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NFTs have proven to be the darling of the blockchain. With notable artists, musicians and even sports stars releasing their own private pieces and collections. The most notable milestones were the Beeple piece, THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, which was auctioned off at Christie’s for $69 million. This proved to be
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Over the last year, the decentralized finance space has been making waves in the financial sector, building on blockchain technology to decentralize a multitude of banking services. The adoption of DeFi services has been steadily on the rise, and all kinds of assets are making their way onto the blockchain.With
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This year has been off to a notable start for crypto and blockchain. On Jan. 7 the total cryptocurrency market hit an all-time high exceeding $1 trillion for the first time. Renewed interest in, and conversations around, blockchain technology and digital currencies from industry and government leaders have accompanied the
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What impact will crypto have on the nature of organizations? Will experiments in crypto’s governance lab lead to lasting trends in how companies are orchestrated? This week on the Opinionated podcast we discussed this big topic with Jeff Dorman, the chief investment officer at Arca, a crypto hedge fund.Dorman,
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Bitcoin momentarily blasted above $40,000 today, doubling its previous peak set back in 2017. A huge rejection took place shortly after the level was overcome, prompting a $4,000 drop near instantly. But as eager buyers stepped in to “buy the dip” on Coinbase, they were met with frustration and disrupted services.
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The year 2020 has been monumental for the blockchain sector, especially in regards to financial markets. Yet, while the price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached new all-time highs this year, the enterprise blockchain space also welcomed in public networks, open-source code and a number of other elements not seen in previous
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After many years of investment, experimentation and infrastructure improvements, the intersection of three market trends are paving the way for enterprise adoption of public distributed networks: tokenization, decentralized finance (DeFi) and business logic moving to layer 2. In 2020, it became ever more apparent that these trends, in addition to hard
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The Fintech sector will remain to expand and fine-tune in forthcoming years. To be more reliable and satisfy clients, this sector will develop at a much greater pace.Fintech has revolutionized the idea of the way customers obtain their investments. From a mobile payment application to insurance and finance businesses, financial
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Welcome to Forkast Forecasts 2021. In this series, leaders, innovators and visionaries in blockchain-related fields tell Forkast.News what they see as the most noteworthy developments for this industry in 2020 and their predictions for the year ahead. Alex Tapscott Alex Tapscott is co-founder of the think tank Blockchain Research Institute and co-author
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The Messari CEO goes over the highlights of his just-released annual “Crypto Theses” report.What were the most important trends? Who were the most important people? Was it the year of Bitcoin Macro, the year of DeFi or both? Ryan Selkis is the founder and CEO of Messari. Each year he puts
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