​​Synthetix will launch derivatives trading in Q3 2020. According to the recently released updated roadmap non-custodial exchange will offer Equities, ETFs, Indices, leveraged trading in Q2 and binary options and futures in Q3.

​​BitMax token (BTMX) will get listed on Gate exchange as of March 11. The BTMX/USDT trading will open at UTC 4:00, March 11 on Gate. The withdrawal service will be available afterward. This will be the third big market for BTMX after native trading platform and FTX.

​​CoinList will host Solana (SOL) auction as of March 17. The dutch auction will have a start price of $4 USD and the bottom price of $0.04 USD without purchase size restrictions. Solana will offer 90% guarantee of the auction price for 12 months period for those who will stake the coins during 3 month from the auction. 90% guarantee of the auction price will apply to coins purchased via exchange as well. Solana will be selling additional portions of coins from Community reserve pool(34% of total supply) based on the formula 100 SOL staked=100 SOL to be sold if the market price will be above the auction price.

Sale details:
Total supply(Genesis block): 500M SOL
To be sold on CoinList: 1.6% (8M SOL)
Raised during private sale: $23.9M USD
Private sale prices: $0.04 - $0.25 USD
Sold during private sale: 35.6% (178M SOL)
Private sale lockup: 9 months
Team coins lockup: 9 months

Do you plan to participate in Solana auction?

​​OKEX will launch ADA/USD & ADA/USDT perpetual swap contract as of March 13. Trading with up to 20x leverage will start on OKEx from 07:00 Mar 13, 2020 (UTC).

​​Binance will offer EOS(EOS) staking as of March 13. Starting from 2020/03/13 at 00:00 AM UTC, Binance will start taking live snapshots of user EOS balances. Rewards to be distributed monthly based on 1-2% estimated annual yield.

​​Following Libra Association example Celo has introduced a Celo Alliance. Celo is an open-source platform that plans to issue a utility digital token Celo Gold and a stablecoin Celo Dollar. The project will compete in some way with Facebook’s cryptocurrency project. Among Celo Alliance members: Polychain Capital, a16z, Coinbase Ventures Bison Trails and Anchorage.

As it was previously announced Celo will have a public sale via CoinList. According to the email to CoinList customers preregistration for an auction is already open. Payments startup Celo has already raised a total of $36.5M in funding over 2 rounds with participation of Polychain Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others.

​​AVA Labs has released a codebase and announced a bug bounty with $50K USD prize pool. According to the recent blog post the codebase of the AVA blockchain platform is now available for public as an open source project seeking community involvement for developing and testing.

To onboard developers, security engineers and bug hunters the Developer Accelerator Program has been introduced. During the first phase of the program every bug submission can ear up to $50K USD.

​​5 coins with highest adjusted annualized staking reward. Adjusted reward is the annual reward rate adjusted by the annual dilution of the network. Staking is the process of locking cryptocurrencies to receive rewards while contributing to blockchain networks. Data based on StakingRewards website.

​​The cryptocurrency market is in panic selling mode. BTC has suddenly touched $5,5K price level. Do you sell/buy or hodl?

​​Bitcoins biggest single day falls during 2015-2020. It is not the biggest single day fall in BTC history but it is the worst one during last 5 years.

​​Pandemic effect: month to date of performance of different asset classes. Both Chinese SSE (Shanghai Stock Exchange) and SZSE(Shenzhen Stock Exchange) indexes has shown pretty conservative performance during March comparing to other markets. U.S., European and Japanese markets are currently in anticipation of further coronavirus impact. BTC is ahead of this race as most volatile asset.

​​Monday on financial markets. Today’s performance of some of the main stock indexes:
Stoxx 50 (E.U.): -7.4%
FTSE 100 (U.K.): -6.3%
SZSE (China): -5.3%
HSI (Hong Kong): -4.0%
SSE (China): -3.4%
Nikkei 225 (Japan): - 2.5%
U.S. markets will open later today.

​​MakerDAO will host MKR token auction on March 19 to cover $4M debt. The $4M USD debt has happened due to lack of competition during liquidation collateral auction on MakerDAO last week. As a result some liquidators were able to win the auction with 0 DAI bids due to lack of other bids.

