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Most investors are familiar with the business model of the entrenched platform economy, in which a set of powerful tech companies rely on the network effects that they generate to obtain proprietary data, goods or content from users. These tech giants dictate terms favorable to their own businesses yet often limiting for users’ interests. One […]
HALVE TIME: The expected date of the next Bitcoin halving keeps creeping forward – thanks to miners upgrading to faster, more powerful machines and powering up older models, incentivized by this year’s BTC price runup to a new all-time high around $74,000. The halving’s ETA is now somewhere around mid-April, a couple weeks earlier than […]
With over $10 billion in inflows in less than two months, the spot bitcoin ETF is already considered the most successful product launch in ETF history, drawing widespread mainstream attention to the exciting crypto asset class. With its supply cap of 21 million tokens, bitcoin’s narrative as “digital gold” or a store of value is […]
In the world of digital assets, real world assets on-chain private credit brings the process of lending and borrowing against real-world assets onto a blockchain. Source link
TERRA-FI-ING? If it seems too good to be true, it sometimes is. But hope springs eternal that the crypto project Ethena’s new USDe token might prove sustainable despite yields that typically might signify high risk. Described as a “synthetic dollar” rather than a stablecoin, USDe is backed by Ethereum liquid staking tokens such as Lido’s […]
At a high level, a Bitcoin halving is when the introduction of new bitcoins into circulation is reduced by half. This happens roughly every four years, and this schedule will continue until the last bitcoin is mined sometime around 2140. The supply is capped at 21 million BTC. This mechanism was devised by Bitcoin’s creator(s) […]
In this week’s issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how “liquid restaking tokens” or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet’s STRK airdrop, Stellar’s smart-contract facelift and bitcoin’s supply crunch. Source link
The approval of the spot bitcoin ETFs constituted a landmark event for the $1.7 trillion digital asset industry. With institutional investors on board, demand for bitcoin will grow significantly. Source link
FILES NOT FOUND: Ethereum has a standardized process for adding new token standards, including the well-known ERC-20, for fungible tokens, and ERC-721, for non-fungible tokens or NFTs. But a new unofficial token standard, ERC-404 is suddenly getting traction – and there’s now a supposedly improved version called DN-404. Both standards aim to combine virtues of […]
A practical, unbiased, and proven approach could classify bitcoin as another building block in institutional investors’ portfolios. Source link