Chives Coin

# What Is Chives (XCC)?
Chives is a proof-of-space-and-time (**PoST**) blockchain platform that says its goal is to be a green alternative to PoW cryptocurrency. While most PoW blockchains are secured by energy intensive mining processes, Chives uses a much greener process than your average PoW algorithm.

Chives was released on June 30th, 2021 and the binary file for mining was released on July 5th, 2021. Chives is a branch of CHIA XCH. The farmers on Chives XCC, can use free hard disk space to mine 90% of chives openly, fairly and transparently.

While Chives XCC is a layer 1 blockchain, it is also already building a second-layer network. The second-layer network will be backed up by Master Nodes, similar to networks like DASH. The Master Nodes (also known as the full nodes), will not participate in mining activities, but will have the function of allowing instant transactions, decentralized management and budget decision-making. **Master Nodes** are scheduled to be released on the network in the **next 12 months**. 

The remaining 10% of the block reward is used to build a healthy and complete Chives community environment. The allocation of the 10% fund will be decided by the Master Nodes, which will vote to fund projects that positively contribute to the Chives network as a whole.

The team behind the Chives XCC blockchain are already issuing some compelling use cases for its technology, like the launch of NFT gaming projects.

July 2021 already saw the launch of its blockchain explorer which followed the launch of its proprietary wallet.

To learn more about Chives XCC, read on to find out who the Founders are, network security, tokenomics and future projects.  

# Who Are the Founders of Chives?
Chives XCC was founded by crypto-enthusiasts, E. Savenkov, Y. Zikun, T. Box. 

Any charitable actions or plans from the Founders?
Chives XCC is developing an environmental initiative together with The Chia plot and other Forks. This initiative will be funded through donations from the Chives XCC community funds. The initial forecast for this project is of 10,000 XCC, donated on a monthly basis, to initiatives such as https://edenprojects.org/ and/or https://water.org/ (the final beneficiary of the donations will be subject to a vote by the network members, once all the legal details of this project will be concluded.)

# What Makes Chives Unique?
Chives XCC is unique as it was built with the following in mind:

Listen to what the Blockchain community wants
Analyse what works
Discover what the community loves and what they believe in when it comes to their favourite projects. 

The project is based on a Proof-of-Space consensus similar to famous projects like Chia. In comparison, Chives XCC has actually come out with a **0 Pre-mine**, **NO ICO** and a smaller Plot size to truly be the greener option for crypto mining. By having smaller plot sizes you can avoid putting any stress on hardware like SSDs or HDDs during the plotting process as the entire cryptography process is done on RAM memory. 

Chives XCC is working on implementing smart contracts, it’s launching an NFT game and also a Master Node system. 

# How Many Chives (XCC) Coins Are There in Circulation?
There is no maximum supply of Chives XCC and at the time of writing, there was a circulating supply of about 129,600,000. 

There was no pre-mine or ICO and have a block issuance of 18.75 seconds with a block reward of 200 XCC. 

There are two stages in the Block Rewards distribution:

**Stage 1:**
90% is allocated to miners/farmers (180 XCC) and 10% to a community fund used for the development of the network (20 XCC)
**Stage 2:**
45% is allocated to miners/farmers (90 XCC), 45% is allocated to Master Nodes (90 XCC) and 10% to a community fund used for the development of the network (20 XCC)

The network will also undergo a halving every 3 years all the way to a block reward of 12.5 XCC per block from the 13th year. 

# How Is the Chives XCC Network Secured?
Chives XCC is secured through a green PoST protocol.

The project, at the time of writing this, is secured by over 6,400 miners/farmers with a network space of 271 PB. While the blockchain is a fork of Chia XCH, unlike other forks, the Chives XCC fork is unique in the way that farmers on the Chia network or any other forks of Chia cannot use the plots/network space on the Chives blockchain. This offers a higher level of security to the Chives XCC network, reducing the risk of a 51% attack. An additional security measure against attacks on the blockchain, Chives XCC is actively working on the development of Master Nodes. 

