Why did Zilliqa Explode in Price?

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The global crypto market is slowly making its way towards recovery and during such times, investors and traders look for new investments in better performing altcoins. Among the handful of profitable altcoins which gained entry in June with a considerable rise in their respective market is Zilliqa. Zilliqa is a rather a young cryptocurrency that finished its crowdsale at the end of previous year. Zilliqa’s markets have successfully gone through May and entered June with a green indication. Zilliqa has been gaining an increasing number of followers since Q1 and thus making constant progress. In this article, we shall discuss how profitable Zilliqa trading can be and whether it’s a risk-free investment or not.

Zilliqa has become one of just 28 cryptocurrencies to boast a market capitalization over $1 billion.

According to CoinMarketCap, Zilliqa passed the $1 billion threshold late Monday and is worth nearly $1.2 billion at the time of writing, making it the world's 23rd-most valuable cryptocurrency. The rise coincided with the announcement that Zilliqa is available to trade on OKEx, the third-highest volume cryptocurrency exchange tracked by CoinMarketCap.

The coin is also available to trade on Binance, Huobi and Gate.io, among others.

The Singapore-based project presents itself as solving the scalability problems endemic to blockchain technology through sharding, an efficiency-boosting technique that predates bitcoin but has yet to prove its viability in big permissionless networks. First introduced last year, the team's white paper claims that "at ethereum's present network size of 30,000 miners, Zilliqa would expect to process about [1,000] times the transaction rates of ethereum."

The ethereum network plans to introduce sharding in the future, perhaps undercutting Zilliqa's value proposition.

Zilliqa's market cap has more than tripled in the past 30 days, from $295 million on April 9. The coin is worth just over $0.16 at the time of writing, and is up 16.9 percent over the past 24 hours.

A Little about Zilliqa Project

Zilliqa was created as an open source blockchain whose aim is to achieve high scalability levels and remain decentralized. The project challenges Ethereum and Bitcoin in terms of speed of transactions and fee. Its cutting-edge technology makes it better than some altcoins out there in the crypto space. Each and every aspect of Zilliqa was carefully made to work better than the crypto giants. Many crypto traders have joined Zilliqa in its journey of becoming the Gem of the market by holding onto it since the time it was created. Zilliqa is best known for introducing mining through sharding and also for its currently under development new programming language named Scilla. Sharding means dividing a particular mining network into smaller shards.

Reasons for Investing in Zilliqa

Zilliqa is set to revolutionize the smart contract aspect of blockchain technology through its sharding technology and its upcoming releases. Its platform is designed in such a way to scale in transaction rates as the number of shards rises. Smaller mining units which are created through sharding can process the transaction by themselves and hence solve the problem of network congestion which is frequently experienced by developers in case of Ethereum platform. The upcoming Scilla, the programming language has created much hype within the community because it’s said to be extremely developer friendly and allows the testing of smart contracts before its launch. All of this gives Zilliqa markets the traction it needs making it a profitable investment.

Risks Associated with Zilliqa

Everyone expects to make a profit while enjoying the benefits of a certain blockchain project but it’s more than just necessary to keep a watchful eye on the risks associated with each investment. Zilliqa also has its own risks such as foreshadowing regulations which threats Zilliqa’s growth or even make it inexistent. Also, being a young project, there is always a chance of some other improved platform to be better than it and coming up with a newer, better technology all because the competition between cryptocurrencies is fiercer than what it looks like. Zilliqa’s sharding technology also gives rise to some shortcomings, for example, it requires a lot of disk space. Although Zilliqa team has hinted a collaboration with bluezelle to address these problems in the future.

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Zilliqa Trading and Recent Listings

Zilliqa has come a long way since it was launched on 12th January. Its now available for trading on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges and many more exchanges are now adding Zilliqa due to its hype and expanding community. As of now, Zilliqa is listed on some of the largest crypto exchanges like Binance, KuCoin, Bithumb, Upbit and Huobi etc. It’s also available for trading at EtherDelta, IDEX, Hotbit, OKEx, Bitbns, Gate.io, Kyber Network, Radar Relay, GOPAX, and Koinex etc. However, one cannot directly buy Zilliqa with dollars or any fiat currency. First, you need to buy Bitcoin or Ethereum with fiat currency from an exchange that supports dollars and then buy Zilliqa from any of the aforementioned exchanges.

