Keep Network
Keep is the privacy-focused infrastructure behind tBTC, the only truly decentralized solution for Bitcoin on Ethereum.
What Is the Keep Network (KEEP)?
Keep is an incentivized network for storing and encrypting private data on the public blockchain. The network is made of off-chain containers for private data known as keeps, while the KEEP work token enables it to be completely permissionless. Keep solves the main problem holding back blockchain adoption: that data on public blockchains are public. With Keep, developers can finally build fully decentralized apps. Visit Keep to learn more and stake, and tBTC to see its power in action.
tBTC, a Bitcoin bridge on Ethereum, is the first application built on top of the Keep network. It is an open-source project supported by groups including Keep, Summa and the Cross-Chain Group. tBTC is a fully Bitcoin-backed ERC-20 token pegged to the price of Bitcoin. It facilitates Bitcoin holders acting on the Ethereum blockchain, accessing the DeFi ecosystem, and earning with their Bitcoin.
KEEP is the network’s native work token with dividends and a slashing model. It provides the sybil resistance that allows the Keep network to be censorship resistant and permissionless.
KEEP can be used to:
Secure the Keep Network and tBTC via staking
Run the random beacon and ECDSA nodes on the network
Run tBTC, similar to running a full node. KEEP stakers can play an even larger role as tBTC signers by bonding ETH.
Earn fees for providing work on the network
KEEP applications and tools include:
Keep Random Beacon
tBTC - a decentralized Bitcoin bridge on Ethereum
Keep Token Dashboard
an interface to manage and stake your KEEP
Keep Stats
high level summary of Keep and tBTC network stats
All the Keeps
a tool to monitor all tBTC deposits on the Keep network
How Many KEEP Coins Are There in Circulation?
The Keep Network launched its mainnet on April 27th, 2020 with 1 billion KEEP tokens created. KEEP tokens are a fixed supply asset, there will never be more than 1 billion KEEP in existence.
About the Keep Team
The Keep Network was founded in 2017 by Matt Luongo and Corbin Pon, crypto industry veterans who previously founded the Bitcoin rewards app Fold.
The Keep Network’s early supporting stakers include Polychain, Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Associates, Paradigm, Fenbushi, A.Capital, Collaborative Fund, and ParaFi among others.
The Keep project employs more than 20 staff, including engineers with deep experience in discrete mathematics and cryptography, and business leadership from ConsenSys’s founding days.
What Makes Keep Unique?
When it comes to dApps and DeFi projects...the team shouldn’t have the keys. The Keep Network features off-chain containers for private data called keeps that give smart contracts deep interactivity with private data without compromising transparency or auditability.
tBTC, the first application built on the Keep Network, is censorship-resistant because it uses keeps to store data. Each TBTC token is fully backed and matched by at least 1 BTC held in reserve. tBTC is trustless, using Keep’s random beacon to select “signers” who are bonded in ETH and have responsibility for the deposited BTC. This means you can convert TBTC to BTC, and vice-versa, whenever you want, with no intermediary needed to sign off.
Where Can I Get Keep (KEEP)?
You can earn KEEP by staking on the network today, and joining our ETH only stakedrop launching soon. You can also earn by participating in Playing for Keeps, which lets people learn to stake and win KEEP by contributing to the community. In order to qualify your submission for Playing for Keeps prizes, you must join our [Discord server](. Join the server to learn more about staking on the network today and participating in the public stakedrop soon.
KEEP is also available for trading on a growing number of exchanges, with cryptocurrency and stablecoin pairs currently available.
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Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.
Boost VC is a family of founders making Sci-Fi a Reality. Boost VC invests $500K in 20+ startups each per year. Portfolio consists of 200+ companies, who have raised over $1B after joining Boost VC. The three month accelerator program includes housing and office space in Silicon Valley.
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Terra is a public blockchain protocol deploying a suite of algorithmic decentralized stablecoins which underpin a thriving ecosystem that brings DeFi to the masses.
What Is TerraUSD (UST)?
