The price of Swipe’s SXP token has jumped well over 25%, from $1.29 to $1.65 at press time, after Swipe Governance’s (SG) smart contracts were successfully audited by CertiK and SG’s mainnet deployment started being prepared.
According to an announcement posted on Twitter, Swipe Governance’s smart contracts were successfully audited by CertiK, and Swipe Governance’s mainnet is now scheduled to be deployed on Friday, October 2.
The tweet points out that the Swipe Governance protocol will allow SXP token holders to vote and control various paraments of the cryptocurrency’s development via the Swipe network.
Responding to the announcement some users touted their faith was restored in the project and they are now “super bullish” on it. Notably, others pointed out that the news appeared to have been leaked somewhere, as before the official announcement the price of the SXP token started surging.
The code behind the Swipe Token itself had notably already been audited by CertiK. In an announcement published last year, Swipe pointed out the audit was meant to ensure the SXP token would be “secure against some of the most critical vulnerabilities.”
The token, the team wrote, is the “center piece of network fuel and access to receiving the services provided by Swipe.” The announcement details CertiK conducts audits using Formal Verification, which goes beyond checking for bugs and vulnerabilities and “leverages rigorous mathematical theorems to check whether the source code of a program meets its specification.”
The Swipe Governance audit announcement saw SXP’s price jump to over $1.8 before the token’s price started correcting. The token hit an all-time high of $4.3 back in August, one month after leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance acquired Swipe for an undisclosed sum.
Binance acquired Swipe and listed the SXP token back then. The cryptocurrency exchange’s acquisition of the firm appears to be related to its Binance Visa Card, a cryptocurrency debit card that lets users pay with crypto anywhere Visa is accepted.
The Binance Visa Card uses Swipe’s technology and rolled out to users in the European Economic Area earlier this month.
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