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No	Source	Pair	Volume (24h)	Price	Volume (%)	Updated
1	BinanceBinance	ZIL/BTC	$6,577,790	$0.066042	18.58%	Recently
2	HuobiHuobi	ZIL/USDT	$5,736,960	$0.065837	16.20%	Recently
3	BithumbBithumb	ZIL/KRW	$5,236,170	$0.068983	14.79%	Recently
4	UpbitUpbit	ZIL/KRW	$4,813,790	$0.067192	13.59%	Recently
5	BitForexBitForex	ZIL/USDT	$3,849,710	$0.066134	10.87%	Recently
6	BinanceBinance	ZIL/ETH	$2,382,320	$0.065839	6.73%	Recently
7	KorbitKorbit	ZIL/KRW	$1,194,290	$0.066296	3.37%	Recently
8	OOOBTCOOOBTC	ZIL/BTC	$1,096,240	$0.066855	3.10%	Recently
9	GOPAXGOPAX	ZIL/KRW	$974,900	$0.066296	2.75%	Recently
10	HuobiHuobi	ZIL/BTC	$937,340	$0.065861	2.65%	Recently
11	HuobiHuobi	ZIL/ETH	$904,000	$0.065889	2.55%	Recently
12	Gate.ioGate.io	ZIL/USDT	$636,976	$0.066034	1.80%	Recently
13	OKExOKEx	ZIL/USDT	$207,524	$0.066034	0.59%	Recently
14	BinanceBinance	ZIL/BNB	$206,864	$0.066099	0.58%	Recently
15	fexfex	ZIL/USDT	$154,803	$0.065732	0.44%	Recently
16	OKExOKEx	ZIL/BTC	$71,127	$0.067105	0.20%	Recently
17	OKExOKEx	ZIL/ETH	$64,541	$0.065848	0.18%	Recently
18	fexfex	ZIL/ETH	$55,802	$0.065834	0.16%	Recently
19	HotbitHotbit	ZIL/BTC	$55,502	$0.063731	0.16%	Recently
20	Gate.ioGate.io	ZIL/ETH	$52,209	$0.066110	0.15%	Recently
21	KucoinKucoin	ZIL/ETH	$44,601	$0.066569	0.13%	Recently
22	KucoinKucoin	ZIL/BTC	$41,632	$0.067355	0.12%	Recently
23	BitbnsBitbns	ZIL/INR	$29,457	$0.067690	0.08%	Recently
24	ZebpayZebpay	ZIL/INR	$25,736	$0.064900	0.07%	Recently
25	HotbitHotbit	ZIL/ETH	$24,508	$0.065637	0.07%	Recently
26	KoinexKoinex	ZIL/INR	$16,851	$0.064753	0.05%	Recently
27	Kyber NetworkKyber Network	ZIL/ETH	$7,128	$0.067242	0.02%	Recently
28	HitBTCHitBTC	ZIL/BTC	$4,607	$0.066855	0.01%	Recently
29	HitBTCHitBTC	ZIL/USDT	$2,409	$0.068072	0.01%	Recently
30	IDEXIDEX	ZIL/ETH	$1,915	$0.060904	0.01%	Recently
31	GOPAXGOPAX	ZIL/BTC	$926	$0.060919	0.00%	Recently
32	GOPAXGOPAX	ZIL/ETH	$156	$0.065192	0.00%	Recently
33	KoinexKoinex	ZIL/XRP	$6	$0.060649	0.00%	Recently
34	EtherDelta (ForkDelta)EtherDelta (ForkDelta)	ZIL/ETH	$3	$0.071389	0.00%	17 hours ago
35	Radar RelayRadar Relay	ZIL/WETH	$0	$0.066873	0.00%	Recently
36	OTCBTCOTCBTC	ZIL/ETH	$0	$0.068864	0.00%	Recently