31 December 2024

Tag: Decentralized Finance

Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend

Usually trying to be all things for all people is a bad business strategy. Mostly it stretches your operation too thin. You might be really good at one or two things, and only so-so on others, but if you spread out to include all the operations you can manage, you can usually expect mediocrity across…

5 April 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
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
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
If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition

If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,…

27 December 2021
The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the…

16 December 2021
Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) goes public, brings wave of DeFi interest with it

The final stage of a long acquire-and-go-public process reached completion for Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) Tuesday, as the de-fi roll up that has been attracting financial heavy hitters behind the scenes this past year received its go-ahead go-public nod. The recent grouping of Israeli firms Seamless Logic and Moneyclip Inc, with 1290447 BC Ltd, is now…

30 November 2021