financialtechnology

Let's be real, Bitcoin blowing past Amazon and Google to become the world's 5th largest asset? It's mind-blowing. Big numbers—a $2.040 trillion market cap—get their attention, no doubt. The bigger story, the one that truly makes me giddy, isn’t in the statistics. It’s not just about tech. It’s about the...

We all get inundated with the Bitcoin this, Ethereum that. Price forecasts, bearish and bullish market speculation, technical analysis mumbo jumbo whizzing at you from every direction. Let us tell you the truth. How much of that data really aids the individual with his arms around the money to his...

Could Bitcoin actually be the Amazon of crypto. Hear me out, because I believe this is not just pie-in-the-sky hopeful thinking. You’ve all read the headlines, the crypto price rollercoaster, the near-daily dread of yet another crypto winter lurking around the corner. What if we were approaching Bitcoin from the...

The cryptocurrency landscape is changing quickly, and 2025 promises to be a year of great importance. 2020 was supposed to be the watershed year for cryptocurrencies—price discovery, technology sophistication and integration into the mainstream. Decentralized finance (DeFi) is currently at the cutting edge of this rapid evolution. As regulatory clarity...

Mantle recently joined forces with Securitize to launch an institutional crypto fund. This protocol ranks first with more than $680 million in total value locked (TVL). The new collaboration released the Mantle Index Four (MI4) Fund. The Bitwise 10 Cryptoindex Fund is a market capitalization–weighted index that allows investors exposure...

Bitcoin's flirting with $100,000 again. We've seen this movie before, right? This time, something feels different. ETF inflows and Wall Street chatter are causing quite a stir. At the same time, a powerful democratizing force is taking shape to open up the crypto gold rush to the masses. A new...

Second, let’s be real—the Wild West days of DeFi are perhaps coming to a close. We all knew it, deep down. The allure of a completely decentralized and completely permissionless financial system is romantic. The truth is more complicated, and regulators can’t look the other way on DeFi bridges forever....

The crypto world is buzzing. Bybit, one of the world’s top crypto exchanges, is on a feature development warpath. They’re rolling out advanced trading bots, pre-market trading capabilities, and even a crypto card of their own. Whether this is a sincere effort to spur real innovation, or whether they’re just...

The SEC lawsuit continues to cast a shadow over XRP, like a summer monsoon cloud. Yes, its outcome matters. A lot. Focusing only on the legal arguing is to stare at one chess piece while disregarding all of the rest of the board. We’re missing the forest for the trees....

Have you felt it? That new hum in the air, an undercurrent of confidence returning to the space? Here in Singapore, we're not just watching; we're strategizing, preparing for what could be a monumental shift in the crypto landscape. Swissblock's analysis, pointing towards the end of Bitcoin's bearish trend and...