A recent news opinion article raised a lot of eyebrows by suggesting most people should probably just avoid Bitcoin because they can’t afford to jump into the fray – but are they right? “All Aboard the Billionaires’ Bitcoin Bandwagon?”, as Bloomberg put it, cautioned market…

Turning the counter-revolutionaries Bitcoin abounds in sound bites from otherwise smart people lazily regurgitating inaccurate anecdotes. Take tulips, for example. Bitcoin’s dizzying rise to hegemony is, apparently, nothing more than a modern day version of the “original bubble” in 17th century Holland. The most astonishing…

Over the course of 2020, crypto native market participants have become more versed with macro matters, not only in part due to the ongoing institutionalisation of the marketplace, but also because of the far-reaching implications that various events have had on world economies. First, it…

Bringing Traditional Financial Influence Into Crypto Markets With Dfi Labs Dfi Labs is a data and tech company as well as a cryptocurrency asset manager. Olivier Chevillon, Founder at Dfi Labs, joined Paul Gordon, editor at Coinscrum Markets, to discuss the parallels between traditional finance…

    To kill the King According to legend, the Greek goddess Hera tried to kill the baby Hercules by sending serpents into his cradle. But she was too late: the infant was already too strong, and simply strangled the snakes. There’s a lesson here…

Why Bitcoin’s price has not quite caught up to its real value even after hitting a new all-time high. An almost endless list or reasons keeps appearing for Bitcoin to rise in value, yet the spot price of the largest digital asset is seemingly lagging behind virtually every other indicator even as the real value of the US Dollar continues to fall.

Persistence bridges the gap between DeFi and traditional finance by facilitating the borrowing of crypto assets using real-world tokenized assets as collateral. The company aims to position itself as a protocol that powers new-age financial products with a focus on the fixed income markets to…

Efficient Frontier is an algo trading company. They have been developing strategies and infrastructure in the traditional markets since 2006. In 2017, they felt the cryptocurrency ecosystem was mature enough for them to jump in and apply their technology, infrastructure and knowledge to this nascent…

Attestant is an institutional grade non-custodial staking service for Eth2. The team has been working closely on the launch of the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain, which was the first of a multi-phase and multi-year process to see the network migrate from a proof-of-work (POW) to…