by Michael
Andre Cronje is the architect behind decentralized finance giant Yearn. Introduced in 2020, with a “fair launch” said to have helped ignite that year’s “DeFi Summer,” Yearn continues to break new ground. This year saw mergers and acquisitions of protocols by other...
by Michael
Trung Nguyễn was intrigued by CryptoKitties because it combined something he loved – games – with something he hated – blockchain. It was late 2017 and the initial coin offering (ICO) boom was in full swing. All he saw were bad actors trying to scoop up a lot of...
by Michael
U.S. lawmakers signalled this year that stablecoins may be a threat to financial stability and could prove to be systemically important beyond crypto. Often unnamed in official reports, Tether is never far from mind. The largest stablecoin, by far, USDT has ballooned...
by Michael
Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian programmer, is the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain and (nearly as important) “Bitcoin Magazine.” Some of his earliest writing still influences the cryptocurrency industry today. Take DAOs, or decentralized autonomous...
by Michael
In the world of crypto, exchanges rule. Antonio Juliano is chief executive of dYdX Trading Inc., the company behind one of the fastest growing decentralized exchanges, or DEXes, which briefly overtook Coinbase by trading volume this Fall. Though the comparison may not...
by Michael
Polkadot, the proof-of-stake blockchain Gavin Wood built after co-founding the world’s largest blockchain Ethereum, is gearing up for launch. Designed as a scalable blockchain that addresses the fundamental flaws in Ethereum 1.0′s architecture, Polkadot leverages a...
by Michael
Arianna Simpson’s trip to Zimbabwe in 2013 changed her life. But it was the experience of using Western Union, and the platform’s extortionary fees, to send money to the family she sponsored that changed her mind on crypto. Now a general partner at Andreessen...
by Michael
Just like his co-founder Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson went on to do his own thing after developing Ethereum. With Cardano, which hit an all-time high in August this year and currently stands at a $44 billion market capitalization, Hoskinson aimed to develop a more...
by Michael
CEO of Messari Ryan Selkis is boisterous and sometimes brash, but few are as informed. Perhaps this is because of his institution-grade data firm, which covers the industry like no other, or because Selkis still blogs most days about the crypto things that caught his...
by Michael
Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Chiron has raised a $50 million fund dedicated to backing projects on the Terra blockchain, the company announced Wednesday.The firm says it will use the funds to boost “decentralized finance applications, metaverse-linked...
by Michael
The Biden-Harris administration has unveiled its strategy on “countering corruption.” It includes utilizing the government’s newly established task force, the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, to focus on “complex investigations and...
by Michael
The Starwood Capital Group chairman says governments keep printing money but no one can make more of Bitcoin. He notes that in a world with such monetary policies, the only “smart hedge” is Bitcoin. According to the billionaire, who says that 2-3% of his... Page 3,648 of 4,512« First«...102030...3,6463,6473,6483,6493,650...3,6603,6703,680...»Last » Translate »