Mobile Accessibility is Essential for Mainstream Adoption of Blockchain Technology
By Rene Reinsberg, Co-founder of Celo and President of the Celo Foundation According to the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 3 out of 4 people in the world own mobile phones,…
3 Reasons Why Retailers and Brands Should Invest in AI
By Guru Hariharan, CEO and Founder of CommerceIQ Retail has had a wild ride over the past three years. After ecommerce sales surged during COVID lockdowns, in-store sales surged as shoppers…
How Advances in LegalTech Can Propel the Decentralization of Business
By Adam Miller, CEO & Founder of MIDAO, and Jawna Standish Head of Business Development at MIDAO. Over the past decade, the integration of new tech tools into the American justice…
Revenue Hinges on Real-Time Data. Why are Retailers Hesitating?
Are Traasdahl, CEO, Crisp Retail sales continue to grow, shooting up 3% in January after the holidays, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently stated that global supply chains…
Not All Blockchain Art is Created Equal
By Colin Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Freeport Amazon intends to launch a digital asset enterprise focusing on NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Investors reading this might have deja vu considering we’re not in 2021,…
Crypto For The Masses: Breaking Down Barriers to Entry With User-Friendly Onboarding Portals
By Hsuan Lee, Co-founder & CEO, Blocto Blockchain technology hit mainstream consciousness more than a decade ago, and since then, we have seen governments, businesses, and consumers experimenting with it. However,…
From Web2 to Web3: Some Brands Fail. Why?
By Anouk Morin, Web3 Lead Associate at Ditto When Porsche, one of the world’s most renowned luxury car companies, released their first official NFT drop at the end of January 2023,…
Should Staking as a Service be Considered an Investment Contract?
By Sanjay Raghavan, VP of web3 at Roofstock (follow Sanjay on Twittter) There’s been a lot of recent news regarding the $30M settlement between the SEC and Kraken pertaining to Kraken’s “Staking-as-a-service”…
Stablecoins Will Lead the Road to Mass Crypto Adoption
By Shahmeer Chaudhry, Co-Founder and CEO of Fluidity In the years since Bitcoin first emerged, many other cryptocurrencies and tokens have arisen, each attempting to solve a different problem or…
How Blockchain Bonds can Transform SME Financing
By Benedikt Schuppli, CEO and Co-Founder of Obligate We’ve long heard that SMEs are the engine room of the economy. Accounting for 90 percent of businesses and more than 50 percent…
3 Undeniable Reasons Why FinTech and DeFi Are Set to Be the Trade of the Decade
By Tan Gera, founder of Decentralized Masters The average person spends almost one month per year, or approximately 3.5 weeks, to pay for the “right to use” their financial system. Banks…
Five Ways Tokenization Will Solve Traditional Finance’s Biggest Issues
By Colin Butler, Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Labs The financial world greatly lags behind other sectors that are leveraging the power of blockchains to fuel growth and innovation. Tokenization is…
How Should VCs Move Forward as AI Creeps Into Crypto?
By James Wo, Founder and CEO of DFG Now that we are well into the year’s first quarter, exciting developments in generative AI are drawing renewed interest and investment from some of the…
Stablecoins With Proper Design Framework Can Be Trusted Like Never Before
This aspect of the crypto space has been fraught with turmoil and negative headlines in recent years; but investors should take note that new framework should ensure history doesn’t repeat…
The Future of Sports Betting Is Here, and It’s Decentralized
By Nick Kelland, Head of Growth at Betswap.gg Betting on the outcome of sporting events is an ancient pastime. Humans have always been fascinated with wagers, and athletic competitions are the…
Major Ledger: Diplo, Drink Tickets, and the Future of Web3 Loyalty Programs
By Christopher Sealey, Senior Vice President and Creative Director, OneOf The last time I saw GRAMMY-Award-winning artist Diplo was in 2001. We were both up-and-coming DJs on the New York City…
Will AI Music Have a Napster Moment?
By Edward Balassanian, Founder and CEO of Aimi The year is 1999. The world is on edge as an impending technological meltdown is just around the corner, and a burgeoning global…
What is Consumer Fintech 2.0?
Being a 25-year veteran of creating products in consumer finance has provided me the platform to see incredible change in how consumers interact with money and the underlying technology that…
Are DAOs the Business Model of the Future?
By Benjamin Gabay, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of CrunchDAO The advent of Web3 technology led to the long-awaited realization of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO. A DAO is essentially a distributed online…
What Super Apps Need to Be a Success
By Daphna Ofek is the Chief Product Officer at Rakuten Viber You may have seen the term super app popping up everywhere you look. From WeChat to Grab, super apps have…
Forex and DeFi: A Match Made in Heaven?
By Alex Wilke Despite the term having been in common parlance for almost five years, no one can quite agree on what DeFi is. That it’s something to do with…
What Investors Should Know About Projects With a Philanthropic Component
Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis of Living Opera Don’t dismiss opportunities out of hand simply because there’s a mission to give back or do good- that’s not synonymous with high…
Blockchain Can Spark the Next Evolution of AI
By Don Gossen, CEO of Nevermined Until very recently, artificial intelligence has been limited mainly to science fiction. However, with ChatGPT, the field of AI has burst into the public consciousness,…
While FTX has Fallen, Institutional Interest Persists
By Oliver Linch, CEO of Bittrex Global The most recent events within the crypto landscape have shaken the ecosystem and the landscape of crypto exchanges we once knew. Despite the usual…
2023: The Year of Web3 for Enterprise
In the depths of crypto winter, surrounded by contagion fears, it may be difficult to remain optimistic about the future. Pundits like Peter Schiff or Nouriel Roubini now imply Web3…