Blockchain

A look at Fairspin Crypto Casino

Promoted post – Part of our Bitcoin Gambling series In this article, we’ll have a look at a recently launched Crypto Casino called Fairspin, which is offering both fiat and crypto deposits and a range of games. Registration with the platform is straightforward, although I do note that they require both an email address and a phone number when registering. The casino uses their own token called TPlay, so any of your deposits will be converted into that, and it’s clearly outlined at the time when you’re on the deposit screen what these are. When you sign up, it offers you a

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In this article, we’ll have a look at a recently launched Crypto Casino called Fairspin, which is offering both fiat and crypto deposits and a range of games. Registration with the platform is straightforward, although I do note that they require both an email address and a phone number when registering.

The casino uses their own token called TPlay, so any of your deposits will be converted into that, and it’s clearly outlined at the time when you’re on the deposit screen what these are. When you sign up, it offers you a 120% bonus, as well as 30 free spins with one of the slots. There are options to pay with fiat (visa/mastercard), or cryptocurrencies with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Litecoin, zCash and Tether available. The bitcoin blockchain was pretty congested at the time of writing, so I made a deposit using ethereum. Once the transaction confirmed a couple of minutes later, I got an alert by email telling me the funds were on my account, as well as the bonus funds. These bonus funds have a 25x wagering requirement to withdraw. The casino also features a cashback, offering 5% for the first couple of days, which then drops to 2% and then 1% after about a month. This gives funds back to your main balance, not your bonus balance.

Fairspin Homepage

Bonus Screen

One of the wins from my free spins

My total free bonus

The casino has a dark colour scheme, with a range of games from betting providers including Spinomenal, Microgaming, Betsoft, QucikSpin, Pragmatic Play, Playson, PGSoft, Booongo & Pragmatic Play Live.

The casino game section features a pretty solid range of tournament slots, slots, roulette, card games, video poker and then a range of live games. There was the option of a lottery, however it was blank at the time of writing.

I started off by having a look through the live casino. here it gave me three types of games, roulette, baccarat and my personal favourite blackjack. Some of them also had localised versions, with German, Russian, Macau & Turkish rooms available for Roulette.

The table I was at had a polite croupier, very high quality video and good audio, with a full table. The bets default to 10 dollars which was the minimum for the rooms available, which did catch me out on my first bet, and bonus funds aren’t eligible for play in the live casino. The betting sizes are 1, 5, 10, 20, 100 & 500 dollar bets. I played a couple of hands and unfortunately lost, so decided to move out of the live casino and give the slots a shot.

All the slots have a demo version, so you can give them a bit of a spin before committing real money. I tried a couple, crystal land is a variation more akin to a match 3 game where you spin and if the colours match, they get destroyed and you win. It also had frozen sections on the side so if you get them, it drops more and you can get combinations. There was quite a variety of games, with single line, some video-game style slots, and then a number of multi-line games. All of the games have sound, with some also featuring music, which is easy to switch on or off, and a full screen option if you want to play without distractions.

I then went into have a look at some of the roulette games. Now here I did notice some were using flash, and as I was using Brave browser (which has flash disabled) so I didn’t have the full range of games available to me. I played a couple of rounds on European roulette, and thankfully broke even or won on the games I played. So I decided then to move onto classic blackjack and played a couple of hands. I lost most of what I played, not having much luck on the night unfortunately.

Moving on from there, I remembered that I had gotten 30 free spins with my deposit, so when I went into my balance screen, it told me the game was 4 Horsemen. This autostarted, and I won a lot of the rounds, and there was bonus multiplyers on some spins, as well as additional free spins so I actually got about 42 free spins in the end instead of 30. I had no control over it though, as the spins happened automatically and at the end the bonus funds were added to my account.

So now I wanted to see how getting funds off the platform was like. I had several bonuses, one from my first deposit bonus, and the second from my free spins. You can’t withdraw without cancelling your bonus funds. Now normally I’d use them first, but as I do want to test getting funds out, I cancelled both the bonuses I had received from my first deposit and the free spins.

