Crypto Regulation
With this months’ coverage, we are leaving the more technical topics for a change and will provide a high-level overview on crypto regulation. When reading the news, hearing from industry experts, and scrolling though (crypto-) twitter, the topic of regulation in crypto (or perceived lack thereof) is omnipresent and, depending on the source, often biased into certain directions.
Read moreNFT: Gaming
Following-on from last years’ coverage on general NFTs, generative-art NFTs, and music-related NFTs, in this months newsletter we are focusing on gaming-related NFT applications.
Read moreBlockchain Interoperability - LayerZero
The industry that originated with the Bitcoin whitepaper published by Satoshi Nakamoto and the birth of the first Blockchain has evolved into a wide-ranging assembly of various teams, blockchains, and technologies.
Read moreDecentralized Storage Protocols, Filecoin & Arweave
As file storage and web services today are dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a handful of other large data center operators, and self-hosted web servers, what are the drawbacks and opportunities for improvement? And how are decentralized providers innovating in data storage space?
Read moreAn Optimistic Outlook: Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling
In our August 2022 newsletter, we talked about ways to scale Ethereum (and blockchain in general). With the discussion on scaling blockchain technology being as old as blockchain itself, this edition examines the hottest scaling technologies and their adoption at the moment called Rollups. It is an exciting time, with Arbitrum and Optimism dominating the landscape, numerous zk-rollup solutions about to launch – and a lot of competition between different Rollups, which people are calling the "L2 wars".
Read moreReview 2022 and why web 3.0 is here to stay
Bitcoin down 64%. Ethereum down 67%. Nasdaq barely better, at 34% lower. FTX filed for bankruptcy. And so 2022 ends on a much different note than it began: when interest rates were near zero, and crypto and US equities enjoyed all-time highs.
Read moreMusic NFTs
Following-on from general NFT coverage in June, and generative-art NFTs in September, here we focus on music-related NFT-applications.
Read moreEnterprise Blockchain
Blockchains and distributed ledgers are basically databases with some unique variations/features. When speaking about blockchain, we usually mean the decentralized, public ledger which was first introduced with Bitcoin in 2009.
Read moreNFT: Collectibles and Generative Art
Collectible and generative art in the NFT space have some differing attributes.
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