Below is a table from The One Oracle’s Report of a few Cardano projects that offer a stake pool, and it shows you the different rewards scheme of either variable or fixed rewards. I will be summarising both approaches and expressing my opinion of preference for either fixed rewards or variable rewards in a Cardano staking pool.

Variable or Fixed rewards?

Choosing the right Staking Pool for your Cardano (ADA) delegation can help you to reach your financial goals sooner, and understanding the difference between fixed rewards and variable rewards can help you on your way. Here’s a quick summary:

Variable rewards show that the rate of rewards can go up or down as seen in Figure 2, meaning that you have an opportunity to earn more rewards if the rate increases, but at the same time, you hold a risk of earning fewer rewards over time if the pool starts to fill up its saturation. Variable rewards can be a good idea for some in the short term as they feel like they can earn high rewards and then leave the pool, but after Cardano network fees, this may not be worth it, and leaving the pool could result in a loss.

As seen in figure 3, we can draw a clear picture of the chart, which expresses consistency in the number of rewards distributed by projects with Fixed Rates. Fixed rates are always a safer option as projects like Flickto do not decrease the number of rewards given to their delegators. Flickto also rewards their delegators with a higher distribution for being long-term delegators whereby Flickto refers to this as a ‘bonus’. A fixed reward approach also means that as a delegator you can calculate your rewards from the first day of staking until the end of the final EPOCH before the ISPO (Initial Stake Pool Offering) ends. As long-term delegators are rewarded with either a 10%,15%, or 20% bonus depending on how many EPOCHs you have delegated, you will be able to understand the value of your earnings from the moment you delegate your Cardano (ADA).

If you would like to read further on how Flickto utilises an Initial Stake offering, click on the link below:

https://medium.com/@Berkay-Flickto/3308c30c9c40

All data was obtained from THE.ONE.OR₳CLE’s medium. If you would like to access their full report, I will provide the reference below.

THE.ONE.OR₳CLE (2022). INITIAL POOL STAKE OFFERINGS IN CARDANO: a critical overview. [online] Medium. Available at: https://the-one-oracle.medium.com/initial-pool-stake-offerings-in-cardano-a-critical-overview-acf85fac5eca

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With its batch of new technologies, the NFT (non-fungible tokens) has particularly marked the cryptographic community to the point of touching a public not concerned by the blockchain. And this is only the beginning, since an exponential rise with 10.7 billion dollars of sales in the third quarter and 11.6 billion dollars in the fourth is to be highlighted.

The arrival of play-to-earn (P2E), decentralized games where players go from the classic status of user to actor, with the possibility of earning project tokens and NFTs, will reinforce this conquest of today’s world for tomorrow’s…It is clear that the year 2022, already well underway by the previous one, will mark a turning point in the video game industry, which has massively imposed itself with E-Sports in recent years as well as in the cryptocurrency industry, up to Metaverses.

“P2E will be tomorrow what the internet was in the 2000s, a logical evolution for all traditional gamers.”Dragon | Founder of Line Of Light & Member Team of Kardomance.

Metaverses, virtual universes in which you will live with the possibility to interact with the environment, the objects, the inhabitants…If we have the impression to have made a big step, within Line Of Light we are convinced that it is only the beginning, that a new world is taking shape and with it new opportunities to seize.Joining Line Of Light is to seize these opportunities, to prepare ourselves to enter together in the Metaverses, to ensure us a better future in an evolving and French-speaking structure.

Line Of Light is the opportunity to reverse the social Darwinism of today, to allow the smallest to build something bigger, for all, in equity and benevolence.Having made play-to-earn a priority, it is also an E-Sport ambition and a real will to gather the French-speaking community around the values of the social and solidarity economy!Advocating the enrichment of collective knowledge, members wishing to get involved in our many poles and projects by participating in this enrichment will be rewarded with access to all our resources as well as various benefits (financial insofar as their involvement allows it, gifts from our various partners and more to come …).

Founded by Dragon and NowFrage on 06/10/2021, Line Of Light was born at the request of the French-speaking community from Illuvium, with the will to meet, exchange and share their experiences and common information.

