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Meet Spirit Warrior, the first of its kind gaming project built on Tron network

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The Tron network has been growing exponentially since it became independent of Ethereum last year. As we write this, it’s the decentralized applications platform that serves the most users in the world, and there are more than two hundred dApps active in the network.

These apps include everything from decentralized token exchanges to online casinos that play using fair odds and, on top of that, share the casino’s profit with the users. So far, Tron’s network and blockchain have proven to be incredibly efficient and versatile beyond anybody’s wildest dreams. And that’s not including BitTorrent, which is now Tron’s.

So as developers the world over realize the huge advantages there are in using Tron as a deploying platform for their ideas; the interest keeps growing and new ideas keep coming up all the time. One of those new ideas is SpiritWarrior.

Spirit Warrior

SpiritWarrior is a blockchain-based interactive mobile runner video game. It runs on Tron’s blockchain and, as most projects in the Tron ecosystem, it places a lot of emphasis in rewarding the performance of the game’s players.

So if you play this game (it’s something in Doom’s style, except that it has more of a fantastic, less violent streak), well, we’re oversimplifying things. This is a project that will be developing and releasing more games in time (more on that later), and that also includes a token for its users, the Spirit Warrior Gamers (SWG).

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This game is the first of its kind in the cryptoverse, so it’s something of a breakthrough for everyone including the developing team, Tron, and the whole crypto community. It marks how developers are becoming progressively more confident and ambitious about the things they can do using blockchain technology as well as about the things that said technology could do for them.

The SWGamers Token

The SWGamers token will be a method of payment valid in each and every one of the games the team will deploy during the year. Oh yes, there’s more to come. A lot more to come, this is a highly ambitious team that’s just getting warmed up. Let us tell you some more details.

All the games will be available through a single mobile application (available in both Android and iOS). Some of the games will help promote and advertise other tokens within the Tron environment using ads but also including the game’s users in airdrops. One-fifth (20%) of the monthly income in all the games developed by the SpiritWarrior team will be distributed among all SWGames Holders.

Spirit Warrior Games Roadmap

Spirit Warrior Tron

The first (and flagship) game is the Spirit Warrior which was launched as beta as the current year began. The final version is already available for Android, and it will be ready for iOS by May. A Blackjack bet game and TronRaceHorse game were also developed with more or less the same timing.

The next two games will be Roulette and Slot Bet. Beta versions for both will be available by coming June. Then the Roulette production version will be released for Android in July, and for iOS in September. The Slot Bet game will go Beta in June as well, then go official in August for Android, and October for Apple devices.

The project is very high tech, and it will be a welcomed addition to Tron. This is a marriage made in heaven as Tron will enrich SpiritWarrior every bit as much as SpiritWarrior will enrich the Tron network.

We salute the new project!

Download SpiritWarrior Game Test Version

Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Games.SpiritWarrior

iOS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spirit-warrior/id1448212463?l=es&ls=1&mt=8

Description and assignment of the SWGamers tokens

Id Token: 1002082

Name: SWGamers

Symbol: SWG

Decimals: 3

Price: 1 SWGamers = 0.6 TRX.

Where to find us?

Twitter: @SpiritWarriorio

Telegram:

https://t.me/SpiritWarriorEN

https://t.me/SWGamersToken

Websites:

https://www.swgamers.org/

https://www.spiritwarrior.io

Images courtesy of SpiritWarrior.

Disclaimer: The presented information is paid content; the client paid TronWeekly for covering all about it in a press release.

Justin Sun: Forget the bearish trend, Bitcoin and crypto industry have a bright future

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Justin Sun, one of the enthralling figures in the crypto-mania and the CEO of Tron, the 10th largest cryptocurrency in the world at the moment, has enforced his opinion that cryptocurrency and blockchain are the technologies that future generations are going to own.

In his recent interview with the leading American news channel CNBC on March 13, Justin Sun, talked about the blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and Bitcoin (the mother of all cryptocurrencies) saying that despite the certitude that big guns of the investment industry like Warren Buffet and Howard Marks are in the critics of Bitcoin, he’d opined that “cryptocurrencies are more of a technology than a business opportunity”.

During the discussion, while talking about the current situation of the market (which is not that great due to the longest bearish trend recorded so far), Sun noted he is the firm believer of the fact that younger generation’s interest about cryptocurrencies has remained unaffected.

In support of his statement he mentioned about the Bitcoin’s scaling solutions, most importantly the Lightning Network, which makes the cryptocurrency more than able to formulate the internet evolution. In his words:

“A lot of people believe in the functionalities of cryptocurrencies with the main examples being Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk. It is a good opportunity for younger generations to get into the field especially at a time when the Lightning Network and other such Layer 2 technologies are becoming popular. We are facing the next wave of the internet.”

