All you need to know about digital assets.
Asset correlation remains a reliable hedging strategy for balancing non-digital assets within a traditional portfolio.
Also referred to as "liquidity mining,” yield farmers seek high yield opportunities in exchange for loaning out digital assets, such as stablecoins or bitcoin, to emerging DeFi projects or exchanges.
Gas is the unit of account on Ethereum used to measure the amount of computational energy needed to process a transaction on the network.
Open-source protocols and permissionless composability enable DeFi 2.0 by allowing developers to build applications upon the reputable DeFi protocols that came before.
DAOs present individuals with unprecedented opportunities to connect to like-minded communities across the globe.
Users interacting within the metaverse experience an enhanced virtual presence while participating in the evolution of human interaction and digital communication.
A Layer 2 scaling solution is built “on top” of the parent network protocol, which integrates with the parent protocol to improve network performance.
A Layer 1 scaling solution is an innovation or change to an underlying parent network protocol.
Just as bitcoin emerged from the financial crisis, this unique asset class has continued to develop in response to recurring problems encountered in traditional financial sectors.
On the Bitcoin blockchain, the storage of blocks occurs in chronological order across the decentralized ledger.
To achieve stability, stablecoins can be backed by any asset (or combination of assets) in reserve. There are three common collateralizations: fiat-backed, crypto-backed, and algorithmic.
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) aim to share the same attributes––security, scalability, and stability––that are currently attracting investors to stablecoins, albeit with differentiated key permissions.
In 2017, developer Anatoly Yakovenko conceived Solana as an open-source blockchain solution to resolve long-standing scalability issues inherent to the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism used by Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Blockchain will soon be the foundation that underpins investing, the internet, and ever more aspects of life.
The rapid adoption of Ethereum 1.0 inspired a number of network upgrades aimed at resolving Ethereum’s evolutionary challenges.
Staking is central to Proof of Stake (PoS), the newer consensus mechanism that powers Ethereum and other blockchains.
Comparing two methods of digital asset mining.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are revolutionizing the art world.
As Web3 surfaces, we're seeing a new version of the internet emerge. It's increasingly more decentralized, user-focused, and immersive.
NFTs create an entirely new genre of assets living on the Ethereum blockchain, pushing the decentralized finance (DeFi) revolution forward.
Blockchain technology is rapidly digitizing the global economy.
Up until recently, investors in digital assets were faced with the choice between storing their digital assets in “hot” or “cold” wallets.
A blockchain is a database that stores data in groups known as blocks connected in chronological order.
Ether (ETH), commonly referred to as “Ethereum,” is the cryptocurrency that powers the Ethereum blockchain.
The emerging area of decentralized finance has the potential to upend the entire financial ecosystem.
Bitcoin, the first digital asset, was invented in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.