This year, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) were on the front page of most media publications, thanks to the wide adoption these tokens had in the crypto financial markets. NFTs have grown in popularity until becoming a mainstream investment, from their humble beginnings as a fringe hobby. Conservatively, most of the NFTs…
On August 5th, 2021 the London Hard Fork was implemented in Ethereum to make transaction fees more predictable for users and as a solution to challenges in price volatility and scalability issues. To illustrate, the DeFi market makes an exceptional example.
The decentralized finance (DeFi) market size according to Statista (2021) is about $88 billion dollars, as measured by the amount of cryptocurrency locked which has increased exponentially since June 2020. The increase has to do with new appliances in the DeFi market and their popularity that has increased the congestion…
Recent legal developments worldwide have shown acceptance of digital assets. Many governments have understood the great possibilities and opportunities that Blockchain technology brings and the unavoidable direction towards tokenization of assets and the crypto economy that the financial industry has been taking. A pivot point in history has occurred by…
The idea of using peer-to-peer distributed systems to provide computational proof of chronologically ordered transactions was inspired by the collapse of the financial markets after the exposure of crucial trust-based vulnerabilities relating to double-spending. Blockchains and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) improve the inefficiencies that require extensive reconciliation processes and…
Tokenization of assets has undoubtedly been a subject of high interest in the last few years. Its rise is bringing not only more investors into the game but also requires a lot of new regulations and classifications. …
It is not clear for many financial players diving into digital assets what rules they need to apply. In which cases is a prospectus required when tokenizing assets? What type of digital assets are required to publish a prospectus and who needs to approve it? …
“Ethereum is outperforming Bitcoin” is the new headline from CNBC (2021), the business and financial news network. With less than half the market capitalization of Bitcoin, Ethereum had a trading volume of 600 billion dollars in May 2021, 60% higher than Bitcoin, according to Morgan Stanley. …
On May 5th, 2021, the committee meeting, chaired by Katja Hessel (FDP), and the coalition factions of the CDU / CSU and SPD, as well as the FDP faction, voted in favor of the federal government’s bill (19/26925) to introduce electronic securities in Germany and has been forwarded to the…
Nowadays, one of the best keyword-conversation-topic among plenty of tech-enthusiast is the disruptive effect of the financial industry digitalization. How technologies like blockchain and machine learning will improve transactions and back-office processes. And even, how digital assets will enhance transactions by making it all electronic. …
In early 2021, Ethereum crossed more than 1 billion transactions, hosting many of the biggest advancements and applications for decentralized business operations. To this day, it is the most used blockchain ecosystem, powered by the second-largest crypto asset by market capitalization. …
