Last week’s $320m Wormhole hack raises serious questions about contagion risks between crypto and the broader financial markets. $320m of disappearing ether On February 2, an attacker exploited faulty code […]
The decentralisation inherent in cryptocurrency networks like bitcoin is valuable for its governance benefits, according to Hyun-Song Shin, head of research at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). But this […]
Yesterday I wrote a post on Twitter saying that clients of crypto exchange Kraken didn’t have much of a case for compensation after Monday’s flash crash in ethereum. During the […]
Yesterday’s price crash revealed large dislocations in the market for the second-largest cryptocurrency, ethereum. Although cryptocurrencies can be traded around the world 24/7, there is no single market for the […]
The major promise of DeFi is decentralisation. But activity is now shifting to a wholly centralised platform. To an outsider, there are many incomprehensible things about the expanding DeFi craze: […]
Congestion on the ethereum cryptocurrency network has hit record levels, driving per-transaction fees into three figures and rendering many decentralised finance (‘DeFi’) projects unviable. “Just spent $100+ on ETH gas […]
Guest post: by Anish Mohammed and Tarun Wadhwa The average cryptocurrency investor is about to gain access to a powerful suite of tools and opportunities that are currently only available to […]
Automated borrowing and lending transactions on cryptocurrency networks have soared this year. Is this yet another crypto bubble or is there a signal behind the noise? Where did DeFi come […]
Bitcoin is a live, multi-billion-dollar experiment involving tens of millions of willing participants. It’s also a case study in game theory, the field of science that studies the interactions between […]
The dramatic March 12 price crash in cryptocurrency markets showed that the underlying market structure of bitcoin and ethereum is broken and needs fixing, says Kyle Samani, our guest on […]