Let's be honest: every year, another "blockchain week" pops up, promising to finally deliver on the Web3 revolution. We see and read about decentralized finance, NFTs revolutionizing art, blockchain eradicating world hunger. It’s cool, it’s new, it’s sexy and quite frankly, 90% of the time, it’s hype. Dutch Blockchain Week...
Might Binance’s popularizing move with this airdrop of Hyperlane’s HYPER token be something more than just another crypto gimmick? Or could it truly be an African game-changer for cross-border payments? I believe so, and here’s why.Remittance Fees Eating Away Dreams?Think about this: a mother in Johannesburg working tirelessly to send...
Quinn Thompson says Ethereum is "completely dead." Okay, ouch. As someone who has a lot of skin in the game, I truly understand that gut punch. You probably do too. Nothing worse than hearing a hedge fund CIO pronounce a project you’re passionate about (and possibly put your own money...
Binance listing HYPER… A blessing from heaven, or a genius long con? We all want to be able to step into the connected, interoperable crypto future. Hyperlane delivers on that promise – it's a true bridge between blockchains, allowing data and value to move freely in all directions. Before we...
The hype around Ethereum’s Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions is overwhelming. We’re misled into thinking they are the only means to attain mass adoption. Their hype has some people questioning if they’re really Ethereum’s salvation, or if they’re unwittingly draining the main chain’s lifeblood. Have we become so entranced by...
Traditional finance shuts people out. Let’s face it, that system was never designed to work for all. It props up a status quo that benefits those already plugged into the system while leaving millions of Americans underserved and excluded. Think about it: no bank account, no credit history, no access....
Dogecoin. Remember the hype? The memes? The almost overnight millionaires? That was an incredible trip, carried on the back of celebrity tweets and the shared notion among everyone that anything could happen with crypto. Let's be honest with ourselves: the party's winding down. The music's getting quieter. And the smart...
Take Sarah for example, a wide-eyed developer I had the pleasure of speaking to at the last blockchain meetup. She literally put blood, sweat, and tears into building an awesome decentralized app. It plugs local farmers into a growing direct-to-consumer market, eliminating the middleman and providing them all with a...
Bitcoin dominance: it's everything in crypto. It’s a powerful thing, because it tells you exactly who’s king of the hill, who’s calling the shots. What if the king is already ready to abdicate? What if the charts are telling you in ALL CAPS that the altcoins are about to moonsock?And...
It’s a cliché used all too often today, but it’s true. What does it really mean? Does it mean ensuring that a bank account is accessible to all? Or does it simply enable them to open accounts that are emptied by the burgeoning predatory fee ecosystem? Or does it mean...
