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Transactions per Second for Solana

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Low fees are one of the existential selling points for Solana. As with Ethereum, the actual fee is a function of supply and demand. When demand for block space rises, the price to include a given transaction in a block appreciates accordingly. 

Solana features a much higher transaction capacity than Ethereum. We’ll cover just how much in the chapter on theoretical transactions per second.

A look at network explorer Solana Beach reveals transactions cost between 5,000 and 10,000 lamports. One lamport equals one-billionth SOL. In dollar terms, the average Solana transaction has cost $0.00025.

Actual transactions per second (TPS)

Between 2,000 and 3,000 TPS are conducted on the Solana network at the time of this report. This number dwarves Ethereum’s 35 TPS by almost two orders of magnitude.

Figure: Solana transaction breakdown

Source: Solana Beach

On Solana, 80%–90% of all transactions are used for voting and synchronization, so this number is misleading on its own. Other blockchain projects have ridiculed Solana for its inflated numbers in the past.

Avalanche CEO Sirer weighs in on Solana’s transaction numbers. Source: Twitter

Before comparing apples to apples, voting has to be factored out of transaction counts since Ethereum nodes don’t vote. Assuming the upper bound of 90% votes, Solana would still process 200–300 TPS or 10x Ethereum at a fraction of the cost.

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

The Consensus Mechanism of Solana

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Solana has a unique consensus mechanism called TowerBFT and proof-of-history (PoH). Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, with a background in distributed systems design, thought hard about blockchain scalability problems in 2017 after Bitcoin transactions took days when demand surged. 

According to an interview with Acquired, he discovered that most consensus issues vanish when the systems involved agree on a common timeline. Take the dreaded double-spend issue, for instance. In a synchronized system, you can assume that the first transaction is valid and the second is thus fraudulent.

Solana implements a surprisingly straightforward method of synchronizing nodes. It uses a sequential hash that runs over itself continuously, creating a rhythm that all nodes follow.

Proof-of-history uses recursive calculations where the previous output is used as the next input. Only with the output of the current function “X” will a validator be able to calculate the output of the next function “Y.” All validators need to solve the same function “X” and then be able to derive the output for the next function “Y” around the same time. Like this, Solana creates synchronization across its network.

Figure: The proof-of-history flow of control

Source: Binance Research

Besides PoH, Solana uses its version of the practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) consensus mechanism called Tower. PBFT is an industry standard.

Programming language

Solana uses Rust, a recent, functional programming language for programs that run on top of its blockchain and base layer.

Rust has seen a remarkable rise in popularity for blockchain applications thanks to its performance advantages. From a purely technical point of view, it seems like a clear winner compared to Ethereum’s Solidity.

However, the lack of tooling, libraries and knowledgeable developers means that many wheels need reinventing to get DApps off the ground. The advent of the Anchor framework has ameliorated that somewhat by reducing the amount of work necessary just to get started by 80%.

This next article will look at the question if Solana is able to scale. What is the network’s transaction speed in theory and practice? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of the design choices involved?

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

Good Crypto Guide: How to Day Trade Cryptocurrency and Track Your Portfolio on 35 Exchanges

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How to day trade cryptocurrency and futures?

Cryptocurrency trading is no rocket science – oh, wait a second, it is. It is a consuming full-time job where you tie yourself up in knots on a daily basis. So when the newness defining the niche wears out, you start asking Google questions like the best crypto trading app or the best crypto portfolio tracker in an attempt to automate as many processes as possible.

And this is the moment when you discover for yourself the Good Crypto – a multi-exchange crypto trading app that is also a crypto portfolio tracker which could serve as a bridge, connecting you with the 35+ exchanges and multiple wallets. 

GoodCrypto allows you to place a plenty of advanced custom orders, such as Trailing Stop Loss or Stop Loss + Take Profit combo, could send you push-notifications on order execution, significant price changes, deposits, transfers, daily portfolio summary, and offers trade automation.

Good Crypto: the best portfolio tracker & cryptocurrency trading app

You can use the classic Web App version, or open a Good Crypto app on your iOS or Android device. 

The GoodCrypto app offers you real-time market data, analytics through the automated portfolio tracker, the TA trend signals and all of this you get as an advanced trading terminal supporting 35+ leading crypto exchanges.

Connecting all your crypto exchanges and blockchain wallets out to Good Crypto is easy: just add your API keys and enjoy an overview of your portfolio that is updated in real-time, set up alerts or head straight to crypto trading with the most advanced mobile terminal on the market!

