Bears pressed harder on the market on Aug. 26 after Bitcoin (BTC) continued its pullback to an intra-day low at $46,250 and altcoins nursed near double-digit losses.
While most of the market is seeing red, a few altcoins managed to notch notable gains due to exchange listings and new staking opportunities.
Top seven coins with the highest 24-hour price change. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the biggest gainers over the past 24 hours were COTI, XYO Network (XYO) and Conflux Network (CFX).
COTI rallies after listing on Coinbase
The top-performing coin over the past 24 hours was COTI, an enterprise-grade fintech platform focused on decentralized payments.
VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to detect a bullish outlook for COTI on Aug. 22, prior to the recent price rise.
The VORTECS™ Score, exclusive to Cointelegraph, is an algorithmic comparison of historic and current market conditions derived from a combination of data points including market sentiment, trading volume, recent price movements and Twitter activity.
VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. COTI price. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro
As seen in the chart above, the VORTECS™ Score for COTI turned solidly green on Aug. 22 and proceeded to climb to a high of 79 on Aug. 25, around two hours before the price increased 81% over the next day.
The burst of momentum for COTI came after it was announced that the token would be listed on Coinbase Pro and Huobi, two of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by daily trading volume.
XYO volume surges
The XYO Network is comprised of a network of devices that anonymously collect and validate data with a geographic component (geospatial). All data obtained from the tracking devices on the network are stored on the XYO blockchain.
VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to detect a bullish outlook for XYO on Aug. 21, prior to the recent price rise.
VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. XYO price. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro
As seen in the chart above, the VORTECS™ Score for XYO climbed into the green zone on Aug. 21 and reached a high of 72, around 67 hours before its price increased 36% over the next two days.
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Conflux Network expands its NFT ecosystem
The Conflux Network is a public, permissionless blockchain network that has the goal of bridging the communities and economies of Asian and Western societies in order to facilitate the secure and interoperable flow of assets and data.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after hitting a low of $0.269 on Aug. 25, the price of CFX rallied 40% to an intraday high at $0.377 on Aug. 26 as its 24-hour trading volume surged by 242% to $66 million.
CFX/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
The sudden price surge comes as the CFX ecosystem works on building out its NFT ecosystem, and the token appears to have also benefited from recently being listed on the Mexo and Tokocrypto exchanges.
The overall cryptocurrency market capitalization now stands at $1.993 trillion, and Bitcoin’s dominance rate is 41.2%.
The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and you should conduct your own research when making a decision.
Starting Today, Wednesday August 25, transfer COTI into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for COTI will generally be available in Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions with certain exceptions as indicated in each asset page here. Trading will begin on or after 9AM Pacific Time (PT) Thursday August 26, if liquidity conditions are met.
One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to be able to trade more assets on our platform. Per the terms of our listing process, we anticipate supporting more assets that meet our standards over time. Most recently we have added trading support for Axie Infinity (AXS), Request (REQ), TrueFi (TRU), Wrapped Luna (WLUNA), Harvest Finance (FARM) Fetch.ai (FET) Paxos Standard (PAX) and Polymath Network (POLY), Clover Finance (CLV), Mask Network (MASK), Rally (RLY), BarnBridge (BOND), Livepeer (LPT), Quant (QNT), Chiliz (CHZ) Keep Network (KEEP), Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), Gitcoin (GTC), Enzyme Token (MLN), Amp (AMP), Dogecoin (DOGE), Internet Computer (ICP), Cartesi (CTSI), iExec (RLC), Mirror Protocol (MIR), Tellor (TRB), Tether (USDT) and Ampleforth Governance Token (FORTH).
Starting Today, Wednesday August 25, we will begin accepting inbound transfers of COTI to Coinbase Pro. Trading will begin on or after 9AM Pacific Time (PT) Thursday August 26, if liquidity conditions are met.
Once sufficient supply of COTI is established on the platform, trading on our COTI-USD order book will launch in three phases, post-only, limit-only and full trading. If at any point one of the new order books does not meet our assessment for a healthy and orderly market, we may keep the book in one state for a longer period of time or suspend trading as per our Trading Rules.
We will publish tweets from our Coinbase Pro Twitter account as each order book moves through the phases.
COTI (COTI) is a token that powers Coti, a project that describes itself as a “DAG (directed acyclic graph) protocol optimized for creating decentralized payment networks and stable coins.” Coti uses Trustchain, a decentralized ledger that can process over 100,000 transactions per second, to power online and offline payments, loyalty payments, stablecoins, and more. Note: Coinbase currently only supports COTI running on the Ethereum blockchain (ERC-20).
