Steemit Crypto Academy Contest Season11 Week03 [SUMMARY] - "Dark Pools In Cryptocurrencies"

Introduction

Hi Steemians,

We are at the beginning of the week and as with any week that begins, this is an opportunity for all of us to start on a good basis and set new goals in order to participate in our competitions. In short, today we present to you the report of our competition which lasted from August 7 to August 13, 2023 which was devoted to the third week of this eleventh season of the Steemit Engagement Challenge, which ended in the usual harmony between the professors of the academy also successfully and without complications thanks to the long experience acquired and the professionalism they have shown throughout this period.

In this report, we will summarize all the statistics and feedback we have during this period regarding your participation in the contest organized by the Steemit Crypto Academy community which aimed to explore your knowledge in the subject of Dark Pools in cryptocurrency.

As mentioned earlier, the theme of this third week's competition was Dark Pools In Cryptocurrencies, and in which our dear users were asked to give their opinion on the following points:

• Discuss in your own words what Dark Pools are in cryptocurrency. And explain how it works?

• Do all crypto exchanges offer dark pools? If yes, explain how does its dark pool work? What tokens are supported? Are there any fees attracted? And What are the requirements to get involved in dark pools trading on the platform?

• For the chosen dark pools, show how to perform block trading on the platform. (Screenshots required).

• Explain the decentralized dark pools? State a decentralized dark pool in cryptocurrency and discuss it. How it works?

• Compare a centralized crypto exchange dark pools with a decentralized dark pool. What are the distinctive differences?

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Dark pools in Cryptocurrency?

Participation statistics

This week we received all 22 entries for verification, most of which were deemed valid because they met our entry conditions and also we didn't have any instances of plagiarism.

Total number of entries	Invalid entry	Plagiarized content
22	0	0

_{Score distribution}

_{Performance Distribution}

During this week we got 6 posts which landed in the excellent content taking 27% of the total entries, the best part of this contest fell in the category of good content with a total of 59%, the medium content category occupied 14% space and 0% belongs to invalid content and contains plagiarism and/or made by ChatGPT.

Top 3 Users for the Week

The first factor we embraced in the selection process is the quality of performance of the participants then followed by their interactions with other users in the contest.

For the top 3 participants' selection, we utilized performance by grade and interaction for some selections while a special selection was given to an article that produced great content about the topic of discussion. Below are the top 3 users we have selected for the week.

Ranking	Username	Article
1	@abdullahw2	Link
2	@marianaceleste	Link
3	@casv	Link

We sincerely appreciate your participation once again and congratulations to everyone that made it to the top for the week. We urge you all to keep up with the quality and interaction with other participants in our contests. Join us in the ongoing contest.