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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.
Brave browser, a privacy promoting browser, and blockchain-based encyclopedia Everipedia have announced a marketing collaboration agreement whereby both brands will market the other to their respective communities. Brave will create advertisement banners for Everipedia on their community page and articles on Brave and their vision will be highlighted on Everipedia,...
tZero, a subsidiary of internet retailer Overstock, has announced it's working with Alliance Investments as their technology partner, as the latter aims to bring real estate tokenization across the U.K. The two companies will launch the bloc's first real estate backed security token offering (STO) by tokenizing $25 million worth...
Genesis Capital, an institutional crypto lending company, has seen a 38 percent increase in loans originated from Q2 this year, with $870 million worth of loans given out. As per their Q3 insights report, total originations in the last one and a half years stands at a whopping $3.1 billion,...
Synthetix Network, a financial dApp that allows users to invest in synthetic assets, has raised capital from Framework Ventures and a number of other undisclosed investors. With DeFi surging, many institutions are finally seeing a potential paradigm shift and investing in these protocols. Not long ago, Andreessen Horowitz bought $15...
David Marcus, head of Facebook's Calibra wallet spoke at the Money 20/20 conference about what Libra is trying to forge and their commitment to a 'noble' vision. The narrative that has recently been doing the rounds is that of Libra establishing a monopoly over the financial system. According to Marcus,...
Central banks across the globe have been reserved in their approach to digitization. These institutions are huge proponents of digital payments channels on a retail level, but when it comes to digitizing all currency, their worst fears kick in. According to a report published by IBM and the Official Monetary...
In early 2020, Bakkt will begin testing its consumer app along with one of its prime partners, Starbucks. The lifelong dream of Bitcoiners to walk into a Starbucks and pay for their coffee with sats is set to become a reality, according to Bloomberg, October 28, 2019. Consumer adoption is...
Network consensus is one of the most important aspects of running a decentralized blockchain. Bitcoin utilizes the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, and so does Ethereum - but not for long. Binance Research believes Ethereum's move toward Proof-of-Stake (PoS) is a sign of its growing popularity with a new network, and...
Hardly two months ago, China was removing WeChat accounts of blockchain news operators and told hotels not to allow any cryptocurrency meetups. In an ironic turn of events, CN Ledger tweeted that it is now illegal to publish an article calling blockchain "a scam" in China. Plans to roll out...
Maker Protocol's stability fee is voted into existence with MakerDAO's governance mechanism. The stability fee is what helps keep DAI's peg afloat, and the confirmation of a reduction to 5.5% signifies a positive outlook on demand for DAI. As the price of ETH moves up, adoption metrics for DeFi protocols...
