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Ever tried sending money across borders? It's clunky, slow, and expensive. Now picture transferring your Bitcoin — the most valuable, popular and enemy of digital currency — on-board. Now it’s something you can actually use — like, for example, in some of those same promising DeFi apps! Until now, it’s...

Hut 8’s recent financial performance is, at the very least, alarming. A $134.3 million loss isn’t a missed quarter, it’s not even a correction, but is rather the flashing red light indicating disaster. The halving took its toll, but the operational downtime loomed even larger. Leading their efforts today, though,...

Dmitry Tolok and Volodymyr Kostanda, the duo behind Primex Finance, are launching FrenDeFi, a one-stop DeFi application designed to make decentralized finance accessible to everyone. Ironically, their journey started back in 2017. After years of developing infrastructure for other blockchain projects, Maker is finally focusing on making DeFi an easy...

Bury 2.0 is more than your average staking upgrade. It’s a possible tectonic shakeup in the way that crypto projects are governed. We’re describing something much deeper, a new relationship between the haves and have-nots, a shift from passive asset holding to hands-on involvement. Throw out the previous “lock it...

Okay, let's talk about Solana. By now, most of us are all familiar with its reputation as the speed demon of the crypto world. But that speed comes at a cost, a cost that strikes at the very heart of what crypto is supposed to be: decentralization. This recent "silent"...

Solana, lauded for its claims of high throughput and subsecond transaction finality, just passed a dangerous test of network resilience. In mid-April, a zero-day bug was quietly patched, a move that, while averting potential disaster, has reignited the debate surrounding Solana's decentralization. This recent incident serves as a cautionary tale...

Did Solana save itself, or sell its soul to the Devil? That’s the question reverberating through crypto, with whispers still swirling around the emergency patch dropped in secret in mid-April. We were saved by an alert patch, which avoided a looming catastrophe. It saved from a disastrous token minting exploit...

Imagine losing your life savings. Now picture that going up in smoke because someone scam-called you one day and poof, your $330 million worth of Bitcoin is gone. This worst-case scenario is not a distant hypothetical; it became a terrifying reality for one senior citizen just last week in the...

Web3 is rapidly crossing the chasm from a speculative idea to practical application. It’s poised to change everything about how companies do business and what they need to do to connect with consumers. By 2025, businesses that shun Web3 altogether will have lost the game. They’ll lose their chance to...

Web3 will move from being an experimental technology to becoming an essential business tool by 2025. It’s the deep understanding of its many exciting, practical applications that have the potential to revolutionize countless sectors—not just the transportation space. With at least 14 real-world use cases, Web3 technologies are set to...