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Binance announced Wednesday that users are now able to set up accounts and activate trading cryptocurrencies on its new Binance DEX testnet, which went alive beforehand this morning.
Built on the exchange’s new blockchain, Binance Chain, the DEX is advised to be a decentralized and defended marketplace. Network nodes bout up orders and all affairs are recorded on-chain.
CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao said in December that the Binance DEX testnet would go online in the advancing months. In an ask-me-anything affair aftermost week, he set a conditional barrage date for February 21st – this Thursday.
Similar to the accepted platform, they are traded adjoin a small number of quoted agenda assets. This includes Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and the USD-pegged stablecoins Tether (USDT) and PAX, as able-bodied as the exchange’s own crypto, Binance Coin (BNB). This has now been confused off Ethereum and will become the blockchain’s built-in asset.
The aboriginal fifteen cryptocurrencies featured on the DEX are abounding of the larger, added acclaimed ones. Currently, alone BNB can be traded with all of them, but this will acceptable change over time as traders adduce new pairs.
“Binance DEX is a decentralized barter with a decentralized arrangement of nodes, area you authority your own clandestine keys and administer your own wallet,” the CEO of Binance said in a columnist release. “We accommodate a altered antithesis of security, abandon and ease-of-use, area you booty added albatross and are in added ascendancy of claimed assets.”
Although added defended than centralized platforms – users accept aegis of their own assets – decentralized exchanges ache from the aforementioned scalability issues as the blockchains they’re congenital on. For example, IDEX, which with a $1.1M circadian aggregate at columnist time is one of the best accepted DEXs, is bound by the analogously low throughput of Ethereum, which has an boilerplate block time of about 20 seconds.
But Binance DEX can handle the aforementioned aggregate of affairs as the centralized counterpart, acceptation that the basal blockchain is abundant faster. “Binance Chain has near-instant transaction finality, with one-second block times,” CZ said. “This solves the issues abounding added decentralized exchanges face with acceleration and power.”
Binance is beneath than two years old, but it has already become one of the better exchanges and broadcast with a new badge auction belvedere as able-bodied as a accommodating venture. Binance DEX will be scalable, acceptance added affairs with the aforementioned aerial levels of security.
Besides accepting what is currently the better centralized barter by trading activity, Binance may anon accept the better DEX.
The columnist is invested in agenda assets, including BTC, BNB and ETH which are mentioned in this article.