I chose to withdraw by ethereum, and for this it told me that the minimum withdrawal was 10 TPlay (equivalent to 0.01 ethereum) which is pretty low, so I went ahead and put in my wallet address. Once concluding the withdrawal, it said it would be processed in about 15 minutes. I did the deposit at 9:15pm and they were confirmed in my wallet by 9:53pm, so there wasn’t a major delay on this, and I was pleased with how smooth the process was. I didn’t have any KYC to do though when withdrawing, although the T&C’s say this may happen with larger withdrawals.

So all in all, summing up my experience of Fairspin casino; the casino is new so it has a solid selection of games, although maybe not the biggest range compared to more established crypto casinos, but more than enough for me to have a good session playing a range of games. Other than the few games that didn’t work because of Flash, all the games were bright, had nice graphics, pleasant audio and it was great to be able to do the demo mode on the casino games and figure out if I liked a game before betting real funds. The live casino does have a higher minimum bet than others I’ve tried, which might put some people off, but they had high quality streams and every table I played on was full with plenty of other players. Getting funds off the Fairspin casino was simple, the conversion between fiat/crypto and TPlay is clear, and getting funds off the platform was a smooth, fast experience and faster than lots of other casino’s I’ve tried.

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Solana, Polkadot, Algorand: What is the Bitcoin effect on these altcoins

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46 mins ago

September 20, 2021

Republished by Plato

With the market trading in red today pretty much all coins including Bitcoin and Ethereum are falling. However, there are some coins that made excellent gains in the last 2 months which are now facing huge price falls as well.

Which alts though?

Solana, Polkadot, and Algorand were three altcoins that successfully rallied between July and August. Polkadot rose from $12.34 all the way to $34.45 registering a 214.33% growth. Similar gains were observed for Algorand as the coin breached $2 and marked a 230.26% rise.

The most gains were seen by Solana holders though mainly because the altcoin shot up 713.94%. An increase this high was the result of the NFT hype which took it up from $26.68 to $191.07

Solana’s 713% rise | Source: TradingView – AMBCrypto

In fact, Solana and Algorand even registered new all-time highs during this time period. But each of these coins is now observing significant price falls as well.

In the last 24 hours ALGO fell by 15.26%, DOT came down by 14.37% and SOL lost 16.8% of its price as of press time.

A huge reason behind this fall is also their exhausted momentum since even after the September 7 fall, DOT and ALGO witnessed another price rise before they finally hit a slowdown.

Algorand’s 15.26% drop | Source: TradingView – AMBCrypto

Owing to this investors are possibly getting rid of their holdings in both spot and derivatives markets. Sell volumes at the time of this report have increased and liquidations rose to millions for all 3 altcoins. Since SOL gained the most, it lost the most as well and its liquidations touched $25 million.

Solana liquidations at $25 million | Source: Coinalyze – AMBCrypto

Can Bitcoin save them?

Well since Bitcoin’s price movement commands the market’s movement it is obvious that BTC needs to reduce losses first. But more importantly, these assets’ correlation to Bitcoin will determine how much they will be affected by BTC. Right now Algorand is at the lowest at 0.57, followed by Solana at 0.7, and at the highest is Polkadot (0.88)

However, surprisingly, investors are most positive about Algorand of all three hoping for a recovery soon.

Investor sentiment | Source: Santiment – AMBCrypto

Once Bitcoin and Ethereum change their movement, other coins would follow suit. And that’s when some recovery can be expected.

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Blockchain

Kraken Daily Market Report for September 19 2021

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1 hour ago

September 20, 2021

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Overview

Total spot trading volume at $598.4 million, the 30-day average is $1.36 billion.
Total futures notional at $223.4 million.
The most traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin (-2.2%), Ethereum (-3.1%), Tether (0%), Solana (-9.9%), and Cosmos (+8.8%).
Cosmos continues its hot streak, up 8.8%. Also strong returns from OMG (+10%).