Information :Being until 14/11/2021 only a Discord server. Force was to note the growing needs of the members of this last one, Line Of Light thus begins its professionalization and widens its field of competences in the optics to answer the needs of its community.February 2022 will mark a great turning point, decreed association of fact law 1901, pledge of quality marking our will to follow values close to the Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS). Line Of Light makes its entry into the vast market that is the cryptocurrency. With partnership negotiations, an active presence on many play-to-earn, three large projects, a Venture Capital (VC) supporting the structure, the construction of communication elements and showcases (Logo, website, video, RS, LP etc..).This collective project reflects our values of sharing, as well as our ambitions of personal and financial enrichment.

It is important to present this project as being initiated by the community, and it is the community that makes it and will make it live. Structured in different poles, it is composed of :

The projects : Composed of a project leader, managers and members, the projects meet the needs of the community.The E-Sport scene : Composed of coaches and a team on each P2E, the objective here is competitive advocating the overcoming of oneself.The Guilds : Open to all without pre-requisites, they allow the sharing of information, to play in pack on the P2Es of the structure (proposed by the community) and to advance towards common goals more quickly.The Line Of Light team : Gathers the administrators, the deputies and the staff divided in different poles, they are the ones who animate, manage, promote, make partnerships and accompany the projects. They are at the service of the community and the structure.The influencers : They represent the structure through their videos and are in contact with our partners (AMA), for some they ensure transverse missions as is the case with the Stream project. They respond to the needs of the community.

Line Of Light being an evolving structure, the objectives and goals can be brought to evolve with it.

• Allow those who wish to learn about crypto-currencies via Play-to-Earn games.- Accompany beginner investors to enrich their experience in cryptos (Glossary, archives, individualized advice).- Promote the exchange of skills between beginners and experienced investors in order to enrich each other (Financially & Culturally).- Allow everyone to invest in the Line Of Light Community according to their motivation, their skills and their time.- Create Teams and Guilds in the games allowing it.- Make contests, giveaway in partnership with our YouTubers.- Identify high-potential players, ensure personal follow-up and E-Sport coaching.- Participate in E-Sport meetings.- Create E-Sport events.- Promote Scholarship by linking investors, managers, and players.- Perpetuate participatory democracy in order to create a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)- Create a legal structure from the SSE (Social and Solidarity Economy) which will allow to organize a better sharing of decisions and future revenues.- To open up to international partnerships !

• If you want to know more about Line Of Light, useful links :

• — Twitter : https://twitter.com/LineOfLightFR

• — Discord : https://discord.gg/ws6fURkK34

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We launched not one, but two successful IDOs (Initial Data Offerings) this week. $BDP stakers earned upside on each datatoken on top of transaction fees on each trade. And if you traded the datatoken, you got to see it shoot up 20x in price!

Our users proved the #datamarket’s top use case, driving price discovery of $LINK and ThorChain’s $RUNE sentiment analysis datasets by adding and removing liquidity.

But it was not all rosy. The team grappled with technical bumps and a glitchy liquidity chart, fixing each one. Every step, we keep iterating, we keep building and delivering a better product.

Metamask is a browser plugin that primarily interacts with Ethereum’s main net, but in Metamask BEP20 could be used to interact with the Binance network that is known as the Binance Smart Chain network.

So users can take the advantages of Metamask wallet in using BEP20 tokens and various decentralized applications or dApps running on the Binance blockchain.

Read a complete guide at https://nominex.io/blog/education/metamask-bep20/

While it first seems using this wallet is somehow complicated, it offers many functions to users that make it a great browser-based wallet for Ethereum and Binance tokens.

As you might know, decentralized applications running on these blockchains should be paid tokens to deliver their services.

These tokens are in most cases ERC-20 tokens (on Ethereum Blockchain) or BEP20 tokens (on Binance Blockchain), and by using these wallets users of these apps can easily connect their wallets to the browser by which they use decentralized apps.

In the following article, we will introduce this wallet, how to send tokens from Metamask, and how Metamask connecting to the main Ethereum network.

Metamask is a plugin wallet that is pretty popular among crypto and dApps users, which means it could be used to access a wide range of decentralized apps.

It provides a high degree of security by using seed phrase generating instead of using private keys. Unlike many other wallets that are used to interact with a blockchain, Metamask could be used without downloading the full blockchain on the local storage.

However, the main advantage of using Metamask is easy to access several decentralized apps that are using the Ethereum or Binance blockchains.

Since Metamask is an easy-to-use browser plugin, it could be used directly in these dApps and users can easily spend their tokens on them.

