Category: Blockchain
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DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and Joining one
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a widely touted use case of blockchain technology (decentralized and autonomous), allowing people to gather in groups (organizations) in a borderless, web-native way. While the internet has allowed for mass coordination, it still has a lot of friction and costs involved in it. Like traditional companies or social clubs, members…
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Enhancing cross-border payments: Ripple vs. Stellar
Cross-border payments is estimated to be a c. $44b market in 2020, according to McKinsey estimates. While this was negatively impacted due to restricted travel regulations as well as international supply chain disruption globally, an increase in the adoption of e-commerce as well as digital payments provided a lift to this sector. However, cross-border payments…
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Crypto Exchanges – Centralized (CEX) and Decentralized (DEX)
Introduction There are 4 main ways to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, each with pros and cons. Centralized exchanges (CEX) process the largest amount of cryptocurrency volumes. According to Coingecko, Decentralized exchanges (DEX) volume is just about 5% of total trading volumes. The largest CEX, Binance, has about $14b of 24-hour volume, while the largest DEX,…
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Blockchain and cryptocurrencies – is this time different?
With a c. $2.5t market value and c. 300m users at Oct 2021, the digital asset universe is too large to ignore, and crypto-based digital assets could form an entirely new asset class. This scale was reached as a result of a crypto boom over the past year and there has been a long list…
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Merkle Science – Providing the guardrails for blockchain
Introduction Since the Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper was published in 2008, the cryptocurrency has gone through cycles of booms and bust, and public opinion has largely been divided. While in one corner of the ring proponents argue for it to be a possible alternative to gold as a store of value and potentially even being the…