COTI is not yet available on Coinbase.com or via our Consumer mobile apps. We will make a separate announcement if and when this support is added.
You can sign up for a Coinbase Pro account here to start trading. For more information on trading COTI on Coinbase Pro, visit our support page.
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On August 23rd, Derivatives Exchange Bitget announced its new logo designed to indicate a place where people can exchange freely and realize their financial dreams with the help of leverage.
According to Bitget, Bit is a blended word coming from Binary and digit and the smallest unit of information. It implies a business that is based on digitalization and IT. “Get” represents interaction, a kind of connection between the platform and the external world. In combination, the name Bitget expresses its mission “Better Trading Better Life”, and its commitment to offer liberal, ultimate and fair trading services.
The new LOGO uses two interactive arrows to symbolize the liquidity and activity of Bitget and its pursuit of freedom and fairness. It also reflects the nature of platform trading. The interactive image shows that Bitget will always put users first and lead users to success and fortune through transactions. The newly adopted blue color represents the energy and vitality of the crypto industry and delivers a sense of boldness and creativity — an image the platform wants to show to its users.
The new logo is a testament to Bitget’s achievements in the past and an embodiment of its vision for the future. In just three years since its establishment, the platform has successfully made itself into the Top6 derivative exchange, closely after the professional ones FTX and Bybit. Bitget now has more than 1.6 million registered users in 48 countries and regions, including Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Russia and Turkey, with an average daily trading volume of $5.6 billion. It has become one of the fastest-growing derivatives exchanges in the world.
According to its CEO Sandra, Bitget will continue to dive deeper into derivatives trading in the remaining months of the year. It aims to bring users products and services focused on futures, and expand to global markets such as South America, Japan, Central Europe, and Russia under the principle of compliant and localized operations. As Bitget steps up its globalization efforts and connects with users from more countries, a simpler and unique logo to display a new corporate culture and values become a necessity.
Last month, it released a new slogan “Better Trading Better Life”, indicating that every user across the world can enjoy a liberal, ultimate and fair trading experience on Bitget and realize their financial dreams with the help of leverage. “The new logo conveys not only a change of appearance but also a stronger inner spirit. The updated logo and slogan deliver a message that is in line with our corporate culture. In the future, Bitget will bring more surprises to users with our brand new image.” says Sandra.
About Bitget
Established in July 2018, Bitget is one of the world’s fastest-growing derivatives exchanges that support futures trading, spot trading and crypto asset purchasing. As a platform in pursuit of perfection and innovation, Bitget has pioneered to launch three flagship products of USDT-Margined Futures, One-Click Copy Trade, and Quanto Swap Futures to provide the best services to users. It is now the Top6 derivatives exchange and the largest crypto copy trading platform in the world.
Singapore-based crypto exchange KuCoin is launching a mining pool aimed at providing revenue to proof-of-work miners after integrating their rigs.
In a Wednesday announcement, the exchange said its KuCoin Pool product would allow miners around the world to contribute to the Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and share rewards. At the moment, miners are required to install and run the necessary hardware themselves to join the pool, but KuCoin said it would introduce mining in the cloud in the future.
KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu also claimed the pool would be encouraging miners to participate in environmentally-friendly solutions — people using renewable energy sources for mining will receive discounts on fees. The move is seemingly part of a shift in many mining firms beginning to transition to cleaner or renewable energy.
“For existing KuCoin users, it will become straightforward to set up their mining devices to generate passive income right away,” said Lyu. “Miners can benefit from the one-stop mining service platform and its features to get up and running very quickly.”
The exchange is coming in late to mining when compared with major firms like Binance, which launched its mining pool in April 2020. According to blockchain data, some of the largest BTC miners include Antpool — owned by Chinese mining giant Bitmain — Poolin, ViaBTC, and F2Pool.
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Launched in 2017, KuCoin reported this week that it had reached 10 million users, having risen by 1,114% in the last year. Last year, hackers stole roughly $275 million from the exchange before KuCoin was able to recover the majority of the funds.
For ethics-based investment enthusiasts, here are two events to check out, solely because speakers from the first Shariah-compliant DeFi project, MRHB DeFi will be speaking there.
