With Algorand (ALGO) 's price more than doubling to over $2 in a month, many people have started paying attention to the Algorand protocol. While the price action of Algorand has been impressive, the technology behind the protocol is...
El Salvador has become one of the first countries to accept Bitcoin as a legal medium of exchange within the country. Its President, Nayib Bukele, has been actively pushing for this, and it is not surprising that the El...
Introduction SushiSwap, a popular decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Ethereum blockchain was launched in August 2020. The story of its launch is quite controversial, and the event is seen as one of the most polarizing incidents to ever...
Different countries are actively working on creating their CBDC through their central banks. Most governments are still at the experimental and theoretical phase of CBDC. For instance, the Nigerian Central Bank is working with a Barbados blockchain technology firm,...
Away from the price action of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins, there is something quite extraordinary happening in the world of crypto, and that is, DeFi or Decentralized Finance. This article will talk about what DeFi is all about, how...
Polygon has announced plans to form a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for all of its community members, including projects in decentralized finance (DeFi). The Ethereum scalability infrastructure developer made the announcement last week, calling on its members to express...
Introduction For financial institutions that issue fixed-value liabilities that are backed by assets whose value is unknown, bank runs are a common phenomenon. Recently, Iron Finance, a DeFi protocol, suffered a similar collapse in its infrastructure that saw the...
Out of many popular blockchains out there, Algorand is a new one that was made available to the public in 2019. Its underlying principle is focused on solving the blockchain trilemma, which is decentralization, security, and scalability. It is...
For decades, humans have been starved for options when it comes to availing of financial services. With DeFi, this comes to an end. While DeFi doesn’t remove the existing system, it offers users of financial services an improved and...
The largest hack in the history of DeFi has hit cross-chain protocol Poly Network, a development that has seen the firm lose $612 million in multiple cryptocurrencies. “We are sorry to announce that #PolyNetwork was attacked on @BinanceChain @ethereum...
