Play-to-Earn (P2E) games are a major trend, with Axie Infinity, one of the biggest in the space, recently hitting 2 million daily active players. Some might see a profit-generating and entertaining game as a dream come true, but traditional gamers are less than pleased with the blockchain-based renditions of their beloved entertainment. The difference in…
DAOs – Natural Evolution of Digitization To illustrate, for the vast majority of content creators on YouTube, there’s just as much of a battle against a complex algorithm as there is with creating interesting content. Just like with Facebook or Twitter, creators are at the mercy of the platform’s algorithms, which are constantly tweaked behind…
NFTs (or Non Fungible Tokens) have been on the tips of everyone’s tongues for the last few months. Brands from Givenchy to the NBA are getting in on the game. Their adoption by the mainstream has been so quick and so profound that last year Collins Dictionary even made the term their word of the…
The Metaverse is one of the exciting developments coming out of the crypto and blockchain industry. Numerous brands, projects, and publicly traded companies aim to explore opportunities in the virtual world. However, fully functioning Metaverse to invest in doesn’t exist yet, making many deals seem FOMO or YOLO rather than intelligent business decisions. The Metaverse…
NFTs have brought significant monetization potential to the crypto-verse and allowed creators to get more value for their work. However, they have been getting a lot of flak lately as lawmakers mull over their regulations. There are fears that sophisticated money laundering networks are using NFTs to clean dirty money. This is because of the…
Idealists believe humans can thrive without rules, but history tells us a different story. All successful societies impose structure on their citizens. Regulations are the building blocks of a well-ordered civilization, and they are critical to growth and development. Through the course of history, we have seen that every evolving industry goes through a process…
As both a curator at one of the world’s largest online art galleries and as the daughter of an artist, I love seeing the delight and inspiration art can bring to someone who finds a work they love. I’m also very aware of the challenges many people face in accessing art, and the struggle many…
Investors’ concern of the impact of the Fed monetary policy decisions over the US financial markets has been affecting crypto markets as well during the last 2 months. Particularly, we’ve seen crypto prices broadly move closer to risk-on assets such as tech stocks. Correlations between both growth/tech stocks are currently high both for Bitcoin and…
As the crypto crowd ponders on what the coming year has in store for digital assets, one thing is for sure: Regulation is still on the agenda, very much so. But no amount of regulation can prevent a newbie investor from a dramatic nosedive on emotion-driven and uninformed moves. And such moves are easy to…
There is still no shortage of people mocking NFTs as a new digital asset class. The common refrain is all too familiar, “you bought an NFT for $10k? Here, let me screenshot it for free.” The response that follows usually comes with a studious explanation of blockchain technology. Specifically, how smart contracts on a blockchain…