Here you can enjoy the full functionality of TradingView charts on the palm of your hand with all the drawing tools you are used to and over 40 technical indicators. Using a GoodCrypto app, now the pending orders do not freeze your balance until triggered, that is giving you an exceptional flexibility in creating lots of your trading setups.

Switch to Algo tab and enjoy seamless trade automation: from Infinity Trailing algo, to Grid or DCA, and custom order groups.

It’s a good opportunity to make some more significant things, while your GoodCrypto Bot is trading in profit without manual intervention.

How to pursue crypto trading strategies with Good Crypto? 

Connected Stop Loss and Take Profit Orders

You can connect Take Profit and Stop Loss to any order you send just in one click. Both Take Profit and Stop Loss will activate when your base order gets filled, and once one of them executes – the other will be canceled automatically. Your balances do not get locked in the process.

Choose a Trailing Take Profit instead of an ordinary one – unleashing the full power of Trailing Stop orders. This will give you an opportunity not to limit your potential upside if the price continues to move in your direction, instantly making your trading setups much more powerful and tilting the Risk/Reward ratio in your favor.

Specify a trigger timeout for your Stop Loss order to protect yourself against erroneous market moves caused by large orders or liquidations. If the price only briefly falls under your Stop Loss – it won’t trigger.

With GoodCrypto App you can set Trailing Stop orders even on exchanges where the original interface does not provide it.

Alerts 

Alerts are a crucial weapon in every trader’s arsenal. The GoodCrypto App got you covered here as well, providing a wide array of alerts: from unlimited custom price alerts to order execution, sudden market movements, market and portfolio summaries, new exchange listings, and even DeFi gems monitoring.

MACD triple strategy in GoodCrypto

Inside the GoodCrypto platform there are many useful tools for analyzing the market, but we will take a look at one of the most popular MACD trading strategy and its variety – MACD Triple.

The MACD Triple strategy is a trading system based on the moving average convergence divergence (MACD). It uses multiple time frames, including one hour, four hours, and fifteen minutes, to determine buying and selling signals. The strategy also includes short-selling opportunities. It is useful for reversal signals during sweeping advances, since it compares closing prices to the range. MACD signals are often used to determine trend momentum and strength.

As one of the most common strategies that one also uses a stop-loss rule, or maybe a GoodCrypto trailing take profit to earn the maximum of the price movement. It uses a profit target of 1:3 or more, depending on the entry price. The traders close their open positions if the MACD crosses back the baseline in the opposite direction of your trade, a sign known as a reverse trading signal. And equally can be used in another market direction. Using this strategy, you can take advantage of both the short and long sides of the trend.

Practicing the MACD strategy, traders can determine the direction of limit / pending orders opening, which as we mentioned above, you can place as many as you want using the GoodCrypto app. This will help them enter the market in the right direction at the right time for a profitable trade. If the MACD crosses the moving average in the same direction as the price chart, it indicates that the trend has been “exhausted.”

But as it was noted, it is better to use several arguments to enter a trade with your strategy, or additionally use the technical analysis signals module inside the application.

Summing Up 

If you’re looking for a great tool to trade cryptocurrency and manage your crypto portfolio, you might find some peace after signing up for the Good Crypto App, which provides you with advanced trading functionality, great portfolio tracking, and a suite of market research and analytics tools. 

So install Good Crypto on iOS or Android and continue your crypto journey with ease! 

Staking and Lending with Solana

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SOL holders enjoy a variety of options for putting their tokens to work. Non-custodial staking is available in the Exodus wallet or with the native Solana-CLI command-line tool. Staking rewards are around 6%–6.5% APY at the time of writing.

Custodial staking is possible on Binance Earn, Kraken and FTX and, typically, offers fewer earnings. Binance Earn offered 6.5% APY this November 2021.

Then there’s lending on platforms such as Solend or Tulip Finance. Even staked SOL can be lent on Tulip, albeit for a meager 1.79% yearly yield, while Solend offers 3.87% for supplied SOL.

Lending becomes more exciting when providing stablecoins. Solend offers 24% on USD Coin (USDC), and Tulip grants 15% APY on USDC-USDT pairs via Raydium.

Solana initial coin distribution breakdown

The degree to which Solana is decentralized was the subject of heated controversy on Crypto Twitter this autumn. The pièce de résistance is the number of tokens held by the team and by VC backers. Solana has an initial token supply of 500 million SOL with a yearly inflation rate of 1.5%.

