Crypto Receives a Reminder of the Relevance of Banks

The closure of Silicon Valley Bank last week has sparked a period of unprecedented bank turmoil last seen during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. While 2020 was a nightmare year for most, it...

Price Growth Decoy of its Fading Relevance

Godfrey Benjamin Axie Infinity (AXS) is seeing bullish growth, but is the gaming protocol still relevant among players? Axie Infinity (AXS) still holds the record as the most popular game in the Web 3...

Polygon (MATIC) Fights for Relevance Amid Growing L2 Competition

Godfrey Benjamin Polygon (MATIC) is unfazed by competition L2 protocols might pose this year Many digital currencies have had a stellar start to the year, and Polygon (MATIC) is pushing for new fronti...

Erich Schmidt Former Google CEO Unclear of Metaverse Relevance

Schmidt recently discussed the metaverse at a conference in Colorado. South Korea stated in May that it would spend $177 million on metaverse platforms. Many businesses and organizations have already ...

Anonymous culture in crypto may be losing its relevance

Crypto has inherited many values that were popularized in the early days of the internet.  Many participants in the crypto space have been anonymous since the beginning of Bitcoin (BTC), since using t...

Crypto mixers’ relevance wanes as regulators take aim

Cryptocurrency mixers have been an interesting topic of discussion ever since the advent of cryptocurrencies and their adoption by retail investors around the world.  Cryptocurrency mixers are service...

Chicago Bulls’ Return To Relevance Brings Valuable Exposure For Ayo Dosunmu, Zenni

Rookie Ayo Dosunmu and Zenni have both hit it big this season as part of the Chicago Bulls’ return … [+] to relevance. Courtesy of Zenni The Chicago Bulls had the worst record in the NBA f...

Green ‘light:’ The EU’s approach to crypto balances eco-values with regulatory relevance

Last week, Bitcoin (BTC) dodged a regulatory bullet in the European Union when proposed cryptocurrency legislation was altered to not include a ban on proof-of-work- (PoW)-based crypto assets. Policym...

Why BitMEX is betting its future relevance on a 268-year-old German bank

Quick Take The embattled crypto exchange has made a bold swoop for an ancient German bank. CEO Alexander Höptner hopes he can vault BitMEX back into the ranks of the biggest crypto exchanges, but time...

When and why did the word ‘altcoin’ lose its relevance?

All cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin (BTC) were first described as altcoins for a single reason: There was a rise of projects that copied and pasted Bitcoin’s source code. The cryptocurrencies in t...