The crypto world has always faced backlashes as a result of its unregulated nature and the fact that young entrepreneurs use technology as a tool to defy long-standing financial bureaucracy. However, more than ever, we have begun to see more efforts on the parts of regulators and traditional institutions to understand crypto, integrate it with legacy systems, and capitalize on its commercial appeal. The result is a cascade of crypto developments that promise to expose the concept to a broader... Read More

Blockchain as a concept and technology continues to generate controversies because its fundamentals have the propensity of stripping away traditional elements intrinsic to various sectors. What blockchain proposes are sets of unique solutions to security, monopoly, centralization, and much more. The sheer possibility of creating strictly user-centric products connotes a shift from business models that currently concentrate power to a selected few. While this is perhaps the most compelling use case of blockchain, the threat it poses to the world... Read More

To many, the Ethereum blockchain is the innovation that changed the way we viewed cryptocurrency and its underlying technology. The introduction of this blockchain infrastructure led to numerous developments and continues to shape the way we interact with blockchain components to execute transactions and perform specific tasks. Now more than ever, it is vital to assess the current state of the Ethereum ecosystem, how much it has achieved in the last five years, the modalities of the looming Ethereum 2.0,... Read More

The DeFi sector is currently playing an essential role in the ongoing crypto renaissance. The possibility of accessing improved financial services without all the hurdles associated with conventional banking processes has somewhat emerged as a compelling narrative. More so, the introduction of unique means of capitalizing on the interoperability and decentralized nature of DeFi protocols has spurred the sector to exhibit bubble-like characteristics. And so, it has become imperative to separate organically-generated developments and growth generated from hype. In this... Read More

It is hard to believe that we just passed the halfway point of the year, considering the ups and downs of 2020 so far. No one could have predicted at the beginning of the year that a pandemic will drastically alter the world economy and cause a global market crash. While it has been a bumpy year for a majority, the events, trailing the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, present new types of opportunities, especially for the blockchain and crypto... Read More

I recently published a comprehensive report on the emergence of the DeFi market and its implication on the broader crypto space. In it, I highlighted bitcoin’s unusual passive streak and the possibility of a shift in market dynamics. All indicators pointed to the inevitability of an altcoin season fueled by the increase in demand for decentralized financial products. However, ever since I published this article, Bitcoin seems to have jerked back to life. According to the latest market metrics, there... Read More

There is nothing new about Bitcoin being in the tabloids for the wrong reasons. As such, there were no real alterations in the price performance of the digital asset when news broke that hackers had breached Twitter’s security and launched a scam involving bitcoin. Regardless of the inconsequential nature of the actions of these hackers on the price of bitcoin, we, however, need to explore all loose ends. Chief among them is the fact that pundits have tried to twist... Read More

For a while, experts have predicted that the next phase of crypto adoption depends on the growth pattern of the DeFi ecosystem. And from what we have witnessed in recent weeks, there is an atom of truth in this assertion. The buzz surrounding the growth of the DeFi sector in the last few months has taken center stage, and it is likely to maintain such levels of hype for a while. Therefore, it has become necessary to explore the implications... Read More

Payment has always been cryptocurrency’s most potent use case. The possibility of enabling borderless and censorship-resistant transactions helped the technology secure a strong following, which has become the bedrock of the present crypto community. However, much of the attention has shifted from real applications to speculation. A growing percentage of crypto proponents now pay more attention to price trends rather than the core workings of crypto networks and their role in the establishment of crypto as a viable payment medium.... Read More

Much has been said about the versatility of blockchain infrastructures and how they enable solutions that evade the bottlenecks prevalent in legacy systems. Although this sentiment remains a popular view, experts have begun to see beyond the hype and analyze the real value of implemented blockchain systems. In reality, the more we understand the benefits and limitations of blockchain technology, the easier it is to fast-track the implementation of these systems. Until then, issues relating to ethics and the long-term... Read More