Decentralised finance, or DeFi, uses emerging technology to remove third parties in financial transactions with key components of the technology being stablecoins, software, and hardware that enables the development of applications.Read More
Medium-of-Exchange Cryptos are those that can be used to buy and sell stuff (physical or virtual) or which can quickly be converted to “cash”. The top six cryptocurrencies leading this category are Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Litecoin, Monero, and ZCash respectively.Read More
Indian exchanges are rejoicing over a recently announced crypto tax, but investors aren’t necessarily happy and most of it is because of uncertainty on how their income from crypto will be taxed.Read More
CBDC, or the Central Bank Digital Currency, has emerged as quite the buzzword in India. Earlier this month, Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced that India will soon get its CBDC or digital rupee which will be regulated by the RBI. It will be India’s first national digital currency.Read More
In reference to blockchain, decentralisation refers to the transfer of control and decision-making from a centralised entity to a distributed network, but things aren’t as black and white in the case crypto, even though they should be.Read More
A Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAO) can be explained as a mutual fund where instead of a central manager, the participants decide on the investment and other decisions. Aave, Compound, Decred, MakerDAO, and Uniswap are some examples of DAOs.Read More
The Batman 2: with Joker (Barry Keoghan) set to be the villain in Matt Reeves’ first sequel to the Robert Pattinson-led Batman reboot, I wonder the good sense of inviting comparisons to one of the greatest superhero movies and performances of all time: Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, and Heath Ledger’s Joker.Read More
Apple’s upcoming iPhone SE refresh should have a powerful SoC, 5G, good camera and up-to-date software, but its old-fashioned design will work against it in India.Read More
Understanding NFTs can be hard to grasp in one go, so here’s a list of common NTF types that can give you a clearer idea of what’s going on and which ones are destined for success in 2022.Read More
Bitcoin, born in 2009, has exploded to a market cap of over $758 billion (roughly Rs. 57,92,866 crore) in the last thirteen years. With Bitcoin payments maturing and its blockchain now supporting smart contracts, NFTs, and dApps — the Bitcoin can cross the $100,000 (roughly Rs. 76 lakh) mark in the coming times.Read More