Novum Insights CEO Toby Lewis discussed the cryptocurrency fund universe with a focus on crypto hedge funds. He explained that many cryptocurrency hedge funds are characterized by almost quasi venture capital, such as Polychain Capital, DCG or Pantera. Lewis said that while they are deploying…

ByteTree CEO James Bennett discussed the latest onchain insights and observations in the Onchain Reaction segment. This week he started off by looking at price volatility. A couple of weeks ago, he discussed how price volatility was hovering at close to an unprecedented level of…

R3 was the first enterprise consortium to come on the scene in 2015, when the founders recognized the opportunities the blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, could offer the banking sector and beyond. Richard Brown, R3 chief technology officer, joined Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss how the…

Bitcoin Price Volatility Is Back With ByteTree In this week’s episode, ByteTree CEO James Bennett discussed the latest onchain insights and observations in the Onchain Reaction segment. Bitcoin price volatility has returned after falling to close to an unprecedented level of 20-22% a couple of…

Continuous Adoption in Traditional Finance JPM Coin debut marks start of blockchain’s value-driven adoption cycle – Cointelegraph Being in public denial of disruptive innovation, especially if it’s existentially threatening to your entire core business, is not an unusual approach. Best example of that is Blockbuster,…

Ethereum’s success has proven the demand for smart contracts, but not without risks, as many high-profile hacks have shown. The rise of the smart contract insurance market is helping to fix these issues, with companies like Nexus Mutual and Nayms at the forefront. Nexus Mutual…

Jason Eisen, Founder & CEO at UTU Bridging the Gap Between How People Trust In the Real World and How They’re Asked to Trust Online UTU founder Jason Eisen’s journey into crypto began in Nairobi. It was there that he and his team launched Africa’s first…

Edan Yago is the founder of Sovryn, a decentralized bitcoin trading and lending platform. Like many in the cryptocurrency space, Yago harkens from the academic world. He has a background in neuroscience and in 2011 while working on applying neurometrics to bowel diseases, he was…

Cointelegraph this week will publish its latest research report about institutional demand for digital assets. Demelza Hays, head of research at Cointelegraph and one of the authors of the report, joined Teana Baker-Taylor for a sneak preview of the report. Among the findings was that…

Nick Almond is the founder at finance.vote, which is a soon-to-be-launched cryptocurrency network focused on governance and voting technology with a focus on decentralized finance, or DeFi, to start. Almond describes himself as a newcomer to the crypto space and joins from the world of…

Bitmex charges put crypto industry on notice amid a quiet period on and off the chain

Crypto clearing is making its way to the cryptocurrency market, and the reaction from traders has been mixed, according to Phil Mochan, founder of Koine, which does custody and settlement of digital assets. X-Margin Founder Darshan Vaidya said the company has a positive relationship with…