About author: Liam Kelly

Terra0 cofounders Paul Seidler and Paul Kolling never planned on tokenizing Dahlia’s, but after meeting at Berlin’s Universität der Künste (UDK), they found common inspiration in digitizing real world commodities. At first, the implications of an economically self-sustaining forest may be far-fetched, but their first experiment, Flowerokens, gives us a glimpse into an intriguing potential future. Terra0’s Roots Seidler and…

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In traditional markets, policymakers began aggressively ousting anticompetitive economic behavior following the rise of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil at the turn of the 20th century. Some of these displays have been made highly public, while others have slipped under the radar. Others, however, have toppled entire economies. Nonetheless, nailing down the aspects that keep free markets free is…

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Germany has opened its doors to the wave of new technology startups in Europe, and Berlin is quietly becoming the crypto capital of the continent. While regulations have played a role in this level of adoption, the ethos of the city falls right in line with that of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. To bring this identity to a point, the…

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Two of the world’s larger banks recently acquired three distinct patents in the field of blockchain technology. Wells Fargo’s, aptly titled “Data element tokenization management,” was filed on July 17, 2018, and looks to tokenize pretty much every possible data piece possible. Barclays later filed two patents on July 19, 2018. The first looks to streamline cryptocurrency transfers between clients…

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On July 17, 2018, global payment and trading platform Stronghold announced the launch of their stablecoin “Stronghold USD.” The cryptocurrency will be built on Stellar Lumens’ (XLM) blockchain and will offer a one-to-one ratio with the U.S. dollar. The San Francisco based firm also disclosed a strategic partnership with IBM to explore novel business applications using the stablecoin. Cure Crypto…

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On June 19, 2018, bitcoin.de and Fidor bank celebrated the five year anniversary of the two firms’ crypto partnership. The event was just one of many during Berlin’s annual Tech Open Air (TOA) festival which opened on June 19 and finished on June 22, 2018. The series of exhibits plays host to the city’s growing technology sector as well as…

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In day two of the BCI Summit, panels continued the discussion about how best to get in the way of all this tokenized money. A few speakers also discussed what investors should do to protect their digital assets best. Marketing and Security The first point was made most clear via a marketing discussion between Victor Park, the president of Alternative…

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On June 11, 2018, investors converged, many for the first time, on the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City for the BCI Summit to get a better idea of how to enter the cryptocurrency space. The intrigue of an explicitly finance-focused conference should also be another example of the mainstream interest in the emerging asset class. Despite the financial features…

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CoinGecko has emerged as a solid alternative to the information hungry crypto sphere. Naturally, many are already familiar with first mover CoinMarketCap, but TM Lee’s project offers a broader suite of diagnostics. The traditional offering of market capitalization, liquidity, and price are all on display, but in the following interview, Lee outlines why the inclusion of things like developer, community,…

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The arrival of institutional investment into the crypto space has signaled a number of maturity benchmarks for the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple. As such, it seems like everyone and their mothers are trying to get a grip on this emerging financial asset. As mainstream is turning towards digital currencies, an immediate question arises; where can one get quality…

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