DeFi: Waiting For Adoption. Part 1

    Almost everyone at his point knows what “decentralized finance” is. However, generally speaking, the DeFi sector has not yet reached the mass adoption stage. In terms of attitude to it, the situation with DeFi now resembles the situation with cryptocurrencies at the very beginning of 2017. Bitcoin rising to $ 50,000 per token and Ether…

    Restless SEC

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission is gradually escalating its activity, trying to restrict the cryptocurrency business as much as possible and bring it under the regulatory norms typical for the stock market. On August 27, we learned that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) struck a $ 125,000 deal with AnChain.AI to monitor…

    How Is Ripple Doing?

    The conflict between Ripple and the American financial regulator SEC, which has long been a pain in the neck for the cryptocurrency company, suddenly “froze”. It seems that the regulator is losing the court case, and we are in for further XRP price increases. August 31 was the deadline for the US Securities and Exchange…

    Crypto Adoption Paradox. Part 2

    Cryptocurrencies, “the digital age money”, are commonly associated with the most advanced technologies and other features of a modern developed country. However, the reality of their mass adoption indicates quite the opposite: crypto is mostly in demand in poor countries with weak economies. Other countries in the Chainalysis ranking – Kenya, Nigeria, Venezuela, Togo, and…

    Crypto Adoption Paradox. Part 1

    Cryptocurrencies, “the digital age money”, are commonly associated with the most advanced technologies and other features of a modern developed country. However, the reality of their mass adoption indicates quite the opposite: crypto is mostly in demand in poor countries with weak economies. The Chainalysis analytical company has put out its second report (https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-global-crypto-adoption-index) on…

    Kusama: sacrifice stability for speed

    Sooner or later, but it had to appear – a kind of “testing ground” for developing the most advanced blockchain initiatives, where it is very easy for developers to integrate their project, but there are no stability or security guarantees for it. On August 24, cryptocurrency developers in Polkadot announced that the Kusama network would…