Orbs Update April 2021

Eran Peled
Eran Peled

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In this update: Exchange Listings: FTX, KuCoin, and more  ⁂ Liquidity Nexus! ⁂ Orbs Live on AWS and MS Azure ⁂ ORBS Staking on Bithumb ⁂ Moonstake Partnership ⁂ Tetra on Mobile! ⁂ New Merchandise Shop ⁂ Weekly Updates with Tal Kol ⁂ And much much more...

Hello Orbs community!

Wow wow wow! What a crazy month this has been!

This might be the busiest month ever for the Orbs project. So much has happened, it's hard to keep track of. For example, during this month, there were no less than 8 exchange listings (!!), including tier-1 exchanges such as FTX and KuCoin.

Due to the sheer amount of content and announcements this month, we decided to change the format a bit -

Below you’ll find a table of contents for this month’s update. Each title will take you to the relevant section to read more about the subject so that you can easily navigate through the content.

Enjoy!

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Exchange Listings

    1. FTX
    2. KuCoin
    3. Latoken
    4. Gate.io
    5. Blockfolio
    6. Indodax
    7. Coinsbit
    8. P2PB2B

Liquidity Nexus and DeFi

    1. Introduction to Liquidity Nexus
    2. Single-sided farming
    3. Orbs live on BSC
    4. Orbs-DeFi Video Series
    5. Orbs DeFi Portal

Cloud Platforms Integrations

    1. AWS
    2. Microsoft Azure

Tetra on Mobile

    1. Metmask
    2. Enjin Wallet
    3. imToken Wallet

Partnerships & Announcements

    1. Bithumb
    2. Moonstake
    3. Benchmark Protocol
    4. ENS

In the Media

    1. Global Trade & Blockchain Forum
    2. Hexa Foundation

Other News

    1. Orbs Merchandise Shop
    2. Team Updates

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Exchange Listing: FTX

FTX exchange is one of the fastest-growing and most innovative crypto exchanges in the world. The following trading pairs are now available on FTX Spot and Perpetual Futures: ORBS/USD and ORBS-PERP.

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: KuCoin

KuCoin is one of the most popular crypto exchanges worldwide, with over 6 million registered users from 200+ countries and regions. In addition, KuCoin is ranked in 6th place by CoinMarketCap “Exchange Score”.

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: Latoken

LATOKEN is a rapidly growing crypto exchange focusing on liquidity for new tokens. LATOKEN entered CoinMarketCap Top-20 in March 2019, boasting more than 500.000 registered traders

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: Gate.io

Gate.io exchange is one of the earliest and largest cryptocurrency exchanges, operating stably and reliably since 2013. Gate.io is a top 20 exchange by CoinMarketCap with over $500M of daily trading volume.

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: Blockfolio

Blockfolio is one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency portfolio tracker, with over 6 million users of its mobile application. Blockfolio has developed a comprehensive crypto app, with the latest prices for over 10,000 cryptocurrencies, important news, and direct updates from teams.

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: Indodax

Indodax is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Indonesia, with more than 2.9 million verified accounts.

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: Coinsbit

Coinsbit is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in eastern Europe, with more than 2 million users.

Learn more:

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Exchange Listing: P2PB2B

P2PB2B exchange has officially announced the listing of ORBS, the native token of the Orbs network. The following trading pairs are now available on P2PB2B: ORBS/USDT, ORBS/BTC as well as ORBS/EUR.

Learn more:

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Introduction to Liquidity Nexus

The Orbs Liquidity Nexus introduces CeFi sourced liquidity to DeFi.

CeFi players are showing massive interest in the potential returns of DeFi. DeFi positions are thirsty for the boundless liquidity of the CeFi world. Orbs Liquidity Nexus is a decentralized protocol for facilitating the bridge between the two.

Learn more:

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Single-sided farming

The Orbs Liquidity Nexus protocol is the first to introduce the concept of Single-sided farming.

Take any DEX, whether it’s SushiSwap or PancakeSwap, and choose a popular pool like ETH/USDC or BNB/BUSD.

The CeFi capital provides the stable side — USDC or BUSD. The DeFi capital provides the crypto side — ETH or BNB. Now, let them farm together.

Single-sided farming is explained in this 3-part blog post series:

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Orbs live on BSC

We are excited to announce that the ORBS token is now available on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and can be swapped from the Ethereum mainnet to the BSC mainnet and back.

