Binance is a leading cryptocurrency exchange that provides trading for >100 different cryptocurrencies. Currently, the exchange provides both spot and margin trading and is considered to be the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world in terms of trading volume. Accordingly, the token powering the Binance ecosystem, Binance Coin (BNB) now......

FTX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that offers futures, leveraged tokens and OTC trading.  Due to the poorly designed risk management systems, current futures exchanges have frequent large clawbacks, leading to losses in the millions. FTX reduces the likelihood of clawbacks by using a three-tiered liquidation model. The goal of......

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has garnered popularity and grown into one of the biggest sectors in the crypto space. According to DeFi Purse, over 500M USD is locked in DeFi applications. Applications include stablecoins, DEXs, lending, derivatives, payments, etc. DeFi is usually referred to as Open Finance, which aims to remove......

The BAT token aims to reshape the industry of digital advertisements by rewarding users’ attention to ads and at the same time distributing the majority of advertisement income to content creators....

  At its simplest, a database is defined as a systematic collection of data. Organisations use a database management system (DBMS) to access a database, store, retrieve and update data in a computer system.     Databases are used for a variety of reasons: – Hospitals – Patient records –......

What are Atomic Swaps? Atomic Swaps are the peer-to-peer exchange of two different cryptocurrencies. They can be executed on off-chain channels or separate blockchains with different native coins. Currently, there are 10 cryptocurrencies that support atomic swaps including BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, etc. Why Atomic Swaps? One might wonder why......

Most cryptocurrencies are volatile as we often see a 10% move for the price of Bitcoin or Ethereum on any given day. To better facilitate practical transactions for good & services and store of USD value, several stablecoin projects were launched. A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency that is designed to......

TLDR: Bitcoin & Ethereum are slow networks. Sharding can divide the mining capacity into small shards, each capable of processing transactions in parallel. Sharding = Speed! Scalability of Blockchain The lack of scalability, only capable of processing a few transactions per second, is a major bottleneck for blockchain technology to......

In part 1, we explained quorum slices in the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP). In part 2, we will cover the federated voting process of SCP and recent developments of Stellar.   Federated Voting process Nodes within the SCP reaches consensus with the federated voting process. It consist of 3 steps:......

Every bitcoin can be traced back and identified if there’s illegal activity. Therefore, some people use a Bitcoin mixer, for example, bestmixer.io to make transactions untraceable and fungible. It can distort  the trail from the original source but it is not completely untraceable. Therefore, several cryptocurrencies that specialise on concealing......