This Week on StakeCube, 9th of September 2022

General News

Crypto Markets Update

After a pretty bad beginning of the week, the Crypto markets finally rallied on Friday, with Bitcoin again trading well above the $20,000 level. Many are now saying that last week’s poor performance was nothing but a bear trap, and that perhaps the bottom is finally in. However it wasn’t just the Crypto markets that did well, but all risk assets in general. The most likely reason for this change is next week’s release of monthly CPI data in the US. Markets are expecting that the CPI figure will reflect a slowdown or even a correction of inflation, making it unnecessary for the Fed to take further action.

Nevertheless, central banks have continued to state their intention to bring inflation back to normal levels. It could be that even in the case of slowing inflation, the Fed still decides to hike interest rates to speed up the process. After all, the current official US inflation figure of around 9% is well above the 2% target. But the CPI data release is not the only event planned for next week, as the Ethereum merge is also scheduled to happen most likely between Tuesday and Wednesday. As these events unfold, we can expect great volatility in the markets next week.

StakeCube in Numbers

StakeCube had a good week, with SCC showing very strong growth. Part of it can be explained by the general market trend, but it should be said that SCC also gained value with respect to BTC, as it is now trading well above 1,300 Satoshi. User count had stronger than usual growth as well, with almost 500 new registrations this week.

  • User Count: 147,852 +0.25%
  • Pool Value: 649.16 BTC -0.16%
  • SCC Price: $0.283 +15.51%
  • SCC Market Cap: $3,061,000 +15.21%
  • Daily Exchange Volume $26,359 -29.46%
  • Daily SCP Transactions: 19 -20.83%
Top 5 Gainers

RVN tops the list this week, with a huge growth of close to 80%. One possible reason for this could be the expectation that many Ethereum miners will move to the Ravencoin blockchain. At least the RVN team has expressed that much:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ravencoin/status/1566778816831307778

SCC also made the list, reaching the top 4!

  1. RVN +78.6
  2. FIRO +27.0
  3. RDD +18.9%
  4. SCC +15.5%
  5. NEBL +15.3%
New Earn System Coins

This week we have added PIVX, SYS and SAPP to the Earn system. Now only Dash and SCC remain to be added to complete the process before the StakeCube V3 release.

For those of you that don’t know yet, the Earn system is a way of combining staking and masternode rewards in order to maximize earnings for the user. Our team members carefully study the profitability of staking and masternodes in order to balance the number of coins contained in our staking and masternode wallets. All rewards generated by these wallets are then credited daily to the user proportionally to their balance. This improves earnings for the user, eliminates the need to reserve shared masternode slots, and greatly simplifies reporting.

In order to receive Earn rewards, you need to hold a minimum balance of the respective coins. These are the minimums for all coins currently in the Earn system:

  • 777: 1
  • AEM: 100
  • ALIAS: 10
  • ASAFE: 10
  • BBK: 100
  • BIR: 10
  • BITB: 100
  • BLOCK: 1
  • BTC2: 1
  • COLX: 100
  • DASHD: 1
  • DIVI: 100
  • DOGEC: 1
  • ECA: 100
  • FLS: 1
  • GHOST: 10
  • KMD: 1
  • KTS: 10
  • MERGE: 100
  • MONK: 10
  • NAV: 10
  • NEBL: 10
  • ONION: 10
  • PAC: 100
  • PHR: 10
  • PIRATE: 100
  • PIVX: 10
  • PNY: 10
  • RDD: 100
  • RPD: 10
  • SAPP: 1
  • SEND: 10
  • SMART: 100
  • XP: 100
  • ZNZ: 10

In order to check your earnings derived from the Earn system, simply check the activity section in your StakeCube wallet:

https://stakecube.net/app/coin/activity

New NodeCube Coins

This week we added 4 new coins to NodeCube. These are the newly added coins together with some statistics:

BBK

  • Masternode collateral: 150,000 coins
  • Masternode collateral value: $30
  • ROI: 47.45%
  • Monthly earnings: $1.58

SAPP

  • Masternode collateral: 200,000 coins
  • Masternode collateral value: $87,500
  • ROI: 53.55%
  • Monthly earnings: $3850.74

COLX

  • Masternode collateral: 10,000,000 coins
  • Masternode collateral value: $450
  • ROI: 17.20%
  • Monthly earnings: $7.76

MERGE

  • Masternode collateral: 10,000 coins
  • Masternode collateral value: $40
  • ROI: 31.19%
  • Monthly earnings: $1.02

You can now deploy both Hot and Cold nodes of these coins.

Data for these masternodes have been taken from https://masternodes.online/

XP Volume Spike

This week the XP/SCC trading pair experienced an unusual explosion in activity, reaching 10,000 SCC daily volume on Thursday and a price of 153,637 Olegtoshis. This price is almost 15 times higher than the price XP had a week ago. However, it seems that since Thursday things have calmed down once again and the price is trading at similar levels to last week.

Moonerradar Support for StakeCube

Moonerradar is a Crypto analytics website, mostly focused on the German public. Now they have announced the implementation of a new feature: tracking of staking, lending, interest and masternode rewards:

https://twitter.com/KryptoMagazin/status/1567087469157392384

As it seems, they support StakeCube data, so feel free to take a look at their website:

https://moonerradar.com/

MeaTec Downtime

MeaTec had another downtime of 37 hours this week. The explanation they gave was once again maintenance work at the power plant. This was the official communication:

New Dash Shared Masternode Filled

This week we filled and installed our 23rd Dash shared masternode. Seems like now we are filling a new one approximately every two weeks.  With the newest one, we already have more than $1,120,000 worth of Dash in masternode collaterals, generating close to 160 Dash monthly!

Development News

SCP Wallet v1.1.9

Today we released a new minor upgrade for SCP Wallet! This release brings with it a well-desired feature: multi-accounts. With multi-accounts, you can now generate and use unlimited SCP accounts within a single wallet! This upgrade also allows the GUI wallet to access headless wallets due to the addition of unencrypted key support. SCP node operators can easily switch between GUI / CLI with no loss of control over the wallet system!

Outside of these useful features, are a handful of performance improvements for a snappy, responsive dashboard, improved staking, and fixed cross-platform features such as the wallet export button.

Download the new wallet, and review the release notes, here:

https://github.com/stakecube/StakeCubeProtocol/releases/latest

Wallet Maintenance News

We updated the following wallets:

ETH & ERC20
Previous version: 1.10.19
New version: 1.10.23

Security Notice

Please read the following information regarding the security of your account and funds:

The StakeCube.net team will:

  • Never contact you first
  • Never ask you to send them or move coins to some other address
  • Never ask you for remote access or to install any third party software
  • Never ask you for your password or 2FA codes
  • Never provide support using direct messages

If you observe any of these listed behaviors, someone is trying to steal money from you. This applies to all of our social media channels. Our team will post official messages in the appropriate channels, and we only offer support through our ticket system on our support email:

support@stakecube.zohodesk.com

Please, also take into account the following measures to keep your account secure:

  • Enable 2FA in the account settings
  • Enable IP verification in the account settings
  • Use a strong password
  • Change the password regularly
  • Never share your password with others
  • Never allow remote access to your devices
  • If you require assistance, use only the official channels
  • Download software only from verified sources

SCP Wallet is now signed with JSKitty’s public PGP key. This allows users to verify that the wallet has been cryptographically signed and approved by him. Even if our GitHub is compromised, the downloads are still safe as long as the PGP verification confirms that the files have not been tampered with. If you download SCP, please verify the binary against our developer’s public key:

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