Tag: Decentralization

Prioritizing the ideas in the Bitcoin white paper instead of perceiving crypto as a forex market could have dramatically changed today’s cryptocurrency use cases. Ignoring the original, utility-driven ideas introduced in the early documents on digital cash became the new normal once adopters stumbled upon a cryptocurrency price ticker. Are new price tickers a sign…

CEO Charles d’Haussy doesn’t view centralized exchanges as competitors for dYdX. The dYdX Foundation, an independent decentralized finance (DeFi) nonprofit founded to support the dYdX protocol, recently launched a public testnet for its latest version, v4. According to the foundation, this puts dYdX ahead of schedule for the impending launch of the v4 mainnet, something…

Paul Brody’s “Ethereum for Business” gives a basic overview of enterprise Ethereum, while providing real-world use cases of how EY clients leverage the technology. The cryptocurrency market has encountered its share of ups and downs over the past year, but blockchain technology continues to see impressive growth as businesses seek digital transformation. Recent findings from the market research platform,…

Decentralized finance protocol Aave has finally launched its new algorithmic dollar-pegged stablecoin GHO on Ethereum. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave has launched its algorithmic United States-dollar pegged stablecoin GHO on the Ethereum mainnet, with $2.19 million worth of GHO minted so far. Aave announced the launch of the new stablecoin in a July 16 blog…

The study also showed that decentralized organizations work best when they’re built around a tight-knit group of focused participants. A pair of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Princeton University conducted a study to determine how tokenization affects decentralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Their findings indicate that many of the challenges to autonomy…

The Ordinals Protocol is generating a circular digital economy where assets are priced, bought and sold via Bitcoin. In an email dated Jan. 17, 1993, Hal Finney — a developer and early contributor to Bitcoin — shared the concept of “encrypted digital cards,” which are now known as nonfungible tokens (NFTs). “Giving a little more thought…