BitShares added as DeFi on CMC
The leading cryptocurrency price indexing service CMC (CoinMarketCap) have formally added BitShares core token BTS, as well as smartcoins bitUSD and bitCNY to the important DeFi category. BTS is currently ranked #18. “DeFi stands for “decentralized finance” and refers to the ecosystem comprised of financial applications that are being developed…
BitShares Mainnet 4.0 is released.
Previously the testnet release test-4.0.6 hard fork time was Friday 5th June 13:00 UTC which went through without a glitch. As the result today mainnet 4.0 was released. As many of you know, BitShares mainnet release 4.0 was overdue since November 2019. With huge turbulence among the BitShares Consensus (Holders…
$BTS (BitShares Core Token) Trading Stats for 23.06.2020
Lets have a look at BitShares trading stats on the markets for the day. Total volume in 24h and supply details: The numbers appear high, but let’s check how this looks between exchanges: Top 10 exchanges by volume with the most liquidity, show ZB and Binance pretty much run the…
Notice: Maintenance of BitShares.org website
BitShares home website will be switched offline on 30th April 2020 (08:00 UTC) for system and website maintenance. This is due to the website requiring a makeover including updated content that will align to current consensus, and also vast improvements to the underlying infrastructure with main focus on security. *.bitshares.org…
Announcement: New BitSharesTalk Forums Look’n’Feel
We’re pleased to report that soon the old BitSharesTalk Forums will be switching over to a brand new, from-scratch version at the same web address. Feedback and testing has been taking place on the demo until now. The work is aligned with overall branding and marketing efforts taking place around…
Part 1/3: Order Matching Engine Requirements
Dev’s corner is a new section of BitShares News where developers involved with the BitShares project post technical related briefs and observations. As an academic exercise, I wanted to take on building a order matching engine in C++. The purpose here is to iterate through the process of measuring and…
[Trademark Initiative] Streamlining social media
BitShares needs to streamline its branding and social media appearance across the globe to strengthen its reputation and create a unified and seamless branding experience and outreach for on-boarding businesses. Abuse, non-consensus use, or unauthorized use of the BitShares name and logo in general has done more harm than good…
MXC Exchange Lists BTS Core Token
MXC Exchange, headquartered in Singapore, have now commenced listing of BitShares core token, BTS. As initially MXC reached out to Chinese representatives of BitShares, worker was set with agreement to do listing for free and fund the actual promotion campaign for trading activity. Quote from GBAC’s listing announcement within BitShares…
BINANCE adds BTS/Stablecoin pairs
Binance have expanded their stablecoin trade offerings by adding BTS/USDT and BTS/BUSD pairs. 3 other coins joined BTS Core token in the listing which you can view in the original Binance annoucement. Although BTS is not new on Binance, previously the only pairs available were BTC or ETH. So the…
BitShares Improvement Proposals
Introduction BitShares Improvement Proposals and Polls (or BSIPs) are a sub-category of workers. They mostly put forward new design ideas, features, or logic enhancements for the BitShares blockchain. Beside regular ‘Workers’, core token holders are required to explore and vote on them, or in some cases, even write BSIPs personally….