Today, the DeFi space feels like an unstoppable Wild West. A future of fragmented networks of independent blockchains, every one staking its ground, but none really able to talk to each other. This fragmentation is a major problem. It would be like having an internet worldwide, but any websites might...
Ethereum is currently locked in an intense struggle with Solana for supremacy. Concurrently, it is supporting the growth of its own ecosystem with a pathbreaking project to revolutionize cross-border payments. The project, now named Remittix, uses Ethereum’s powerful new infrastructure to address the $183 trillion worldwide problem of cross-border transactions.Ethereum...
Hyperliquid. Even the name reads like a galactic elite sci-fi energy drink. But it's a DEX, a decentralized exchange making waves with a radical promise: gas-free trading. No longer will ETH burn a hole in your pocket every time you want to execute a trade, with a volatile gas price....
With these issues of stability, yield, and security in mind, the DeFi space continues to rapidly innovate with new protocols popping up all around to solve these issues. One such platform is Resolv Protocol, whose stablecoin USR provides for stabilization. What sets USR apart is its design: it aims to...
The crypto community has been abuzz over Resolv and its allegedly game-changing $USR stablecoin. A stablecoin backed only with crypto, using a delta-neutral strategy to keep its peg? That all may sound too good to be true, like the way to finally escape the oppression of fiat once and for...
We need to be realistic that finance is always changing. At the moment, all the rage is Hong Kong’s groundbreaking experimentation with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The Hong Kong government is joining forces with Chainlink to pilot cross-border CBDC interoperability with its e-HKD. This partnership is an important step...
Is Bitcoin at last creeping into our pockets, not through shady ETF’s and other chicanery, but… loot crates? I know, it sounds absurd. But hear me out. Indeed, this year the loot box market is expected to grow to $20 billion. Much of that increase can be attributed to the...
The whispers are getting louder. Bitcoin yield. Yield on the asset that was marketed out the gate as digital gold, a store of value, not this yield producing whatchamacallit. All of a sudden, it’s the hottest topic on the block, particularly for the usual large sector players. Institutions are circling,...
Okay, let's be real. DeFi's been feeling a little... meh lately, hasn't it? The wild west days of 10,000% APYs may be over. Rug pulls left a bad taste. The average Joe and Jane are not understanding at all. Some of them are just asking, what is an LP and...
Okay, y’all, I wouldn’t call this breaking news, but it’s still pretty thrilling! Sui Network recently made a big splash into the Bitcoin DeFi space with the launch of their new sBTC. On the surface, it sounds kinda cool. Unlock Bitcoin's $1.6 trillion potential? Wen Lambo, right? Under the gloss...
Further Reading
NFTs Are Back? Decoding the Resurgence & What's Different Now
The NFT market reached a mind-boggling high of $24.7 billion in total traded value just last year in 2022. The measure had been under threat as the economy took a deep dive, cut in half to $11.8 billion in 2023. Digital assets are the hottest new thing! They run the...
Ethereum Is Not Silver It's The Decentralized Internet's Foundation
Bitcoin is digital gold. We all get that. Store of value. Limited supply. Boom. To suggest that Ethereum is merely the “digital silver,” is akin to describing the internet as a “just a better telegraph.” It's a gross, almost insulting, understatement. It’s the difference between deploying a single hammer and...
Ethereum: More Than Crypto Silver, It's a Decentralized Future
Ethereum is often seen as Bitcoin's younger sibling, or the "silver" to Bitcoin's "gold." While that comparison acknowledges its place as the second-largest cryptocurrency, it severely undersells what Ethereum truly is: a revolutionary platform with the potential to reshape the internet and countless industries. Anjali Mehra, DeFi opinion columnist, Anjali...
NFTs Are Back Baby! 5 Reasons Why This Time It's Different
Okay, let's be real. We've all been burned before. Remember early 2021? Beeple selling an NFT for $69 million? It seemed like all the talented folks I knew were leaving their jobs to become freelance digital artists. Then, poof, the bubble burst. Scams, rug pulls, and more pixelated apes than...
NFT Market's Second Act? 3 Crucial Factors Determining Its Fate
The NFT market is bubbling again. After years of headlines focused on growing prices, resuscitated collecting efforts, and murmurs of a return, let's be real: this isn't 2021. We've been burned before. This time, a healthy dose of skepticism is in order. The question is no longer if NFTs will...
Ethereum Isn't Crypto Silver It's The Wildest Meme Factory Ever
Bitcoin is digital gold, right? Safe, predictable, the Fort Knox of the internet. Okay, boomer. Ethereum? Forget crypto silver. That’s about as smart as calling the internet a really cool telegraph. Ethereum is the internet’s wild, wonderful, completely bonkers, subreddit-born, meme-generating progeny. It’s not so much a means of storing...
BlockDAG's $361M Presale Proves Utility is the New Hypebeast
RIP NFTs, you were entertaining while you were dying. Now the grown-ups have arrived, and we’re finally starting to construct projects that go to the root of the problem. Let's be real, the whole NFT craze was like that one TikTok trend everyone jumped on, then immediately regretted when they...
3 Reasons BlockDAG's $361M Presale Signals a DeFi Power Shift
The whispers are getting louder. The DeFi landscape may be changing, but this isn’t just the latest flash-in-the-pan meme coin. We're talking about a fundamental change, driven by projects that are actually building something, not just hyping empty promises. And BlockDAG’s $361 million presale? It’s the blaring klaxon signaling this...