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One of the best advancing projects of the year is assuredly inching afterpiece to reality. After months of delays, the Digitex Futures Exchange has assuredly appear the date of its testnet launch, which is currently appointed for November 30.
According to Digitex development accomplice SmartDec, the testnet will be the aboriginal footfall to creating “the world’s aboriginal zero-commission cryptocurrency futures trading platform.”
Instead of clearing in banknote or bitcoins, the Digitex belvedere takes the different access of clearing in tokens. The DGTX token will be acclimated to barter BTCUSD futures contracts, removing the charge for any maker or bacteria fees. No percentage-based fee is taken on transactions, with operating costs instead actuality covered by the amount of DGTX. The badge will act as “the authorization to application the exchange,” with all trades and annual balances on the Digitex belvedere denominated in DGTX.
Theoretically, this adjustment should drive up the amount of the token, due to appeal from users who adopt to barter for chargeless and adore the faster clip of commission-free concise trading.
The Digitex website explains the audible advantages of the new platform. “For the aboriginal time ever, traders get the absolute time trading allowances of a centralized barter with the aegis allowances of a decentralized exchange.”
Using Plasma side-chains, traders will accelerate DGTX to an absolute acute contract, attention users from analytical and ensuring arguable transactions. Using a sidechain, the belvedere offers abundant college trading speeds, processing affairs “1500 times faster than the capital Ethereum blockchain.”
The new belvedere additionally comes with abundant beyond assets — or losses — with 100x leveraging.
The beta is slated to barrage by November 30, 2024. Digitex will begin as a centralized platform, but will after action non-custodial leveraged Bitcoin futures trading, application on-chain settlements to ensure acceleration and security.
Following a aeon of bankrupt testing with a bound cardinal of participants, the testnet will after accessible to the public, eventually acknowledging “at atomic 10,000 circumstantial users, who will appoint in basic trades of BTCUSD futures affairs with speeds of up to 50,000 affairs per second” already the Plasma side-chain is up and running.
The testnet will abide at atomic two-months of testing and auditing afore a full barrage to alive trading. If all goes according to plan, the barter could accessible trading by February of abutting year.
The advertisement follows months of affliction amid the DGTX community, afterwards a last-minute cessation on April 30th. Token prices accept additionally suffered, with DGTX falling from $0.13 in April to beneath than $0.039 at the time of writing.
To get things on track, Digitex apprenticed SmartDec, a Moscow-based Ethereum development and acute arrangement auditing firm. With the advice of SmartDec, the Digitex aggregation has appear approved updates on its launch.
“Zero-fee futures trading has been a dream of abundance for years,” said Founder and CEO Adam Todd, “and it’s assuredly acceptable a reality.” Seeking to accomplish commission-free futures trading accessible to the masses, Todd explained the greatest claiming has been “finding aptitude able of absolutely developing that idea.”
Adam Todd will be hosting an AMA about the accessible testnet barrage date on the Digitex YouTube Channel. The AMA will booty abode on Tuesday, August 27th at 9:00 EST (1300 UTC).