Ultrain, Aelf and Token Insight. “The partnership with Marsh, Monsoon, and Bitcoin Latinum would further extend our digital asset portfolio,” said Richard Wang, Managing Partner of Dragon Digital Fund. Draper Dragon is an extension of the Draper Venture Network (DVN) backed by billionaire Tim Draper, who is often regarded as one of the most successful venture capitalists in the world.

Adopting Bitcoin Latinum is Academy Award winning studio Cross Creek Media. Cross Creek has grossed over $1.7 billion at the worldwide box office. Cross Creek Media, which has long-term relationships with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures, most recently expanded its digital assets in film, television, and IP with Monsoon Blockchain & Marsh. Cross Creek has been a co-financier/producer of such films as Oscar winner “Black Swan” and has been behind hits “American Made”, “Everest”, and “Hacksaw Ridge”. Timmy Thompson, CEO of Cross Creek Media stated, “We are very excited about Bitcoin Latinum and its capabilities as an insured token, as we continue developing award-winning properties. Cross Creek’s portfolio of new media technology investments perfectly positions us to take advantage of the digital asset sector in Media and Gaming.”

The implementation of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the banking and finance sectors has been steadily increasing in the past two years. JPMorgan Chase ($2.98 trillion AUM) recently launched a digital currency for large technology clients, and PayPal will now allow its close to 350 million users to purchase and sell major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. The blockchain network Spunta has already been adapted by many of Italy’s banks, and it is being reported that a digital version of the Yuan is being tested by the People’s Bank of China.

The incorporation of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies into US and Asia cross-border deal flow of digital assets has been increasing exponentially. Monsoon Blockchain, Asia’s premiere blockchain company, will be adapting Bitcoin Latinum in their extensive ecosystem and pipeline of digital asset deals. Monsoon is focused on becoming the company pioneering the adoption of highly secure decentralized asset management. Earlier this year Monsoon Blockchain formed major partnerships in the blockchain and digital asset space with governments, telecom, media and entertainment, and fintech industries.

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to consolidate and improve liquidity, allowing them to move towards a more streamlined and optimized trading experience.

The crypto exchange also told Cointelegraph that such moves are a standalone operation to concentrate liquidity in fewer pairs for tokens that don’t have a significant trading volume.

Among the Ethereum-only pairs are included Dragonchain (DRN/ETH), Monolith (TKN/ETH), Essentia (ESS/ETH), Hydro Protocol (HOT/ETH), Content Neutrality Network (CNN/ETH), MobileGO (MGO/ETH), Melon (MLN/ETH), Rate3 (RTE/ETH), YOYOW (YYW/ETH), POA Network (POA/ETH), among others.

The list of removed Bitcoin-only pairs is as follows: Cortex (CTX/BTC), Fusion (FSN/BTC), Mithril (MITH/BTC), Aelf (ELF/BTC), Seer (SEE/BTC), Project Pai (PAI/BTC), Cindicator (CND/BTC), Recovery Right Token (RRT/BTC), Auctus (AUC/BTC), FunFair (FUN/BTC).

The Tether-related tokens that will be delisted are Gatechain Token (GTX/USDt), ZB Token (ZB/USDt) and Dragon Token (DT/USDt).

The exchange clarifies that users can cancel any open orders with such pairs before March 26. At that time, user’s open trades will be canceled by the system.

The announcement comes after a similar move made recently by Bitfinex. Cointelegraph reported on March 2 that the cryptocurrency exchange would remove 46 trading pairs, also due to low liquidity.

On other fronts, Bitfinex had also announced the roll out of futures trading for Tether’s new gold-backed coin, allowing users to trade contracts on Tether Gold (XAU₮) against Tether.

Additionally, Cointelegraph reported on March 16 that the exchange listed Bahamas-based crypto hedge fund, Fulgur Alpha.