Islamic Fintech Leaders Forum 2021
To access event platform:
More info on event: https://emnesevents.com/fintech-islamic-leaders-forum/
Spotlight on:
MRHB DeFi’s Chairman of Shariah Board, Dr. Farrukh Habib, who will be holding a blockchain panel discussion today 25th August at 12:05 PM (UAE Time) at Islamic Fintech Leaders Forum, and Shariah Leaders Discussion session at 04:00 PM (UAE Time).
And MRHB DeFi’s Chairman of Governance Board, Khalid Howlader, who is also the Senior Managing Director and Head of Credit & Sukuk for R.J. Fleming & Co. for institutional and sovereign clients. With his global perspectives, he is a recognised authority in his field and has addressed investors worldwide as well as audiences at the World Bank, IMF, ECB and IIF.
ICCIA Leadership Talks “Digital Banking: The Way Forward”
ICCIA (Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture), a sub-organization of OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), representing 56 Muslim countries, is organizing the event.
Spotlight on:
MRHB DeFi’s Chairman of Shariah Board, Dr. Farrukh Habib, who will be presenting followed by a Q & A session today.
Tl;dr: Coinbase is leveraging AWS’ Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) for ultra low latency, seamless service-to-service communication, data ETLs, and database Change Data Capture (CDC). Engineers from our Data Platform team will further present this work at AWS’ November 2021 Re:Invent conference.
Abstract
At Coinbase, we ingest billions of events daily from user, application, and crypto sources across our products. Clickstream data is collected via web and mobile clients and ingested into Kafka using a home-grown Ruby and Golang SDK. In addition, Change Data Capture (CDC) streams from a variety of databases are powered via Kafka Connect. One major consumer of these Kafka messages is our data ETL pipeline, which transmits data to our data warehouse (Snowflake) for further analysis by our Data Science and Data Analyst teams. Moreover, internal services across the company (like our Prime Brokerage and real time Inventory Drift products) rely on our Kafka cluster for running mission-critical, low-latency (sub 10 msec) applications.
With AWS-managed Kafka (MSK), our team has mitigated the day-to-day Kafka operational overhead of broker maintenance and recovery, allowing us to concentrate our engineering time on core business demands. We have found scaling up/out Kafka clusters and upgrading brokers to the latest Kafka version simple and safe with MSK. This post outlines our core architecture and the complete tooling ecosystem we’ve developed around MSK.
Configuration and Benefits of MSK
Config:
TLS authenticated cluster
30 broker nodes across multiple AZs to protect against full AZ outage
Multi-cluster support
~17TB storage/broker
99.9% monthly uptime SLA from AWS
Benefits:
Since MSK is AWS managed, one of the biggest benefits is that we’re able to avoid having internal engineers actively maintain ZooKeeper / broker nodes. This has saved us 100+ hours of engineering work as AWS handles all broker security patch updates, node recovery, and Kafka version upgrades in a seamless manner. All broker updates are done in a rolling fashion (one broker node is updated at a time), so no user read/write operations are impacted.
Moreover, MSK offers flexible networking configurations. Our cluster has tight security group ingress rules around which services can communicate directly with ZooKeeper or MSK broker node ports. Integration with Terraform allows for seamless broker addition, disk space increases, configuration updates to our cluster without any downtime.
Finally, AWS has offered excellent MSK Enterprise support, meeting with us on several occasions to answer thorny networking and cluster auth questions.
Performance:
We reduced our end-to-end (e2e) latency (time taken to produce, store, and consume an event) by ~95% when switching from Kinesis (~200 msec e2e latency) to Kafka (<10msec e2e latency). Our Kafka stack’s p50 e2e latency for payloads up to 100KB averages <10 msec (in-line with LinkedIn as a benchmark, the company originally behind Kafka). This opens doors for ultra low latency applications like our Prime Brokerage service. Full latency breakdown from stress tests on our prod cluster, by payload size, presented below:
Proprietary Kafka Security Service (KSS)
What is it?
Our Kafka Security Service (KSS) houses all topic Access Control Lists (ACLs). On deploy, it automatically syncs all topic read/write ACL changes with MSK’s ZooKeeper nodes; effectively, this is how we’re able to control read/write access to individual Kafka topics at the service level.
KSS also signs Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) using the AWS ACM API. To do this, we leverage our internal Service-to-Service authentication (S2S) framework, which gives us a trustworthy service_id from the client; We then use that service_id and add it as the Distinguished Name in the signed certificate we return to the user.
With a signed certificate, having the Distinguished Name matching one’s service_id, MSK can easily detect via TLS auth whether a given service should be allowed to read/write from a particular topic. If the service is not allowed (according to our acl.yml file and ACLs set in ZooKeeper) to perform a given action, an error will occur on the client side and no Kafka read/write operations will occur.
