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DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and the Metaverse are unlikely to exist on a single chain and that’s a fact that became clear after the growth of Layer 1s (L1s) like Solana, BNB Chain and Avalanche. When DeFi flourished in 2020,...

CoinSwitch Kuber, an app-based cryptocurrency exchange platform exclusive to the Indian market for retail investors, has announced the nation’s first rupee-based crypto index called CRE8. First benchmark index to measure the performance of crypto According to reports from local media...

One of the major perks of blockchain technology is its ability to maintain an unchangeable record of transactions. It does this through what’s called a ‘consensus mechanism algorithm’ – a way of achieving agreement on a single state of...

The Ethereum blockchain is by far the most developed of its kind. The size of its user base and the sheer number of developers building on the platform is incomparable to the other blockchains in its realm. However, the...

Tron is a decentralised, smart contract-compatible Layer One blockchain. On it, developers can build decentralised apps, issue tokens, process transactions, and use decentralised financial instruments for staking, lending, and trading. Think of Tron like Ethereum, and TRX like the...

Smart contracts are one of the most innovative mechanisms to emerge in the 21st century. Smart contracts are basically agreements that can be written in code and stored on the blockchain so they can be tracked and authenticated. Think...

Put simply, staking involves locking up a portion of your crypto to support the security of the network in return for rewards.  Cryptocurrencies that offer staking utilise the “Proof of Stake” consensus mechanism, a method used to verify transactions...

What is Cosmos trying to do? Simply put, the team at Cosmos is looking to solve the scaling and fragmentation problems that currently plague the crypto world. Scalability issues, such as speed, affordability and accessibility make it difficult for...

Nomad, a protocol that allows users to send messages and bridge assets to different blockchains, announced that it had raised $22.4 million at a $225 million valuation in its recent seed round. The funding round was led by Polychain...

Since its inception, Ethereum has brought so many innovations to the cryptocurrency space, from smart contracts to high interest-paying decentralised finance applications. However, Ethereum faces 2 major issues that make it difficult to scale. Poor throughput: Ethereum is only...

In this episode of Non-Financial Advice, our podcast host Stan and researcher Eugene talk with Pranay Mohan, founder of Nomad, a security-first cross-chain messaging protocol, about developments in cross-chain communications and how Nomad seeks to build more secure and...

PayMaya, Philippine financial services and digital payments company based in Metro Manila has confirmed that it will be launching a new crypto feature in its mobile application that will allow the users of the application and buy and sell...

Fantom is an open-source, decentralised smart contract platform for DApps and digital assets created as an alternative to Ethereum. However, unlike Ethereum and other Layer 1s, Fantom is not a typical blockchain, it’s a ‘directed acyclic graph’ (DAG). In...

Market cap (or market capitalisation) is a metric that measures the value of a cryptocurrency. We calculate the market cap by multiplying a coin’s current market price with the total number of circulating coins.  Note that it is important...

CME or Chicago Mercantile Exchange, an American global markets company, might be looking into offering Solana and Cardano futures contracts in the near future.  CME adding (SOL) and (ADA) futures Payal Shah, the director of equity and cryptocurrency products...

Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of BitMEX, a crypto exchange that recently confirmed the acquisition of Bankhaus von der Heydt, a German Bank, has written a blog titled “Five Ducking Digits” praising Ethereum and how ETH 2.0 will set the world’s...

WisdomTree, a provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States, has launched three new crypto ETPs in Europe backed by Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), and Polkadot (DOT). WisdomTree launches crypto ETPs WisdomTree launched three new physically-backed crypto ETPs...

Grayscale has launched a new fund that will invest in the top smart contract networks competing with Ethereum. Grayscale has launched a new fund The company has announced the launch of a new fund, the Grayscale Smart Contract Platform...