September 19, 2021 $598.4M traded across all markets today Crypto, EUR, USD, JPY, CAD, GBP, CHF, AUD
BTC $47237. ↓2.2% $159.9M	ETH $3328.3 ↓3.1% $112.5M	USDT $1.0001 ↓0.01% $66.5M	SOL $152.62 ↓9.9% $39.4M	ATOM $44.205 ↑8.8% $34.8M
ADA $2.2816 ↓3.7% $33.9M	DOT $33.828 ↓2.9% $28.0M	USDC $1.0 ↓0.01% $19.8M	ALGO $1.975 ↓4.8% $16.0M	XTZ $6.5085 ↑1.1% $16.0M
XRP $1.0480 ↓2.5% $11.6M	LINK $27.364 ↓3.3% $8.56M	DOGE $0.2329 ↓3.3% $7.51M	LTC $181.89 ↑0.24% $7.26M	OMG $9.6562 ↑10% $6.8M
KSM $400.45 ↓4.2% $6.65M	EOS $4.912 ↓9.9% $4.86M	CRV $3.0345 ↑5.8% $4.84M	BCH $610.63 ↓3.2% $4.79M	DYDX $14.288 ↓12% $4.55M
MATIC $1.3112 ↓4.1% $4.14M	XLM $0.3134 ↓2.7% $3.04M	MOVR $387.12 ↓2.1% $2.95M	MINA $5.38 ↑1.7% $2.88M	ZEC $133.55 ↓3.8% $2.77M
TRX $0.1037 ↓2.0% $2.4M	AAVE $339.02 ↓4.5% $2.29M	SC $0.0180 ↓5.1% $2.02M	XMR $260.10 ↓4.2% $1.99M	FLOW $20.114 ↓2.9% $1.93M
DAI $1.0002 ↑0.01% $1.85M	ANT $5.9664 ↓3.2% $1.76M	MLN $123.19 ↑2.4% $1.72M	SNX $12.82 ↑1.7% $1.47M	DASH $192.81 ↓3.6% $1.32M
NANO $5.5184 ↓0.9% $1.31M	OXT $0.3665 ↓2.7% $1.29M	ETC $55.316 ↓2.8% $1.26M	SRM $9.8570 ↓8.9% $1.23M	KAVA $6.0120 ↓4.3% $1.09M
CQT $1.193 ↓2.6% $907K	ICX $1.7976 ↓6.7% $837K	SDN $5.84 ↓2.7% $819K	KEEP $0.4473 ↓6.4% $809K	UNI $23.906 ↓2.3% $807K
WAVES $27.5 ↓5.1% $798K	KAR $9.941 ↓11% $790K	FIL $83.437 ↓1.0% $725K	YFI $32933. ↓2.6% $649K	COMP $392.7 ↓2.1% $599K
QTUM $12.145 ↓3.3% $577K	OCEAN $0.7578 ↓5.7% $577K	SUSHI $12.017 ↓5.3% $513K	REN $0.8905 ↓5.9% $501K	GRT $0.8017 ↓3.4% $429K
RARI $19.69 ↓7.9% $406K	KNC $1.7345 ↓3.5% $339K	STORJ $1.3421 ↓3.9% $318K	PAXG $1763.7 ↓0.21% $305K	BAT $0.7403 ↓1.3% $269K
CTSI $0.6513 ↓3.6% $268K	AXS $63.35 ↓2.2% $245K	ENJ $1.5619 ↓4.9% $220K	LSK $3.6100 ↓0.6% $216K	ZRX $1.047 ↓5.4% $207K
EWT $10.199 ↓4.7% $197K	BAL $24.71 ↓3.9% $191K	MIR $3.6362 ↓3.0% $177K	CHZ $0.3165 ↓3.6% $156K	1INCH $2.9619 ↓4.3% $142K
GNO $265.44 ↓5.0% $141K	PERP $14.055 ↓5.7% $139K	MANA $0.7986 ↓2.8% $136K	BADGER $20.576 ↓8.8% $136K	OGN $1.0027 ↓5.0% $125K
MKR $2730.0 ↓2.9% $115K	INJ $10.950 ↑2.0% $99.1K	REP $25.857 ↓1.8% $95.5K	LPT $18.11 ↓4.2% $89.2K	ANKR $0.0947 ↓0.3% $76.3K
LRC $0.4531 ↓1.5% $71.4K	GHST $1.6867 ↓1.2% $56.2K	BAND $8.852 ↓4.2% $48.2K	SAND $0.7381 ↓4.7% $43.9K	TBTC $48240. ↓3.4% $32.5K
REPV2 $25.234 ↓3.7% $27.3K	BNT $3.923 ↓1.3% $15.5K	WBTC $47699. ↓0.4% $12.3K

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Trading Volume by Asset

The figures below break down the trading volume of the largest, mid-size, and smallest assets. Cryptos are in purple, fiats are in blue. For each asset, the chart contains the daily trading volume in USD, and the percentage of the total trading volume. The percentages for fiats and cryptos are treated separately, so that they both add up to 100%.

