In the digitizing world, identity is everything and blockchain is to make it safe for everyone: users, businesses and governments. Decentralized identity is a function of blockchain technology that delivers real-world benefits to users quickly and easily, allowing them to benefit from things such as easier logins, faster credit checks and an overall smoother online…
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As another $2-trillion stimulus package looms in the U.S., institutions will continue to look at BTC as a hedge against inflation. For example, just last week, when the currency was hovering around the $30,000 threshold, a whole host of pundits was warning investors to brace for impact, suggesting that the premier crypto asset was on…
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Public trust in banks and bankers never fully recovered after the Great Recession, and DeFi has ground to cover in this particular area. Decentralized finance is a form of finance that does not require traditional intermediaries such as banks, brokerages or exchanges. All of the work that would normally be handled by these institutions is…
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Dogecoin, the quintessential meme crypto, is being pulled on a leash by yet another social media-driven hype. Anyone who has been in the crypto space over the last few years will undoubtedly be familiar with Dogecoin (DOGE) and how social media activity drives its price action. A “fork of a fork” based on Litecoin (LTC),…
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As DeFi takes over the cryptosphere, will the zombie projects remain dead after the great repricing? Data by crypto analytics firm Messari shows that many of the projects once favored by the market are still far from their all-time high. Matt Casto, an analyst at CMT Digital, tweeted a compilation of 410 crypto assets that…
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While the conceptual and technical beauty of blockchain was apparent to a small minority, this was never communicated to the market at large. It is a useful exercise for those of us working in tech to cast our minds back to the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s. There is a lot that…
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Until Ethereum 2.0 proves it can do what it claims it can do, its full impact on DeFi and other applications remains to be determined. Many people are anxiously observing the launch of Ethereum 2.0 because the media has touted it as a “game-changer” for the cryptocurrency industry. Yet the masses seem to forget there…
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Implementing regular, consistent security checks and auditing mechanisms, as Apple does, will increase trust in the DeFi system as a whole. If you’re an Apple App Store user, then you’re probably aware of the recent legal drama surrounding the updates to the App Store guidelines. It’s a reasonably open secret that the App Store is…
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Blockchain’s further success is contingent on the establishment of a strong free market and positive competition. Humans over the centuries found themselves quarreling with each other over everything from food to land to ideology, only to later find themselves at peace and cooperating. Later, once more, they’d return to draw arms. Great schisms between Catholicism…
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Decentralized finance participants eye a “multichain” future as Ethereum’s DeFi-powering peers continue to attract users and projects. Ethereum is not the only blockchain platform seeing a significant increase in value as the decentralized finance space continues to move in tandem with the booming cryptocurrency ecosystem. The new year has continued to be good to the…
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