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, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is launching its new custom , Chain. In a recent , the company revealed dates for executing Mainnet Swap. On April 23, its (BNB) that now runs on will be activated on the new network.
On April 18, at the launch of its native network Chain. A couple of hours later, the exchange announced the launch of its Decentralized Exchange (DEX).
Today marks the birth of a new genesis block.
Who’s ready?
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At that day, all pre-selected validators were online to produce blocks with consensus from the genesis block. According to the announcement, Coin would be created in the genesis block.
On April 23, Coin is set to be activated on Chain. After that, users are encouraged to migrate their balances to the new network. Old -based will be destroyed, while new BNB are created on Chain, which will help to maintain a constant supply across both networks.
Further, the exchange provided information on how BNB will be managed. The initial total supply for the will make up 200 million, 48 million of which will be frozen and 11,654,398 will be burned on Chain.
stated:
“The first batch of 5,000,000 BNB will be allocated and deposited into an address belonging to .com 148 in order to convert the ERC20 BNB for existing owners. will burn 5,000,000 ERC20 BNB as well, to keep the total supply of BNB constant.
As more users convert to BEP2 BNB (native), more BEP2 coins will be released and proportional amounts of ERC20 BNB will be burned while keeping the total supply across both networks constant.”
Moreover, on April 23, Chain Explorer and Web Wallet will be available, and Binance.com will be able to help users with the mainnet swap. Users will be able to provide a Chain address for BNB withdrawal requests, with the withdrawal serving as a mechanism to convert ERC20 BNB into BEP2 BNB native to Chain.
Another option for users is to keep the ERC20 based BNB by withdrawing their BNB from .com 148 accounts into an Wallet before 2 a.m. on April 23. After that, .com will not support ERC20 BNB .
It is notable that ERC20 BNB will only have temporary usage. The company has also pointed out that the timeline of the events may change.
More About Binance Chain
The Chain aims at facilitating faster issuance and simple asset transfer. It is custom-built for DEXs with one-second block times coupled with a large transactional capacity. It is mainly focused on the transfer and of assets, as well as providing new possibilities for the future flow of assets. Chain also concentrates on performance, ease-of-use, and liquidity.
CEO Changpeng Zhao explained:
“With the core Chain technology, DEX can handle the same volume as .com is handling today. This solves the issues many other decentralized exchanges face with speed and power.”
As for DEX, it is based on the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocol and allows users to exchange crypto assets directly between each other. The main advantage of DEX is the matching system. DEX is created on a high powerful engine ‘Tendermint Core’ with one-second block times, that provides the speed, which is also the same to centralized exchanges.
Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:07:34 +0000