However, using Metamask BEP20 requires adding tokens to this wallet, which is shown in the following.

Metamask is developed primarily as a usable browser-based wallet to interact with various dApps and programs made on top of Ethereum blockchain and Mainnet.

However, as you might know, Ethereum tokens work as smart contacts that use its blockchain as their storage place.

Using this capability, several developers tried to deploy ERC-20 contracts containing specifications of other blockchain networks such as Binance Chain, and Binance Smart Chain, which could be used to interact with dApps accepting BEP2 tokens and BEP20 tokens respectively.

For example, in this guide, we are using an ERC-20 contract known as Remix to use Metamask BEP20 in a very easy way.

To use Metamask as a functional wallet users have to install its plugin on their browser first. Its plugin currently is available in Chrome, Brave, Safari, and Firefox.

After installing, users should create an account for themselves by creating a wallet. After that, Metamask connecting to the main Ethereum network or other networks will be easy.

By creating a wallet on Metamask users automatically connect to the main Ethereum network, but to connect to another network like BEP20, they should first go into Metamask Settings in their wallet. This feature is placed in the My Accounts tab on the Metamask main page:

Then users can add a new network by entering the network’s specifications in the following window:

The numbers that should be used in this window differ in Testnet and the Mainnet of Binance. For the Testnet, users have to enter the following parameters:

– RPC URLs

– ChainID: Ox61, 97 in decimal (if it won’t work, use 0x61)

– Symbol: BNB

– Block Explorer: https://testnet.bscscan.com

These values for connecting to Binance Mainnet include:

– RPC URLs

– ChainID: 0x38, 56 in decimal (if it won’t work, use 0x38)

– Symbol: BNB

– Block Explorer: https://bscscan.com

Using Metamask to add BEP20 tokens requires deploying an ERC20 contract from a third-party service provider called Remix. To import a sample contract or create a new file, users should visit: https://gist.github.com/HaoyangLiu/3c4dc081b7b5250877e40b82667c8508

In the next step, users should simply connect their Binance Smart Account to Remix:

In the next step, they should select the “ABCToken” contract and compile it:

After this, they should deploy their contract:

In this step, users should adjust the Gas Fee for their contract, and then confirm their deploy contract:

In this step, users can check their block explorer to see a new create contract transaction:

The next step in adding Metamask BEP20 is adding a token to the wallet. For this, users should simply click on “Add Token” in Metamask:

Then they simply should choose “Custom Token” and copy the contract address in the box:

After that they only have to click on “Add Tokens”:

Now they can see a change in their wallet’s balance:

As you can see, these steps are not difficult, but rather it could be said that a relatively long process is required to use Metamask for BEP20 tokens.

Tokens are cryptocurrencies that are placed on major blockchain networks such as Ethereum Chain, Binance Chain, and Binance Smart Chain. Technically, BEP2 and BEP20 are just like ERC-20 some kinds of token standards offered by various chains.

While ERC-20 is a well-known token standard offered by Ethereum, BEP2 is its counterpart in the Binance ecosystem and BEP20 is the same standard as Binance Smart Chain.

When users try to use various tokens on their Metamask wallet, they should exactly choose the proper settings to prevent various types of problems. While BEP2 tokens are used to interact with Binance Chain, BEP20 tokens belong to the Binance Smart Chain, which is another network of decentralized apps.

Metamask is a great browser-based wallet that is primarily designed to be used to interact with Ethereum Mainnet. Because it could be used directly in decentralized apps provided by Ethereum developers, it is a popular solution among dApp users.

However, in recent years, several new blockchain service providers are introduced new networks that could be used to develop decentralized apps such as Binance Chain and Binance Smart Chain.

In this article, we showed how users can easily use their Metamask wallet to add BEP20 tokens to their wallets.

For this, they only need to deploy a smart contract on their Metamask wallet that accepts other tokens such as BEP2 and BEP20. This process is relatively easy, and by doing it users can easily interact with these blockchain networks.

Typically, a treasury is a store of valuable goods, assets, or currencies. Every country, organisation, or business has a treasury ready to deploy. It’s used for any transactions from salaries to business costs, and has one or many treasurers responsible for when and how it can be used.

Snapshot and the decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) movement have taken community involvement to the next level. Every token holder has the potential to make their voice heard and impact the decisions of a project, which includes treasury allocation. Although we have allocated it to begin with, once the voting system is in place, we can assess the community’s choices and make changes where necessary. It was vital to get the treasury up and running as soon as possible, and we felt that the initial voting would take too long, so it has become a secondary task.

