Solana is a permissionless blockchain with a high transaction speed compared to its counterpart, Ethereum. It is highly scalable with over two hundred nodes offering a high throughput of over fifty thousand transactions per second. Solana neither uses...
Since the inception of Bitcoin more than a decade ago, the crypto and blockchain industry has come a long way. Before we were introduced to them, the financial sector relied on banks as central authorities to ensure the safety...
DeFi has blown up in the past year, and the on-chain activity has been rapidly increasing. The volumes have been so high recently that popular decentralized exchanges like Uniswap can even compete with the volume on some of the...
NFTs have taken the digital art and collectibles niche by storm. While the first-ever NFT, Quantum was created by Kevin McCoy on May 3, 2014, it was only in 2020 that NFTs caught mainstream attention. In 2020 and 2021,...
Telling some centralized or traditional finance enthusiasts to embrace cryptocurrencies can be likened to advising them to bear the burdens of Hercules on their shoulders. Many tend to look at some of the issues plaguing crypto, and volatility is...
Binance Chain and Binance Smart Chain are different blockchains belonging to the same ecosystem. Binance Coin (BNB) is the native token of the Binance ecosystem. Binance Chain was an earlier version that was fraught with issues that undermined the...
Recently Dogecoin has garnered massive attention in the crypto world, not minding that it has been around for a while. It is different crypto, named after a dog, and created as a meme coin. When it was initially created,...
The blockchain world, especially the decentralized financial realm, needs data to operate effectively, and that is why Chainlink was created. Chainlink is a decentralized oracle protocol that offers real-world data to smart contracts on the blockchain. Many DeFi ecosystems...
Ethereum pioneered the concept of smart contracts and it remains the most popular smart contract blockchain platform. However, Ethereum is plagued with issues that have continuously discouraged users and even developers from utilizing the functionalities that it offers. Issues...
Polygon, a “Layer 2” solution for the Ethereum blockchain was recently rebranded from its original name, Matic Protocol. It is a protocol that can be used to build and link Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. As an open-source platform, it offers...
