Welcome to our weekly brief. Here you will find an overview of main events and news from last week and expected events for week 41. Fundamentals and expected events: week 41 Crypto markets: Growing Bitcoin has reignited the digital asset markets in the last week. The largest crypto asset ended the week with an impressive
Like all industries we know, cryptocurrencies are constantly developing. There are three generations already. Of course, everyone knows Bitcoin and considers it the first and best cryptocurrency, but the real development is going in a different direction and we already have other cryptocurrencies that are more technologically advanced. Let’s take a look at where the
A new trend in investing points to NFTs. NFTs are non-fungible tokens that represent unique, one-of-a-kind items that you can buy the rights to through blockchain technology. This means that some of them can be very rare indeed. Let’s take a look at this new trend. The new trend Basically, many of us used to
The monetary system has evolved over many years and there are many things that can confuse people. In addition to the monetary system we know today, alternative forms of currencies are also developing, which are definitely good to know. So let’s take a look at what you should know about the monetary system and its
When you say blockchain, cryptocurrencies probably come to mind. But did you know there are different types of blockchains? Basically, there are 3 types of blockchain, namely public, private and permissioned or consortium blockchain. What are the differences between them? Let’s take a look at it. Public blockchain Most of today’s blockchains are public. This
Welcome to our weekly brief. Here you will find an overview of main events and news from last week and expected events for week 38. Fundamentals and expected events: week 38 Crypto markets: Volatility is back on the crypto market. After quite calm weekend, when BTC reached almost $49,000, the asset lost more than $4,000
Key message: Sber, Russia’s largest banking institution, plans to register its digital asset issuance platform with the central bank by mid-September. This was reported by local news agency TASS on Thursday. Sber and digital assets Sber is developing its own platform for issuing digital assets based on blockchain. The bank is trying to launch digital
When you move around the internet, your personal data is used. This is also a very debated topic, as people have become more aware and conscious of how their data is used, for example in advertising. Since the pandemic began, the need for the Internet and movement on it has increased, new laws are being
Key message: on 24 August, US tech giant Microsoft was granted a blockchain-related patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its subsidiary Microsoft Technology for techniques to implement a cross-chain token management system. Microsoft and the patent The patent was filed by the company back in 2019 and describes a “ledger-independent
Anyone familiar with the principle of blockchain, and therefore cryptocurrencies, has probably asked themselves whether blockchain could help with world peace. Fortunately, there are many hypotheses on how to approach this topic. Let’s take a closer look at them. World peace in the past Let’s start with a bit of history. Many of you will
Blockchain is one of the fastest growing areas. And like any field, it is accompanied by trends in development. To date, blockchain is already in its fourth stage of development, which could bring great progress in the future. Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) is joining blockchain, let’s take a look at this trend. The trend in
Distributed ledger technology (DLT), with its best-known blockchain architecture, has been with us since 2009, when Bitcoin emerged. Since then, businesses and institutions have become interested in the technology, and it has changed dramatically over the past few years. Today, distributed ledger technology (DLT) seems to have reached the mainstream. Let’s take a look at