Also Required
Parallel to KSS, we built a custom Kafka sidecar Docker container that: 1) Plugs simply into one’s existing docker-compose file 2) Auto-generates CSRs on bootup and calls KSS to get signed certs, and 3) Stores credentials in a Docker shared volume on user’s service, which can be used when instantiating a Kafka producer / consumer client so TLS auth can occur.
Rich Data Stream Tooling
We’ve extended our core Kafka cluster with the following powerful tools:
Kafka Connect
This is a distributed cluster of EC2 nodes (AWS autoscaling group) that performs Change Data Capture (CDC) on a variety of database systems. Currently, we’re leveraging the MongoDB, Snowflake, S3, and Postgres source/sink connectors. Many other connectors are available open-source through Confluent here
Kafdrop
We’re leveraging the open-source Kafdrop product for first-class topic/partition offset monitoring and inspecting user consumer lags: source code here
Cruise Control
This is another open-source project, which provides automatic partition rebalancing to keep our cluster load / disk space even across all broker nodes: source code here
ConfluentSchema Registry
We use Confluent’s open-source Schema Registry to store versioned proto definitions (widely used along Coinbase gRPC): source code here
Internal Kafka SDK
Critical to our streaming stack is a custom Golang Kafka SDK developed internally, based on the segmentio/kafka release. The internal SDK is integrated with our Schema Registry so that proto definitions are automatically registered / updated on producer writes. Moreover, the SDK gives users the following benefits out of the box:
Consumer can automatically deserialize based on magic byte and matching SR record
Message provenance headers (such as service_id, event_time, event_type) which help conduct end-to-end audits of event stream completeness and latency metrics
These headers also accelerate message filtering and routing by avoiding the penalty of deserializing the entire payload
Streaming SDK
Beyond Kafka, we may still need to make use of other streaming solutions, including Kinesis, SNS, and SQS. We introduced a unified Streaming-SDK to address the following requirements:
Delivering a single event to multiple destinations, often described as ‘fanout’ or ‘mirroring’. For instance, sending the same message simultaneously to a Kafka topic and an SQS queue
Receiving messages from one Kafka topic, emitting new messages to another topic or even a Kinesis stream as the result of data processing
Supporting dynamic message routing, for example, messages can failover across multiple Kafka clusters or AWS regions
Offering optimized configurations for each streaming platform to minimize human mistakes, maximize throughput and performance, and alert users of misconfigurations
Upcoming
On the horizon is integration with our Delta Lake which will fuel more performant, timely data ETLs for our data analyst and data science teams. Beyond that, we have the capacity to 3x the number of broker nodes in our prod cluster (30 -> 90 nodes) as internal demand increases — that is a soft limit which can be increased via an AWS support ticket.
Takeaways
Overall, we’ve been quite pleased with AWS MSK. The automatic broker recovery during security patches, maintenance, and Kafka version upgrades along with the advanced broker / topic level monitoring metrics around disk space usage / broker CPU, have saved us hundreds of hours provisioning and maintaining broker and ZooKeeper nodes on our own. Integration with Terraform has made initial cluster configuration, deployment, and configuration updates relatively painless (use 3AZs for your cluster to make it more resilient and prevent impact from a full-AZ outage).
Performance has exceeded expectations, with sub 10msec latencies opening doors for ultra high-speed applications. Uptime of the cluster has been sound, surpassing the 99.9% SLA given by AWS. Moreover, when any security patches take place, it’s always done in a rolling broker fashion, so no read/write operations are impacted (set default topic replication factor to 3, so that min in-sync replicas is 2 even with node failure).
We’ve found building on top of MSK highly extensible having integrated Kafka Connect, Confluent Schema Registry, Kafdrop, Cruise Control, and more without issue. Ultimately, MSK has been beneficial for both our engineers maintaining the system (less overhead maintaining nodes) and unlocking our internal users and services with the power of ultra-low latency data streaming.
If you’re excited about designing and building highly-scalable data platform systems or working with cutting-edge blockchain data sets (data science, data analytics, ML), come join us on our mission building the world’s open financial system: careers page.
How we scaled data streaming at Coinbase using AWS MSK was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
Liti Capital is now trading on Bitcoin.com Exchange
Geneva, Switzerland, August 24, 2021 — Liti Capital’s wLITI token, a wrapped version of the Swiss company’s LITI equity token, has been listed on the Bitcoin.com Exchange on 24 August at 10:00AM UTC. wLITI is trading with BTC and USDT pairs.