During the interview, while speaking about the concern of increasing blockchain technology mass adoption he grabbed the opportunity to flaunt about some of his projects where his team is focusing on the integration of the cryptocurrency and blockchain on its file-sharing network BitTorrent, which the foundation acquired last year.

Tron CEO said,

“I think, basically, right now the biggest opportunity is the mass adoption. For example […] the cryptocurrency we are introducing into the BitTorrent network, one of the largest file transferring networks in the world. We have over 100 million monthly active users in over 138 countries. I think lots of companies like Facebook will also bring a lot of people to the industry as well.”

When asked about why he’s been seen on multiple occasions commenting that he does not really care about the market price or the market cap of the token his foundation holds, Mr. Sun’s answer was much of a modest one.

He expressed his priorities about the company that is to focus more on the technology and business development side first and then comes the valuation aspect – which according to him is merely the business surface.

Justin Sun believes,

“Basically valuation and the market cap is just the surface of the business. The main focus of the Tron Foundation is business, technology and the exciting things on the Tron network right now.”

At the time of press, Tron stands at the 10th spot in the market with a market capitalization of around $1.51 billion.

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Disclaimer: The presented information is subjected to market condition and may include the very own opinion of the author. Please do your ‘very own’ market research before making any investment in cryptocurrencies. Neither the writer nor the publication (TronWeekly.com) holds any responsibility for your financial loss.

DDEX exchange lists Tron Weekly

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Ddex

Ddex.io is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. It’s quite innovative as it’s the first one built on the Hydro Protocol. That allows for users to settle their business in real-time and on-chain.

It’s available through the web but also as a mobile app for both Apple and Android smartphones. It supports many of the world’s most popular digital wallets such as Ledger, Metamask, or Brave.

And that support for wallets is one of the platform’s more exciting features because it allows users to trade without ever depositing a single token in the website. You can trade from the security of your own preferred wallet.

According to one happy user,

“The ability to buy and sell tokens directly from my ledger is the ultimate form of security. Decentralized exchanges are providing the safety and security that crypto desperately needs!”

It has a wide selection of trading pairs which include most (if not all) ERC20 tokens, which are those issued using Ethereum’s token technology.

Ddex is safe and convenient at the same time (which are two mutually exclusive characteristics in most cryptocurrency exchanges), innovative, easy to use. And it’s just about to list a new token in the site. That new token is called Tron Weekly Journal (Tron Weekly).

It will start by listing it paired against Tron’s TRX which makes sense because Tron Weekly is a Tron-based token. Then, by next May a new pair will be available against the USDT.

The Tron Weekly Journal

The Tron Weekly Journal is a project within the Tron ecosystem which aims to be a place to concentrate all the ongoing information everywhere on the Tron Network. Tron has grown so much and so quickly, that keeping up with the news has become very difficult. The idea is to have a place where you can find the Tron-related news you need to make decisions and keep your blockchain projects moving forward.

The website (and the project) issue a Tron-based cryptocurrency called simply Tron Weekly (Tron Weekly Journal). The use cases for the coin are quite simply to keep the website going by providing means to exchange value between the project, collaborators, sponsors, advertisers, etc. You can think of it as a newspaper’s own currency.

Exposure to a market as efficient and large as Ddex will surely be a very good thing for the token’s price. Trading volumes will go up; holders will come to know about the Tron Weekly project and its use cases and actually spend those tokens it those ways.

Even those who are not that terribly interested in reading the current news about Tron will be still able to trade Tron Weekly for TRX so they can browse around the Tron Network, vote for Super Representatives, and any of the very cool things we know you can do at Tron.

Tron Weekly is also available for trade at other decentralized exchanges, especially those that support TRX, but there’s every reason to believe that the inclusion at Ddex will be quite a special thing for both parties involved, and, more importantly, for users.

Apart from TronWeekly’s Tron Weekly, the exchange, Ddex listed a couple of other Tron-based tokens today too including Play, Bet, Ante, and Dice.

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Disclaimer: The presented information is subjected to market condition and may include the very own opinion of the author. Please do your ‘very own’ market research before making any investment in cryptocurrencies. Neither the writer nor the publication (TronWeekly.com) holds any responsibility for your financial loss.

Voyager adopts XRP, here’s what it means

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Voyager

Voyager is a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange platform. It is still quite a young project (it’s been online since last October only) founded by Stephen Ehrlich, Philip Eytan and Oscar Salazer (who is famous as an Uber co-founder) and Gaspard de Dreuzy.

It’s an exciting platform (more on that later) but it’s still somewhat limited as it’s available only in a handful of states within the US (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Montana, Missouri, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Illinois, California, and Arizona) but it’s pursuing approval in all 50 states as well as overseas.

The platform includes a mobile app, but it’s available only for Apple mobile phones. That obviously leaves the Android market out of the equation.

