Binance.US Lists Zilliqa (ZIL) On Its Platform

Binance.US started full operations in January with registration launched back in September 2019. The company claims to be "America's new home for trading digital assets," with support for 24 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), BNB, Ethereum (ETH), XRP, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC) and Tether (USDT), Algorand (ALGO), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), Dash (DASH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), IOTA (IOTA), NEO (NEO), Stellar (XLM), Zcash (ZEC), and more.

The latest Zilliqa addition comes only one week after listing and promoting Ontology (ONT) on its platform. The ONT/USD and ONT/USDT trading pairs have been live since last week on Binance.US. Most of the Binance technologies, including "matching exchange engine and wallet technologies" are operated by San Francisco-based BAM Trading Services.

According to Binance, the Zilliqa platform is designed with scalability in mind, providing an open, distributed, and permission-less blockchain network. "The current network transaction speed is around 3000 transactions-per-second (TPS) if a total of 1,000 nodes in the blockchain. Compared, Ethereum only supports 15 transactions-per-second. The 2142 dApps, running on Ethereum's network are further bottlenecking the project's efficiency. The current TPS of the Zilliqa blockchain is close to that of VISA or MasterCard, but with much lower transaction fees", Binance announced.

However, trading for Zilliqa is still in preparation, but clients can already deposit USD, BUSD, or ZIL in their Binance wallets. Trading of ZIL/USD and ZIL BUSD trading pairs is scheduled to go live at 21:00 EST on February 20, 2020.

Pricewise, Zilliqa, as well as most of the top-100 cryptocurrencies, are closely tied to the price movements of Bitcoin. Crypto experts are expecting substantial Bitcoin price swings in 2020. CaptainAltcoin predicts ZIL's price to double its price from the end of 2019.

The main reason why Zilliqa may face an upward push is the improved scalability of the network, commonly known as sharding. Sharting resembles the distribution of data across a vast array of machines, which improves data management. Zilliqa is the first significant blockchain to implement such sharding. If Zilliqa succeeds in going over 10,000 TPS, the world could see the first real-world use cases, which would further solidify the role of blockchain technology in the modern business.

CaptainAltcoin also did a price prediction, doubting the price for 1 ZIL to surpass 1$ soon. The reason – the considerable inflation that Zilliqa suffers from, as well as Zilliqa still not releasing 60% of their total token supply. "Reaching a price value of $10 per 1 ZIL is rather nonsensical, as the project is still small to hold the price," CaptainAltcoin concluded.