Votes proportional to token amount mean that larger holders and whales, who will be more affected by the proposed changes, benefit from more voting power. This might sound deviant and unbalanced but alienating large investors is just not a successful way of running a project. Of course, we will be diligent and avoid offering options that put smaller users at a disadvantage. Having more skin in the game, or money invested, might suggest that whales have a better understanding of the protocol, are more interested in the specific functions, and as a side effect, are more likely to vote or know the most beneficial outcome of the vote. Don’t believe all the moon boys that get dumped on every weekend — whales are our friends.

The Cubo treasury grows every time a node is minted, and decreases when it is allocated to an investment. Specifically, 90% of DAI from node revenue currently goes to the treasury, and this will continue until the treasury hits between $1m-$2m, after which we’re going to reduce it to 50% for treasury accumulation. We know that many projects acquire extra funds through buy and sell taxes, but we don’t plan to implement this. To begin with, we will only hold DAI, because it’s one-half of the CUBO/DAI liquidity pair, and saves some extra transactions happening on both ends. It’s also available to buy on Coinbase, making onramping to Cubo much easier for DeFi newbies. DAI is a cryptocurrency collateralised stablecoin, generated when Ether or other accepted cryptocurrencies are locked in the vaults on Maker protocol. It’s proven it’s worth as a means of exchange for years and means we can rely less on the legacy finance system, and more on crypto. And we have $400k DAI. Nice.

Eventually, we might hold other crypto assets or NFTs in the treasury if they can be farmed for yield. We would also love to get one or many Polygon validator nodes running but this would be handled in the coming months, via a vote. I’m sure some of our community wants to see this solid gold Castello cube in the treasury — maybe we can work something out.

Our priority is to utilise the treasury as efficiently and safely as possible. We’re mainly looking at QuickSwap pools and stablecoin yield farming. They work well in both bull and bear markets plus they’re relatively low risk as far as DeFi is concerned. The APR is stable and there is always a requirement for liquidity pools to be filled. QuickSwap, an automated market maker, can only function with the liquidity provided by LP depositors.

We don’t want to limit ourselves to Polygon’s ecosystem when there are so many opportunities ripe for the picking on other chains. Avalanche and Fantom are showing strengths in recent months, with massive total value locked and users flocking to check out what’s available on those chains. TraderJoe and SpookySwap LPs look interesting, but we’re also on the look out for other NaaS (nodes as a service) protocols that exhibit the right characteristics of success, like StrongBlock. These investments won’t make up the bulk of the treasuries deployment for fear of building a house of cards upon the node ecosystem, but some limited exposure can be beneficial for both enterprises, especially if we catch them early enough. Splitting up our treasury allocation between multiple chains is a great way to diversify and limit downside risk in case of exploits or hacks. If blue-chip cryptos rebound, we might think about stacking some for a rainy day. It wouldn’t hurt to hold BTC when the ETF approval goes through.

On CryptoFrog’s podcast, Bruno mentioned the buyback bot and what benefit it will bring to Cubo. In our last Medium post, we talked about selling pressure having a soft cap as a result of liquidity nodes being minted. The steepest sell off in Cubo was a direct result of private sale and day 1 buyers pulling profit at $5, and since then it’s been a steady grind upwards to $30. What if we could compound that movement?

We want to boost the price action even more by using some revenue to buy back Cubo. As a clarification, this is the second buyback bot that is being considered — the first one, that’s mentioned in the GitBook, will deploy a maximum of 10% of the treasury, if the market price of CUBO has been down significantly for multiple hours, or dumps over 20%. Bot #2 will create a cyclical momentum using treasury yield from node revenue to buy back CUBO and send it to the rewards pool. It’s another notch in our belt to allow investors the freedom to sell as many tokens as they want, every day, without destroying the price. This is all thanks to a deep treasury and owning our own liquidity.

Every day, we’re meeting and teaching new people that want to see what all the fuss is about. Our dedicated community, both on Twitter and Discord, have really shown up for Cubo and we’re glad to have you around. Thanks to you all, the CUBO/DAI chart is, undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful charts we’ve seen in a long time. Probably a biased opinion but at least it’s an honest one. We think it’s common knowledge that charts can’t go up forever, but with a market cap of around $5 million, Cubo isn’t even considered a micro-cap yet — we still fall into the nano-cap category. This is what we’ve achieved in under 7 weeks and we’re not stopping now.