TerraUSD (UST) is the decentralized and algorithmic stablecoin of the Terra blockchain. It is a scalable, yield-bearing coin that is value-pegged to the US Dollar. TerraUSD was created to deliver value to the Terra community and offer a scalable solution for DeFi amid severe scalability problems faced by other stablecoin leaders like Dai. Thus, TerraUSD promises users a higher level of scalability, interest rate accuracy, and interchain usage.
TerraUSD provides several benefits that have made it a stand-out stablecoin competitor. Due to its minting mechanism, UST meets the requirements of DeFi protocols that it uses without losing scalability. UST can also be easily added to crypto wallets by simply integrating TerraUSD as a payment method. Another area where TerraUSD has shown its power is DApps. For example, platforms that mint fungible synthetic assets and track real-life asset prices use UST as a pricing benchmark.
TerraUSD (UST) was launched in September 2020 (in collaboration with Bittrex Global) and has since gained the reputation as the most scalable stablecoin. UST can be used in conjunction with LUNA, Terra's non-stablecoin crypto, or as a standalone token.
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Who Are the Founders of TerraUSD?
Do Kwon and Daniel Shin founded Terra (LUNA) in April 2019. In September 2020, they launched TerraUSD on Bittrex Global. Since that date, TerraUSD has outstripped many stablecoin competitors in the market, such as GUSD (Gemini) and PAX (Paxos). Terra is TerraUSD's own blockchain, the creation of Terraform Labs (a subsidiary of Terra Alliance).
Do Kwon is the CEO of Terraform Labs. He is a former software engineer at Microsoft and Apple. He also served as CEO of Anyfi, a startup providing decentralized solutions for wireless mesh networks. Kwon is included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.
Co-founder Daniel Shin is a talented economist and entrepreneur. Before Terra Alliance, he co-founded Fast Track Asia, a startup incubator, and managed to co-found and lead TMON (Ticket Monster), a South Korean e-commerce platform.
What Makes TerraUSD (UST) Unique?
Enhanced Scalability
TerraUSD is an algorithmic stablecoin with a value equal to the face value of minted stablecoins. To issue 1 TerraUSD, you need to burn 1 LUNA reserve asset. It turns out that TerraUSD's monetary policy scales nearly without limits, thereby helping DeFi projects reach their full potential.
Easy Exchange
The stablecoins in the Terra ecosystem share the total liquidity, meaning you can exchange TerraUSD for TerraKRW (their stablecoin pegged to the Korean Won) with minimal fees.
Passive Income Potential
Additionally, users can gain passive income using TerraUSD with the Anchor protocol's stable interest rates. Anchor is a lending protocol that promises a 20% return on UST savings. Additional and steady income appears through rewards in PoS chains, which maintain their stability due to commissions and inflation. This nuance will make it possible to form a reliable interest rate.
Interoperability
With the Dropship bridge protocol, TerraUSD allows blockchain ecosystems to be connected. Dropship integrates TerraUSD into numerous DeFi and DEX platforms, and most importantly, moves assets between chains. LUNA supply and demand determine the value of TerraUSD. Thus, a stable UST cost is guaranteed as the Dropship protocol helps maintain scalability.
To summarize, TerraUSD (UST) is the first decentralized stablecoin that provides interest earnings, incredible scalability, and easier interchain movement.
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Read about Terra (LUNA).
Read about Tether (USDT) and Dai (DAI) - other popular stablecoins (stable-value cryptocurrency) that mirror the price of the U.S. dollar.
BlockWalletWhat Is BlockWallet (BLANK)?
BlockWallet is a private, non-custodial browser wallet.
To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of BlockWallet.
The project has been in stealth development mode since November 2020. According to the team behind it, "BlockWallet fights both friction and centralization" and will help protect its users’ right to privacy.
BlockWallet handles all crypto transactions in a confidential manner. It creates a new wallet address with the required amount of crypto whenever a user decides to withdraw funds.
