Tag: DeFi
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![Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend]()
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…
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![Two Risk Mitigation Strategies for Getting Into Decentralized Finance]()
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…
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![Will Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) and DeFi levy the challenge to traditional finance?]()
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…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?]()
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…
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![Today’s Idea: Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) offers tomorrow’s markets today]()
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…
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![Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) goes public, brings wave of DeFi interest with it]()
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…
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![The cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Shiba Inu (SHIB)]()
The cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Shiba Inu (SHIB)
For the conservative looking to get into crypto, Bitcoin and Ethereum are still where it’s at. They’re the coins that offer the lowest risk profile—they have enough attention, backing and third-party investment to ensure that of all the coins out there they’ll still be around in ten years. But if you’re looking to get rich,…
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![This week in crypto: slouching towards a cautiously optimistic future edition]()
This week in crypto: slouching towards a cautiously optimistic future edition
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why confidence in Bitcoin’s future has jumped, but the likely culprit is that the Chinese bitcoin miners recently exiled from their ancestral homelands have made their way to to North America (and Russia and Kazakhstan) and set up shop. The hashrate and mining difficulty both enjoyed a bump, and now…
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![This Week in Crypto: A cryptocurrency and blockchain roundup featuring LNK.C, MARA.Q, CSTR.C, HUT.T, BTCS.OTCQB, CWRK.C, GLXY.T, APP.C, GBLC.C]()
This Week in Crypto: A cryptocurrency and blockchain roundup featuring LNK.C, MARA.Q, CSTR.C, HUT.T, BTCS.OTCQB, CWRK.C, GLXY.T, APP.C, GBLC.C
Most of the news you’re going to find on public companies in the crypto and blockchain space is going to be on mining. Sometimes you’ll see a company on the periphery of decentralized finance, or in the burgeoning sub-sector of cryptocurrency custodianship, but mostly it’s miners. This week isn’t much different. But mining itself also…
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![Coinbase Global (COIN.Q) goes live on NASDAQ to the tune of $86 billion, but will it beat the hype?]()
Coinbase Global (COIN.Q) goes live on NASDAQ to the tune of $86 billion, but will it beat the hype?
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase went live on the NASDAQ today using the ticker symbol COIN.Q to the tune of $86 billion. If your first reaction to that number is an eyeroll and a whatever-you-say you’re not alone. We’ll get into that in a moment, but for right now let’s consider what this means for the development…
