Tag Archives: Industry and Adoption

In 2021, many smart contract platforms competed for users’ attention and attempted to be the next Ethereum killer. The terms DeFi, GameFi, and NFT, have been all over the media lately, and any of these would not be possible without smart contracts. As more smart contract platforms are introduced, it becomes hard for newcomers to choose which is right for them. This article will examine some of the most popular smart contract platforms and share our hands-on experience...

In this article, we will review a relatively new crypto exchange and futures trading platform that’s designed for both beginners and advanced traders. Phemex takes a user-centric approach and offers quite some exciting features. Phemex is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency and derivatives trading platform led by a team of former Morgan Stanley executives. Since its launch in 2019, Phemex has grown to serve over 2 million active users in more than 200 countries. It was also...

Amid the financial market digitalization, analytics recorded active growth of the DeFi industry. Projects in the decentralised finance segment became a breath of fresh air in the world, vexed with the banking sector monopoly. We are sharing why DeFi is the future of the financial market and how to profit from it. Why DeFi is the future of the financial market: 3 reasons Crypto community members that actively utilise DeFi opportunities, name plenty of decentralised...

ADAX v1 is now live on Cardano. It now forms part of the network’s burgeoning DeFi ecosystem less than five months after the activation of smart contracting in late September 2021. ADAX Launches an Order Book DEX on Cardano Details on January 30 reveal that ADAX is a “core piece of infrastructure that’s critical to the long-term prosperity of the Cardano ecosystem.” The ramp introduces new features that stand out from other live and upcoming DEXes. ADAX is a custodial...

AstroSwap, a high-profile DEX, just launched on the Velas mainnet today, January 28th 2022. According to details of a recent press release, AstroSwap’s ASTRO will likely continue its exemplary performance of the past few months. Traders and ASTRO holders have already experienced, first hand, how fast prices can move, explaining the thrill ahead of the mainnet launch. It only took a few days for ASTRO prices to rise over 200X after concluding its IDO on the ADAPad launch...

Today I’d like to tell you a story that I have recently stumbled upon when sharing some food at the dinner table with my friends. One of them, Dereck, was outraged that night. When I asked him what put him through such negative emotions, he told us about the $10 000 inheritance he received from the uncle that passed away a few months earlier. He couldn’t think of any better way to manage this fund but to buy crypto and try his luck. A couple of how-to articles, several...

In 10-15 years, Gabor Retfalvi believes, we’ll all be living in the Metaverse. And the Hungary-based startup he founded, Next Earth, is taking charge to build a fully democratic, interoperable virtual world where users have true digital ownership over their avatars. “The Metaverse is going to be the next stage of human evolution,” Retfalvi says. “I’d rather live in a world where I have true ownership and agency over what happens to me than in a video game that’s...

While the space race for humanity began in the mid-1950s, blockchain technology took its first steps outside Earth in February 2018, and now Elon Musk has declared the start of the space race in early June 2021. With the recent news that SpaceX was going to carry some payload funded by Dogecoin, the latter was likely to be the first cryptocurrency to reach the Moon. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 3 rideshare mission with several small...

Ardana is a stablecoin ecosystem, consisting of a liquidity pool, a DEX (decentralized exchange), and asset-backed stablecoins, built on the Cardano blockchain. The project looks to develop a DeFi ecosystem that can deliver on the promise to give everyone access to DeFi. Cardano’s mainnet saw significant growth recently, with several new projects already launched or in the process of being onboarded on its blockchain. The team behind Ardana is helping Cardano better...

SupraOracles, a powerful decentralized cross-chain oracle, is poised to rise to the top within the oracle ecosystem — given their uniquely innovative consensus algorithm and novel blockchain structure. These two features make it easier for Supra to work closely with multiple projects, as their algorithm helps bridge real-world data to both public and private chains, enabling interoperable smart contracts to automate, simplify, and secure the future of financial markets....