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Putting Biden’s Executive Order into Action
28.5.2022
Kyla Curley, Partner at StoneTurn, a global advisory firm, Ross Rustici, is the Managing Director at the firm, and Monica Yun, Manager at StoneTurn._____...
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Sideways Markets Not a New Thing for Bitcoin: An Overview of Bitcoin Consolidations
27.5.2022
Bitcoin (BTC) trading sideways may be boring for those trying to profit from the price swings, but it is far from a new thing for the original cryptocurrency to do (relatively) nothing....
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Justin Sun Shares Opinions on the Prospects of Web3 And Decentralization
27.5.2022
In a trailer for a documentary, Justin Sun shared the details of how cryptocurrency could become an essential financial infrastructure across the globe. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, predicted that the future holds a lot of possibilities for Web3 and Decentralization. A few statistics were...
The Compromises and Benefits of Ethereum Switching to a Proof-of-Stake Network
22.5.2022
Max Shannon, Digital Asset Analyst at major European digital asset investment firm CoinShares.
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Ethereum has an Evolving but Structured Roadmap of Protocol Changes....
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What Is Cryptocurrency Utility and Why It’s Important for the Development of Crypto Payments
21.5.2022
James A. Ray, Board member at Kyrrex financial ecosystem. _____Cryptocurrencies have come a long way in the recent decade, evolving from a marginalized payment method for questionable transactions to publicly traded instruments on the largest global exchanges. Nonetheless, these drastic changes...
The Crypto Bear Market Is Here: How to Invest Now?
20.5.2022
Bitcoin (BTC) is down almost 40% year-to-date, while most leading altcoins have dropped 50% to 70% since the start of 2022. So it’s fair to say, we are in a bear market. However, that doesn’t mean you have to exit the crypto markets because we’re having a bad first half of the year.
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Growth in Digital Assets Trade Puts the Spotlight on Blockchain Bridge Security Risks
20.5.2022
Adi Ben-Ari is the Founder and CEO of data security specialist Applied Blockchain. _______The exponential growth in the trade of digital assets across different blockchain platforms in recent years has been accompanied by the emergence of blockchain bridges, or token bridges, that create...
2022, the Year Layer 2 Takes Off
15.5.2022
Will Harborne is the Founder and CEO of non-custodial exchange DeversiFi.
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This is a pivotal year for Ethereum layer 2 (L2) solutions. What happens over the coming months will be critical in making decentralized finance (DeFi) work better, faster, and more reliably for a far greater...
Bitcoin Halfway to Next Halving – What Can History Teach Us?
14.5.2022
Bitcoin (BTC) is halfway to its next halving, and analysts are again coming out with their predictions for how the price will respond this time around. But market reactions to Bitcoin halvings in the past have been difficult to predict, and their results usually take time to materialize....
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PlayStation Boss Asks Staff To Respect All Abortion Opinions In Email About Cats
13.5.2022
An internal email from PlayStation president Jim Ryan contains several paragraphs about cats, but doesn’t contain a hard stance in support of his staff’s reproductive rights, and even asks employees to “respect” anti-abortion views and opinions, leaving many PlayStation staff angry and upset.Read...
Making Sense of the Noise is Necessary for Crypto Adoption
6.5.2022
Marco De Rossi, President and Co-Founder of HAL.xyz, a blockchain data listening and automation platform.__________
Cryptocurrency is strong on self-sovereignty with the term “not your keys, not your coin” a popular maxim when talking about crypto ownership. While owning your private keys...
How to Navigate Metaverse Without ‘Cash Grab’?
3.5.2022
Gunnar Jaerv is the COO of First Digital Trust, an Asia-based technology-driven financial institution._____
When Meta revealed its metaverse, Horizon Worlds, and the features it would unleash for creators within the digital universe, the conglomerate called it a step toward its “long-term...
The ‘Digital Town Square’: What Might Musk’s Twitter Deal Mean?
30.4.2022
Jean Burgess, Professor and Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, the Queensland University of Technology._____
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, seems set to purchase the social media platform Twitter for around USD 44bn. He says he’s...
How DAOs Can Adopt Best Practices for Treasury Management in a Bear Market
30.4.2022
Kevin Chan is the treasurer of UMA, an optimistic oracle used to build decentralized applications in DeFi and Web3, and a former managing director at Goldman Sachs.
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April is financial literacy month in the US, which is always a good time to do some financial housekeeping and to review best...
Axie Infinity’s Post-Hack Metrics Beckon Optimism, Not Despair
29.4.2022
Daniel C. Park is the data journalist at Covalent, a blockchain data specialist. ______
The theft of USD 625m from Ronin unfazed Axie Infinity players’ bullish feelings, a remarkable tale and test of brand loyalty that validates Sky Mavis’ USD 3bn valuation.
The cascade of SLP and...
Can You Truly Own Anything in the Metaverse? Blockchains and NFTs Don’t Protect Virtual Property
24.4.2022
João Marinotti, Associate Professor of Law, the Indiana University.______
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about USD 4m. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox....
Financial Stability Risks Grow as War in Europe Complicates Push to Contain Inflation
23.4.2022
Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
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While no systemic event has materialized, the balance of risks has tilted more firmly to the downside....
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Why We Can’t Just ‘Stop Printing Money’ to Get Inflation Down
17.4.2022
Jacqueline Best, Professor, School of Political Studies, the University of Ottawa.__________
With the Bank of Canada announcing an oversized interest rate hike this week, it might seem like central banks are coming to rescue us from inflation once again. Yet while they did play an important...
Plan to Become a ‘Cryptoassets hub’ May Just Be the UK Government Hedging Its Bets
15.4.2022
Matthew Shillito, Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. ______
In a busy start to April 2022 for the British chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced his intention to make the UK a “global hub for cryptoassets technology”. Put simply, this means he wants the country to be an attractive...
Stock & Crypto Traders Are Changing - It’s Time to Empower Them
14.4.2022
Joe Jowett is the CEO of StrikeX, a blockchain technology company._____
2021 was the year of the retail trader. From high-flying meme stocks and cryptocurrencies to well-performing tech stocks, millions of new traders showed their power in a market revolutionized by online trading. ...
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