Liti Capital, a Swiss-based blockchain private equity fund specializing in raising capital for legal cases, is making waves in traditional investing by bringing litigation financing to the masses, an investment practice traditionally monopolized by hedge fund heavyweights and elite investors.
Just last week, 19 August 2021, Liti Capital announced that it was funding a claim (www.binanceclaim.com) against Binance, which would enable affected individuals to pursue claims, including, if necessary, in arbitration, for compensation in relation to the exchange failing on 19 May 2021. This failure resulted in the trading accounts (including Futures, Margin, and Leveraged Token products) of at least 700 and potentially thousands of individuals being effectively untradeable for hours, causing traders to suffer losses that could exceed one hundred million dollars.
Litigation financing is the practice of bringing in investors to cover the cost of a lawsuit or arbitration in exchange for a portion of the profit. Litigation financing specialists, such as Liti Capital, purchase litigation assets for cases they deem to have a high chance of winning.
While litigation financing often requires an initial investment of $500,000 to $1 million from an investor, Liti Capital makes it accessible for anyone with as little as $50. It does this by tokenizing shares in Liti Capital and paying out dividends to Liti Capital (LITI) equity token holders when a case in Liti Capital’s portfolio is won.
Liti Capital has already secured a healthy case portfolio with its largest case potentially worth more than $1 billion when it finally settles. Cases like these, which tend to be commercial rather than consumer or personal lawsuits, usually target large-scale corporate disputes valued at more than $10 million. While they could take years before a settlement is reached, successful litigation funders can expect to pocket between three and five times their initial investments, according to estimates by litigation finance expert Steven Friel.
wLITI is an ERC-20 token that is the wrapped version of the LITI equity token. Launched on June 29, 2021, the wLITI token is suitable for trading on exchanges such as Bitcoin.com, whereas the LITI token is only available through liticapital.com after meeting KYC requirements. Liti Capital uses the blockchain to manage its share registry. Development of its own blockchain-based case management tools is on its roadmap.
Switzerland-based Liti Capital creates wLITI at a LITI token buyer’s request via Liti Capital’s app or website, which converts the LITI to wLITI at a 1:5000 ratio. The tokens will always maintain this ratio. The buyer is then able to trade their wLITI freely. Liti Capital does not directly sell wLITI.
LITI is a true digital share of Liti Capital that has voting rights, pays dividends and is protected under Swiss law. LITI is purposely not designed to be on exchanges at this time.
Both tokens represent Liti Capital, whose mantra is “private equity for all.” Liti Capital works exclusively in a single form of private equity — Litigation Finance, also called third party funding. This asset class has remained almost entirely exclusive to hedge funds and venture capitalists since its inception several decades ago. Litigation Finance is the practice of financing all or part of a legal case on behalf of a plaintiff for an agreed upon percentage of the court award.
Once Liti Capital purchases a portion of ownership of a case, it provides capital that can be used in many ways: legal fees, case management and strategy, expert witnesses, intelligence work and whatever else is needed to give the plaintiff the best chance of winning the case and collecting the award. The portion owned by Liti Capital becomes a “litigation asset” that backs the LITI token.
Danish Chaudhry, CEO of Bitcoin.com Exchange, shared his views on wLiti’s listing, saying,“The Liti Capital team are providing an equity token which is the first of its kind, focused around easy-to-access private equity investment opportunities for basically anyone with the help of blockchain technology.”
Chaudhry continues on by saying: “We’re very excited to see how Liti Capital will continue to empower their vision, and gain further outreach with our outstanding community at the exchange.”
Jonas Rey, CEO of Liti Capital, said, “Listing on Bitcoin.com Exchange is an excellent opportunity for us, and a milestone we are proud of. We have full confidence that once the public discovers just how valuable the litigation assets we are able to purchase on behalf of LITI investors are and how powerful blockchain-backed private equity trading can be, that wLITI will become a very popular token indeed.”
