Hello Protonians,
Welcome to Newsletter #18.
Another week passed. You know how people say time flies but in crypto, you blink and it's next week already. There is so much happening on so many social media that it's hard to keep up. While Metal Pay and Proton Loan have been quiet this week, we bring a lot of good stuff for Proton ⚛
Enjoy the newsletter and thank you for reading!
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Earlier today Will dropped a hint in the telegram chat that there will be two big milestones announced next week. We are so excited and wonder what that could be !?
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Also this week, the Proton team announced the hire of Chris Miller as their Head of Strategic Partnerships:
If you are like us and don't want to miss any of his tweets, make sure you follow him:
Crazy hair day but I’m ready. Who’s ready for the next evolution! pic.twitter.com/eDMPFPQo5F
— Chris Miller ⚛️ 🤘 (@chris_xpr) March 16, 2022
We also got to know the second guest on the Proton podcast show next week. Chris Maurice, the founder of the Yellowcard app will be speaking with Marshall about the future of crypto. That would be a conversation not to be missed so make sure you attend!
Episode 2 | Chris Maurice ⚛️🎙️
— Proton Blockchain | $XPR ⚛️ (@ProtonXPR) March 15, 2022
Founder of @yellowcard_app - the fastest growing cryptocurrency exchange in Africa.
Our CEO, @MarshallHayner, speaks with Chris to discuss how crypto will bring financial freedom to Africa.
March 23rd, 9am PST#Web3StartsHere pic.twitter.com/e9Xn5d0YVR
Finally, you can now swap XUSDC to XUSDT on Protonswap with minimal slippage:
Introducing stable swapping of XUSDC/XUSDT ⚛️ 🤘
— Proton Blockchain | $XPR ⚛️ (@ProtonXPR) March 15, 2022
x2000 less slippage!
Another reason to come to Proton...
Dive into https://t.co/SxylP7B6Wt & https://t.co/PH33XUboEy and never look back! pic.twitter.com/UAof8lCaO0
There is now an estimated APR, should you decide to provide liquidity on Protonswap. The APR is based on the last 24hrs of volume, that's excluding any potential impermanent loss:
New on https://t.co/asF8QhlChC - APR estimates on swap pools!
— Proton Blockchain | $XPR ⚛️ (@ProtonXPR) March 18, 2022
See what the estimated variable APR will be when you add liquidity to the Proton Swap ecosystem, before you add funds.
And as always, you won't pay gas fees when using #Proton. ⚛️ pic.twitter.com/Twuokm0Oq4
We finally see TaxBit updating their infographic to include Proton. However, the integration with Proton/Webauth.com wallet is not ready yet. If you need to extract your transactions you can use https://protontax.com/ to extract raw data and then format it in the appropriate format in Excel:
With TaxBit network customers of 20+ top exchanges and protocols have access to a FREE @taxbit account with unlimited transactions, FREE tax forms, and much more. If you've been putting off your taxes ➡️ #wagmi https://t.co/C5PATGiHiK #cryptotaxes pic.twitter.com/C91dCiUCEr
— TaxBit | Tax & Accounting for Tokenized Economy (@TaxBit) March 11, 2022
There isn't much to share on Metal Pay, Proton Loan. Proton Loan TVL has increased significantly since last week up to $19M which is great news as the platform is steadily growing.
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- Proton and Metal data source: CoinMarketCap
- Price change based on Thursday close price using latest data in range (UTC)
- Loan data source: Protonscan (Alcor exchange + Protonswap)
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This week's Tweet of the week goes to HunterX again and his tweet on how amazing the Proton XPR community is. We couldn't agree more and we are so grateful and proud to be part of it 🙏
What I love about $XPR @protonxpr is how the community is completely organic and amazing.
— HunterX ™ (@HunterX_NFT) March 17, 2022
No paid influencers 🚫
No Annoying Shilling 🚫
Genuine love & support amongst the members ✅
Everyone is friendly ✅
Everyone knows each other ✅
Proton Tweets get the most love. #💜⚛️
Any comments and suggestions are more than welcome. You can find us on Twitter, Telegram as well as Reddit. Thank you for supporting ProtonUK.