After a fairly long period of preparation and the need to resolve the legal issues the developers of blockchain Protocol Tezos announced the launch of the core network of the project.

The #Tezos mainnet is live! https://t.co/nL825YY8SV

— Tezos Foundation (@TezosFoundation) 17 September 2018

Tezos is positioned as a network Protocol secure, and ready for the test of time systems of smart contracts. According to the founders of the project, the platform focuses on such fundamental aspects as transparency, security, and management with consensus.

It is noteworthy that the launch of a viable version of the software was produced at the end of June. After that, the listing of several exchanges, there were tokens of the project Tezos under the Ticker XTZ.

However, only last weekend, the developers announced the completion of the pilot mode and the exit from beta.

Last summer Tezos held a crowdfunding campaign, collecting a record at that time, a $230 million project Soon, however, came under a barrage of class actions that also caused the long delay of the launch of the platform.

Shortly after the launch of the core network on Monday, about the beginning of a trading token in pairs to BTC and USD exchange Bitfinex announced:

Trading has been enabled for Tezos (XTZ) against USD & BTC. @tezos https://t.co/jFbmSjNpXF pic.twitter.com/wI9z4FlWpc

— Bitfinex (@bitfinex) 17 September 2018

Note that in anticipation of the launch of the main network of a token Tezos showed impressive growth – for the last day price XTZ increased by more than 5%, over week period the figure was over 32%. At the time of publication, the weighted average rate of XTZ, according to CoinMarketCap, was $1.63 (0.00025835 BTC).

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