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Blockchain Phones and Bitcoin Watches: Revisiting the Crypto Tech Hype

Talk of cryptocurrency and blockchain-powered gadgets inevitably spiked alongside the hype for token prices. But looking back, have they delivered any meaningful changes to users, or are they just another result of the hype synonymous with the space? The surge of interest in the space came to a head in 2017 as Bitcoin (BTC) hit never-before-seen highs of around $20,000 before crashing dramatically and entering the bearish crypto winter. While the collapse left devastation in its wake, the months of focus brought Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology into the mainstream consciousness

RenVM Guide: A Private and Interopable DeFi Platform

With the objective of solving concerns on privacy, interoperability, and liquidity in decentralized applications, the RenVM ecosystem was established. This is yet another successful DeFi project with cross-chain interoperability, only this time, with better privacy features. The Republic Protocol and its RenVM project were aimed to provide large volume and high-frequency traders the opportunity to execute trades without spooking the market with their calls. With the help of darknodes, they maintained an exchange with a hidden order book. Table of Contents Background Ren began in late 2017 under the Republic

90% Crypto Investors Worry About Their Investment – What Will Happen After Their Death

Cryptocurrency and blockchain have become the most trending topic worldwide, especially on the internet. Mostly, investors and traders are involved more in cryptocurrencies. Because the crypto market gives good returns, and it offers an excellent opportunity for the traders too.Recently, a study revealed that 90% of the crypto investors are worried about their investment in cryptocurrencies. They are wondering what will happen to their crypto assets after their Death. However, some people have some proper plans for it. But some investors, particularly younger ones, are only thinking about their own.How

Mobile DeFi and the Shift Toward Self-Sovereignty

Many speculate that mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency is dependent solely on improving ease of access and user experience. In reality, there’s an even bigger obstacle: a mentality shift. Self-sovereignty and personal autonomy are the endgame of this technology, and with that goal comes a significant increase in personal responsibility for one’s funds. This is totally at odds with people’s traditional financial experience so far; the legacy system takes away your autonomy and replaces it with convenience, offering useful tools related to fraud protection and password management. By comparison, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance

Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry, Part 3

The advantage of the cross-blockchain protocol for public registries is that it can unite any number of existing ledgers in one ecosystem and does not need to upgrade the protocols of such blockchains. In simple terms, the protocol works as an aggregator of tokens across blockchains. The protocol conceptually comprises two major elements:The format requirements for an entry by knowing the standard of a record, the user’s machine can automatically collect records from various ledgers in one bundle.The hook, which is the algorithm that scans blocks of ledgers and extracts

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Dogecoin (DOGE) is now being used by crypto hackers after TikTok boom

Dogecoin’s usecases have seemingly evolved over time. The meme coin was initially created as a joke in 2014, turned into one of the hottest cryptocurrencies in 2015, became Elon Musk’s favorite in 2018, and was part of a TikTok challenge in 2020.But things have taken a darker turn for the currency; hackers are now utilizing the token to control crypto mining botnets, security firm Intezer Labs said in a report this week.Such DOGE, much hackIntezer Labs, a New York-based malware analysis and detection firm, found out hackers using the infamous