Daily View | Thursday September 08

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【LAT】

Total issuance	Circulation	Pledge rate	Total pledge	Number of addresses
10,506,250,000	2,887,890,000	30.15%	1,474,782,170.09	205,425

Data source: https://scan.platon.network/

【Quotes】

Trading pair	24 hours high	24 hours low	24-hour trading volume
LAT/USDT	0.009156	0.007668	24,249,870
BTC/USDT	19459.65	18610.03	5,757
ETH/USDT	1657.68	1496.09	79,918

Data source: Huobi Exchange

【10 days node data】

2022	Active	Candidate	Exiting	Exited
Sep 8	201	14	3	166
Sep 7	201	14	3	166
Sep 6	201	14	3	166
Sep 05	201	14	3	166
Sep 04	201	14	3	166
Sep 03	201	14	3	166
Sep 02	201	14	3	166
Sep 01	201	14	3	166
Aug 31	201	14	3	166
Aug 30	201	14	3	166

Data source: https://scan.platon.network/

【Industry News】

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes: Ether doesn’t qualify as a cryptocurrency, but Bitcoin does

On September 8, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said in a recent interview on the Unchained podcast that Ether does not qualify as a currency, but Bitcoin does. In addition to being a cryptocurrency in its own right, Ether can also be used as a Gas fee to back smart contracts on Ether, as well as being used to pay network fees for transactions with other Tokens. Bitcoin, by contrast, is backed by a network that is not tokenized and has very few smart contract features. Because the value of Bitcoin is not confused with the actual utility of something else, it is a good form of currency.

BNB Chain to go live at the end of the year with zero-knowledge proof scaling solution zkBNB main network

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — BNB Chain announced it has gone live on Sept. 2 with a test network of its zero-knowledge proof-based scaling solution, zkBNB, allowing developers to start building applications with plans to go live on the main network by the end of the year. zkBNB is designed to provide faster transactions, faster ultimate certainty, lower gas fees and is a major breakthrough for BNB Chain to achieve scale, according to BNBChain. A major breakthrough for BNBChain to achieve scale. According to the introduction, zkBNB features include: support for fast integrated payments and atomic swaps, liquidity pools using innovative built-in AMM swaps and DeFi use cases where digital assets will be traded automatically without permission; TPS of 5,000-10,000; built-in NFT marketplace and API services; built-in domain name services, etc.