Binance Research found out that the team holds 12.79%, and VCs bought 29.15% of all tokens during the seed and funding sale, a total of 41.94%.

Figure: Solana initial token supply distribution

Source: Binance Research

The pie chart doesn’t include the $314.15-million token sale that Polychain Capital and a16z completed in June 2021, and the exact amount of tokens involved was not published. The exchange price for SOL was $30–$40 in the months ahead, though it’s probably fair to assume that a steep discount was applied, given the scale of the purchase. Presupposing a $20 token price, 15.7 million SOL or 3.14% of the initial supply would have changed hands. 

Staking validators have to pay transaction fees on voting and syncing transactions but earn staking rewards as well as block rewards. Running a viable validator requires a stake that produces rewards in excess of transaction costs. In September 2021, the minimum stake required had surpassed $1 million — a significant barrier to entry for new validators. 

Despite that, almost 1,200 validators are operational at the time of this writing. The top 19 validators control 33% of all SOL staked and could theoretically halt the network if they colluded.

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

Solana vs. Ethereum

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Solana’s implementation is fundamentally different from Ethereum’s. On the latter, programs can hold state; on the former, they cannot. A program’s state is the data it uses.

For example, one piece of data could be an incremental counter that assigns a number to NFTs as they are minted. This incremental counter would be stored in a program’s state on Ethereum, which Solana cannot do.

Instead, Solana uses accounts to store and access data. Accounts can also store multiple addresses to send and receive tokens. Like Ethereum with its ERC-20 standard, Solana also supports tokens built atop it.

Unlike Ethereum, every token needs an address of its own, which is then part of an account. It is a bit similar to Bitcoin’s HD wallets in practice, but with a different implementation and functionality.

To make a long story short, we will look at active accounts instead of unique addresses. Though this number is difficult to pinpoint accurately, research from CoinDesk and Solana Beach arrives at a substantiated estimate of 1.2 million active accounts.

Solana protocol revenue and price-to-sales ratio

One of Solana’s most vital selling points is its low transaction fees. Currently, a transaction costs $0.00025. Transactions on Solana are a bargain compared to Ethereum, where a Uniswap trade frequently costs over $100. Conversely, these low fees lead to lower protocol revenues. 

Source: Token Terminal (Y-axis has a log scale.)

The Graph reports earnings of just $3.2 million for Solana, while Ethereum miners gained $1.5 billion in the 30 days leading up to Nov. 16, 2021.

Looking at the price-to-sales ratio, Solana lands on a multiple of 30,909x earnings, while storage protocol Filecoin has a multiple of “only” 514x.

Solana is in a difficult position from a price-to-sales perspective. On the one hand, it needs low fees to remain attractive for traders and financial applications. On the other hand, SOL’s price is hard to justify at this point.

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

Real-World Use and Adoption of Solana

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Driven by DeFi activity and NFT sales, Solana rose to prominence the fall of 2021. Constantly pushing the envelope, its team now wants to onboard “one billion users” in the following years. 

Named after a famous beach near San Diego, California, Solana is the brainchild of former Dropbox engineer Anatoly Yakovenko. Development started in 2017, and in April 2018, he and his co-founder, Greg Fitzgerald, secured their first backing from Abstract Ventures and 500 Startups. Solana had its big break in 2020 when Sam Bankman-Fried backed the project. He successfully deployed FTX’s decentralized exchange protocol, Serum, on Solana. In 2021, Polychain Capital and a16z injected $314 million into the blockchain venture with a private token sale. 

Solana’s beta mainnet saw the light of day in March 2020 and quickly attracted developer attention. According to recent research, it is on a path to overtake Ethereum when comparing developer activity in the form of GitHub commits, pull requests and forks.

Solana developer activity exhibits substantial growth

Source: Twitter

This chapter will focus on metrics that reflect the real-world usage of Solana. Looking at the meteoric price growth is a good indicator of investor confidence. To gain a deeper understanding, we’ll look at unique addresses, lending and staking rates, and protocol revenue plus the price-to-sales ratio.

As a marker of centralization risk, we’ll finally look into how many tokens are held by the team and VC backers.

Solana Summer: SOL price rose more than sixfold in autumn 2021

Source: Messari

Solana’s (SOL) price was on an absolute tear starting in August 2021, called “Solana Summer.” The token’s value rose from $35.15 to a high of $258.65 between Aug. 1 and Nov. 6, 2021. A boom in NFT sales, perpetual futures volume and a tight-knit community propelled Solana’s market capitalization to more than $73 billion and made the token No. 4 on the CoinMarketCap list of coins sorted by market cap at times.

