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Alisa Dicaprio Chief Economist at r3
Projects sometimes fail. But when there are lots of headline collapses in a short period, it’s time to look for patterns. Was it all hanky panky or was there a more legitimate reason for failure? In this exploratory piece, I unpack five projects in the distributed ledger technology (DLT), more specifically, the blockchain space whose collapse made ...
27 December 2022 /retail /crypto
Nish Kotecha Co-Founder & Chairman at Finboot
The recent and very public demise of cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, has once again dented wider faith and trust in the crypto world. Despite raising $400 million at the start of the year, rumours of FTX being undercapitalised led to more than $650 million in withdrawals - causing it to close its doors and confirming it was in a liquidity crisis. Th...
08 December 2022 /regulation /crypto
Gilbert Verdian Founder and CEO at Quant
The last few weeks have not been good for the reputation of blockchain industry. The collapse of the crypto exchange, FTX, has put bad actors and the unregulated trading of cryptocurrency into the spotlight. In more regulated spheres, we saw the $250m write-off by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that pulled the plug on its supposed, world...
05 December 2022 /crypto /markets
Many businesses that would benefit from the blockchain have been avoiding it. Its carbon footprint, expense, and links to volatile cryptocurrencies contributed to blockchain harbouring a toxic reputation that it couldn’t shake, and businesses wouldn’t touch. That was until ‘the Merge’. This – now widely used – term references the restructure of the...
30 September 2022 /payments /predictions
Bertrand Chen CEO at GSBN
A crop of technology is fast emerging which is set to disrupt the multi-trillion trade finance market, and banks have a substantial opportunity to capitalize on it. Banks have always played a vital role in underpinning global trade where they are “trusted” parties, issuing letters of credit and financing trade flows. Without banks, the internation...
05 September 2022 /markets /predictions
Retired Member
According to the latest survey conducted by PMNTS and BitPay, 85% of businesses are adopting crypto payments to find and gain new customers. As an alternative payment system built on the blockchain ledger, cryptocurrency is the digital alternative to traditional fiat currencies, and the blockchain - the transparent, distributed ledger where all c...
05 August 2022 /payments /crypto
Chris Harmse VP at BVNK
If we're to believe some of the more hysterical stories out there at the moment, it's End of Times for crypto. The media loves a good fall from grace, and for many commentators the recent turbulence seen in the crypto markets is a sign that the bubble has well and truly burst and that decentralised currency is, as they always hoped, a flash in the...
12 July 2022 /payments /crypto
Gwen Adele Cryptocurrency Researcher at Coinsclone
DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance which is the most prominent term in the blockchain sector right now. Recently, many crypto startups and business class people started to use the DeFi concept as it provides a wide range of beneficial factors in various aspects. Since the existence of decentralization services in the blockchain space, we can se...
06 July 2022 /startups /crypto
Lissele Pratt COO & Co-founder at Capitalixe
Since the rise of cryptocurrency, there has been much debate about which is better, cryptocurrency or fiat? Both have pros and cons, and figuring out which is better depends on the business using it. Some people believe that cryptocurrency is a better investment for the future, while others argue that fiat money like the US dollar is more stable a...
24 May 2022 /payments /crypto
Jimmy Huang STRATEGY & SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING at DUCO
Digital assets bring some unique operational challenges. Even crypto-native firms find themselves needing to bridge the technology gap between fiat and crypto systems. How can financial institutions and crypto-native firms ensure the seamless flow of data across their organisations? Mike Walsh, Director of Institutional Operations at BlockFi and Da...
14 April 2022 /crypto /markets
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