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CoinRisk – a self-serving audit & analytics platform for Web3
Web3 is a much-discussed topic nowadays. While many see the benefits and are strong believers in it, others are more reluctant to use Web3 services. Almost on a daily basis, you hear of crypto scams, rug pulls, as project owners run off with the money of investors....
Decentraland Vs. The Sandbox
At this point, it is no secret that the metaverse is everywhere. The public is fascinated with it, companies are building more products and services specifically for the metaverse. As for metaverses, themselves, more and more of them are being developed but few are as...
Ethereum’s New Proof-of-Stake System: What Does it Mean?
One of the biggest announcements in the blockchain sector in recent times was the Ethereum Foundation confirming that it would be switching to a proof-of-stake (PoS) protocol. This news sent shockwaves across the industry and a plethora of speculation. What would this...
Is the ICOs’ market Dead?
If we look back to a few years ago within the cryptocurrency sector, we’ll see that Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) were very popular. ICOs took place when a new blockchain or crypto project offered its native token to users as a form of buying into the project with the...
What is Play2Earn and Why is it Important?
One of the most exciting applications of blockchain in the modern world can be seen in the gaming sector. Sure, blockchain can help us send money, transfer assets, and records data, but it can also make gaming much more exciting. Because of this, we have seen an...
New Study Shows Mixed Metaverse Attitudes Among US Consumers
The metaverse has become perhaps the hottest new tech trend in the last few months, with seemingly every company investing in it in one way or the other. Facebook, for example, changed its parent company name to Meta and has teased a slew of metaverse-related...
What is the Metaverse?
If you’ve spent any time on the internet in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen one thing or the other that references the metaverse. From people paying large amounts of money for virtual property to debates about what it will mean for our real-life interactions,...
NFT: reality, or hype?
All About NFTs If you keep up with blockchain and the wider tech industry then you’ve likely heard the term ‘NFT’ being thrown around these days. Every other day, there is some headline about an NFT being sold for a large amount of money and about the impact of NFTs...
Review of the HardFork of Ethereum
The cryptocurrency industry is constantly changing and this is particularly true of the blockchains behind top tokens like bitcoin and ether. Bitcoin, for example, has seen several hard forks that have led to the creation of bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV. Now that the...
Iranian Government Seizes Crypto Mining Equipment
The Iranian government has historically had a complicated relationship with cryptocurrency. A few years ago, the government threatened that crypto miners would be cut off entirely from the national grid after it was found out that several miners were tapping into the...
Ethereum Soars to New All-time High
Ethereum fans have had reason to celebrate over the last week as the popular altcoin has soared to a new all-time price high. As of May 6, 2021, the all-time price of Ethereum is almost $3,500 which represents an increase of around 300% since the beginning of 2021,...
PayPal Launches Crypto Checkout Service
Few payment processors in the world hold quite as much power as PayPal. The company boasts of over 330 million users as well as around 29 million merchants that make use of their services. This is why when last year PayPal announced that it would be allowing for...
Bitcoin: what’s next?
While institutional are investing in the crypto market, Bitcoin is becoming increasingly popular. As proof: the first three weeks of this year 2021 saw the volumes of King BTC double in comparison to the same volumes in 2019 and 2020. Everybody is working on it:...
Digital Yen Not Coming For a Few Years
Few things are as indicative of the progress that cryptocurrency has made on the world stage as the increased attention being paid to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). China is currently rolling out its digital yuan, France is testing the digital euro and the...
More Details Emerge on the Digital Yuan
There are few projects in the cryptocurrency space more ambitious or anticipated than the digital yuan which is in development by China. The digital yuan will be the crypto-equivalent of the existing yuan fiat currency and was confirmed by the country over a year ago....