Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks and Exploits
Building bridges has always been fraught with problems. Trolls live under bridges, London Bridge falling down was famously immortalised in a nursery rhyme, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge threw a wobbly, and bridges across the world are destroyed in pretty much every disaster movie ever made. In fact bridges are such a problem that Wikipedia even […]
What is DeFi?
What is DeFi? Since the launch of Ethereum in 2015, we have seen a revolution in creativity from developers around the world. Building a variety of applications and use cases for cryptocurrencies, the one that has taken the world by storm over the last few years is Decentralized Finance (also known as ‘DeFi’). The concept […]
Web 3, Free Web; How the Internet is About to Change
There’s a lot of buzz about a new word. Web 3.0. Glance, even briefly, at any cryptocurrency landing page, and the phrase ‘web 3.0’ (or web3), will blare out at you. In the recent congressional hearing, crypto execs kept name-dropping this new conception of the internet, and why it’s both inevitable and represents progress. Yet […]
What is a Stablecoin?
The crypto market is famous for its extreme volatility, which seems to scare away many investors from engaging with this relatively new asset class. Fortunately, there are special types of cryptocurrencies that almost completely eliminate price changes and withstand even the wildest ups and downs: stablecoins. Read on to find out all you need to […]