Another interesting feature in Voyager is that it allows you to buy cryptocurrencies using your own fiat money, by linking your card or bank account into your Voyager account which is not that common.

Most cryptocurrency exchanges in the web are crypto-to-crypto, which means that there’s not much point in joining them unless you already own some digital assets, but you can’t buy them with your local currency except for a handful of platforms.

So if you’re interested in getting a piece of the XRP action, Voyager could be precisely what you were waiting for. It’s commission-free as long as you use USD to pay for your tokens. And XRP is available at Voyager since last Wednesday.

Ripple’s XRP.

XRP is the cryptocurrency native to Ripple’s blockchain technology. It’s not meant to be a retail currency (like Bitcoin or Litecoin, etc.) but to be a means of exchange that can eliminate global transactions between banks, remittances services, and other traditional financial institutions. As such, it’s unique in the crypto verse because it’s backed up by a private company (Ripple).

Also because that company is trying to build up the coin’s value through real-life use cases and authentic demand instead of the speculative pressure that still drives the cryptocurrency market, and it’s succeeding if you take into account that XRP was the most profitable coin during 2017 (the one year in which almost every token was profitable) and it’s been growing in terms of market capitalization.

Starting to trade in XRP is quite easy if you choose Voyager. All you need to do is to download the app (Apple, only for now). Then you register, open your trader’s account and fund it. You can start with as few as USD 10.

As we write this, XRP is trading at $0.3153, and it’s ranked third by market capitalization. 41,365,634,610 XRP tokens are in currently in circulation with a billion more each month, according to the terms of Ripple’s monthly escrow contract (the company still owns most of the tokens).

So if you’re in the iPhone camp and are interested in joining the cryptosphere as an investor (not only in XRP, Voyager supports several other assets), it’s probably never been easier or cheaper. Just get the app and start doing your thing.

You can find further information at investvoyager.com if you’re a US resident. So welcome to Crypto and have happy hunting!

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Disclaimer: The presented information is subjected to market condition and may include the very own opinion of the author. Please do your ‘very own’ market research before making any investment in cryptocurrencies. Neither the writer nor the publication (TronWeekly.com) holds any responsibility for your financial loss.

Beware of Reyna’s swapped tokens

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The Reyna Project (or Reyna Limited) is an anonymity network which started running on Tron’s blockchain and issued three cryptocurrencies based on Tron known as REY, REC, and RET, It’s based on Valletta, Malta which is probably world’s most friendly country towards blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. In the project’s own words, it’s a “comprehensive embracing of the broadcast web” in which privacy is guaranteed for all users, and censorship is impossible to enforce.

Reyna is on the move

Reyna is moving out of Tron. It will adopt Waves as its permanent platform and, as it has to happen whenever a blockchain project moves to a new home, those who own either REY, REC or RET tokens must have them swapped for coins compatible with the new platform. It has already left Tron as we write this.

The swap was announced by Anthony Kudaev (one of Reyna’s Limited founders) a couple of weeks ago in his Twitter account.

But things are not running so smoothly and it seems that something fishy is going on.

The Trontokens website has marked the three Reyna tokens as scams.

The organization is conducting further research as we write this but it reported in its website (trontokens.org) that “too much troubling things” are happening around the token Swap and the move.

It seems that swapped tokens are being sold instead of being burned, which should be the way to do things as you move the project to the new platform. The problem is that it’s illegal and nobody seems to know for sure what or why is going on.

The platform change is happening very quickly after the project’s decentralized exchange (based on Tron’s) went live, only three weeks ago (Feb. 4th). That very process wasn’t very smooth either as the technology had lots of bugs and glitches that had to be fixed before it could go live.

We ignore what’s happening with the swap. We do know that Mr. Kudaev has experience dowing cryptocurrency swaps because his project’s tokens migrated from TRC10 to TRC20 token technology only last December, on the day right after Christmas. He was also very enthusiastic about the Tron network and several of its decentralized applications (especially GOC).

The Reyna Project

The Reyna ecosystem includes several interesting apps in which privacy is the paramount value. ReynaChat is a chatting app which uses the project’s own encryption protocol to keep all the information private.

ReynaExchange is a wallet that supports any TRC20-based token and the Tron’s Foundation blockchain (or at least, it used to, but the details about the migration to Waves are still not very clear), The ReynaProtocol supports mutual and optional authentication, identity hiding, secrecy, encryption and other features in which cryptographic technology enhances the user’s privacy.

The project’s web-browsing apps are available for both Apple and Android mobile phones at the usual app stores.

We hope that the Reyna leadership will address the situation and let people in the cryptosphere know with all clarity what they’re doing and why. In a project that privileges anonymity and privacy above everything else, transparency is absolutely necessary, especially when it’s going through a milestone as important as migrating platforms.

