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Superalgos launches open-source crypto trading automation platform, lists native token on PancakeSwap

November 19, 2021 by Akash Anand

Superalgos, an open-source community-owned trading intelligence project, announces the official launch of its free platform for designing, testing, and deploying crypto trading bots. The launch comes after four years in development with tens of thousands of downloads during the open beta phase as the community builds up liquidity pools for its native Superalgos token on PancakeSwap, trading under the ticker $SA.

The Superalgos Platform provides the tools required to produce sophisticated trading intelligence. Equipped with a visual strategy designer and debugger, integrated data-mining and charting system, multi-exchange, multi-market, and multi-machine execution, AI model optimization, and TradingView integration, the platform enables scalable operations starting from a single Raspberry Pi deployment to industrial-grade trading farms.

The Superalgos project pairs state-of-the-art technology with a talent acquisition model incentivized with the native token. The #1 position in the trading bots category in Github generates an inflow of talented algorithm traders with various specialties: developers, data scientists, AI engineers, hardware techs, OS admins, etc.

The community uses the token to incentivize contributions that add value to the common good: code, strategies, AI models, processed data, and even business and project development activities in general. Contributors get token rewards, aligning community-wide interests towards a common goal of growing the network.

When surrounded by top specialists, traders soon realize that they are not the best at everything. The synergy among the mix of experts results in spontaneous collaboration at multiple levels.

“We’re building a whaler fleet to hunt whales in crypto markets,” says Julian Molina, Marketing Lead and Co-Founder of Superalgos.

“The project is like a naval academy with its own shipyard! The community builds the tools and puts top crews together to go out hunting. You can’t expect to be successful when you have to do the work of the captain, the deck officer, the seamen, and be the top-shot harpoon sniper at the same time! Instead, you collaborate to work the markets together, armed to the teeth!”

The 2022 roadmap adds a new dimension to the project: Crypto users will be able to copy the trades of top teams in the community using free social trading apps and leveraging free trading signals disseminated over a censorship-resistant permissionless peer-to-peer network.

“It’ll be like a decentralized WallStreetBets,” says Luis Molina, Lead Developer and Co-Founder of Superalgos.

“It took several weeks for a Reddit crowd to coordinate to take a position in GameStop (GME). Everything was going well until someone decided to pull the plug, acting against users’ interests. Replace manual trading with automation, and Robinhood with the Superalgos Network. In a matter of minutes, millions of crypto users will be able to coordinate to take positions, with no intermediaries, pseudonymously, over a p2p network with no plugs to pull! Superalgos will disrupt trading as we know it.”

Here are the 3 DeFi protocols generating over $100M in annualized revenue

October 1, 2021 by Chayanika Deka

September has been a tough month for the crypto industry. The DeFi protocols, on the other hand, are seeing increased activity. Market participants remained cautioned as a result of the regulatory clampdown from China and elsewhere.

Hence, many users have now that some buyers have changed their focus away from Bitcoin [BTC] and have instead resorted to decentralized finance [DeFi] tokens. As a matter of fact, DeFi protocols have seen more activity as Chinese FUD sent shockwaves across the industry. According to the latest data compiled by Messari, there are now three DeFi protocols generating over $100 million in annualized revenue – DYDX, PancakeSwap, and Yearn Finance.

DeFi’s incredible traction

In the wake of China’s crypto crackdown, many centralized exchanges scrambled to conform to new regulations. The derivatives DEX DYDX’s trading volume, on the other hand, even eclipsed Nasdaq-listed centralized crypto exchange Coinbase. Messari revealed that DYDX generated revenue of a little under $500 million annualized in the past month. To put things into perspective, DYDX has amassed well over 80% in two days as many speculated that Chinese crypto users are converging on the decentralized margin trading protocol.

Next up was PancakeSwap with a monthly revenue that stood at $219 million. PancakeSwap is a leading DEX at Binance Smart Chain. However, the latter has taken a substantial hit of late. But according to Messari’s analyst Ryan Watkins, PancakeSwap continues to be a “cash machine” for BSC. He stated,

“Despite BSC activity having fallen off a cliff since Q1 PancakeSwap remains a cash machine. Most profitable spot exchange in DeFi. Although I will note that if UNI flipped on its fee switch it would be producing far more income than PancakeSwap.”

Additionally, Yearn Finance happens to be the only protocol earning more than $100 million a year without paying out token incentives.

Overall, decentralized exchanges [DEXs] have held their position as the most profitable protocols in the decentralized finance sector by a huge margin. This is true for centralized counterparts as well, since CEXs remain the most profitable centralized crypto businesses. According to Watkins, the clampdown of centralized venues from certain jurisdictions will further catalyze the growth of DEXs.

DEX volumes see explosive growth in Q2; increases by 117x YoY

July 14, 2021 by Chayanika Deka

DEX landscape is growing irrespective of losses in the wider market.

It has been a trying time for the entire cryptocurrency market as the incessant rangebound price action continues to exhaust the bulls in lower rallies. Well, maybe not for the entire market. Decentralized exchange [DEX] volumes have been roaring despite market-wide rout, thanks to DeFi which continues to astonish with billions of dollars entering this new economy.

