It’s time to unite the blockchain community with the climate change community in some concrete and scalable investments into DLT and climate action. The United Nations Climate Change Conference of November 2021, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland urged the world to commit to curbing contributions to carbon emissions. Achieving a net-zero world in less...Continue Reading

For many Ukrainians and Russians, digital assets have become the means to support themselves and their loved ones during the crisis. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has become a stress test for crypto in many tangible ways. Digital assets have emerged as an effective means of directly supporting humanitarian efforts, and the crypto industry, despite...Continue Reading

DAOs appeared as the response to red tape and obsolete approaches in governance. Will regulation in Australia stifle innovations? Lawmakers in Australia want to regulate decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO). In this three-part series, Oleksii Konashevych discusses the risks of stifling the emerging phenomenon of DAOs and possible solutions. Regulating a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) as...Continue Reading

There is a place for the Metaverse in the world thanks to emerging technologies like NFTs, but digital worlds still have a long way to go before being implemented in daily life. It is hard to resist the vision spun to us by Meta (formerly Facebook) and other virtual world platforms. A digital utopia that...Continue Reading

The application awaits approval from the United States financial regulatory body, SEC UK-based blockchain infrastructure firm Applied Blockchain has filed an initial public offering (IPO) application on Apr. 8 to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to issue 3,236,245 shares of common stock onto the Nasdaq Global Select Market with the ticker symbol APLD....Continue Reading

Sharyn Alfonsi, a journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, interviewed Mike Peterson, one of the people who funded the Bitcoin Beach project and encouraged crypto adoption. 60 Minutes, the CBS news show that has been running since 1968, will feature El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach in a new episode airing April 10. According to a Friday post...Continue Reading

Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge hackers have started moving their funds despite early hopes of a dialogue between the creators and the hackers. The decentralized finance (DeFi) world saw another week of increased on-chain and developer activity even when the overall market cap took a slight dip amid overall market retrace. The creators of the popular...Continue Reading

Fabio Panetta outlined recent findings and remaining challenges while emphasizing the necessity of a well designed European CBDC. European Central Bank executive board member Fabio Panetta provided an overview of the central bank’s current research on a retail central bank digital currency Friday when he spoke at the IESE Business School Banking Initiative Conference on...Continue Reading

ASTR, ACA and SAITO went on a month-long rally shortly after the Polkadot ecosystem intensified its move toward DeFi and EVM compatibility. The Polkadot ecosystem sorely underperformed compared to other layer-1 networks in 2021, while the slow roll-out of parachain auctions and mainnet launches left the network playing catch-up in 2021. It appears that this...Continue Reading

In 2021, the firm made seven investments and one exit in an early-stage NFT business. On Friday, NFT Investments PLC, a U.K.-based blockchain firm that invests in companies operating in the nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, space, announced that it would no longer pursue a 96 million pound acquisition of Pluto Digital. Although it did not...Continue Reading