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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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3 reasons why Tezos (XTZ) price has gained 85% this month

Major protocol improvements, attractive staking rewards and real-world adoption from banks back the current bullish price action seen in XTZ.

The Ethereum (ETH) network is currently the dominant layer-one protocol in terms of smart contract deployment and active users, but the race to become the 'world’s computer' is far from settled because competing protocols are gaining traction by offering solutions to high transaction costs and slow confirmation times, the biggest problems facing the network.

One project that has been on the rise over the past month is Tezos, a proof-of-stake blockchain network that is designed to evolve over time without the needing to undergo a hard fork.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that since hitting a low of $2.09 on July 20, the price of XTZ has rallied 165% to a high of $5.53 on Aug. 27 as its 24-hour trading volume surged abov $1 billion.

XTZ/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Three reasons for the strong growth seen in XTZ over the past month include improvements made to the network through the recent ‘Granada’ upgrade, the adoption of the Tezos network by several large banking institutions and attractive staking rewards that entice token holders to stake their coins on the network.

Protocol upgrade reduces transaction costs

As mentioned earlier, the Tezos network is a self-amending blockchain that is capable of being upgraded over time without the need to undergo a hard fork.

Altogether, the Tezos network has undergone seven successful upgrades since launching and and three of them occurred in 2021. The most recent 'Granada' upgrade was implemented on Aug. 6.

According to the team at Tezos, some of the improvements from this recent upgrade include a reduction in the block time from 60 seconds to 30 seconds and a reduction in gas consumption by smart contracts by an average factor of 3 to 6 times.

The new upgrade also introduced liquidity baking which “incentivizes large amounts of decentralized liquidity provision between XTZ and tzBTC by minting a small amount of XTZ every block and depositing it inside of a constant product market-making smart-contract.”

Real-world adoption driven by large banks

A second development that helped provide a boost in the price and awareness was Tezos's adoption by digital asset firm Crypto Finance AG and Swiss business-to-business transaction bank InCore. Both plan to launch a new tokenization tool on the network.

The two companies also developed a new Tezos token standard for asset tokenization dubbed the DAR-1 token standard, which will enable the unlocking of new smart contracts-enabled functions that support financial markets, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML) capabilities and asset governance.

InCore has also revealed that it will launch institutional-grade storage, staking and trading services for XTZ, allowing financial institutions the ability to offer staking services for their clients’ assets.

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Attractive staking rewards reduce the circulating supply

XTZ also appears to be benefiting from attractive staking opportunities that have resulted in a majority of tokens being removed from circulation to help perform consensus in return for staking rewards.

According to data from StakingRewards, the current annualized rate for token holders who delegate their XTZ is 7.85%, while those who are more tech-savvy can start their own Tezos bakery and earn 8.73%.

The process of delegating XTZ is simple for the average user and can be done from any of the wallet interfaces suggested by the project, and multiple exchanges also offer staking services for a small fee including Coinbase, Kraken and Binance.

Tezos supply statistics. Source: TZStats

At the time of writing, data from TZStats indicates that 77.65% of the total supply of XTZ is being actively staked on the network which significantly limits the number of tokens available on the market and is a potential source of positive price pressure.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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