About Bancor Defi Coins
Bancor Defi Coins is an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables automated, decentralized exchange on Ethereum and across blockchains. The protocol is made up of a series of smart contracts that are designed to pool liquidity and perform peer-to-contract trades in a single transaction with no counterparty. Users stake BNT in automated market makers in exchange for trading fees, BNT staking rewards and voting rights in the Bancor DAO.
Bancor has processed more than $2 billion in trade volume across thousands of tokens, with millions in fees generated by stakes. Bancor is a decentralized liquidity network that allows you to hold any Ethereum token and convert it to any other token in the network, with no counterparty, at an automatically calculated price, using a simple web wallet.
Quick Fact About Bancor Defi Coins
| Coin Basic | Information |
|---|---|
| DEFI Coin Name | Bancor Network |
| Circulating Supply | 97,316,999 BNT |
| Total Supply | 97,316,999 |
| Contract Address | 0x1f573d6fb3f13d689ff844b4ce37794d79a7ff1c |
| Source Code | Click Here To View Source Code |
| Explorers | Click Here To Visit |
| Twitter Group | Click Here To Visit Twitter Group |
| Documentation | Click Here To View |
| Project Location | N/A |
| Official Project Website | Click Here To Visit Project Website |
Bancor Network Background
The Bancor Network is overseen by the Bancor Foundation, which is based in Zug, Switzerland. The company also operates a Research & Development center in Tel Aviv, Israel, which gives the company a foothold in the rising blockchain hub in Zug as well as the rising Middle Eastern technology center of Tel Aviv.
The company was founded in 2016 by a group is Israelis with a background in Silicon Valley start-ups, as well as experience in scaling startups and blockchain technologies. It was named after the international trade balancing currency initially envisioned by John Maynard Keynes.
Bancor price Today
Bancor price today is $1.57 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $41,799,812 USD. Bancor is down 0.92% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #105, with a market cap of $152,953,356 USD. It has a circulating supply of 97,316,999 BNT coins and the max. supply is not available.
Automatic Liquidity
One of the greatest benefits of Bancor and the BNT token is that they bring liquidity to cryptocurrency markets, and without liquidity, currencies are apt to wither and die. After all, who wants to own a currency that can’t be easily bought and sold.
Of course, the top cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, and others in the top 20 have enough trading volume on their own, but the Bancor Protocol brings a unique solution that delivers automatic decentralized liquidity to any token.
The BNT Token
As was mentioned earlier, Bancor held an ICO on June 12, 2017 that raised $153 million in just three hours. That ICO sold roughly 40 million BNT tokens at an average price of $3.92 each. Currently, there’s a circulating supply of BNT of nearly 70 million tokens.
The BNT token hit its all-time high of $10.00 on January 10, 2018 and its all-time low of $0.117415 on March 13, 2020. As of mid-June 2020 it has recovered remarkably from its March all-time low and trades at $1.17 for an amazing gain of 1,500% in three months! That gain was primarily powered by news of the July 2020 release of Bancor V2.
The circulating supply can change however since BNT is created as needed to initiate exchanges. The Bancor protocol will create as much BNT as needed to match the value of currencies held within the smart contract. Once staking rewards are added the circulating supply will necessarily increase more rapidly and regularly.
Bancor Staking Rewards
BNT staking rewards are a future enhancement that is planned to incentivize users to provide liquidity for the network. The basis for adding staking is that Bancor needs liquidity to lower fees for traders, while also increasing trading volume and overall network fees. By providing users with an incentive to add liquidity to the network Bancor is expecting to see its network grow and flourish.
While plans for adding staking rewards are in the early stages the basics are that users will receive rewards of BNT for holding their BNT in an existing liquidity pool such as MKR/BNT or ETH/BNT. The amount of new BNT that will be created as staking rewards and the distribution of staking rewards to different pools on the network will be decided by users voting in the BancorDAO.
Bancor Defi Coins type of reward system is expected to pull new users into the ecosystem thanks to the APR generated by fees and staking rewards. Bancor is carefully designing their staking rewards system to avoid concentrating the rewards in a small number of pools, choosing instead to provide an even distribution across dozens of network pools.