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Disclaimer: The presented information is subjected to market condition and may include the very own opinion of the author. Please do your ‘very own’ market research before making any investment in cryptocurrencies. Neither the writer nor the publication (TronWeekly.com) holds any responsibility for your financial loss.

Welcome to Tron (TRX): The beginner’s guide

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Tron is a third generation blockchain platform with a clarity of purpose that most other blockchain projects lack: “Decentralize the web.” In other words, Tron is focused on using its state-of-the-art blockchain technology as a substratum to develop a global market that will include entertainment, media, and all kinds of content, except that it will be 100% decentralized.

That means that the current Internet central authorities (which also function as middlemen for creators) will be left out of the loop (Apple App Store, Google Play Store, YouTube, Google, Facebook, etc.). That will allow content creators to profit from their work directly from users without risking demonetization due to not following a company’s policy.

Among the many exciting features that are unique in Tron is their governance model for achieving consensus. It’s called Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS). The consensus is essential in any blockchain network because that’s how you know that the network’s ledger (which is distributed among many nodes in the world) agrees in the way the network is moving forward.

Every node has the exact same copy of the whole blockchain, and every node agrees with every other one in that they all do. That’s the heart of decentralization. But Tron’s model allows for additional features such as voting for the “witnesses” that keep the network honest and receive compensation for processing transactions and creating new blocks.

Young as it is (not even two years old) the Tron network is already very well populated with all kinds of decentralized apps for users to enjoy. And, as the Tron Foundation bought BitTorrent a few months ago, and it’s about to merge it into Tron’s Network (Project Atlas), it is about to become the world’s largest decentralized network.

Join us as we tell you all you need to know to get started with Tron and to enjoy the apps, the token and the community.

What’s under Tron’s hood?

In short, if you see under Tron’s hood, you’ll find one of the most innovative and well-designed blockchains. This is the nerdy part, so feel free to move on to the next section if you’re interested in the more practical aspects of Tron, or in how to get started quickly. But we’d suggest for you to keep reading because knowing a project’s fundamentals is a good way to understand why it’s more valuable (or not) than others.

The network achieves governed decentralization and cost-efficient and very rapid transactions among members by using a classic three-layer architecture. The first layer is for storage. It manages how the data is recorded in the chain’s blocks, and how the system retrieves it for practical purposes.

Then there’s the core layer. This is where you’ll find all the data that keeps some of Tron’s most specific functionalities going. Here is the module that enables smart contracts, account management, consensus, and voting.

The Tron Virtual Machine (TVM) also works in this second layer. The TVM is a translator of sorts that developers can use to create decentralized applications and deploy them using any programming language they fancy.

Last but not least is the application layer. This one is more on the surface and allows developers to create their own dApps and smart contracts, along with the network’s tokens.

The Tron environment is unique as well. Most of the work (that means, creating new blocks) is done by 27 nodes that have been voted to become Super Representatives by TRX holders.

Other users can also help those nodes and even get some passive income as a reward. The Super Representative elections are an ongoing process that never stops. The idea behind the permanent elections is to keep the network inexpensive and with very high transaction speeds. It’s the competition that keeps the network performing well.

Getting Started with Tron

So you’d like to join Tron, huh? Well, first of all, you need to decide how you would like to join it. The simplest, most direct way, to join is quite simple: to own and hold a few Tronix (TRX) tokens.

That enables you to participate from the moment your wallet is populated, and it gives you a few additional advantages. TRX holders can use the network’s dApps; they can vote for Super Representatives (current or candidates) and suggest changes to the protocol.

But maybe you have more of a creative personality, and you want to join as a developer — not a bad choice. Few blockchains are as friendly for developers as Tron because the network offers lots of resources for them to use and, you don’t need to learn any native programming language for Tron, as you do in other blockchains. You’ll find repositories of developer resources scattered all over the web, but you can also use Tron’s own guides.

But if you want to be a normal user or a developer, the first thing you need to do to join is to buy and use some TRX tokens. For that, you need a wallet that can hold TRX.

Getting a Tron Wallet

This is another advantage in Tron. Setting up a TRX wallet is quite painless, and you can find several links at the Tron website that will enable you to do that quickly and easily.

You just need to go to the website, find the Wallet webpage, and you’ll find all the options available for community-developed wallets. Some of them can hold Tron or Tron-based tokens only. But there are some (Ledger, for instance) that can hold other cryptocurrencies as well.

Among the choices when it comes to best Tron wallets, you’ll have are Ledger Nano S (which is not Tron, but it’s a popular, affordable, hardware wallet, Exodus, Trust Wallet. Those are multi-coin. Other options, more focused on TRX are Tron Wallet iOS, TronLink Chrome (which is especially popular) and iTRON Wallet.

All those options are safe, reliable and can be deployed from your desktop computer, your internet browser, a mobile device of your choice or even a hardware wallet devices which looks just exactly like a USB-stick.

