One of the major use cases of decentralised blockchains that has been heavily hyped by institutional investors has been Decentralised Finance — or “DeFi”for short. DeFi is essentially the analog of Traditional financial services for digital assets implemented on top of decentralised networks (thanks to Coinfund’s Jake Brukhman for that definition here). The disruptive potential of DeFi is
And Why Markets are still immature Some interesting action in privacy coin markets today as a new currency took centre stage thanks to a severe code bug. MimbleWimble based privacy coin Beam saw its blockchain halted, as miners began improperly propagating invalid blocks. Beam has only been live on mainnet since January 4th, so it is
UX Meets Lightning For anyone who follows our social media, you would have seen our previous writing on the current user experience of the Lightning network (for those who haven’t, look here). In that article, we wrote about the Casa node solution that had recently been released — and how its UX improvements would help with the
