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What Is TradFi

TradFi, short for traditional finance, refers to the mainstream financial system that consists of retail banks, commercial banks, investment banks, other financial institutions, an

April 3, 2022

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August 30, 2022

Navigating Urbit: Your Digital Homestead In recent years, digital homesteading has been slowly increasing in popularity as a new approach to living. Fewer people now live in rural areas than ever, effectively drying up the communities that o

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August 30, 2022

How Alethea Is Enabling the Integration of NFTs and AI It's no secret that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have taken the crypto world by storm in recent years. These tokens are financial securities stored on the blockchain, and unlike other types of securitie

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August 30, 2022

Pangolin: Avalanche's Innovative Cross-Chain DEX As of late 2022, decentralized finance (DeFi) is growing at a rapid pace. More DeFi applications are being released, each one offering new and unique features. Blockchain users are attracted to this,

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Decentralized finance

August 30, 2022

Polygon: Scaling Ethereum with ZK Technologies Originally named the "Matic Network", Polygon is a blockchain solution on Ethereum, allowing both users and developers to connect and scale. The project was launched in 2017 and its primary goal is to

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Decentralized finance

August 30, 2022

Is THORSwap the Solution to Cross-Chain's Centralization Dilemma?As blockchain technology evolves, teams of developers are building different projects that are seeking to solve different problems. However, with this abundance of projects, users occasionally face is

Decentralized finance

August 22, 2022

Everything You Need to Know About Hedera Hashgraph Hedera Hashgraph is a crypto network with the ultimate goal of providing a safe platform for anyone to make transactions and deploy applications. At the same time, a group of businesses oversees the s

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Decentralized finance

August 22, 2022

The Evolution of BNB Chain BSC, Binance’s layer-1 blockchain, announced merging the BSC and the Binance Chain, forming the new and improved BNB chain. The idea is to link Binance’s layer-1 to the protocol’s token, BNB, to furth

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Decentralized finance

August 22, 2022

Overview of the Polkadot Ecosystem Polkadot’s first proof of concept design and its beginning stages of development emerged around four years ago. The DOT ICO occurred in October 2017. Since then, it has raised over $145 million in ETH

Decentralized finance

August 16, 2022

AAVE: Reviewing and Evaluating Leading Crypto Lending and Borrowing Protocol Aave offers various lending pools where users can earn interest on their existing digital assets. However, traditional institutions have stringent regulations and guidelines that you must meet when ap