Binance broadens the scope of its Ecosystem – Technicity
The Crypto business giant is adding three new products to its existing line of services
Just when you think what else can Binance possibly add to its impressive line of services, it surprises you by offering another innovative solution to its massive platform. Binance has moved far beyond a crypto exchange into a complete ecosystem, adding a diverse line of offerings to its platform in 2019.
Here is a list of all the offerings it has added to its platform this year alone.
- Binance Chain — Stand alone token issuing Platform, Ethereum competitor
- Binance DEX — a Decentralized Exchange, part of Binance Chain project
- IEO Platform — Initial Exchange Offering, an alternative to ICO funding
- Project Venus — Multi-pegged Stable coin competitor for Libra
- Crypto Lending Platform — Earn interest by lending your Crypto holdings
- Crypto Staking Platform — Earn Passive Income by holding your Cryptos
Binance continues to spread its influence vertically & horizontally in the Cyptoverse with a few more additions that we are going to look at today.
New Wallet Security Solution (TSS)
In a recent tweet, CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao raved about a new open-sourced solution for digital wallet providers which may reshape the crypto industry. He claimed the technology was superior to the multi-sig security implementation. CZ also announced the release of Binance’s Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) library.
TSS, unlike the multi-sig security, is an off-chain security solution that uses a new cryptographic tool for distributed private key generation in the blockchain clients. This helps in avoiding single points of failure that we see in centralized security implementation. A Multi-sig transaction also costs more since information of multiple signatories needs to be communicated on the blockchain as well.
Multisig also needs to implemented separately for every blockchain while TSS is always supported since it relies on pure cryptography only. TSS is also better than The Shamir secret sharing scheme (SSSS) — since the latter involves a single party called “the dealer” in charge of generating the private key, thus making the process centralized & prone to single point failure. A visual representation of the different kinds of private key generations is given below for better understanding.
TSS implementation has some drawbacks like complex protocols & the involvement of additional, weaker, cryptographic assumptions compared to simple digital signatures. Having said that, TSS implementations are becoming better & stronger with quality contributions, peer reviews, audits, and algorithmic performance improvements.
Binance also conducted a third-party audit of the Binance TSS library via cybersecurity solutions provider Kudelski Security, which found no exploitable issues in the cryptography & code.
Published at Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:16:05 +0000
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