Lennix Lai, OKX’s global chief commercial officer, told Cointelegraph that bringing traditional finance investors into the space would require raising compliance standards. While some areas of the crypto space focus on privacy and anonymity, others focus on raising the standards within the space and on bringing in traditional players and more capital in the world…
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Integrating crypto into the global financial system has so far proved to be problematic to due what Przemek Kowalczyk, the chief product officer (CPO) of the fintech startup Ramp, described as “digital incompatibility.” Kowalczyk, a data scientist, told Bitcoin.com News that the “two paradigms” use distinct frameworks which in turn makes it difficult for the…
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While centralized exchanges (cexs) are instrumental in helping new users grasp all things crypto, they nevertheless do not go “the extra mile in educating their audience properly,” Alexandru Carbunariu, the CMO at the edutech simulator Banksters, has asserted. According to Carbunariu, a Web3 advisor, properly educating newbies includes making the experience more interactive and fun.…
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According to Jack Vinijtrongjit, the co-founder and CEO of the Web3 infrastructure company AAG, more prospective users will be drawn to decentralized finance (defi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) if tools that help them avoid falling prey to scammers are developed and deployed. Vinijtrongjit argued that the need for such tools will even become “more crucial”…
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While both attackers and smart contract auditors are motivated to find vulnerabilities in code, according to Eyal Meron, the co-founder and CEO of Spherex, the former “is always more incentivized as the protocol’s total value locked (TVL) grows.” To overcome this challenge, Meron told Bitcoin.com News that decentralized protocols will need to put in place…
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According to Yves La Rose, the founder and CEO of the EOS Network Foundation (ENF), the blockchain software company Block.one’s failure to financially back the EOS ecosystem after the 2018 initial coin offering (ICO) is one of the many reasons why the community felt compelled to take over. Building Everything From Scratch However, in written…
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According to Maxwell Mayhew, founder of the decentralized e-ticketing platform UTIX, event organizers can potentially overcome ticket scalping by switching to smart contract-based event hosting platforms. Such platforms not only help organizers control the amount of event tickets in secondary markets, says Mayhew, but “even the maximum price the tickets can be sold for.” The…
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While tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) like gold and real estate is a prospect that unnerves stakeholders in traditional financial systems, according to Yusuf Sevim, the co-founder of the decentralized protocol Metatime, this can potentially bring with it “immense benefits.” Enhanced liquidity for real estate markets is one benefit that accrues to players in the…
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The commissioner said she had seen awareness and knowledge of digital assets grow in her five years at the SEC, but largely, there was “more of the same” on enforcement actions. Hester Peirce, one of five commissioners with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and an outspoken proponent of crypto, has urged lawmakers…
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According to Mohammed AlKaff AlHashmi, the co-founder of “Islamic Coin,” Muslim scholars will increasingly view cryptocurrencies as being “Shariah-compliant” if they function as a store of value or are used as a medium of exchange. Alhashmi added that Islam’s “robust” ethical framework already “accommodates modern technological advancements such as the blockchain and cryptocurrencies.” This, he…
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