MKR token auction will occur on the Maker Protocol, March 19th, tentatively starting at 6:25am ET (March 19, 10:25 am UTC) to recapitalize the system. This auction is open to anyone; however, all participants must run an Auction Keeper, open-source software that enables users to bid in the auction process. MKR will be auctioned off in lots for 50,000 Dai.

The protocol offers a Keeper (bidder) a lot of 250 MKR for 50,000 Dai, which translates to a price of 200 Dai/MKR. A second keeper bids 50,000 Dai but only requires 230 MKR, which translates to a price of 217 Dai/MKR. The bid prices increase through the Keepers’ willingness to take slightly less MKR in exchange for 50,000 Dai. If no one bids on the first lot of 250 MKR, then the auction can be re-initialized after three days, offering 20% more MKR (300 MKR) for 50,000 Dai, which translates to a price of 166.66 Dai/MKR.

​​U.S. stock market plunge despite the recent rates cut to near zero level by the The Federal Reserve. After the first circuit breaker the trading is live at the moment. Circuit breakers halt trading on the stock markets during dramatic drops and are set at 7%, 13%, and 20% of the closing price for the previous day.

​​Sapien Network will be using Matic scaling solution in its social media platform. According to the recently released blog post Sapien can be considered a decentralised version of Reddit with several added features, functionalities, and capabilities. By integrating with Matic Network, Sapien users will be empowered with high-throughput, low-fee infrastructure for sending transactions, tips, and the promotion of high-quality posts and comments.

​​BitMex has refunded 156 accounts that were erroneously triggered on ETHUSD, caused by the late processing of market orders. According to the recent blog post BitMEX claims that platform was subject to two DDoS attacks at 02:16 UTC and 12:56 UTC last Friday, March 13. These attacks on BitMex Trollbox chat has stopped the match engine, delayed or prevented requests going to and from the BitMEX causing BitMEX to go offline for around half an hour. As a result, users lost funds via liquidations that should not have occurred. A total of 40.297 XBT was refunded.

​​Binance announced its 7th community coin vote: STPT vs IRIS. STP Networks (STPT) and Iris Network (IRIS) will participate in this round and compete for a listing on Binance. The vote will start at 2020/03/24 4:00 AM (UTC) for 24 hours and will close at 2020/03/25 4:00 AM (UTC). The number of votes each user receives will be determined by their 6-day average (hourly snapshots) BNB holdings from: BNB holdings from: 2020/03/18 0:00 AM (UTC) to 2020/03/24 0:00 AM (UTC).

Which project will you vote for?

​​KuCoin introduced its new business structure with KuGroup on top and two new products: KuChain and KuDEX. According to the recent blog post KuGroup consists of three business groups: KuCoin Global, KuCloud, and the KuChain & KCS Ecosystem. KuChain will support many high-performance Dapps, and the decentralized exchange KuDEX is very likely to be the first one.

Michael Gan will become the Chairman of KuGroup and will oversee the global strategy of KuCoin Global and KuChain, a Public Chain powered by KuCoin. KuCoin co-founder Johnny Lyu will take over the role of KuCoin Global CEO and will manage operations of KuCoin, KuMEX, Pool-X. More updates to follow.

​​Bithumb Futures will start operations on March 18 with BTC/USDT perpetual contract. The trading for Bitcoin Perpetual Contract with up to 100x leverage, will be officially launched on March 18th at 8:00 a.m. (EDT). The platform has been open for global user registration since the beginning of March. Previously it was announced that some of the BitMax executives has joined Bithumb Futures trading platform at key positions.

​​KuCoin’s PoS mining platform Pool-X will offer EOS and XTZ staking on March 20. A time-limited staking campaign will start at 14:00:00 on March 20, 2020 (UTC+8). EOS and XTZ will be offered for 30 days with 2% and 6% APR respectively. During the staking period, in addition to the staking rewards, users will also share mining rewards of 250K POL every day.

​​Steem will have a hard fork on Friday March 20. Tron Foundation has acquired Steemit in February this year. Since then there is conflict between Justin Sun and the Steem community that will lead to a hard fork on March 20. As a result of this a new blockchain Hive with native token HIVE will appear at 10am EST, Friday, March 20th. All valid accounts on the Steem blockchain will receive an airdrop on Hive and will appear on the Hive Network as well.

Steemit is a blockchain-based blogging and social media website, which rewards its users with the cryptocurrency STEEM for publishing and curating content.