Listing details
Trading Opening: Aug. 24, 2021, 10:00AM UTC
Deposit Opening: Aug 24, 2021, 09;00AM UTC
Trading Pairs: wLITI/BTC
wLITI/USDT
About Liti Capital
Switzerland-based Liti Capital is a Swiss limited liability company specializing in litigation finance and fintech. Liti Capital buys litigation assets to fund lawsuits and provides a complete strategic solution along with connections to top law firms to help clients win their cases. Tokenized shares of the company lower the barrier of entry for retail investors and give token holders a vote in the company’s decision-making process. Dividends are distributed to LITI token holders upon the success of the plaintiff. Jonas Rey, co-founder of Liti Capital, also heads Athena Intelligence, one of the most successful intelligence agencies in Switzerland. His two co-founders, Andy Christen and Jaime Delgado, bring operational, innovation and technical skills to round out the leadership team.
Liti Capital recently onboarded seasoned industry leader David Kay as chief information officer and executive chairman. Boasting more than a decade of experience as funding partner and portfolio manager of a billion-dollar private equity fund in the litigation financing space, Kay successfully enforced what was at the time the largest international arbitration award in history, bringing in over $1 billion in cash and securities.
About Bitcoin.com Exchange
The mission of Bitcoin.com Exchange is to empower people from all over the world to trade cryptocurrencies with ease and confidence, from first-time traders to advanced trading professionals. With high liquidity, 24/7 multilingual support and dozens of trading pairs, complemented with a high level of security, we offer an attractive platform for trading any cryptocurrency. Within one year since launch, on average, the exchange has been visited by more than 500K active traders per month, and this number continues to grow by the minute.
Crypto has recently been suggested as a fix for the woes popular adult content platform OnlyFans has been going through. The company had announced last week that it planned to remove all of its adult content by October first. Speculations were that this was due to payment processors Visa and MasterCard making payment harder for the company due to the nature of its foremost content. But it was clarified that it was in fact due to the company wanting investors since they had been turned down due to the type of content they host on their site.
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This had sent a shockwave through the community and the news world. Crypto enthusiasts started suggesting that things like this could be avoided with decentralized platforms and payment services like cryptocurrencies. With Bitcoin leading in the suggestions for the type of crypto to be used for this.
The company has not responded to any of this, seemingly steadfast in its resolve to purge the site of all pornographic content. To this end, America rapper Tyga has announced that he plans to release his own platform that will be a direct competitor to OnlyFans. The platform the rapper plans to launch will be built on the Ethereum network.
Tyga Exits OnlyFans
Rapper Tyga had opened an OnlyFans account almost a year ago. Tyga had been a strong advocate for the platform and had started a modeling agency, Too Raww, that was dedicated to helping content creators get started on OnlyFans. Following the ban on pornographic content, the rap star took to his Instagram to announce his exit from the platform.
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Tyga announced that he had deleted his account on the platform and he was launching his own OnlyFans competitor, Myystar, which would provide content creators more freedom and a better cut of earnings. While also providing higher quality viewing for the audience. According to the press release, Myystar will only take 10% off creators’ earnings compared to the 20% on OnlyFans.
Building With A Crypto Backbone
Myystar’s most striking feature yet remains the fact that the platform is being built on the Ethereum network. The rapper seems to have listened to the suggestions coming out of the market recently and has run with this.
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In addition to providing better quality and a higher percentage of earnings, Myystar will also allow content creators to sell NFTs on the platform, and also, features that are relevant to the music industry. This will provide content creators the ability to mint pornographic content in order to sell them off as NFTs.
Crypto total market cap continues upward trend | Source: Crypto Total Market Cap on TradingView.com
A countless number of sex workers and adult content creators have been affected by the OnlyFans ban on pornographic content. Tyga told Forbes that he wanted to give these people hope with his platform. “I know how many people make a lot of money on OnlyFans, and that’s where most of their revenue is at. I want to give those people hope,” Tyga said.
The Myystar platform is scheduled to launch in October, following the ban of pornographic content on OnlyFans happening on October 1st. The site is currently up and is allowing creators to sign up ahead of the launch.
Featured image on Discotech, chart from TradingView.com
Bitcoin (BTC) is knocking at the doors of the key $50,000 level and most traders are still optimistic even after the digital asset rallied 70% from the July 20 low at $29,278 to an intraday high at $49,757.04 on Aug. 21.
Monitoring resource Material Indicators pointed to a lot of puts at the $50,000 strike price and the “positive funding almost across the board (overheated),” which suggests a rejection at the current levels and a “pullback going into September.”
Crypto market data daily view. Source:Coin360
Nikita Ovchinnik, chief business development officer of 1inch Network said that several new institutional investors had taken exposure to crypto in the past year, and that “they didn’t come for short-term gains.”
Another positive sign for the crypto sector is the ever-growing list of unicorns. Analysts expect more companies to join the list as the adoption of crypto and blockchain increases.
