18 July 2025

Category: Finance

The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Fringe, The Weird, and the WTF

Normally we cover the top 100 crypto by market cap on Perplexed, but today we’re covering four strange and disparate cryptocurrencies, ranging from the peculiar but theoretically useful Augur to the downright weird Cthulhu Offerings. Why? Because there’s some weird shit out there and you should probably know about it—especially if you’re going to look…

11 March 2022
Two Risk Mitigation Strategies for Getting Into Decentralized Finance

The promise of decentralized finance is a new way to complete financial transactions using applications. It promises to cut out traditional financial institutions and other intermediaries and be conducted entirely over the blockchain. Essentially, its promise is the elimination of exchanges, banks, brokerages and other middle-men from the equation. Folks deep into DeFi will tell…

3 March 2022
Will Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) and DeFi levy the challenge to traditional finance?

One of the biggest unforeseeable events of the past twenty years has been the disintermediation effect of new tech. Netflix killed blockbuster, Amazon has slain Sears and other big box chains of the past, and services like Uber and Lyft are disrupting the traditional taxi services. Technology has been busy slaughtering the sacred cows of…

23 February 2022
It’s time for another nifty sector roundup featuring NFT

Blockchain and its ancillary products has a hype problem. We saw it in 2017 when the tech blew up and public companies started putting blockchain in their name to take advantage of the buzz, only to drop it (well, most of them anyway) when the bubble burst. The problem? It was a revolutionary technology that…

8 February 2022
The DeFi Mini-Roundup You Didn’t Know You Needed Till Now

For most people decentralized finance (DeFi) is a mystifying concept. The world of finance itself is full of strange definitions and shenanigans, but it’s been around long enough that the entire sphere of financial life is taken for granted. It’s always been there and it’s always going to be there. It’s the world of Warren…

31 January 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case for Privacy Part 1.

Earlier this week the Biden administration took aim at cryptocurrency by announcing they’re preparing an executive order for release early next month outlining the U.S. government strategy on cryptocurrency. Here’s a handy bullet point list: The directive would place the White House in a central role overseeing efforts to set policies and regulate digital assets,…

29 January 2022
Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Litecoin

Litecoin is one of the original cryptocurrencies. We could call it a First Generation cryptocurrency alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, XRP and if you want to stretch it some, maybe Dash and Bitcoin Cash. It’s been around since 2011 when Bitcoin mining was mostly done from your mother’s basement on a series of networked computers, each…

27 January 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?

The court proceedings between Ripple Labs and the Securities and Exchange Commission haven’t come to a conclusion, and we won’t be able to provide any definitive answers to what we as here today, but we can speculate based on the existing information. Determining whether or not the XRP cryptocurrency is a security is really beyond…

11 January 2022
Today’s Idea: Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) offers tomorrow’s markets today

Tomorrow’s markets are going to be easier to navigate, or so we’re told by anyone close to decentralized finance (DeFi). The essential promise of DeFi is that it could lead to an altogether more efficient, more democratic form of finance. It promises a system that’s cheaper, faster, more transparent and less prone to manipulation by…

4 January 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)

Ripple is the key product of San-Francisco based Ripple Labs. It acts simultaneously as a currency exchange, remittance network and settlement system, and was introduced to the market in 2012 on a distributed, open source protocol that supported fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities and other value stores, including mobile minutes and frequent flyer miles. Its cryptocurrency…

3 January 2022