Opium is an Ethereum-based decentralized platform that powers the trading of any decentralized derivative. During Bitcoin’s early days, cryptocurrencies existed as isolated products. As the industry grew, there was a need to interface traditional finance practices into the decentralized world. Part of the infusion happened by introducing distributed derivatives. Derivatives are financial contracts that derive […]

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Spoiler alert: there is no one blockchain that will rule them all. Different use-cases require different blockchains. This means that interoperability between these...

You may have come across the theory of Liquidity pools in the Defi ecosystem. But what are Liquidity Pools and how do they...

NEO Neo founder, Da Hongfei, joined Nash’s Beyond the Chain podcast to discuss how decentralized finance has entered a new era...

Nigeria continues to be a hotbed for cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin. However, altcoins are also battling for their share of the immense cryptocurrency adoption happening in the West African country. In this piece, we look at how FlashCoin is relying on university students to promote cryptocurrency adoption in Nigeria. FlashCoin – Built for emerging markets Flashcoin […]

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In view of the success and popularity of the Ethereum blockchain, scalability has been a primary focus for developers for some years now. The typical blockchain design requires each node in the network to process each transaction in parallel.  As a result, the capacity of the entire network to process transactions has been limited to …

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With so many new decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols emerging almost daily on the Ethereum blockchain, those in the crypto space hear almost every day...

The top decentralized exchanges, otherwise known as DEXs, have recorded a whopping 197% increase in average monthly trading volume in the third quarter of 2020. The Q3 report by crypto market information firm CoinGecko attributes the increase in the trading volume of DEXs to the hype around the decentralized finance (DeFi) market which has seen significant […]

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Binance has completed its latest quarterly burn. It was its biggest ever in terms of dollar value.

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have been experiencing unprecedented trading volumes in the past few months as more and more crypto investors are moving away from centralized trading platforms to more secure, decentralized alternatives.  While most decentralized trading currently occurs on the Ethereum blockchain, it is becoming increasingly evident that the future of DEXs will not be

Every day, it seems, a new crypto project emerges promising to forever change the world of finance....

Kadena, the first blockchain tech-focused firm to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, confirmed in August 2020 that they had...