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Can blockchains be used as incentive networks for encouraging green activity and renewables? ESG is an important use case for blockchain. Regulators are understandably concerned about green investing ...
Early October SWIFT launched two publications describing the results of two important experiments, one on interoperability and the other on tokenization. In these publications SWIFT has laid out its...
L2 is a collective name for solutions that solve the problems of scalability and speed on blockchain, primarily in the Ethereum network. We’ll tell you about the most popular L2 protocols, their advan...
Blockchain networks use mining to create and validate new blocks of transactions and secure the network. Simply put, cryptocurrency mining is a process of creating new digital coins. Bitcoin and many...
It was great to be at CordaCon 2022 in London last week where I enjoyed several insightful conversations with fellow DLT & blockchain specialists! I just wanted to share with you my main business ...
When was the first time you tried playing a game? Did you win? Did your team win? Don't we all have many memories attached to the games that we have played over the years? For many gamers, gaming is
I am a music fan. Of all sorts, from classic, to pop, to etc. In the sixteenths I visited the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Plumpton South England. And there I saw Deep Purple for the first time...
Introduction The world of cryptos has been beholden to the frenzied and bullish run of NFTs in 2021. It's 2022, and the total market cap of NFTs is around 23 billion dollars. The NFT headlines are ro
The crypto market was shocked by the sudden collapse of the third largest stablecoin TerraUSD early May. Long-time isolated from the falls in crypto coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum, stablecoins were d...
The future of money is digital, according to a new global CBDC index from Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC). This year’s Index shows that central banks are “ramping up” activity in the digital currency sp...
The war of Russia versus its neighbour Ukraine has triggered many countries from the West to impose severe sanctions, mainly aimed at hurting the oligarchs around president Putin. They are trying va
For as long as cryptocurrency has existed, innovators have attempted to launch decentralized replicas of fiat money and the broader centralized financial system. In the Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi Na...