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Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Two years ago I wrote a blog about the plans of the European Central Bank (ECB) to introduce a digital euro. In that year the ECB decided to set up the Digital Euro project and started with the technical investigation phase, focussing initially on fundamental questions such as the technological functioning of the digital euro. Now we are two y
29 May 2023 /crypto
Karen Shidlo CMO at Fiat24 (SR Saphirstein AG)
Traditional financial legacy systems can be outdated in some ways, particularly in terms of their technology infrastructure and ability to adapt to changing customer needs and market trends. These systems were often developed decades ago and were not designed to handle the complexities of modern financial transactions. Moreover, traditional financ...
28 April 2023 /retail /predictions
Last year September Ethereum blockchain entered a new phase in its Ethereum 2.0 journey. After launched the Beacon Chain in December 2020, a parallel blockchain which acts as consensus engine that runs on proof of stake, The Merge was concluded in September 2022 whereby the Beacon Chain and the Mainnet, the normal Ethereum blockchain, merged into ...
30 March 2023 /devops /crypto
Recently I read a very interesting and stimulating article in a Dutch newspaper. It was about the Community Currency named Sarafu that is used in Kenya’s rural communities thereby trying to solve the issue of proper circulation of finances. The Sarafu Network, is a so-called Community Inclusion Currency or CIC, yet only a few outside the country ...
27 February 2023 /inclusion /crypto
Amey Prabhu Senior Director at Virtusa
Back in 2016, I was fortunate to be part of the team chosen for a week-long workshop/training on Blockchain. We were introduced to the basics, formed teams and built some use cases to understand how it works. Subsequently, I could also participate in building proof-of-concept on payments and trade finance. There was, and continues to be, a lot of ...
13 February 2023 /wholesale /predictions
Conor Svensson CEO at Web3 Labs
For many, the ups and downs of cryptocurrencies have had too significant a bearing on their perception of the technology powering this nascent asset class — DLT and blockchain technology. For those of us interested in the technology, what's happening with cryptocurrencies has no bearing on our plans. What can be achieved with shared ledgers and tok...
12 January 2023 /wholesale /crypto
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Can blockchains be used as incentive networks for encouraging green activity and renewables? ESG is an important use case for blockchain. Regulators are understandably concerned about green investing and specifically, greenwashing, and the chain doesn’t lie, so blockchain technology is entirely aligned with achieving ESG objectives and guidelines. ...
03 December 2022 /wealth /sustainable
Early October SWIFT launched two publications describing the results of two important experiments, one on interoperability and the other on tokenization. In these publications SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies. SWIFT t...
07 November 2022 /crypto
Retired Member
L2 is a collective name for solutions that solve the problems of scalability and speed on blockchain, primarily in the Ethereum network. We’ll tell you about the most popular L2 protocols, their advantages and drawbacks, and what will happen to them now that Ethereum has switched to Proof-of-Stake. L2 and Vitalik Buterin’s trilemma Back in 2016,...
28 October 2022 /crypto
Blockchain networks use mining to create and validate new blocks of transactions and secure the network. Simply put, cryptocurrency mining is a process of creating new digital coins. Bitcoin and many other blockchain networks use the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm for cryptocurrency mining. Proof of work is a system where computers compe...
14 October 2022 /crypto /markets
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