Bitcoin’s hesitation near the $50,000 mark may shift focus to altcoins? Let’s study the charts of the top-5 cryptocurrencies that are likely to attract traders’ attention in the short term.
BTC/USDT
Bitcoin rebounded off the 20-day exponential moving average ($45,049) on Aug. 19 and the bulls pushed the price above the stiff overhead resistance at $48,144 on Aug. 20. The bears are currently attempting to stall the up-move at the psychological resistance at $50,000.
BTC/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView
If bulls do not give up much ground and flip the $48,144 level to support, it will indicate strength. The BTC/USDT pair could then pick up momentum and start its northward march toward $58,000.
The rising 20-day EMA and the relative strength index (RSI) in the positive zone suggest that the path of least resistance is to the upside.
Alternatively, if bears pull the price below $48,144, the pair could drop to the 200-day simple moving average ($45,816). This is an important level for the bulls to defend because a break below it could embolden the bears.
The sellers will then try to sink the price below the breakout level at $42,451.67. If they succeed, it will suggest the start of a deeper correction.
BTC/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart shows that the bears are aggressively defending the zone between $49,500 and $50,000. If they can sink the price below the 20-EMA, the pair could drop to $46,600 and then to $44,000.
If that happens, it will suggest that the bulls are losing their grip and the pair could then remain range-bound between $44,000 and $50,000 for a few days. The bears will have to pull the price below $42,451.67 to gain the upper hand.
ADA/USDT
Cardano (ADA) is in a strong uptrend. The bulls pushed the price above the all-time high at $2.47 on Aug. 20 but the long wick on the day’s candlestick showed selling at higher levels. The altcoin formed an inside-day candlestick pattern on Aug. 21, indicating indecision among bulls and bears.
ADA/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView
The uncertainty resolved to the upside today as the bulls have again pushed the price to a new all-time high. If buyers sustain the price above the breakout level at $2.47, the ADA/USDT pair could rally to $3.
However, the long wick on today’s candlestick suggests that bears are unlikely to give up without a fight. They will try to pull the price back below $2.36 and trap the aggressive bulls. If that happens, the pair may correct to $2.20.
If the price rebounds off $2.20, the bulls will again try to resume the uptrend. A breakout and close above the $2.47 to $2.65 will enhance the prospects of the continuation of the uptrend. Alternatively, a break below $2.20 could pull the price down to $1.94.
ADA/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart shows the 20-EMA is sloping up but the RSI is forming a negative divergence. This suggests that the bullish momentum may be slowing down. The first sign of weakness will be a break below the 20-EMA.
Contrary to this assumption, if bulls do not give up much ground from the current level, it will suggest strength. That could attract further buying and the pair may then rally to the psychological resistance at $3.
AVAX/USDT
Avalanche (AVAX) rallied from $18.41 on Aug. 17 to $50.27 on Aug. 21, a 173% rally within a short time. This sharp up-move has pushed the RSI above 92, indicating the rally is over-extended in the short term.
AVAX/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView
The long wick on the Aug. 21 candlestick shows that bears are attempting to defend the psychological resistance at $50. On the downside, the first support is at $40. If the price rebounds off this level, it will suggest that bulls are not booking profits aggressively as they anticipate the rally to continue further.
A breakout and close above $44 could improve the prospects of a retest of the all-time high at $60.30.
On the contrary, if bears pull the price below the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level at $38.09, the AVAX/USDT pair could correct to the 50% retracement level at $34.34. A break below this support will indicate that the bullish momentum may have weakened.
AVAX/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart shows that bears are attempting to stall the relief rally at the overhead resistance at $44.60 and the bulls are buying on dips to $40. This suggests that the pair could remain range-bound between these two levels in the short term.
If the bulls drive the price above $44.60, the pair could rally to $50.27. A breakout and close above this level will signal the resumption of the uptrend. Conversely, a break below the 20-EMA will indicate that traders are booking profits and not buying the dips. That could signal the start of a deeper correction.
CAKE/USDT
PancakeSwap (CAKE) is currently in a strong recovery. Sustained buying by the bulls pushed the price above the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level at $22.74 on Aug. 20.
CAKE/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView
If bulls sustain the price above $22.74, the relief rally could reach the 50% retracement level at $26.85 and then the 61.8% retracement level at $30.96. The bears are likely to mount a stiff resistance in this zone.