If you’re on the developing side of things, you can even come up with your very own wallet to use with Tron Block Explorer. But you’ll have to be approved and listed.

We’ll tell you how to use a TRX wallet known as TronLink Chrome. There are several good reasons for that. First of all, this wallet is a Chrome extension, so installing it is a walk in the park, and it takes fewer than 60 seconds and clicking a few links (assuming Chrome if your browser of choice, of course).

  • You start here: https://tron.network/wallet
  • Find “TronLink Chrome” and click “Download.”
  • You’ll be redirected to a Google Chrome Extensions webpage. Click on the Add to Chrome button. Your browser will install the extension, and the TronLink icon will appear on your browser’s extensions bar.
  • Click on the icon. That will pop a menu that allows new users to create a password (which should be a strong one, ofc). Type it again for confirmation.
  • You’ll have to choose between restoring an existing TRX wallet or creating a new one. If you’re going to restore one, you’ll have to provide your secret key or phrase. But since we assume you’re new on this, we click on “Create Wallet.”
  • Create a username. A popup will tell you what conventions you should follow.
  • Come up with a 12-word phrase. That’s the secret phrase that will enable you to restore your account if you should need that in the future.
  • Tron will ask you to click on a series of words, in the same order as your key phrase. After that, you confirm, and you’re all set with a new Tron wallet.

And that’s when the game begins. Open your wallet again by clicking on your TronLink icon, and you’ll see a popup that lists your accounts, your wallet addresses, transaction history, Tron dApps, token balances and more.

TRONScan: So you want to find a node?

TronScan is Tron’s block explorer. It’s an interesting tool. You can think of it as Tron’s Yellow Pages meet Tron’s Annals. It lets you explore individual blocks, transactions, and addresses in the network.

If something has ever happened in Tron, it’s there somewhere. If a node is online, you can find it there too. This is probably for hardcore developers who like to find patterns in the network’s flow of information. Remember that tokens are also a form of information, so the financial flows in Tron can also be consulted there.

But maybe you’re just interested in finding a Super Representative node in the Tron network (you know, the guys who do all the hard work). That will allow you to create a node of your own so you can help a given node of your choice.

And according to each node’s specific policy on payment structures, you could be rewarded for sharing your resources. Let’s be clear about something: this is not mining, Tronix is not a minable digital coin, but the chain still needs new blocks to be created all the time. You could say that this is as close as Tron comes to mining, and you can join. And for that, you first need to choose a node.

Super Representative nodes welcome extra help with open arms because the DPoS system encourages it. If those nodes are not willing to spread the wealth a little, they will have a much harder time earning votes from TRX holders.

Here’s how you find a node near you (or anywhere else) in the Tron network:

  • You start at https://tronscan.org/
  • Click on the blockchain tab. It’s the one on the left side of the top menu.
  • You’ll see a dropdown. Click on “Nodes.”
  • You’ll see a zoomable map in which you can browse around the world and find SR nodes everywhere on the planet. This will help you to chose which SR you’d like to vote for and join.
  • Clicking on the map’s pins will show you each node’s IP address. Entering that address in the site’s search bar (top of the page) will tell you all you want to know: number of tokens in the node, number of completed transactions, uptime, efficiency, and other essential stats.

So you want to buy some TRX?

As mentioned before, this is how it all starts (once you have a wallet).

Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation have a very aggressive and adept PR and marketing policy for a good product. So TRX has become a popular cryptocurrency in a short time. By popular we mean that it’s listed in most of the world’s most important exchanges, but also in several that are not so famous.

If you know Huobi, OKEx, Upbit, or Binance, they all carry TRX. But these are all crypto-to-crypto exchanges, which means that you can’t use your fiat currency through your debit or credit card to buy coins there. To use those websites you already have to own a cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, most frequently) and then trade it for TRX.

So you’ll need to start with a crypto exchange that supports fiat-to-crypto pairs. That will need for you to sign up, verify your account, link your bank account or card to the website. Among the best sites for this kind of operation are Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini, because they’re among the safest and more reliable in the market.

  • Once you have some cryptocurrency (BTC is the one that you can really trade everywhere), you’re almost there. Sing up for an exchange that includes TRX trading pairs (say, Binance). Verify your account. Find your BTC wallet for the site.
  • Click on “deposit,” and that will get you a deposit address for the Bitcoin network. Copy to your clipboard.
  • Then go to the site where you bought your BTC initially, find the “withdrawal” button or link. Paste the address and click “send.” They could ask you for confirmation using a Two-Factor verification device (usually your mobile phone). Congrats, you’ve made your first BTC to BTC transfer!
  • Now you need a bit of patience. Keep in mind that Bitcoin is not currently the fastest network in crypto, but it’s very reliable so the transfer will be done. But it could take a few minutes (10-30) and sometimes even more.
  • Once the BTC is in your Binance BTC wallet you need to find the TRX/BTC pair (not the BTC/TRX one, that’s what you would do if you owned TRX already). Most often you’ll find the link at the top of the site. Click on BTC to find the trading pairs based on Bitcoin. Then find the TRX/BTC pair and click on “Buy TRX” and enter the number of BTC tokens you want to convert to TRX. Click “Buy.” That’s it! Congrats now you own some TRX and can start using Tron’s dApps!