Figure 1: Largest trading assets: trading volume (measured in USD) and its percentage of the total trading volume (September 20 2021)

Figure 2: Mid-size trading assets: (measured in USD) (September 20 2021)

###########. Daily Returns. #################################################

Daily Returns %

Figure 3: Returns over USD and XBT. Relative volume and return size is indicated by the size of the font. (September 20 2021)

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The values generated in this report are from public market data distributed from Kraken WebSockets api. The total volumes and returns are calculated over the reporting day using UTC time.

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Taker Protocol Raises $3M to Transform NFT Liquidity and Utilization

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2 hours ago

September 20, 2021

Republished by Plato

New York, United States, 20th September, 2021,

Taker Protocol, a crypto liquidity protocol for NFTs, has raised $3 million from a number of reputable investors to build new financial primitives into the burgeoning NFT market.

The round was led by Electric Capital, with DCG, Ascentive Assets, Dragonfly Capital, Spartan Group, The LAO, Sfermion and Morningstar Ventures participating as well.

Taker Protocol focuses on improving the liquidity available in the NFT market. Due to the unique non-fungible structure of NFTs, existing DeFi primitives are difficult to integrate into the market, resulting in significant issues in terms of overall liquidity. The value of an NFT is extremely volatile and often effectively becomes zero as no buyers can be found at any reasonable price. Furthermore, NFTs are difficult to use productively after purchase and often end up forgotten in the user’s wallet.

Taker Protocol aims to solve the worst of the liquidity issues. Allowing lenders and borrowers to liquidate and rent assets that aren’t cryptocurrencies creates new liquidity streams and opportunities. For Taker, these assets will include NFTs, financial papers, synthetic assets, and much more.

The TKR token defines membership in the Taker DAO, which has several key functions in the system. In addition to setting loan-to-value rates and other parameters in the protocol, the DAO will also contribute in fairly appraising a particular NFT or NFT collection. This means that each asset supported by Taker will have a guaranteed fair floor price. In return, TKR holders will be able to obtain rewards and receive a portion of platform income.

The funds received will help Taker launch the full version of the protocol across multiple chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, BSC and Near. The support of major stakeholders and participants in the NFT ecosystem will also help further development of the project.

Taker DAO contains many different Curator DAOs (Sub-DAOs), each sub-DAO will manage their own whitelist and a floor price for any NFT on their whitelist if the borrower defaults on the loan. We believe that it is best to mitigate the risks for our lenders by carefully selecting the NFT assets that our community desires and trusts the most. Aligning the interest of the DAOs with that of the lenders, we will mitigate the risk exposure for the lenders and optimize the profits for the DAOs. Moreover, each sub-DAO will have its own funds and can choose to focus exclusively on a specific type of NFT assets. For example, it could be artworks-only or Metaverse-only.

Taker Co-Founder Angel Xu comments:

“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome so many well-established investment funds to the team. Their participation heralds an exciting new phase for the protocol as we seek to address persistent problems in the NFT lending market for the benefit of end-users. This investment will enable us to further optimize liquidation of NFT assets across multiple blockchains, removing the barriers to entry that prevent new players from entering the market.”

“Taker Protocol is using an innovative approach to solve the biggest problem in the NFT space — lack of liquidity. With Taker, we are one step closer to the world where anyone anywhere can use their NFT assets to take out a loan.” (Maria Shen, Partner at Electric Capital)

About Taker

NFT DeFi: Taker is the first protocol to provide liquidity to the NFT market through a DAO. It is a multi-strategy, cross-chain lending protocol for lenders and borrowers to liquidate and rent all kinds of crypto assets, including financial papers, synthetic assets, and more. Taker provides ensured liquidity via our lenderDao infrastructure and extensions that could be integrated into NFT marketplaces.