The discord is a great place to keep up to date with all announcements and information from the team.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cubo_moneyDiscord: discord.gg/cuboGitBook: https://cubo.gitbook.io/cubo-protocol-v0.1/

Check out the roadmap here.

We give away one Nano Cubo (rewards 1 $CUBO per day!) every week to one lucky winner that tweets with the hashtag #cuboDraw. Only one entry per person per week is counted, and the account must be more than one month old. Entrants must own any size Cubo node. Good luck!

Disclaimer: None of the information included in this Medium article should be considered or acted upon as financial advice. Do your own research before investing in any project. Cubo Money and the team will not accept responsibility for the outcomes of your investment decisions.

2021 was another bullish year for the digital assets industry. Many coins and tokens reached their all-time highs on the back of sophisticated Layer 1 protocols supporting an explosion of innovative DeFi applications attracting sizable investments from financial institutions, VC funds, corporations, HNWIs, and the broader digital assets ecosystem. It was also the year of the NFT revolution with markets generating over $23 billion in trading volume, fuelled by high-profile releases such as BAYC and its mutant offspring, Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days, NBA Top Shots, the revival of the OG CryptoPunks on the secondary market, and mainstream brands and celebrities like Sotheby’s, Nike, Adidas, Atari, Shaquille O’Neal and Snoop Dogg stepping into the metaverse.

At Hex Trust, the past 12 months have been an exciting and wild ride. We closed two fundraising rounds, welcoming a broad range of top-notch global investors as some of our closest partners. Our client base now totals more than 170 customers who all count on Hex Trust to safekeep over $5 billion in assets under custody. And the team that made it all happen increased with 70 new staff across our Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam offices.

As large traditional VCs get more comfortable with investing in digital assets, 2022 could be the year that more investors with even deeper-pockets fill up their bags. Regulations will come into effect that limit the industry, while other jurisdictions will provide increased clarity and support in a bid to attract digital asset companies and emerge as the next global financial centre. Any moves by additional countries to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender will only gain the momentum of traditional finance integrating with the digital assets ecosystem. Lastly, the utility for NFTs will extend further across GameFi projects launched in the metaverse and DeFi applications as, for example, representations of financial positions in smart contracts which then become transferable and available for trading on NFT marketplaces.

All in all, 2021 was a pivotal year made possible by our friends, partners, and clients, and I look forward to making 2022 even bigger, together. Not just for Hex Trust, but the entire digital assets ecosystem as a whole. It truly is a collective effort and it’s a privilege to be part of this revolution.

Alessio Quaglini, CEO & Co-founder

Full 2021 in Review Report

The price of gold again fell slightly to the resistance level of $1,770 per troy ounce. The quotes rose after the Fed’s interest rate decision as the yield on 10-year US Treasuries climbed to a new weekly high of 1.68%. At the same time, rising inflation puts the precious metals market under pressure.

By the end of the week, WTI crude oil rose in price to the level of $63.3 per barrel. Last Thursday, e quotes climbed to their highest levels in the last month and a half on signals of increased demand in key markets. The US oil product demand indicator rose to a high in more than two months.

Key indices are moving up to new heights despite the pullback in recent days. The S&P 500 is at the $4,180 mark. The Dow Jones is trading at around $34,100.

The crypto market capitalization has risen by 14.2% over the last 7 days. MATIC grew the most: +65% in one week. BTC grew less than the others — +7%. The QDAO price dropped by 13.7%, BNX grew by +1.8%, NOAHP by +14.9%.

The past 2 weeks were full of important events. Bitcoin’s price experienced a correction. At first, BTC fell below $50,000. At the lowest point, the price dropped to $47,000. This was followed by the same sharp rise in quotations. Today, Bitcoin is trading at around $56,500. It seems quite logical that it will grow beyond $60,000. At the same time, the dominance of Bitcoin continues to decline and has already dipped to 46%. This is eagerly welcomed by traders of altcoins, whose quotes have climbed up.

The BTCNEXT team continues its hard work. We had a lot of exciting updates in the past two weeks. We have:

Daily volumes and statistics on BTCNEXT Exchange:

To learn more about BTCNEXT, visit our official website.

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