How to develop your own dApp

Feeling creative? Few other projects offer their developers more resources (in both quantity and quality). The first place to go would be https://developers.tron.network. Most of your questions related to software development on Tron are answered there, but you can also find other Tron devs to talk with and learn from their expertise.

What do you need to know? Well, anything you know in terms of computer programming is enough. When Tron launched its new Main Net, everything was Java only. Now, the TVM allows you to write code in any language of your choice, and the TVM executes it in Tron.

Lots of developers do the work on Ethereum because it’s been along for a longer time as a programmable platform, and then they just port the work to Tron so it can be integrated into the network. It could be more practical, but that’s up to every developer.

Once your app compiles using Solidity, you can use Yarn (which is free) to take your app to Tron.

Consensus: Here’s how it works

One of the most interesting aspects of owning TRX is the Super Representative electoral process. It has a huge turnover. In order to vote you need to freeze your TRX for some time.

Freezing your tokens is useful because that gets you two cryptocurrencies of sorts called “power” and “bandwidth” which you will need so you can dance around the network more comfortably. And, also, it gives you the right to vote.

Don’t worry about freezing your tokens. You can’t use them as long as they’re frozen, but you won’t lose them. And having some power and bandwidth in your wallet will make your life easier.

Here’s how it goes:

  • Go to TronScan, log in.
  • Make sure you have TRX in your wallet. You need just a single token, but you must have something.
  • If TronScan is not aware yet about your wallet, click on Open Wallet (top right) and enter your wallet’s private key. If you have it as a keystore file on your computer, that works too.
  • In your wallet click on “Freeze” and choose how many of your TRX you want to freeze.

The freeze lasts for 72 hours, and you can’t use them in the meantime. After those three days, you get your TRX will become available and active again. Go to the Tron SR tan, and click on Votes. The page will show you your balance of power, TRX, and a timer that’s counting down until the next round of voting begins. Only 27 nodes can be Super Representatives at any given time.

You’ll see who they are, and you’ll find links to their respective websites. In those websites, you’ll find out what’s each individual node’s policy about helpers. That way you can figure out which SR suits you better and vote accordingly.

Click on “Click here to start voting,” and that will show you a slider next to each SR and candidate. That slider represents the amount of power you want to use for voting, and who will get your vote.

If your candidate wins or remains an SR, you can join that node as a supporter and begin getting some rewards for helping the network.

Final thoughts

We hope we managed to be informative and, maybe, get you interested in one of the most innovative and exciting blockchain projects in the world today. The Tron community is very committed to the project and bullish about the token. In the worst case scenario, you’ll find a lot of exciting apps, have some fun, and pick some nice chats with fellow Tron members.

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Disclaimer: The presented information is subjected to market condition and may include the very own opinion of the author. Please do your ‘very own’ market research before making any investment in cryptocurrencies. Neither the writer nor the publication (TronWeekly.com) holds any responsibility for your financial loss.

PLAY GOC arrives at TronWalletMe

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The platform

PLAY_GOC (https://play.goc.network) is one of the 200 decentralized applications running on Tron’s network and blockchain.  It’s a gaming/betting app that includes many classic casino games such as Dice, BlackJack, Roulette, Baccarat, a virtual slot machine, and many others under development.

It’s been very successful. It’s already the world’s third-largest dApp, according to dappradar.com (a website that monitors the activity in the cryptoverse’s blockchain applications) serving more than 6.5k users every day. Crazy Dogs Live is the only largest app in Tron, and not by much (6.6k users daily).

The Tokens

It’s not just a casino, in the traditional sense of the world. It’s decentralized, unlike any traditional gaming platform. And it also a Tron-based cryptocurrency called RWD which you mine in the website just by playing the available games and another one called PLAY.

The main value behind the PLAY GOC developing team is that using blockchain technology should be fun and rewarding for users and that a gaming site should offer a variety of activities besides just playing and betting digital assets. That’s why the platform includes a trading platform as well (Play Market) in which you can trade a variety of Tron-based tokens if you so wish.

PLAY is the token that fuels the platform for the main part. It’s designed strategically to enhance the PLAY GOC environment and you can exchange it for TRX or other Tron-based tokens.

RWD is an incentive for you to keep playing. You play using a variety of Tron-based tokens in PLAY GOC and as you place your bets, the system is mining RWD tokens on your behalf. Owning RWD tokens also allows you to join in some of the site’s special activities.

