Technology

DeFi has quite evidently evolved since its inception. Launched to fundamentally alter the global financial economy, this comparatively novel system exposes users to a host of fin-tech related products and services. With billions of dollars flowing into the space on a daily basis, the traditional, tightly-controlled, opaque system has gradually started losing its exclusivity amongContinue reading “Is SushiSwap REALLY performing better than Uniswap on these fronts”

Monero’s price hiked by 85% on the charts in the 34-day period from 21 July to 24 August. In fact, XMR’s price tumbled briefly before picking up the pace in the first week of September again. The altcoin, however, was unable to shield itself from the broader market downtrend in September and ended up dippingContinue reading “Is it too soon to expect Monero to breach $300”

The growth of Decentralized Finance has been quite spectacular over the last couple of years. The space, however, has been prone to attacks and manipulation right from its inception. In fact, even rapid security protocol advancements over time haven’t been able to prevent such hacks. The latest to fall victim to the same is autonomousContinue reading “Post the ‘buggy’ upgrade, are COMP HODLers in grave trouble”

The past few months have not been that exhilarating for the crypto space. The scars of September are still quite evident and the current valuation of almost all the top coins support the aforementioned claim. However, the performance of a particular alt has managed to stun almost everyone from the community. Eye-popping numbers This altContinue reading “Post a 750% hike, Axie Infinity continues to show signs of a bright future”

Bitcoin, the largest token has witnessed a significant amount of fluctuations in its past. This time it’s no different. Ever since the end of September 2021, when BTC had dipped below $41,000, the price of the asset has been gradually increasing. At press time, it is trading just shy of the $48k mark. That said,Continue reading “Irrespective of correction, Bitcoin is about to begin the second leg of its bull cycle”

The “centralization-decentralization” debate has been going on since ages. Proponents and opponents end up clashing with each other’s opinions every other day. Both ecosystems come with their own pros and cons, and thus, there hasn’t been any compelling conclusion to date. Crypto was, in fact, born out of the aforementioned opinion discrepancies. Even though decentralizationContinue reading “DEXes vs CEXes: Are exchanges like Uniswap, dYdX falling short of expectations”

The market cap tussle for the third spot has already commenced. Yesterday, Binance Coin took over Cardano on CMC’s ranking chart. The flip was momentary and ADA ended up re-claiming its spot right next to Ethereum. Even so, the market cap difference was only around $600 million at the time of writing, indicating that theContinue reading “What Binance Coin is actually worth, despite a lukewarm short-term performance”

After trading in the lower $40k bracket throughout the last week of September, Bitcoin’s price received the push that it was waiting for, on the first of this month. The king-coin’s price rallied from $43.2k to $48.4k. In effect, altcoins followed suit and the global crypto market cap broke above the $2.1 trillion mark onContinue reading “What will it take for Bitcoin to cross $77000 by the end of October”

The TVL or the total-value-locked is a technical metric that has been used as a primary yardstick to measure the performance of DeFi lending platforms. Simply put, it measures the cumulative amount of assets that are staked on a particular protocol. The conventional argument advocates that the higher the value locked up in a particularContinue reading “Aave, Maker, Compound: This is the right way to gauge their value”