The launch of BlockWallet’s utility token BLANK is expected to ensure the liquidity of the platform and secure its place in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space.
Who Are the Founders of BlockWallet?
Aleksandras Gaška is the CEO and founder of BlockWallet. As of March 2021, Gaška also serves as an operations advisor at Mintlayer. Before that, he was a business developer at carVertical, handled operations at Monetha and managed community relations at Mysterium.Network.
Iman Hossini is the CTO of BlockWallet. Hossini has been involved in the crypto space since 2016.
What Makes BlockWallet (BLANK) Unique?
BlockWallet uses smart contracts to ensure that only authorized owners can access and manage funds. All information about how the assets were deposited into the account is visible only to the wallet owner. There is an option to hide or show wallet balance to third-party users.
BlockWallet has no know your customer (KYC) procedures. Previous activity is not recorded, so every time a user needs to withdraw or send funds, they start from scratch.
BlockWallet also has a user-friendly browser extension, ensuring high efficiency and anonymity. BlockWallet has been an open-source project since the original public release.
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How Many BlockWallet (BLANK) Coins Are There in Circulation?
BLANK is an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency token. It has a maximum supply of 125 million tokens and a circulating supply of 13,189,741 as of March 2021.
BLANK holders get reduced fees when using the Blank Wallet. The token can also be used in the wallet’s referral system, as a reward for liquidity providers and to gain access to exclusive features.
How Is the BlockWallet Network Secured?
BlockWallet is a non-custodial browser wallet with support for ERC-20 tokens.
Independent parties audit the wallet’s code, and audit reports are available to all users. Cryptocurrency security firm Hacken has audited BLANK token’s smart contract.
The team also has plans to launch a bug bounty program.
USDJ
USDJ
In the whitepaper, USDJ is described as a a USD-pegged cryptocurrency backed by collateral assets, generated through decentralized smart contracts on the TRON network.
The live USDJ price today is $1,00 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $4 235 797 USD. We update our USDJ to USD price in real-time. USDJ is down ,09% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #897, with a live market cap of $14 863 094 USD. It has a circulating supply of 14 848 772 USDJ coins and the max. supply is not available.
If you would like to know where to buy USDJ, the top cryptocurrency exchanges for trading in USDJ stock are currently KuCoin, MEXC, Hoo, Hotbit, and Poloniex. You can find others listed on our crypto exchanges page.
In the whitepaper, USDJ is described as a a USD-pegged cryptocurrency backed by collateral assets, generated through decentralized smart contracts on the TRON network. "Anyone can pledge TRX as collateral to generate USDJ." It is reportedly pegged to the US dollar through Collateralized Debt Positions (CDPs), and has autonomous feedback mechanisms.
LATOKEN
LATOKEN aims to be the top digital asset exchange. It has launched an ERC20 decentralized exchange, LADEX, and is building LACHAIN for the security tokens market and HFT DEX. LATOKEN mission is to connect investors and entrepreneurs globally. It is running the Blockchain Economic Forum with government officials, entrepreneurs, and investors.
The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #633, with a live market cap of $38 780 144 USD. It has a circulating supply of 380 104 462 LA coins and a max. supply of 1 000 000 000 LA coins.
According to the research firm InWara, LATOKEN is the largest IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) market. Since 2017, LATOKEN has reportedly connected 130+ startups with 400,000 platform users and 1.5 million visitors per month. LA serves as the native asset for the LATOKEN exchange and is used for trading cryptoassets while enhancing liquidity on the LATOKEN exchange.
LATOKEN aims to be the top digital asset exchange. It has launched an ERC20 decentralized exchange, LADEX, and is building LACHAIN for the security tokens market and HFT DEX. LATOKEN mission is to connect investors and entrepreneurs globally. It is running the Blockchain Economic Forum with government officials, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Entrepreneurs looking for funding can consider the LATOKEN IEO Launchpad.
Traders on LATOKEN can access 350+ digital assets, with the option of connecting using RESTful or WebSocket APIs.