As of September 10th, the total amount of locked BCH in the BCH sidechain SmartBCH has reached 41,830, with a current market value of over $30 million. SmartBCH, which went live on July 31st, is an EVM and compatible with Web3, and supports DeFi applications.
Bitcoin Cash is now available for trade on LocalCryptos, a prominent peer-to-peer crypto exchange. LocalCryptos was founded in 2017 as LocalEthereum, but in November 2019 it changed its name to LocalCryptos to support more cryptocurrencies. LocalCryptos now has over 100,000 registered customers and enables crypto-to-fiat trade in 139 countries.
A new Bitcoin Cash test net coin faucet has been launched, and its address is https://tbch.googol.cash. Test net coins are important for development and testing, however, most faucets were down. Bitcoin Cash Research has released its Monthly Progress Report for August 2021, which contains BCH activity highlights, funding, personnel, statistics, and more. The goal of Bitcoin Cash Research is to provide a forum for discussion that promotes fairness and equity, one that rewards respect, soundness, and sharing. The full version of the report is accessible at bitcoincashresearch.org.
Satoshi's Angels has uploaded a 3-minute video recap of Bitcoin Cash Network Discussion held on September 1st. This Bitcoin Cash Network Discussion focused on one of new CHIPs (Cash Improvement Proposals) to add "Native Introspection Opcodes", which will make BCH smart contracts safer, cheaper, and easier for recurring payments (like subscriptions or rent), financial contracts, fundraising, gambling, and more. According to developer Calin, it will also allow much better "bridging" or "gateway" between the main BCH chain and the smartBCH side-chain.
GoCrypto has launched the GoCrypto bridge which will allow you to swap the GoC token between Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and the SLP versions. They also plan to launch a SmartBCH version as well in the future soon.
Bitwise Asset Management, the world’s largest crypto index fund manager with over $1.3 billion in AUM, announced the launch of the Bitwise 10 ex Bitcoin Crypto Index Fund. The new fund excludes Bitcoin but includes BCH (2.09%).CashCats, the first meme coin project on smartBCH, has donated 2 million $CATS to Satoshi's Angels for their contributions to the BCH community.
CashCats airdropped 1 million $CATS for each of the first 1,000 people in the first round of airdrops and 100,000 $CATS for each person in the second round. $CATS is open for trade on BenSwap, and is currently priced at approximately $0.0023193863.
Send2multi is entirely open source and is a pure dApp on smartBCH. Users can send SEP20 tokens to multiple addresses using this tool, as well as search for all holders by inputting the SEP20 token's address. https://send2multi.github.io is where you can use send2multi.
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