You can buy either token in some of Tron’s decentralized exchanges, like the one included in Tronscan’s platform. The tokens are supported by the TronLink Wallet, which is very popular because it’s very easy to install and use. It’s a Google Chrome extension, so it takes less than two minutes to install and set up a personal Tron Wallet that supports almost all the currently available TRC10 and TRC20 tokens, including, of course, TRX.

Support from TronWalletMe mobile app

And now, TronWalletMe, which is a secure p2p crypto wallet and exchange platform for Tron-based tokens are adopting PLAY GOC’s in its wallet. The wallet is a mobile app you can get for either your Android or Apple phone and it’s not your typical run-of-the-mill wallet as it includes a decentralized exchange for you to trade in Tron-based currencies.

https://twitter.com/PLAY_GOC/status/1096489097739157504

This is a nod to PLAY_GOC’s achievements as a decentralized application by the Tron community which is using it, playing in it, and enjoying it. While there wasn’t any doubt in any Tron community member’s mind about how important the gambling platform is becoming, having its tokens supported by more and more of the other apps in Tron (TronWalletMe in this case), create more awareness and credibility for PLAY GOC.

And it deserves it. PLAY GOC maybe looks like a simple (but nice) gaming website. It’s a lot more than that. It’s one of the manifold ways in which Tron will achieve total web decentralization sooner or later.

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News from the Ripple and XRP world

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As usual, lots of things are happening around Ripple, and it’s native currency. That’s how it’s been almost every week for more than a year now, so keeping up with all the news is almost a full-time job (which is our job) and, in this article, we’ll give you a quick digest about what’s been going on lately.

Sendfriend joins Ripple and others

Sendfriend is a blockchain-based remittance company that works mainly for transfers between the US and the Philippines. It currently offers the cheapest, safest and quickest way to process payments between those two countries and it’s raised 1.7Million in new capital to help Overseas Filipino Workers to improve the service’s quality and the customer’s experience.

Among the company’s new collaborators are 8 Decimal Capital, 2020 Ventures, Mahindra Finance, TechStars, the Mastercard Foundation, Barclay’s, MIT Media Lab, and, of course, Ripple.

The Ripple collaboration includes using xRapid to eliminate friction from transfers, and XRP (the coin) as a means of liquidity, so that payments can be settled in seconds.
Ripple has been securing at least a new strategic partnership every week for months now, so this isn’t very surprising, but it shows that Ripple’s leadership is not losing any momentum.

The Ripple community takes the PR war seriously

Ripple’s technology and Ripple’s digital asset (XRP) have not been the most popular cryptocurrency in the world, even if it’s been one of the most profitable coins ever to hit crypto.

Why?

Because Satoshi’s original vision for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies was to disrupt and finish off the traditional financial system and fiat currencies, Ripple has worked to enhance that traditional system by means of blockchain technology, so many purists consider that to be a betrayal of crypto’s original values and aims. As a consequence, the project and the coin have been at the center of many attacks.

But the Ripple community is steadfast. They like the project and the coin because they understand that the fundamentals are sound.

Recently, the attacks have escalated because many scammers have been using false accounts to promulgate points of view that are, at the very least, very hostile to Ripple.

The community is fed up with this, so they are creating self-governed mechanisms to counteract this. One of those is xrparcade.com. In this website, you can find a list of scammers that are trying to divulge doubtful information about Ripple and XRP. But there are other initiatives.

So how can you protect yourself from disinformation about XRP or any other blockchain project? Well, just make sure you keep reading honest articles. Like ours!

New members in the University Blockchain Research Initiative

UBRI was started last June 2018 by Ripple. It’s a research fund meant to create and support educational programs in blockchain technology all over the world. Last February 7th, Ripple announced that eleven new universities would join the program.

Those include Tsinghua University, the University of Sao Paulo, Northeastern University, the National University of Singapore, the Morgan State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Kansas, Georgetown University, Duke University, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Plenty of names with huge prestige in the list, so the new UBRI members don’t lack academic credibility at all.

Investing in education has done wonders in the past for tech giants such as IBM, Apple, and Microsoft. This is, of course, a long-term effort so we’ll have to wait a few years before we can see this tree grow some fruits.

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Buying stocks using Bitcoin is now possible using Abra Wallet

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On Wednesday, the US-based digital currency exchange and wallet provider, Abra Wallet, announced via blog post that it has upgraded its global investment app. As a result of the upgrade, the app will now allow users to invest in commodities, stocks, and ETF (Exchange-Traded Funds) with Bitcoin.

The San Francisco-based firm has urged all its users from 155 countries worldwide to sign up with them to invest in 50 new investment assets using Bitcoin. The investment can be as little as $5 and it is with zero trading cost for the whole year of 2019.

