BIS Head Agustin Carstens and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani have proposed the idea of the “Finternet,” an interconnected financial system led by tokenized assets that would help to overcome today’s shortcomings in transacting financial assets. The core of this system would rely on the possibility of smart contracts managing these assets programmatically. BIS Boss Highlights […]
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Under Secretary Brian E. Nelson has confirmed that terrorists’ use of crypto remains a small fraction of more established mechanisms to move money. He also admitted that “digital assets were not even a popular tool for Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad” and “Hamas is using crypto in relatively small […]
According to Evan Deutsch, a core contributor and co-inventor of Clone, cloned assets, perpetual contracts, and bridged tokens are two tools that can bring liquid spot markets to non-native assets on Solana. Deutsch, who is better known as Mark to many in the crypto space, cautions that the latter two tools have their drawbacks which […]
With the launch of Apple’s Reality Pro headset just a few days away, Augmented Reality (AR) is the topic on everyone’s minds. But the buzz isn’t baseless – the possibilities of AR technology are breathtaking! Fancy the new MSG Sphere in Las Vegas? Imagine having one in your own backyard! But beneath this surface-level spectacle, […]
Stablecoins, the crypto assets crafted to mirror the stability of fiat currency, have encountered over 600 significant instances of price instability in 2023, as per Moody’s Analytics. A ‘depeg’ or ‘depegging’ event is characterized by a stablecoin’s value swinging beyond a 3% margin from its standard $ 1 mark within a day, according to …