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The cryptocurrency industry is booming throughout the past year, and the increase in the total market capitalization is definitive proof.

The market is, at the time of this writing, valued at about $1.5 trillion. The same can be said about the DeFi industry. The total value locked in various protocols exceeds $39 billion, and the direction has been up only for quite some time.

However, this has also brought certain inefficiencies in different solutions, including Ethereum. Transaction fees on the network surge as it’s clogged by new participants. This is the reason we’ve seen plenty of alternative solutions being developed to tackle these issues.

NEXT chain is a new-generation blockchain that allows the tokenization of various assets, making them instantly tradeable at quick speeds and low fees.

What is NEXT Chain?

NEXT Chain is a blockchain that allows anyone to create and maintain their own digital assets in a manner that’s easy and rather similar to the ERC20 protocol standard running on Ethereum. All assets are tradeable directly as the team’s aim is to deliver transparent liquidity to existing and new projects.

The capabilities of the network include but are not limited to:

• Issuing digital fungible assets such as bonds, stocks, and other securities
• Creating non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
• Creating and managing sovereign and decentralized identities
• Design and run other types of arbitrary-complex smart contracts

It’s also worth noting that the blockchain is up and running since April 2019. It already has almost 200 master nodes, and, as the team reports, it doesn’t have a single failed transaction.

Additionally, the team aims to deliver the most profit for its community by taking advantage of different financial activities while also putting real-backed assets on-chain such as company stocks or commodities like gold, for example. It will also be connected to a fiat gateway, so there’s no middleman if the user decides to swap to EUR or USD, for instance.

The team has implemented a combination of Proof of Work and Proo of Stake consensus algorithms with master node validators acting as a Layer 2 technology. This allows the network to achieve high transactional throughput, typical of PoS networks, while also keeping the PoW principles to guarantee that miners calculate hashes with strong encryption.

Some of the advantages of these integrations include low transaction fees, high speeds, and scalability.

What Are the Benefits for Projects and Investors?

Teams are incentivized to build on NEXT Chain through a variety of different mechanisms, mainly through the capabilities of the blockchain itself.

They can create assets quickly and easily and also take advantage of crowdfunding opportunities. The transactions are quick, and the fees are comparatively lower. The team reports that the blockchain can handle up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) which is considerably more than Bitcoin or Ethereum’s chains.

On the other hand, investors can benefit from liquidity farming, staking rewards, master node rewards, mining, as well as from master node governance.

The NEXT Exchange

Another important part of NEXT’s ecosystem is the NEXT Exchange. It’s built on the proprietary blockchain, and it’s fueled by master nodes that allow it to reach a very high transactional throughput.

Each user retains full custody over their funds and gains access to their own private keys. It’s also worth noting that the team is building an alternative to Uniswap and PancakeSwap as the leading decentralized exchanges on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, respectively.

In addition to that, there are other initiatives that the project has in store, such as:

• New and updated desktop wallet
• Upgraded block explorer
• A mobile app
• Integrating smart contracts on NEXT chain
• Atomic swaps

The popular blockchain project TRON will introduce the DLT-agnostic prediction market Prosper to its ecosystem. TRON users and TRX holders will be able to provide liquidity and enhance the success-rate of the prediction market solution.

TRON Teams Up With Prosper

Justin Sun’s TRON announced its latest partnership in a press release shared with CryptoPotato earlier today. It informed that the two blockchain projects have teamed up to address some of the issues related to decentralized prediction markets.

Such tools have been active for a while, but the statement highlighted the lack of sufficient liquidity as a major hurdle on their way to receive mass adoption. This comes mostly because each prediction market “has traditionally been segregated to a single chain,” and not enough users could provide the necessary liquidity to produce accurate predictions.

Prosper works similarly – the higher the liquidity is, meaning more users are involved, the more “predictions are made, leading to a more accurate and robust prediction outcome based on greater collective insight from the crowd.”

Furthermore, Prosper operates a cross-chain platform, which enables it to aggregate liquidity into its platform regardless of the user’s access point.

With the introduction of TRX, one of the largest digital assets by market cap, TRON and Prosper expect a surge in the liquidity to the underlying pool. Additionally, the integration will enable users to receive access to new applications that could impact their investment strategies and potential earnings.

The statement also touched upon a free insurance pool provided by Prosper. It allows the platform to repay any funds stolen from hacks from an emergency fund that is automatically set aside.

This partnership with TRON is an extension of Prosper’s efforts to collaborate with the biggest players of the DeFi world.” – said Iva Wisher, co-founder of Prosper.

TRON Aims at Ethereum

The announcement further explained that TRON is currently “working to create a competing DeFi ecosystem that rivals its counterparts while allowing for inexpensive transactions, creating a win-win situation for platform users.”

The PR outlined Ethereum’s major role in the space but touched upon its scaling issues, which have caused significant transaction delays and high gas costs.

Popular venture capitalist and Bitcoin bull Timothy “Tim” Draper predicted that major online streaming platform Netflix could be the next company to join the bitcoin buying bandwagon.

Next Bitcoin Investor Could Be Netflix

Speaking in a recent episode of the Unstoppable Podcast, Tim Draper stated that Netflix could be the next in line to add bitcoin to its balance sheet. According to him, the company’s co-founder and co-CEO, Reed Hastings, makes Netflix a likely bitcoin investor. Draper buttressed his point, saying:

“I think Reed Hastings is a very innovative guy and has a lot of creative thinking and I think he still controls the reins at Netflix. And so I think that might be the next big one to fall.”

Meanwhile, the venture capitalist mentioned social media giant Facebook, as well as other major companies like Apple, and Google, as likely candidates to invest in bitcoin. However, Draper noted that the companies were instead trying to create a centralized currency of their own.

Draper also stated that if he was the chief financial officer (CFO) of any major organization, he would advise the company to allocate a portion of their portfolio to bitcoin. According to the BTC proponent, bitcoin served as a hedge against inflation.

Since Tesla’s billion-dollar bitcoin investment, there have been speculations about which company would emulate Tesla’s move. Increased institutional interest in bitcoin is largely responsible for BTC’s bullish momentum. Meanwhile, Firms like Microstrategy and Square recently added to their bitcoin holdings.

Amazon Likely to Accept Bitcoin as a Payment Method?

Apart from pitching Netflix as the next possible bitcoin investor, the venture capitalist stated that the retail giant Amazon could start accepting bitcoin. Adding that, people could use the flagship cryptocurrency to purchase products on Amazon.

Back in February, there were reports that Amazon was looking to introduce a new project that would enable customers to convert cash into digital currency. While the project would launch in Mexico, the company did not state what digital assets it would support, although there were speculations that the company may not use popular crypto-assets like BTC or ether.

While also speaking on bitcoin’s price target, Draper said:

“The current currency holdings around the world in dollars is about $100 trillion and bitcoin’s market cap is just reaching a trillion now. So there’s no reason it can’t go up a 100 fold. It’s not like it is going to completely replace the dollar. Although I think people are going to laugh when they are trying to buy things with dollars in the future.”

The venture capitalist made a prediction earlier in 2020 that the price of bitcoin would reach $250,000 by the end of 2022 or early in 2023.