As the US dollar devaluation becomes a hot topic, CryptoSlate talked to the founder of the “rebasing cryptocurrency” designed to fight the inflation curse. Ampleforth (AMPL) is a protocol running on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain that incentivizes a network of users to maintain a cryptocurrency with a value that is cycling around $1. Maintaining the…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Bobby Ong, the co-founder of CoinGecko. CoinGecko was established in April 2014 and is the largest independent cryptoasset data aggregator in the world. Bobby is a contributing author in two digital currencies books – Handbook of Digital Currency, 1st Edition and Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion,…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Huy Nguyen, CTO and Co-Founder of interoperable blockchain, KardiaChain. Before founding KardiaChain, Huy spent 10 years working at Google, building large-scale distributed infrastructure. Huy studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley. What is your professional background and how/when did you get into crypto? I…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Jonathan Squires, the CEO of Currency.com, a top platform for digital asset trading with a broad spectrum of fiat and crypto on-ramps. Squires was previously CEO of iBus Media, part of the Stars Group. With his traditional MBA background, he is one of the new bunch of…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Lucas Huang, the Head of Growth at Tokenlon, a popular decentralized exchange (DEX). Before joining Tokenlon, Huang spent years working at Kyber Network and Deloitte Consulting. Huang studied computer science at the University of Chicago and accounting information systems at Michigan State University. What is your professional…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with the Managing Director of Nexo, Antoni Trenchev. Nexo is a leading digital asset company best known for providing the world’s first instant crypto credit lines. Prior to catching the blockchain bug in early 2013, Trenchev studied finance law at King’s College London and Humboldt University of Berlin….
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with David Zacks, the Chief Compliance Officer of bitFlyer USA on the current state of crypto regulation in the United States. In his role at bitFlyer, David leads Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs. Prior to joining Bitflyer USA, David held various Compliance management roles at Airbnb, Auka,…
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are unique digital assets that cannot be replicated, have been all the rage over recent months. As CryptoSlate has extensively reported, some of these Ethereum-based tokens have been selling for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars as the crypto-rich dish out their savings. Behind this NFT craze is a group…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Long Vuong, the CEO and founder of TomoChain. TomoChain a scalable blockchain-powered via Proof-of-Stake Voting consensus and used commercially by companies globally. Prior, Long Vuong was co-founder and the former project lead of the very successful NEM blockchain (New Economy Movement) in 2014. As a blockchain guru and…