decentralization

I'll never forget Sarah's story. Only a few months back, she had put her entire life savings on a DeFi platform she thought was secure. That money was going to be her dream home’s down payment. A week later, poof, gone. Hacked. Stolen. Vanished into the digital ether. It was...

Bitcoin is in the midst of an enormous breakout, market analysts agree, reaching levels not seen since late March. That increase is largely credited with a heightening institutional interest, a strengthening decoupling narrative and some bullish technical signals. Bitcoin’s recent climb above $87,000 can largely be attributed to this renewed...

Imagine Aissata, an enterprising woman farmer in Niger’s shifting climate. Now she’s able to get microloans in Bitcoin, avoid these corrupt local banks and fund her small business directly! This isn't some far-off fantasy. This is the promise of sovereign Bitcoin adoption, and it’s further along than you might realize....

Well, Solana flipped Ethereum in staked value for a minute, right? $53.9 billion versus $53.7 billion. Headlines screamed Solana overtakes Ethereum! But hold your horses there for a moment. While the numbers paint a picture of a thriving, democratized network, I can't help but wonder: is Solana's staking boom really...

We're told DeFi is the future. Our picture-perfect utopia A courageous new universe, liberated from the grip of Wall Street and political interference. The latter, a free-for-all digital utopia where you get to own your own assets. But let's be brutally honest with ourselves: the ZKsync hack just ripped the...

Disregard all the nonsense about lightning-speed transactions and magic new consensus models. While Avalanche (AVAX) certainly boasts impressive tech, its true power, its secret weapon, lies in something far more profound: the relentless pursuit of collaboration. This is more than feel-good speak; it’s a sea change in the way blockchain...

Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi and Maofan “Ted” Yin founded Avalanche. Today, it is considered one of the most influential forces on the entire cryptocurrency space. Conceived by Ava Labs, Avalanche boasts a transaction per second (TPS) rate exceeding 4500, dwarfing Ethereum's mere 30 TPS and showcasing its superior speed...

Bitcoin’s hovered a little over $84,000, plus or minus. We've seen the headlines: ETF outflows, the Fed playing hard to get with interest rates, strong retail sales numbers spooking the market. Conventional wisdom says Bitcoin should be crumbling. But it's not. And that, dear friends, is a deep message that...

And that’s why the news that Octane Security, the Twin Cities-based cybersecurity startup, has raised a $6.75 million seed round isn’t your ordinary funding announcement. It's a signal. A signal that the blockchain industry, often romanticized as this decentralized, immutable utopia, is finally facing its biggest challenge: security. And it’s...

Or maybe it’s just that awe you experience when you first encounter ads for easy-peasy crypto passive income. Or is it anxiety? Because honestly, it could be both. ZA Miner lures users in with the pitch of free XRP and DOGE, just for downloading. Similar to other cloud mining platforms,...