The original blockchain trilemma, a coin termed by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, hypothesized that architects are often forced to make a trade-off between the three characteristics of scalability, security, and decentralization.  Historically, platforms would often focus on obtaining two of these aspects at the expense of the other. Scalability was perhaps the most obvious trade-off,Read More

What is the top cryptocurrency – Bitcoin or Ethereum has been a hot debate for the past years. If we look at the market cap – Bitcoin has been the leader since the beginning. However, ETH has advanced further as a blockchain with its multi-purpose platform that allows for more use cases, such as smart […]

Uniswap is an Ethereum-based decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) or a smart contract protocol that allows anyone to swap ERC20 tokens.  Uniswap is the largest cryptocurrency exchange of its type, with…

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In an interview with NFX’s Morgan Beller, the Ethereum creator opined on Chinese tech, U.S. exceptionalism, and cryptocurrency.

Blockchain network Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin released a plan for the first hard fork of the Beacon Chain (Ethereum 2.0) yesterday. The preliminary codename is HF1. The main goals of HF1 are to add light-client support and fix some vulnerabilities in the Beacon Chain that was discovered too late to be addressed at Genesis. In […]

As the deployment of Ethereum 2.0 continues to develop, its deposit contract now holds over 3M ETH which will contribute to the security of the ecosystem. These deposits are worth over $5.4 billion for a contract that was launched just 4 months ago and secured the amount required by the Beacon Chain for its launch [...]

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Google went down yesterday night, kickstarting hundreds of memes on the perils of centralization.

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Can you really borrow money at negative rates, earn double-digit annual yields on savings deposits, and see 1000x token returns?As excitement over DeFi...

Yearn.finance’s governance token, YFI, has continued its ascent for the umpteenth day in a row. On Aug. 31, the price of the prominent...

Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, raised concerns over yield farming yet again this week after new protocols locked up billions of dollars...

It’s been fair to say that Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) has entered a mania phase. A coin worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was...

The Kyber Network is quite an established project that is trying to change the way we think of decentralised cryptocurrency exchange. They are developing...