Seen from a November 2021 perspective, Solana is up more than 130x from a year ago and outperformed all other top 100 tokens except Axie Infinity (AXS), Kadena (KDA) and Fantom (FTM). 

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

What is DeFi currently lacking and how can we overcome it?

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Insider Insight with Bernhard Koch, Founder and CEO Cryptix

As a venture builder in the fintech sector, we build bridges between innovation and effective everyday usability. Thus, it is a given that we closely follow the developments in the DeFi space and the increased use of DAOs. What we recognize, however, is that DAOs intentionally lack substance when it comes to financial regulation:

DAOs are unregulated and legally unaccountable – not the right approach we deem suitable to serve the masses. The widely used “dot-org-constructions” based on non-profit-foundations are mainly used to avoid taxes.

At Cryptix, we have chosen to go the extra mile with a long-term regulated approach. While the main character of a DAO meets our requirements for decentralization and community engagement, it lacks the legal safety and conformity for the masses. Consequently, we have tried to think out of the box, and have successfully created a superior solution: We call it DGO – decentrally governed organization.

Unlike a DAO, a DGO makes use of a legal body: The Societas Cooperativa Europaea (SCE). While an SCE is not a new concept, we’ve discovered that very few are aware of this cooperative form, despite its great number of benefits: 

  1. Legal clarity and compliance by using a real legal entity.
  2. Responsibility and commitment as the SCE is legally liable.
  3. DGOs can have a for-profit motive, thereby creating more sustainable and engaging incentive structures for its members, which are ultimately more supportive and loyal to a project.
  4. An SCE can change residence within EU countries with low hurdles to operate from a jurisdiction where the environment favors innovative approaches of such DGO and its members.
  5. Voting on governance and strategic decisions can be made accessible and incentivized in a user-friendly mobile app, with absolute transparency and no manipulation due to real on-chain voting. While members, due to its simplicity, won’t even notice they’ve just voted on-chain.

These benefits come with a more complex, time-intensive, pioneering and expensive path. Nevertheless, we are committed to going down this path and thereby creating a never-before-seen and promising concept, born from the connection between SCE and blockchain technology. In our opinion, this is the next logical step towards enabling a non-crypto community to experience the benefits of decentralized finance, and include them in a powerful, transparent and direct way of decision-making in important projects.

Cryptix is already employing the described DGO model and legal construction within one of its projects, a layer-1-blockchain with its own native cryptocurrency, products and complementary services in layer-2. These Layer 2 services will be run by a DGO and involve their users at the enterprise level in a very simple and highly transparent way as never before.

We are excited about this journey and are already receiving stunning feedback for this concept. We will keep a close eye on user participation and learnings to grow and adapt together for the benefit of the community, its members and our society.

Summary

Ethereum helped crypto to get to where it is today. Without NFTs, without DeFi, and without the ability to launch tokens in less than 30 minutes, many projects simply would not exist, and the world would be poorer for it.

Ethereum is here to stay. Massive network effects, a large pool of development talent, and a mature tech stack mean it is easier and more sensible to launch on Ethereum than any other blockchain. 

The onus is now on Ethereum’s developers to manage a timely upgrade to a more scalable and renewable future without compromising security and uptime — a genuinely colossal feat. The last upgrades to the mainnet have gone off without a hitch and have inspired well-earned confidence in the skills and thoroughness of the contributors.

2022 will be a make-or-break year for Ethereum. Its open, self-reflective culture and the surprisingly far-sighted thought leadership of Vitalik Buterin inspire confidence that it will be its best year yet.

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

DApps & NFTs on Ethereum

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The No. 1 DApp on Ethereum is the NFT marketplace OpenSea. OpenSea outpaced its competition in 2020 and is now the go-to place to trade and collect NFTs.

With more than $10 billion in total sales, it is a true juggernaut, solely responsible for 135,000 ETH (~$450 million) in burned transaction fees since the London upgrade in August 2021.

No. 2 is the DEX poster child Uniswap, which brought Bancor’s Automated Market Maker model to the mainstream and is the go-to for coin swaps. Following these two monsters are SushiSwap, an erstwhile Uniswap clone that now lives on more blockchain platforms than any other DEX, and OlympusDAO and Curve Finance, two DeFi powerhouses.

NFT sales volume and transaction volume

Ethereum NFT sales amounted to $2.2 billion in September and $1.7 billion in October 2021, according to research by Messari, more than eight times the volume of the next competitor, Solana. Most of that volume comes from big-ticket sales such as CryptoPunks or BoredApes, where a single deal can be worth millions.