According to the latest report by Messari, DEX volume has not just increased a great deal in the second quarter of the year but has also outperformed the first quarter despite Bitcoin slashing half of its gains. As a matter of fact, DEX volumes in Q2 jumped to $405 billion, an increase of 117x year-over-year and an 83% increase since Q1 2021. To put things into perspective, May alone witnessed more than half the volume in the quarter.

Since then, the figures have halved. DEX volume in the month of June plummeted all the way to $95 billion. Despite the fall, June was still the third-highest all-time.

Race for the biggest DEX

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Over the past several months, many decentralized exchanges have emerged. But Uniswap still takes the cake away. Its dominance over the rest of the market has reached a record-breaking 54% share of weekly volume, the platform’s highest level since November 2020. While its Binance Smart Chain-based PancakeSwap witnessed a dramatic spin as well with many speculating that it could soon flip Uniswap, the hype fizzled out with the launch of the latter’s V3.

Polygon plays its part

Polygon had humble beginnings. But today, it is a leading second-layer solution based on Ethereum. This rise to prominence has been crucial in devouring Binance Smart Chain’s [BSC] share of decentralized exchange volumes. Messari’s report also stated,

“As the party shifted towards Polygon, with its new set of tokens to speculate on and farms to harvest, BSC was squeezed out of the picture. The activity provided a great glimpse into the developing liquidity wars between blockchains, showing that when token incentives are the primary reason why capital enters a blockchain ecosystem, it will also be the primary reason capital leaves when incentives fall or incentives are more attractive elsewhere.”

Binance, Coinbase web traffic takes a hit as collective figures slump by 42%

July 8, 2021 by Chayanika Deka

June has been quite an unsettling month for users. Web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase has taken a massive hit. According to the latest stats by blockchain analysis firm, ICO Analytics, the figures for cumulative web traffic to crypto exchanges in June have decreased by 42%.

This includes some of the most prominent centralized cryptocurrency exchanges [CEX] as well as the decentralized ones [DEX]. Thailand-based platform, Bitkub recorded the most decline of 59%, followed by Seychelles-based, OKEx with 57%, California-based Binance US with 56%, and Kraken at 51%.

Following the development, Binance CZ tweeted,

“June is a down month, nothing new there. What stood out is that PancakeSwap, a DeFi on BSC, is ranked 4th of all exchanges. Bigger than many CEX. Amazing”

DEXs outpace CEXs as DeFi continued to scale

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Cayman Islands-based, Binance’s remained at the top of the game with 150 million visits in June, a decline of 40% since the previous month. Nasdaq-listed Coinbase followed suit with 71 million visits. Binance Smart Chain-based DEX PancakeSwap amassed a weekly monthly visit of 18 million. Uniswap, on the other hand, slipped to the 10th position with 9 million, down by 44% since May.

In addition, popular derivatives exchange FTX fell to 25% this June to 8.4 million.

On the contrary, the web traffic for cryptocurrency exchanges had hit an all-time high in May this year. As the cumulative figures surged to 638.2 million visits owing to the market’s unpreceded rally.

Binance’s Regulatory Snub

Binance, for one, has come under a raft of criticism and clampdowns from regulators across the world. The cryptocurrency exchange ash witnessed not just the wrath of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority [FCA] but also from countries across the world such as Canada, Japan, among others. CZ had recently penned down a letter regarding the same,

“I believe a well-developed legal and regulatory framework in the long term will be a solid foundation that truly makes crypto essential in everyone’s daily life.”

Binance Smart Chain DeFi PancakeBunny Suffers Flash Loan Exploit

May 20, 2021 by Chayanika Deka

Another day, another flash loan attack on a defi protocol.

A Binance Smart Chain [BSC] decentralized finance [defi] yield optimizer project called PancakeBunny, has supposedly suffered an “economic exploit”. According to the PancakeBunny team’s official post on Twitter, the protocol was subjected to a flash loan attack from an external actor.

However, the platform clarified that none of the vaults on the platform were compromised.

“We would like to remind the community that no vaults have been compromised. The exploit was an economic exploit that attacked the price of BUNNY, using flash loans. We repeat, no vaults have been breached.”

The malicious entity reportedly borrowed “a huge amount” of Binance Coin [BNB] on DEX Pancakeswap and went on to manipulate the price of USDT/BNB as well as BUNNY/BNB. Subsequently, the hacker dumped all of the acquired BUNNY in the market which led to the crash in the token’s price.

PancakeBunny rebuffed reports that claimed that the attacker siphoned off with $1 billion worth of tokens but has not revealed the actual figures yet. According to calculations, the exploit drained over $200 million from the yield platform’s smart contracts. However, the blockchain security firm Certik said that the losses were around $40 million. Its tweet regarding the same read,

“An alert was published at Certik over an incident on PancakeBunny, which suffered from a FlashLoan attack and resulted in a loss of ~$40M (114K WBNB & 697K BUNNY). An illustration of exploited asset movements is presented & we are actively monitoring further TXs.”

