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Ashwath Balakrishnan
Ashwath is a financial market and technology junkie. He is a cryptocurrency investor, trader, and enthusiast. He has expertise in market psychology and explaining complex technology in a simple way. He aims to battle misinformation in the cryptocurrency space.
Visa unveiled its newest innovation this week: a trusted execution environment (TEE) that can help induce a fair and just computational layer that maintains privacy and wards off bad actors. According to Ledger Insights, there are a wide range of use cases for this that can help improve customer privacy...
In October this year, the SEC rejected Bitwise's application for a Bitcoin ETF in partnership with NYSE Arca. The regulator has now announced they are willing to give the ETF proposal a second look, and invites any party to file a statement in support of the product by December 18,...
Joseph Lubin, the co-founder of Ethereum and ConsenSys, offered his thoughts on the so-called "Ethereum killers" as well as the state of regulation in the cryptosphere. As per an interview by Forkast Focus, Lubin rightfully acknowledges the benefits Bitcoin and Ethereum gained by being first movers, November 18, 2019. Finding Core Decentralization...
The much-awaited integration of Multi Collateral DAI (MCD) is finally upon us. As the clock counts down, projects across Ethereum's DeFi stack are gearing up to support their favorite stablecoin. Amongst the known integrators are Compound, dYdX, Request Network, and almost every major exchange (Coinbase and Bitfinex) that lists DAI,...
In part 1, we through the network design and criticisms of IOTA owing to their in-house cryptographic implementations. Most of the positives of the network shine through in the tokenomic framework and an overview of the protocol, November 15, 2019. Tokenomics and Business Development IOTA is a fully issued cryptocurrency...
The Indian government released the list of bills they plan on presenting in the parliament's winter session, and to the surprise of the Indian cryptocurrency ecosystem, the bill to ban virtual currencies was not on the list. While this is good news for the domestic industry in the short term,...
Coinbase has announced support for XRP, XLM, BAT, REP, and ZRX for their crypto enabled debit card, while also adding regional support in 10 countries including Denmark and Sweden. Focusing on retail adoption has been at the top of Coinbase's agenda, and their moves to enable crypto payments across the...
Coinbase recently published an article regarding security for Proof of Work (PoW) blockchains. While discussing the topic of ASIC resistance, Coinbase criticized such an approach, highlighting Monero's need to hard fork every 6 months a significant burden that may not be worth it just to block out ASIC miners. Monero...
BitMex leaderboards allowed traders to use a three-word pseudonym to protect their identity while being able to boast their trading profits. In 2019, two of the top 10 were revealed to be one single institution: Alameda Research. Run by quantitative trader Sam Bankman-Fried, Alameda has burst onto the scene as...
At the Binance super meetup in Singapore, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, announced his goal for the next six to nine months would be to onboard the remaining 180 fiat currencies to the exchange, as reported by Micky, November 13, 2019. The exchange has been on a spree of fiat...