However, looking at just the dollar-denominated volume doesn’t paint a complete picture. Ethereum saw 132,879 unique buyers in October, compared to 68,235 on Solana. The average amount a collector spent on Ethereum was $12,878 in October 2021.

While Solana’s dollar-denominated value was only an eighth of Ethereum’s, its activity was half. Ethereum certainly faces strong competition in the NFT market, and sky-high fees hurt its position because they price out new entrants.

Figure: Daily NFT sales on Ethereum

Source: NonFungible.com

Top projects like CryptoPunks and BoredApes at record prices, and traditional companies like Adidas and Nike have launched NFT collections. So it is safe to assume that this technology is not yet exhausted, even if NFT transaction volume has dropped sharply, from 1.08 million sales in October to 360,000 in December 2021.

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.

Meet GetBlock.net: the first multichain explorer with functionality for AML checks

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Explorer is one of the most important tools for crypto enthusiasts. It can be used to check the status of transactions and obtain data about crypto wallets. Previously, the crypto community members had to use several sites at once to access all the necessary tools to control transactions and verify cryptocurrencies. This approach is time-consuming. To work efficiently, you have to keep many tabs open in your browser and constantly switch between different platforms. 

The team of the Getblock.net project has offered a solution to the problem. The developers have combined a full-featured multichain explorer with anti-money laundering (AML) tools in a single platform. Below you can find out how Getblock works. We also recommend bookmarking the platform for all crypto enthusiasts who value security.

What is GetBlock

Getblock.net is the first multichain explorer on the market with functionality for AML checks. Here’s what the platform can do:

  • Track blockchain transactions of six cryptocurrencies: BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC, ZEC, and DASH. You no longer need to switch between multiple explorers to check transactions in different networks. The developers promise to expand the list of blockchains that the platform supports in the future.
  • Check blockchain addresses and coins themselves for compliance with AML rules. Each check is accompanied by a detailed report.

How GetBlock works

To check the purity of addresses and coins, Explorer sends a request for analysis to Bitfury Crystal, a major AML data operator. The service helps determine if crypto addresses or digital assets are associated with any illegal transactions. 

Bitfury Crystal’s working scheme is based on the clustering of data sets. The platform categorizes addresses and transactions. For example, Bitfury Crystal clusters the addresses that belong to the same organization. The scheme speeds up transaction analysis and allows visualizing the crypto’s connection to illegal transactions, if necessary. 

Here’s what information you can get at Getblock.net:

TransactionBlockchain address
Assessing the level of risk of the operationAssessing the risk of interaction with an address
Data on the sources of coinsData on the sources of coins in the cryptocurrency wallet
Technical information about the transactionInformation about the address operations
Information about previous senders and recipients of coins from a transaction

The explorer also determines the share of “clean” and “dirty” coins in transactions and crypto-wallets. Detailed analysis helps to filter out safe options.

Getblock.net gives the risk level of a transaction or cryptocurrency address as a percentage. An estimate of up to 60% is considered safe. From 60% to 90% is already a suspicious address/transaction. Above 90% are dangerous sources, it is highly recommended not to accept transactions from them into your address. The general assessment is supplemented by a detailed report indicating the sources of funds. 

Why every member of the cryptocurrency community needs an AML explorer

Market participants who neglect digital hygiene are at risk of being caught by law enforcement and even losing cryptocurrency. Let’s look at an example:

2 bitcoins were transferred to Bob. With an explorer, he verified that the transaction was completed and sent the coins to a cold cryptocurrency wallet. The user had not checked the purity of the coins beforehand. Four years later, bitcoin went up. Bob decided to sell his coins. To do so, he transferred the bitcoin to a cryptocurrency exchange. 

The next day, Bob received a message from the security service of the trading platform asking him to confirm the origin of the funds. During an AML analysis, the crypto exchange found out that the user’s coins were associated with a fraudulent project. To avoid breaking the law, representatives of the trading platform froze the suspicious assets. As a result, Bob lost his bitcoins.

The user will be able to get access to the cryptocurrency only if he proves his innocence. Problems could have been avoided if Bob had previously checked the purity of the cryptocurrency through a service such as Getblock.net.

AML checks for cryptocurrencies today are a necessary measure to help preserve assets.

