While the world’s largest economies are gearing up for the CBDC race we recently wrote about, smaller countries are looking to integrate “traditional” cryptocurrencies into their financial systems. The alternative, they realise, is quickly losing their fiscal independence in the new economic reality. According to experts of the world’s largest investment company BlackRock, we are…
The rapid transformation of global finance resulting from the war in Eastern Europe will spur the development of central bank digital currencies – CBDC – in the months to come. We have already written several times about how the war has drastically accelerated the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. But no state wants to lose control…
Before our very eyes, cryptocurrencies are reverting to their original role. What has at one point turned into an investment and speculative tool is going back to its roots – crypto as a means of payment. It’s damn nice to watch your predictions come true. And in addition, it is fascinating to see exactly how…
Bitcoin avoids another “Bart” style price spike this weekend, but what’s the mood like on the market going forward? Here are five potential Bitcoin price topics to consider, writes William Suberg on Cointelegraph. Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week on a tentatively stronger footing as macro cues curiously stabilize. After a calmer weekend than most…
Fate certainly has a sense of irony. While Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are engaged in an armed conflict, their citizens have rushed to explore cryptocurrencies. For Ukrainians, it is a way to bring closer the victory, but for citizens of Russia and Belarus, it is a desperate attempt to break away from their severely compromised…
Gauntlet, a DeFi financial-risk modeling platform for crypto lending, raised a new round of funding that pushed its valuation to $1 billion. The company plans to use the capital injection to scale the platform to operate on multiple networks and expand into new areas such as gaming. On March 14, Gauntlet said that it had…