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Consulting with the oracle
Take a close look at this picture. It shows the exact moment the world changed: More than anything else, this is the moment that brought us into the modern world. Can you see what’s happening? A man is being hoisted high on a platform, suspended by a single rope.
Vitalik, vampires and the birth of Decentralised Finance
Here’s something that could only happen in crypto. A guy gets fired from his job, stumbles on a random reddit post, learns to code… and one year later creates the most important decentralised finance project in history. How important? Well, since its inception in 2018, it’s handled roughly
Ergo deep dive: and justice for all
Ergo is a true anomaly: a modern crypto project with actual integrity.
The rise of Big Banking Blockchain
Back in the 90s, virtually every big company had its own internal “intranet”. Many still do. An intranet was like a closed-off version of the internet, just for that company to use. Different teams had different pages and they’d update them with useful information. The problem with intranets is
Toncoin deep dive: the quintessential crypto journey
Remember when everyone realised Facebook was selling their personal data to advertisers? Or, at least, pretended to realise, that is… Because by 2018, when the Facebook scandal hit, people generally took for granted that if an internet service was free to use, that was because the users were the product.
Ripple deep dive: bitcoin for bankers?
The 22nd of December, 2020, was the day everything changed for Ripple. Up until then, it had been one of the most promising cryptocurrencies on the planet. It was the third biggest crypto project by market cap. It had a huge, dedicated army of investors. And it was one of
The ETF special, or: the battle for Bitcoin’s soul
Once again, it seems crypto’s fate rests in the hands of US regulators. On the 15th of June BlackRock applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – yes that same SEC that just sued Coinbase and Binance – for permission to create a Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). If you’
Let’s investigate the top 5 DeFi platforms
We’re going to take a look at the top 5 DeFi projects by Total Value Locked (TVL). We’ll cover what each project is, what it does, how it got so popular and, of course, investigate its pitfalls, too.