On the way down, the critical support to watch out for is the 20-day EMA ($20.37). If the price rebounds off this support, it will suggest that sentiment remains positive and traders are buying on dips. Conversely, a break below the 20-day EMA could open the doors for a further decline to $16.
CAKE/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart shows the price is trading inside a rising wedge pattern. If bears sustain the price below the 20-EMA, the pair may drop to the support line of the wedge. This level is likely to act as a strong support and a sharp rebound off it will indicate that traders are buying on dips.
A breakout and close above $24.65 will suggest the resumption of the up-move. The next target objective on the upside is the resistance line of the wedge. The bullish momentum could pick up if bulls thrust the price above the wedge.
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ATOM/USD
Cosmos (ATOM) had been trading in a large range between $8.51 and $17.56 since late May. The bulls pushed the price above the resistance of the range on Aug. 18, clearing the path for a possible move to the pattern target at $26.61.
ATOM/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView
However, the long wick on today’s candlestick and the RSI above 83 suggests the rally is overextended in the short term. This could attract profit-booking by the bulls, resulting in a minor correction or consolidation in the next few days.
If bulls do not give up much ground and flip the $17.56 level into support, the ATOM/USDT pair will again try to resume the uptrend. A break above $26.61 could open the doors for a rally to $28 and then to $30.
The bears will have to pull and sustain the price below $17 to invalidate the bullish sentiment.
ATOM/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart shows that bears are mounting a stiff resistance near $24. Although bulls had pushed the price above this resistance, they could not sustain the higher levels as seen from the long wick on the candlestick.
A positive sign is that buyers are not dumping their positions in a hurry. The pair could consolidate between $21 and $24 for some time. A breakout and close above $24 will indicate strength and signal the resumption of the up-move.
Alternatively, a break below the 20-EMA will indicate the start of a deeper correction to $17.56.
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Layer one network Polygon continues to expand and solidified its position in the crypto space. Recently, they announced a new partnership with Filecoin, a network that allows users to store and transfer data via a native marketplace.
The cooperation launched the Filecoin-Polygon Bridge, to increase their interoperability. Built by the Textile team, the bridge enables users to use any Polygon mainnet to connect with Filecoin’s storage and
(…) start storing data on Filecoin from any Polygon address without any conversions, signups, developer tokens, or secrets exchanged.
In addition, Textile, Polygon, and Filecoin announced further incentives for users and developers to leverage the bridge. For the foreseeable future, they will cover all storage costs for every project using the Textile Filecoin Storage Bridge. Thus,
Filecoin will bring greater functionality to Polygon applications that require decentralized and verifiable data storage.
The bridge will be “gradually” improved to increase its usability and will launch a governance model. In that way, the community will have the power to decide the direction of the project and will operate as an additional incentive for users and developers to jump in and participate.
📂 @textileio’s Filecoin-Polygon Storage Bridge can store data from any Polygon address owner accelerating the Web3 interoperability between Polygon & Filecoin ecosystems.
The bridge will benefit from Filecoin’s features, and any app, smart contract, or service will still rely on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to retrieve data. Information will be available on an entity called “storage contract” to be created with miners operating on the Filecoin Network.
One of Textile’s main objectives is to improve Polygon, and other blockchains capacity to hold and transfer data:
Filecoin brings many of the best parts of the IPFS stack, including verifiable data, peer-to-peer (p2p) data exchange, de-duplication, and more. We can create a more secure data storage layer for Polygon applications and their users (…).
An Improve Storage Layer For Polygon, How Does It Work?
According to a blog post published by Textile, the Filecoin Storage Bridge to Polygon is supported by two concepts. The first is “deposit” and is power by an API that enables them to take place on-chain, the second is “storage” power by several APIs that “interact off-chain with a storage validator that will interface with Filecoin”.
This system offers protection against bad actors and potential Sybil Attacks, as users must deposit funds proportional to the length of time that they’d like to keep their data storage, Textile clarified. The default amount to be deposited for an hour of storage is 100GWEI per second or 0.00036 MATIC every hour.
As seen in the chart below, research firm Messari records an increase in total value locked on Polygon. This metric, as research Ryan Watkins said, has many detractors but can be used as a proxy to determine “how much value” users place on the smart contracts running on this ecosystem.
Source: Messari
The metric has seen a recovery after a decline during June and is “trending nicely” towards previous highs. At the time of writing, MATIC trades at $1,64 with an 8.3% profit in the daily chart.
MATIC follows the general market sentiment with a rally in the daily chart. Source: MATICUSDT Tradingview
