What Is Venus?

About Venus (XVS)

Venus (XVS) is the native governance token of the Venus decentralized marketplace. This platform is created to provide lending and borrowing tools for DeFi. The XVS token is built on Binance Smart Chain. XVS holders have a voting right and can take part in the decision-making process on the Venus platform. The total supply of XVS is 30,000,000.

Where did Venus (XVS) come from?

The launch of the Venus protocol was announced in September 2019. The original developers of Venus is Swipe. They had a goal to create a community-governed platform that provides solutions for the DeFi ecosystem. Everyone who holds XVS has a say in the decisions connected to the future of the Venus platform.

What are the advantages of Venus (XVS)?

1. Decentralization
   
   The developers’ team calls this project “the most decentralized finance product of the blockchain space”. Probably, this is the biggest advantage of this protocol. It makes a lot of unique features available.
2. Participation in a decision-making process
   
   The XVS token gives its owner an opportunity to actively participate in the life of the Venus platform.
3. Solutions for a crypto lending mechanism
   
   Users are able to make loans without credit checks, region restrictions, and central authority that makes all the decisions.
4. No tokens allocated to the team
   
   Everyone receives tokens on the same basis independently from a founder status.
5. Potential
   
   The Venus Protocol has a great potential of developing into a real network. Now it has around 71,000 users. The team is proposing improvements that give participants more freedom. For example, delegated voting will become available. It will add vXVS, the representation of original XVS, to the platform to enable those whose tokens are staked to participate in voting.
6. Low fees and high speed
   
   These things are extremely significant for users. It helps to believe that the Venus protocol will have a future.

What are the disadvantages of Venus (XVS)?

1. The absence of risk management in the past
   
   This is the biggest drawback of the project. For example, in May 2021 we witnessed a massive liquidation, the price fell by 77.6%. About the week before that XVS showed its All Time High $147.02. It is considered that it happened as a result of price volatility. This incident was evaluated as a price manipulation and, the drastic drop in the price of Bitcoin that led to more FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). The team has already announced that they will put their efforts into creating a more reliable system.
2. Developing protocol
   
   Venus is changing constantly, this may bring up some bugs and mistakes. Therefore users have to be prepared to face some difficulties from time to time but, the new team is taking all the steps to ensure this won't happen again.

How to buy Venus (XVS) on SimpleSwap?

In case after reading this article you’ve decided to become a member of the Venus community, you will need some XVS tokens. SimpleSwap is happy to help you! Please follow these instructions below:

1. For example, you want to swap BTC for XVS. Select the currency you want to exchange (e.g. BTC) in the first drop-downlist. Then enter the amount you want to swap.
2. Select XVS in the second drop-down list. You’ll see the estimated amount that you’ll get after the exchange.
3. Click the Exchange button.
4. Enter the Recipient's Address. XVS will be sent. Be careful and make sure you use the correct address.
5. Create the exchange.
6. You will see the Bitcoin deposit address. You need to transfer the necessary amount of BTC to this address to start the BTC to XVS exchange.

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