Flexa uses Amp token to enable any app to spend any digital currency at any merchant and is live across the US, Canada, and Latin America.
Flexa is a pure-digital payments network that uses Amp as collateral to provide instant, fraud-proof digital asset payments for merchants worldwide. Flexa was built to enable any app to spend any digital currency at any merchant and is live across the US, Canada, and Latin America.
Anyone can use apps to pay via Flexa without even knowing about the existence of Amp, just as anyone can use a credit card without knowing how legacy payment networks function. However, people who choose to secure the Flexa network by staking Amp tokens earn rewards for decentralizing payment risk.
Last September, Flexa introduced Transformers for the Flexa network, providing merchants in El Salvador with a new way to easily accept bitcoin via the Lightning Network without understanding complex crypto infrastructure or setting up their node.
Thanks to this technology, merchants and financial institutions such as Bancoagricola, El Salvador’s largest bank, instantly accepted Lightning Network payments while receiving the asset of their choice.
This year, Flexa announced the rollout of additional Transformers to enable direct payments from even more blockchain networks. These Transformers power the new Flexa Payments products, enabling instant digital currency payments from every app for even more merchants around the globe.
Now, Amp stakers will have the option to stake their Amp as collateral to any of the 10+ fully integrated apps. Flexa recently announced as Developer Grant recipients or any of twelve new Transformers, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Celo, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Lightning, Litecoin, Polygon, Solana, Tezos, and Zcash. Additional transformers for other networks are anticipated to launch as demand for different networks grows.
With the addition of these new apps and Transformers, the role of Amp stakers in decentralizing payment risk is more crucial than ever before. Now, stakers can choose from even more collateral pools on Flexa. Given the fixed supply of Amp, this results in competition for collateral as payment volume grows.
Flexa uses merchant fees from every successful payment to buy Amp from the open market and distribute it as a staking reward. It enables users of the platform to earn the entirety of value generated within the network via Amp.
With more choices for collateral pools to stake, each staker can decide where to allocate their collateral based on their research and determination of acceptable risk.
The first choice stakers make is whether to stake a fully integrated app or a Transformer. Payments made by apps that integrate Flexa’s Spend SDK each have their collateral pool, helping to isolate risk to the individual app rather than the entire network.
Staking to a collateral pool of a fully integrated app means the wallet itself would have to allow malicious transactions for collateral to be slashed. While this is possible — hence the need for collateral — it is not an optimal strategy for a bad actor, and thus a staker may decide staking an individual app is more secure.
If a staker believes that more spenders will transact using a Transformer than via one specific wallet app, they may decide to collateralize the Transformer. In that case, the staker is securing payments made by any app that has not integrated the Spend SDK since payments made from any fully integrated app automatically utilize the app’s collateral pool.
However, since any app can use the Transformer, there may be more risk of malicious transactions and, thus, more risk of their collateral being slashed. The optimal strategy of which pools to stake differs for each person based on their risk determination and the ever-shifting balance of collateral and transactions across pools.
With the launch of Flexa Payments and the new Transformer and app pools in Flexa Capacity, Flexa is taking one more step toward its goal of enabling spending of any asset, from any app, anywhere in the world.
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Amp is on the decline this week.
Today’s live Amp price is USD 0.012984 with a 24-hour trading volume of USD 16,206,073. Amp is down 5.68% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #86, with a live market cap of USD 548,282,369. It has a circulating supply of 42,227,702,186 AMP coins and a maximum supply of 92,547,638,199 AMP coins.
From 0.0178 5/8/22 drops to 0.0102 5/13/22, then rallies to 0.135 5/15/22
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