Sanctions couldn’t ‘pull the plug’ on Tornado Cash: Chainalysis

    While it has become harder to access the crypto mixer today, for better or worse, decentralization means it’s near impossible to put an end to it. Sanctions aimed at decentralized crypto mixer Tornado Cash weren’t able to completely cut off its usage, though it has hamstrung the service, a blockchain analytics firm has shared. On…

    $3.9 billion lost in the cryptocurrency market in 2022: Report

    The report from Immunefi revealed hacks to have been the main cause of related losses. Immunefi, a bug bounty and security services platform for the Web3 ecosystem, published a report on Jan. 6 revealing that the crypto industry lost a total of 3.9 billion dollars in 2022. According to the report, hacks were found to be the main…

    Putting a cap on decentralization: How regulation impacts DeFi adoption

    As legislation threatens to allow centralization to creep into the DeFi space, regulation could have complex effects on the adoption – reveals Anupam Varshney’s study on Cointelegraph. Decentralized finance (DeFi) is shaping up to be one of the most important sectors within the blockchain industry. In just the last two years, DeFi’s total value locked…

    Web 3.0 and Web 4.0: could we see the entire Internet on the blockchain?

    Could blockchain technology become something more than a basis for digital money and applications for various activities, from commerce to governance? Is it possible that the entire Internet will be based on distributed ledger technology? Today, there is a lot of conversations about different concepts of Web 3.0 – after all, the Internet is evolving,…

    Is DeFi technology easy enough to adapt to non-finance industries?

    DeFi gets a bad rap for being complex, technology makes it simple enough to cut out middlemen in non-finance industries ranging from energy to e-commerce. Decentralized finance is far and away the hottest topic in crypto, touted as a way to make a fortune by backing the right token, but also a tool for taking…