Why GetBlock

Getblock.net has a user-friendly interface that even a beginner can handle. Also, unlike most competitors, the platform offers additional functionality:

  • Getblock.net provides verified check results that you can share. For this, all you have to do is send a static link to the check to another user. In the near future, the developers plan to add functionality that will allow you to download the results in pdf format.
  • In Explorer, you can add addresses to favorites to receive prompt data on new operations on them.
  • On Getblock.net, you can perform a check in two clicks. 
  • The platform saves the history of checks in the personal account. You can quickly access the results, even from your smartphone.
  • Explorer users can perform AML checks in one of three ways: in the Explorer itself, in the personal account, or via a Telegram bot.

In addition, Getblock.net is the only explorer that produces a detailed report on AML checks with full data visualization. 

Offer for crypto projects

Getblock.net has an API for program integration with other services such as exchange offices and exchanges. The API is implemented according to the JSON-RPC standard and can be easily integrated into any project. Thereby the project will get quick access to AML analytics. 

For corporate customers, getblock.net offers favorable terms of cooperation: 

  • a free package for 100 checks to test the service and set up API integration.
  • referral program – 20% of referrals’ payments attracted via affiliate links
  • promo codes for free checks to increase the loyalty of your customers
  • free checks in exchange for traffic to the blockchain explorer, one check for 5 targeted clicks. 

The price of security

You can test Getblock.net for free. The platform gives one test for both registering on the site and subscribing to the newsletter. Also, the developers of the project have shared the PROMO22 promo code. With it, you can get 3 free checks. To search for other promo codes, you should go to the sites of the project partners.

The bonus program is constantly expanding. You can get free checks for subscribing to the Telegram channel of the project and other activities on social media. Follow Getblock.net news and promotions via social networks, such as Twitter.

Also, Getblock.net. has a referral program. Its members can earn 20% of the payments made by the users they attract. 

The Getblock.net team offers three tariff plans. With the flex plan, the price per check is $1. The tariff allows the user to choose the desired number of checks (from 5 to 100). Competitors charge $50 for a minimum package of checks. 

It’s most advantageous to buy large check packages. For example, with the “Maximum” package you will save 70% because the price for one check is reduced to $0,3.

Important! There are no hidden fees at Getblock.net.

The validity period of paid packages is not limited. The free check, which is given when you register, is valid for one month. The validity period of checks with promo codes is up to 3 months.

Important! Getblock.net has also launched GetBlock Magazine. The editorial team publishes the latest news from the world of digital assets, as well as various exclusive materials on a daily basis. With GetBlock Magazine, it’s easy to keep your finger on the pulse of events.

Get your free checks at Getblock.net and start following a digital hygiene routine to help keep your cryptocurrency safe by following this link>>>

The Risks of DeFi

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What are the risks with DeFi and how can investors mitigate those risks? The biggest risk in DeFi is the so-called rug pull, which can be generalized to any action by the project team that is unexpected and harmful to investors, but often immensely profitable to the project team.

To some extent DeFi allows more opportunities for such actions, because the space is new, quick-moving, and investors are hungry for new opportunities and projects to invest in. This is why they often skip doing detailed due diligence.

Furthermore, due to the complex nature of smart contracts and DeFi composability, it’s often possible for a big risk to be hiding in plain sight, and unless you’re experienced in reading Solidity and actually put in the time to do due diligence, you won’t spot it.

For example, when Sushiswap vampire-attacked Uniswap, they had a so-called migrator contract as part of the design. The contract owner could set this migrator contract to a malicious address and withdraw all LP tokens.

While this didn’t happen in Sushiswap, many of it’s forks exploited this to steal all the liquidity staked, even if a migration was never on their roadmap. One way to protect yourself from such risks is to check if a project has been audited by a reputable security firm, but a significantly better way is to be able to read the code and understand the contracts yourself.

This will allow you to understand “intended behavior” that would pass an audit but allows the project team to “rug pull”, such as the one given in the example. If you’re unable to, just trusting your intuition in terms of whether something seems shady or too good to be true goes a long way.

Over time, DeFi will actually become more resistant to this – because of its open nature, anyone being able to read code can actually feel safer putting their funds in a DeFi project rather than a centralized exchange or platform.

As the industry matures and more people learn how to analyze these projects, DeFi’s strength of being fully transparent and auditable will shine.

This article is an extract from the 80+ page Scaling Report: Does the Future of Decentralized Finance Still Belong to Ethereum? co-published by the Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, written by ten authors and supported by Arcana, Brave, ANote Music, Radix, Fuse, Cryptix, Casper Labs, Coinfinity, Ambire, BitPanda and CakeDEFI.