This integration is a result of work done by multichain.xyz utilizing the cross-chain bridge infrastructure they have developed. The multichain.xyz platform is based on Anyswap SMPC Network and is jointly developed by the Anyswap team and yearn.finance (YFI) founder Andre Cronje.

Learn more:

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Orbs-DeFi Video Series

Tal Kol, Orbs co-founder and head of the Orbs R&D team, discusses in a new video blog series the recent developments of Orbs in the DeFi space.

Here are the 3 videos out this month -

In part 1 of this video, Tal shares his views on the blockchain market evolution over the last couple of years, and what he thinks will emerge as the killer app of blockchain decentralization:

In part 2, Tal takes an even deeper dive into  what he believes will emerge as the killer app of blockchain decentralization:

In this next video, Tal showcases the gap between traditional Centralized Finance (CeFi) and new emerging Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols.

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Orbs DeFi Portal

The Orbs DeFi Portal is a project by one of the Orbs project’s prominent contributors: Paradigm Fund. The portal aggregates everything you need to know about Orbs and DeFi in one place – real-time market data for Orbs liquidity pools, education materials and how-to manuals for swapping and adding liquidity, research papers, and more…

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Orbs Live on AWS Marketplace

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular cloud provider in the world with a whopping 31% market share. Developers can now find Orbs in the AWS Marketplace – a  curated digital catalog used to find, deploy and manage third-party software and services on AWS.

Learn more:

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Orbs Integrated into MS Azure

Microsoft Azure, together with AWS, are the top 2 most popular cloud providers, with over 50% of the total market share. Having Orbs integrated into both ensures that the majority of developers will be able to set up a virtual machine image, containing everything needed to start developing on Orbs.

Learn more:

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Tetra on Metamask

Tetra, the official staking wallet of the Orbs project is now connected to MetaMask.

This means that Orbs token holders can now stake their Orbs tokens directly from their MetaMask application. This is available for both Android and iOS mobile apps, as well as for desktop.

Learn more:

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Tetra on Enjin Wallet

ORBS staking is now available for both Android and iOS mobile devices using Enjin Wallet. This means that Orbs token holders can now stake their ORBS tokens directly on Tetra from their Enjin Wallet application.

Learn more:

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Tetra on imToken Wallet

ORBS staking using Tetra is now available for iOS mobile devices using imToken Wallet.

imToken provides secure and trusted digital asset management services to millions of users in more than 150 countries around the world.

Learn more:

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Bithumb Exchange supports ORBS staking

Bithumb exchange, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges based in S. Korea, now offers full staking services for the ORBS token.

Learn more:

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Partnership with Moonstake

Moonstake announces that it has signed an MOU with Orbs. Through this collaboration, Moonstake will support the staking of ORBS, Orbs’ official token, on Moonstake Wallet, as well as participate further in the Orbs blockchain ecosystem.

Learn more:

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Partnership with Benchmark Protocol

Benchmark protocol, selected from the first batch of the DeFi.org accelerator, will whitelist ORBS on the upcoming Benchmark marketplace.

Learn more:

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Orbs Available on ENS (Ethereum Naming Service)

Orbs is now available on the ENS protocol: the most widely integrated blockchain naming standard on Ethereum.

Learn more:

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2021 Global Trade & Blockchain Forum

Orbs co-founder, Netta Korin, presenting the value proposition of using public blockchain infrastructure for supply chain solutions.

Part of the 2021 Global Trade & Blockchain Forum:

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Improving Supply Chain With Blockchain

Read the latest article from the Hexa Foundation:

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Orbs Merchandise Shop

We are delighted to announce that the new Orbs Merchandise Shop is Now Live!*

Check it out here: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/orbs

The shop has a wide selection of apparel and accessories with an awesome and original Orbs project design for you to choose from. You can also customize any item with your favorite design!

Learn more:

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Team Updates

The Orbs team would like to welcome 4 new senior team members!

The new arrivals are Rotem Yakir, Ami Hazbany, and brothers: Yuval and Doron Aviguy. Each of them has very rich experience in the Israeli technology sector. They will all join the R&D team as software engineers, under the leadership of Orbs co-founder Tal Kol.

Learn more:

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I hope you enjoyed this month’s update!

The team is working as hard as ever to expand the Orbs ecosystem. Can't wait to see what next Month will bring...

As always, stay tuned to our social channels (twitter, Telegram) to keep up to speed with everything that’s going on in the project.

Until next time,

Yours truly,

-Eran

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