Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a system that aims to shift the spotlight away from centralized cryptocurrency exchanges and the constraints of the current traditional finance (TradFi) system. Despite DeFi’s cutting-edge nature, it has yet to achieve widespread adoption due...
Digital currencies play a vital role in today's economic landscape, and a host of new entrants are looking to cash in on this trend in the coming years. While it seems as though there's been little change in how...
Tokenization is widely expected to be a key element of tomorrow's financial markets. Fnality International (Fnality) is the result of a four-year research and development effort focused on understanding how market infrastructure must adapt to meet the challenge of...
Blockchain-based distributed ledgers work by connecting a chain of electronic records, each of which is linked to the one before it. Each new set of entries, or "block," is completed and time-stamped with a hashtag only after passing through...
The blockchain industry has grown exponentially over the last ten years. What began as a whitepaper in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto has evolved from the first L1-BTC blockchain to the arrival of the now dominant Ethereum, which captured the...
Inflation is one of the most troubling economic phenomena, especially for countries like the United States, which has the world's highest inflation rate. For the fiscal year that ended in June 2022, the annual inflation rate in the United...
The popularity and mass adoption of cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed over the past few years. Chainalysis's 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index shows that the number of people using cryptocurrencies around the world increased by more than nine times in the...
Regular cryptocurrencies are not entirely anonymous because blockchain transactions are recorded on a public ledger that anyone can access. While such a system has advantages, users' privacy and anonymity are compromised, and it becomes easier to link a person's...
Web3 embraces the concept of decentralization, meaning users, rather than a few mega-corporations, should develop, use, and own valuable resources on the internet Unlike the traditional web (Web2), which places power in the hands of corporations, Web3 puts power...
The crypto space rose to prominence for numerous reasons, one of which was the element of anonymity. Because cryptocurrencies provide some level of anonymity, many people prefer to use them to make payments, send funds, and conduct other transactions. ...