The Master Nodes will be backed by Chives XCC collateral, and have the sole purpose of advanced services, governance and security by holding full copies of the blockchain on them. 

As there are incentive mechanisms in place to reward miners/farmers and Master Nodes, this means that participants in the smooth operation of the network are rewarded for their involvement.

# What Is Chives Farm?
The Chives Farming Game will be a play to earn concept, taking inspiration from games like Pokemon and Axie. It will have a custom story line and features adapting it to something unique for our community. 

If you’re familiar with play to earn games like Axie, you will be glad to know that we will have features like breeding, battle, trading and renting available for all players participating in the growth of this game. Should you have multiple pets, you can rent them out to others for additional passive income. Rental to other players will bring an extra income divided into a 20/80 or 30/70 model. Should you want to trade, a Marketplace will be available for you too.

Chives Farm will have six different Pet races to begin with and each race will have at least 6-8 different development paths. Each development path will also be divided in 10 different variations, this will allow for a very high variation of pets. The evolution of the Pet levels is very complex and there will be a whole set of mechanisms to ensure the growth and development system alongside the economic system. 

# Where Can You Buy Chives (XCC)?
As a new cryptocurrency in this vast crypto universe, Chives XCC is only listed on two exchanges at the time of writing this article. You can currently buy Chives XCC on the [LBank](https://www.lbank.info/exchange/xcc/usdt) exchange and also on their own p2p exchange at [chivescoin.net](https://chivescoin.net/) .

The current trading pair on LBank will be [XCC/USDT](https://www.lbank.info/exchange/xcc/usdt) while the p2p exchange at ChivesCoin.net will have a number of pairs available, and these include but are not limited to: XCC/USDT , XCC/HVQ and XCC/XCH .

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Chia Network’s first proof-of-time function was released in 2019, with the first beta version of its blockchain launching in 2020. Chia Network achieved full functionality, including wallet functionality, transactions and smart contracts, with its mainnet launch in 2021.

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To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Karura.

Both Karura and Acala are backed by multiple funds, including Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital and Hypersphere. Karura and Acala operate in parallel. Specifically, Karura is implementing DeFi on Kusama in the same way that Acala is offering DeFi on Polkadot. The network is built with almost the same codebase as Acala: the two platforms provide scalable, convenient and fast DeFi cross-chain ecosystems for Kusama and Polkadot.

Parachain Karura is a platform that allows users to create effective, low-cost and complex financial applications, saving time and increasing trading efficiency.

The platform itself provides a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets (kUSD), a trustless staking derivative (liquid KSM), and an automated market maker (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX) for unlocking liquidity and supporting financial innovation.

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Karura

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VEGA is the network governance and staking token. It is used for:

Voting on the creation of new markets on the network

Running validator nodes on the network via staking VEGA tokens

Earning fees from traders through staking and delegation

Governing important network parameters which ensure markets are secure and fair

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BitDAO's vision is open finance and a decentralized tokenized economy. BitDAO hopes to support a broad range of projects including DeFi, DAOs, NFTs and gaming. Support will be in the form of research and development, liquidity bootstrapping and funding.

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BTCST’s goal is to bridge liquidity to Bitcoin’s mining market. This will allow users to get exposure to mining rewards and hashpower of any size, at a low cost. The ultimate goal of the app is to increase the liquidity and efficiency of mining power markets.

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Protocols can onboard users without paying gas fees.

Users can pay gas in an ERC-20 token of their choice.

Users avoid blockchain complexities like a change of network.

Transactions are confirmed much faster.

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Biswap’s core products include the standard DEX functions like an AMM, liquidity pools, yield farming, an NFT marketplace, and an IDO launchpad. In its roadmap, Biswap targets the following:

Listing on major crypto exchanges

Improvements of its NFT marketplace

Cross-chain support

Limit orders

Lending & Borrowing

A personal user dashboard

A swap referral program

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GODS is an ERC-20 token used as premium currency within the GU ecosystem. The tokens will be used to:

Create an NFT.

Used within the marketplace and for in-game purchases.

Distributed as a reward to players.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Gods Unchained.

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