The traditional way of funding early-stage startups is through Venture Capital. Decentralised projects have experimented with innovative ways of raising funding by issuing security and utility tokens. We compare the different approaches and analyse how tokens can align the incentives of customers, founders and investors….

James returns to review Bitcoin’s price break towards $40k, onchain settlement trends, the fall of BTC on Ethereum and more.

For those living within established western economies, Bitcoin and other crypto assets are mostly viewed as highly speculative investment instruments. However, and if the recent decisions in El Salvador are indicative of what is to come elsewhere, to those in developing nations it better serves…

Bruce Lee famously told his students to “be like water”, to adjust to challenges and so find a way to flow around or through them. But that’s not the only way to become unconquerable. Bitcoin is more akin to one of those strange non-Newtonian fluids…

This article explores the current Decentralised Finance (DeFi) landscape, as well as the existing opportunities and risks. DeFi refers to an alternative, distributed ledger based, financial infrastructure. Most DeFi infrastructure is built on Ethereum, though increasing competition from alternative platforms, such as Cardano, Tron and…

James returns to review Bitcoin volatility fall, miners defense against weak prices, bear market and the Network Demand Model.

Nick joins us to wrap up the week, chew on the hottest news and take a look at the sentiment and technical charts for ETH and BTC.

As early experiments in DeFi start to mature, it’s clear that a simplified user experience will be required to broaden access to a wider audience. Based on a vision that anyone should be able to issue real-world assets into a DeFi environment, Defactor are developing…

The mantra commonly spouted amongst early Ethereum developers was the idea that “Code is Law”. It was the view of many others that might know better that this was a somewhat spurious argument all along. Code is in fact code, and the law is still…

CRYPTO ASSET MARKET PERFORMANCES The markets have been low for a while now, and last week seemed no different. The global cryptocurrency market capitalisation is $1.40 trillion, a 0.18% increase over the last day. Total crypto market volume in the last 24 hours is $56.36…

Here’s an easy one. Which is more powerful – the pen or the sword? Or to update it a little, an assault rifle or an idea?   I’ve been thinking about this eternal philosophical question a great deal recently, especially in light of recent reports…

James returns to review Bitcoin’s falling onchain settlements & velocity, miners’ inventory, fund flows & wrapped BTC