Cryptocurrencies

Smart Contracts – Under the Hood and EVM

💡 Info: This article originally appeared under the Finxter brand — in collaboration with NotSatoshi. Enjoy! In the previous posts, we developed simple smart contracts, deployed them using Remix or Truffle, and interacted with them using JSON-RPC interface providers such as using web3.py or web3.js. In this post, we shall take a closer examination into […]

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Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms – An Overview

This article originally appeared on the Finxter blog—our companion blog for learning programming languages. Finxter Blog: Common Consensus mechanisms in Blockchains We know what a blockchain is and its wide applications. Blockchain is a distributed computing technology involving multiple nodes distributed across geographies. The problem is to ensure that each node gets the exact copy

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Setting up Polygon With Metamask

What Is Polygon? Previously Matic Network, Polygon functions as a framework designed to connect blockchain networks (i.e. interoperability). Polygon seeks to build upon Ethereum’s limitations (poor user experience, throughput, lack of governance). Their solution is a sidechain. Developers can tailor their needs and launch preset blockchain networks. This means that the creation of sovereign blockchains

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dydx – A Simple Illustrated Guide with Video

dYdX is an open-sourced, decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Ethereum blockchain. Users can lend, borrow, and bet using the margin trading protocol on the future prices of crypto assets. Tools you’d normally find in traditional finance markets will be brought to the forefront with dYdX. dYdX plans to take DeFi (decentralized finance) to the

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[Course] Binance API Trading Bot – SMA, MACD and Bollinger Bands

Course Introduction Welcome to the course – More crypto trading bots on Binance,  which is an extension of the first course Creating Your First Simple Crypto-Trading Bot with Binance API. In this course, we will study three more algorithms that you can use for crypto trading and design trading bots with these algorithms using python-binance

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Using python-binance API for Crypto Trading

Binance is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges supporting multiple cryptocurrencies. Some of the cryptocurrencies on Binance include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Litecoin, etc. Binance owns its native cryptocurrency called Binance coin(BNB). For trading on Binance, there is a need to interact with the Binance exchange. The Binance exchange server has support for both RESTful and

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Curated List of Bitcoin Python Libraries

Let’s explore some python libraries in active development for the bitcoin market. This blog post provides a list of some interesting python packages which can be used for getting cryptocurrency pricing, interacting with crypto exchanges and wallets, crypto trading bot and market data feeders. Cryptocurrency Pricing Following packages can be used for getting cryptocurrency pricing

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