The platform is ready to provide a package deal on which opportunists can invest in stocks such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Coca-Cola, fiat, exchange-traded funds, and cryptocurrencies.

Bill Barhydt, the Founder and the CEO of Abra commented on the development as following:

“We’re are going to start with popular US stocks and ETF’s and add more global assets in the coming months. Of course, all of the great features for investing in the cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies remain fully integrated as well.”

Mr. Barhydt further went on by saying that Abra contributes to the trades and investments using the crypto collateralized contracts (C3s). He explains how these contracts work, in Abra’s CEO words:

“[I]f you want to invest $1,000 in Apple shares you will place $1,000 worth of Bitcoin into a contract. As the price of Apple goes up or down versus the dollar, Bitcoin will be added to or subtracted from your contract. When you settle the contract – or sell the Apple investment – the value of the Apple shares will be reflected in Bitcoin in your wallet which can easily be converted back to dollars, or any other asset for that matter. When you enter into a C3, you’re effectively creating a smart contract which automatically determines – based on the price of the Apple shares – whether you have made money or lost money. The underlying Bitcoin collateral then adjusts itself accordingly to be equal to the value of the Apple shares.”

To put simply, investors will be setting up Bitcoin as collateral to invest in stock or an ETF. Bitcoin will be added into or subtracted out of their account as the status of the value of the assets shapes over time.

Abra will be the one taking risks in all of the contracts on the platform, but the risks have been carefully fenced and the system has gone through many trials for testing purposes on many contracts.

The CEO of the digital exchange ensures about it saying,

 “Abra has already successfully processed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of these investments contracts and has never lost money on them”.

The development has brought a lot of excitement in the crypto community even though the platform will likely be less useful for US-based investors because of the easy access to the US stock market, but it will surely be a game changer in the regions of the large unbanked population where access to the said stock market is comparatively difficult.

According to Barhydt, the platform was designed to assist the investors from those regions, who were unable to invest in the global stock market previously, with these investment opportunities.

Caitlin Long, Co-Founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and a wall street veteran also expressed her appreciating views about this huge and game-changing development by Abra. Her tweet reads:

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SEED token, Tronwallet DEX, new trading pairs: Tron on a roll

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In order to counter the much-asked questions and expectations, Tron (TRX), the 10th largest digital currency in the crypto-sphere, as anticipated, has decided to enrich Tronwallet by blending DEX (Tronwallet Decentralized Exchange) as one of the new upgrade included in the Tronwallet’s latest version.

In an announcement by the Tronwallet team, the update was made available to be downloaded globally, except some part of the world, where the giant tech guns, Apple and Google are working to ensure the availability of the application to the public.

In addition to this amazing news for the Sesameseed and Tronwallet communities, Tron (TRX) has also confirmed that they are introducing new trading pairs on the exchange (DEX) along with the induction of Seed token, which will also go down in those pairs.

In its release, Tronwallet’s team verified the induction of Seed token’s pair with Tronix (TRX/Seed), in conjunction with the pair of Tronwallet and Tronix (TRX/TRW). The team also gave a little glimpse at its future plans by mentioning that they are planning to make efforts towards introducing Tronwallet as a trading market, where alongside other new pairs, TWX/Seed pair will also be included.

The Tronwallet team, in its official issuance, admitted the fact that the DEX (Tronwallet Exchange) has similarity with Bancor Exchange to some extent concerning functions and style. That said, DEX Exchange brings some unique benefits to the community.

Let’s check out what those advantages are:

  • As Tron’s enthusiasts expected, it is user-friendly and easy to use, Tronwallet DEX will look familiar to Tronwallet as it will be sharing the same interface and style.
  • Crypto community no longer needs to worry about where to keep their savings, or patronage as many people usually surf more time than needed in researching about these little quirks. Tron (TRX) provide them the opportunity to store their assets at which they trust the most, Tronwallet.
  • TronWallet provides the opportunity to do trading without sharing your private key. By doing so, it also accomplishes to solve one of the major concerns of the community; they no longer need to expose their private keys.
  • It also guarantees zero discrepancies and mistakes during the exchange of funds. Tronwallet accommodates its community to trade inside their own wallet. No more copy/paste of website URLs, no more verifications needed for the route direction (whether it is going to the right place) since the exchange is happening right in your wallet.

Talking about some of the other latest achievements that Tron has had in the past couple of weeks, its listing at the renowned exchange MABex (South Asian trading Exchange) is a significant stride.

Also, the migration of the famous Ethereum based game, BitGuild, onto the Tron blockchain is a big success. Just today, the blockchain added three new trading pairs, BET/TRX, FUN/TRX, GOC/TRX, on its decentralized exchange, DEX. Looking at all the recent developments, it’d be safe to say that 10th best cryptocurrency is moving in the right direction.

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