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JP Morgan & DBS Join Hands to Launch Blockchain-powered Interbank Payments Platform

JP Morgan, DBS, and Temasek are forming a new blockchain company to launch Patrior. The Patrior platform is leveraging the work that JP Morgan and Temasek did in Project Ubin in 2017. In the beginning, Patrior will only serve the Singaporean banks to settle payments in the US dollar…

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Tether Could Be Leading Capital Flight From China As Regulations Intensifies

According to a report obtained from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, Cryptocurrencies in general but mainly Tether (USDT) could play a significant role in the current capital flight from the East Asian region as China tightens its stance on the use of cryptocurrencies. Since China’s move to place an embargo…

Featured, Opinion

Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model Explained

Bitcoin’s limited supply, and the consequent scarcity, is the basic foundation for its value March 23, 2019: the first online publication of Plan B’s work and its explanation April 27, 2020: the second publication of Plan B’s work and the introduction of cross-asset data to the chart The first…

Blog, Opinion

What is Cosmos? Diving Into the Details

As the next in our series of deep dives into tokens, Cosmos is a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains powered by byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithms. They want to build the Internet of Blockchains so that different chains can interoperate and allow users to transfer information of any…

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An Introduction to DeFi

DeFi protocol decouples central governance in the issuance of financial products. DeFi refers to all financial products issued on the blockchain. The market for DeFi does not only provide a viable alternative to the banking population but more importantly, could enable access to essential financial services to the 1.7…

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Best Crypto Data Alternatives to CoinMarketCap

CoinMarketCap (CMC) has long been the dominant player in the crypto data space Now that Binance has acquired CMC, traders and researchers everywhere are wondering how this will affect the impartiality of the data This article contains a lineup of crypto data platforms with more accuracy and better features…

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What Does The U.S. Digital Dollar Mean For Crypto

The United States now tops the chart as the country with the highest confirmed cases of the COVID-19 pandemic with over 100k cases to-date The ‘digital dollar’ proposal by the US government for the disbursement of the massive $2 trillion stimulus package for its citizens will be issued using…

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How to Raise Money with an STO

Heavily reliant on bankers and financial intermediaries, the global commercial system is a complex arena where access is limited to a few. The advent of blockchain technology promises to revolutionize a market that is ripe for disruption. One key development in this area is the phenomenon of STOs or…

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Cryptocurrency and Fintech Trends 2020

It might be an odd time to do a “cryptocurrency and fintech trends 2020” kind of post. But, nearing the end of Q1, we come to an interesting standpoint from which to judge the rest of the year. Because, frankly, who would’ve or could’ve predicted the mess we’re in…

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How Will Coronavirus Affect Crypto?

As the global market continues to react negatively to the continuous spread of the Coronavirus, Bitcoins seems to have joined the bandwagon after breaking below the $8k psychological level Safe-haven and risk asset narratives of Bitcoin (BTC) stink as the digital asset defies expectations Major blockchain and cryptocurrency events…