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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.
After a recent study showed that USA and India are to top two countries in terms of a blockchain development talent pool, ConsenSys published their blockchain jobs report in a blog post, 24 May, 2019. The report highlights how blockchain has gathered momentum in global talent pools and the new...
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is the newest trend to ride on in the blockchain ecosystem. Ethereum alone boasts a number of different financial services, of which the likes of MakerDAO and 0x Protocol are already scaling to the top of the DeFi mountain. In this write-up, BTCManager explores the intriguing world of decentralized...
As revealed by Justin Sun in a tweet on 27 May, 2019, Tron will be launching the BitTorrent File System (BTFS) as the world's largest decentralized file sharing protocol with over 100 million existing users. This comes less than a day after Justin Sun announced that something exciting would be...
From 2014 to 2017, BitMEX rose to become one of the biggest crypto investment platforms in the world. In a detailed blog post on May 23, 2019, BitMEX narrated their story of becoming an industry force and the upgrades they put out for the platform. The King of Crypto Derivatives...
Switzerland has joined the likes of Malta and Gibraltar to become the third country in the world to introduce security token regulations. As reported by Blueshare, on May 23, 2019, the laws are stringent, but they offer clarity on the issuance process. Cashing in on the Security Token Storm Switzerland is...
Telecom powerhouse AT&T has tied up with crypto payment processor BitPay to allow customers to use cryptocurrency to pay their bills, as per a public announcement, 23 May, 2019. This a major step to adoption as it marks the first instance of a major American company tying up with BitPay....
The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Services (FIOD) in association with Europol and Luxembourg police have cracked down on Bestmixer, one of the largest cryptocurrency mixing services in the world. Mixing is a process whereby one can necessarily throw in tainted funds that are identifiable with criminal activity and receive...
Fantom, a distributed ledger based on Directed Acyclical Graphs (DAG), is tying up with Binance to leverage Binance Chain in launching a cross chain platform, as announced on May 22, 2019. The partnership will support assets that follow ERC20, native Fantom standard, and BEP-2 (Binance's token standard on BNB). After...
Venture capital firm Bicameral Ventures has funded three new companies to help build a technological ecosystem and improve product development management. Nodesmith, metaMe, and Velocia provide an array of mutual solutions from improving developer uptime to enhancing traffic flow management for urban regions. This new investment thesis is a refreshing...
Stablecoins, led by Tether (USDT), have already made a lasting impression on 2019 with volumes beating that of 2018 in a mere five and a half months. According to a report by Diar, May 21, 2019, Tether has seen nearly $1.3 trillion in trading volume in 2019 so far, leading the...