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Further making the situation worse, the hacker left a rabbit-related pun as a note after the execution of the transaction that read “Aren’t Flashloans Earitating”

Notably, the BSC-based defi project is led by Mound, a startup that secured $1.6 million from the exchange’s venture capital and incubator arm, Binance Labs recently.

DeFi Token, BUNNY Free Falls

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The native token, BUNNY was trading above $230 before the incident. However, it slashed its gains by more than 80% over the past 24-hours and was currently trading at $31.48, according to CoinGecko.

Binance Smart Chain DEX, Pancakeswap Welcomes Injective Protocol Under the Hood

October 21, 2020 by Chayanika Deka

Pancakeswap, the decentralized exchange on Binance Smart Chain welcomed Injective Protocol [INJ] as the fourth Syrup Pool project on its platform. According to a previous announcement, Pancakeswap was planning for INJ farming for SYRUP stakers to start shortly. Following this, INJ Syrup Pool became a part of the DEX.

Additionally, Pancakeswap further revealed that INJ farming went live on the 21st of October.

The @InjectiveLabs $INJ SYRUP Pool is now on PancakeSwap!

Staking rewards open at around 12:30pm SGT.

The INJ-BNB pool will open with 2x $CAKE rewards for the first 24-hrs at around 6:30pm SGT.

🍯 https://t.co/GdRfaFERkt pic.twitter.com/F3dZ1Xg7qv

— PancakeSwap 🥞 #BSC (@PancakeSwap) October 21, 2020

This news comes hours after Binance announced the completion of the Injective Protocol lottery draw. Following this development, the crypto exchange listed INJ token and initiated trading for INJ / BTC, INJ / BNB, INJ / BUSD and INJ / USDT trading pairs.

Injective in Brief:

Injective Chain is basically a decentralized sidechain relay network that functions as a second layer derivatives platform, a trade execution coordinator [TEC], and a decentralized order book. The core consensus is Tendermint-based. Similar to how CAKE fuels PancakeSwap, INJ is the token used by Injective Labs to unlock many functions, including governance, staking rewards, liquidity mining, etc.

Backed by a prominent group of stakeholders including Pantera Capital, Injective Labs was recently selected as the next project to launch on Binance Launchpad, the exchange’s selective public sale platform. With this, Injective became the first Binance Labs incubated project to debut on Binance Launchpad.

Talking about the introduction of INJ on Pancakeswap, Eric Chen, co-founder and CEO of Injective stated,

“My team has been following the rapid growth of PancakeSwap for quite some time. We were thoroughly impressed by what Chef Hops and the team have built here for the DeFi community. We are excited to introduce INJ to this network in order to fuel its next phase of growth”

Pancakeswap’s Growth

The popular food-themed DeFi platform became one of the six blockchain projects, including AnySwap, Arkane Network, BakerySwap, Bitquery, and Proxima, which is set to receive $350,000 in grants through the firm’s $100 million funds. The Malta-based platform had previously noted Pancakeswap was the “number one liquidity provider” on its smart chain with respect to volume, number of active users, and contribution to gas fees.

PancakeSwap Announces Integration With Binance’s Panama Bridge

October 12, 2020 by Chayanika Deka

Popular cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has been enjoying its position as not only a trusted marketplace for CeFi but has also made a name for itself in the decentralized world by unveiling several products to attract the DeFi crowd, a space that has been dominated by Ethereum.

In the latest development, Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized exchange [DEX], PancakeSwap announced its integration with Panama bridge on the 12th of October. With this development, users will be able to swap ERC20 and TRC20 tokens to BEP20 tokens on PancakeSwap.

The official announcement by the food-themed DeFi platform read,

We've integrated @Binance_DEX's "Panama" bridge.

This means you can now swap ERC20 and TRC20 tokens to #BEP20 tokens on #PancakeSwap!

🥞 https://t.co/Uvgtgb8DMl #BSC #BinanceSmartChain pic.twitter.com/i5qstwJYJn

— PancakeSwap 🥞 #BSC (@PancakeSwap) October 12, 2020

Binance had previously rolled out the Panama project on the 30th of September to help Binance Smart Chain and Binance Chain with more efficient, cross-chain bridging services, as it continued to work towards catering diversified audience. The latest news comes a day after the Binance Chain Panama service announced the addition of pegged tokens like Chainlink [LINK], Bitcoin Cash [BCH], Ontology [ONT], Litecoin [LTC], and Cosmos [ATOM].

The Panama project is essentially a small part of the Malta-based exchange’s bigger Token Canal Project. With Panama, Binance aims to utilize the bridging services of Binance Smart Chain [BSC] for cross-chain asset circulation and to “realize a connected blockchain world”.

Decentralized pools such as PancakeSwap on the Binance Smart Chain have continued to see an increase in traffic and volume, which in turn, has propelled intensified activity on BSC. According to a recent update, the total distinct addresses as of the 11th of October on BSC stood at 124,511, more than 6,200 increase since the previous day. One of the crucial catalyzing agents for this was the facilitation of cross-chain circulation of different network assets by the Panama project.