Binance Chief Speaks On DEX — BNB Like Ethereum (ETH)
As reported by Ethereum World News last week, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world-renowned crypto startup that is Binance, recently sneak peaked its most promising venture yet, the so-called “Binance Chain” and the decentralized exchange (DEX) that will be based upon it.
Through the medium of a short video, an unnamed member of the project’s vast team outlined the latest edition of the DEX demo, which sports a graphical user interface (GUI) that is reminiscent of the startup’s world-renowned centralized exchange. The seven-minute video outlined a number of the venture’s pertinent features, including the issuance of trade orders, which were surprisingly quick, account and wallet creation for the newfangled blockchain, and the in-house block explorer.
While the ambitious project was well-received by the community at large, with Binance Coin (BNB), the startup’s in-house crypto asset, posting a hefty single-digit gain following the DEX sneak peek on Tuesday/Wednesday, little is still known about the venture’s exact intricacies and caveats. Former Bloomberg employee Zhao, who also goes by “CZ,” recently took to CoinTelegraph to lend his insight on the matter.
The long-time crypto advocate, who made an entree into this innovative ecosystem years ago, told the media outlet:
The Binance DEX is a decentralized exchange that allows you to trade you to another token on our chain… The chain also allows you to send and recieve BNB, which is the native coin, plus other tokens. So the blockchain can allow you to send and recieve [tokens/coins] directly, only if I want to send them to you.
CZ, doing his best to explain Binance’s latest initiative in-depth, added that the blockchain his upstart developed is very similar to how Ethereum, ETH, and ERC-20 tokens operate and are transacted/traded.
Touching on what sets Binance’s DEX and blockchain apart from competing networks, namely Ethereum, Stellar, EOS, or Tron, the industry savant first noted that ideally, cryptocurrency transactions would be “instantaneous.” Yet, as seen by the block times posted by the Bitcoin network, for example, transactions almost always take upwards of 10 minutes to settle.
While Zhao acknowledged this, stating that “initially [blockchains] did that,” the CEO noted that as Bitcoin and Ethereum have drastically grown in popularity, not only can transaction fees spike, but so can the speed of transfers. CZ noted that with Binance Chain, faster and cheap transactions should be possible yet again, which he sees as the “original inspiration for crypto” and related technologies.
Further touching on this point, the former OkCoin (OkEX) executive, explained that current DEXs, while much more distributed than centralized exchanges, are “either slow or have relatively difficult UIs,” with there being close-to-zero platforms to provide a happy medium for consumers. As such, Zhao is seemingly stating that the creation of the Binance DEX was predicated on the need for a “high capacity chain” and an easy-to-use decentralized platform. CZ explained:
So, we believe that as we improve the latency and the user experience on the DEX, we’re hoping to see liquidity increase on the DEX, hopefully making a [good] contribution to the market.
Putting a spotlight on BNB, which has followed the performance of Bitcoin (BTC) in recent weeks, Zhao noted that his firm is currently “working with many partners on the business side” to implement BNB into their services. One of Binance’s recent notable partnership is with TravelByBit, which allows cryptocurrency users to travel the world through the use of cryptocurrencies. In the end, as alluded to by the member of Binance’s top brass, these partnerships come down to Binance’s goal to create a cryptocurrency ecosystem that is cost- and time-efficient and widely used.
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Binance Chain and its decentralized platform aren’t the only ventures that the preeminent crypto startup is embarking on.
Binance Labs, the venture and incubator arm of its namesake, recently made a $3 million investment into Koi Trading. San Francisco-based Koi Trading, for those who aren’t aware, is an emerging platform that acts as an OTC desk, specializing in the facilitation of non-retail investor-issued crypto exchange orders.
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