Vignesh Sundaresan might not be a household name just yet. Still, the serial entrepreneur has made its mark in the crypto industry with a pseudonym that will certainly ring a bell—Metakovan. Almost exactly a year ago, Sundaresan bought the world’s most expensive NFT and the third most expensive piece sold by a living artist. His…
Silicon Valley and big tech firms are increasingly losing talents and high-profile individuals to the greener pastures of the crypto industry. Green as in the freshness and the horizon of opportunities, and green as in money. As CryptoSlate reported last month, It’s becoming evident that Web3 and the wider crypto- and blockchains space is becoming…
Speaking on PBD Podcast on March 1, Michael Saylor claims that BTC should be defined as the world’s only actual scarcity rather than a commodity or security. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been at odds recently over who should have jurisdiction over cryptocurrency within the United States…
Alex Mashinsky, the serial US entrepreneur well known for installing broadband on the US subway, once famously declared Bitcoin the slowest database on the planet. It wasn’t until he understood it solved the issue of the digital double spend, that he got interested and when Mashinsky gets interested, he moves fast. The result is a…
Silicon Valley and big tech firms are increasingly having trouble keeping talented and high-profile individuals from leaving their organizations. It’s now evident that Web3 and the wider crypto- and blockchains space is becoming increasingly interesting for talents to join. It wasn’t long ago that landing employment at one of the big tech companies was a…
CryptoSlate caught up with James Wo, the Founder and CEO of Digital Finance Group (DFG), to talk about interesting developments that are about to unravel in the budding ecosystem between the two sister blockchains–Polkadot and Kusama. DFG focuses on blockchain equity and token investment, with a portfolio that ranges from Layer 1, Layer 2, Web3,…
Phantom, a self-custodial browser extension and crypto wallet built for Solana, became the ecosystem’s top dog despite lacking a mobile app–hitting 1.8 million monthly active users in just nine months. With the mobile app public rollout approaching, CryptoSlate touched base with Phantom co-founder and CEO, Brandon Millman, who cleared the air about the bumpy iOS…
Formed in 2017, GamerHash is a well-established project with just under 1 million users and a solid commercial base. In fact, given the commercial premise of the project, it is surprising there are not more copycat companies following their business model. However, it would be hard to catch up now given their early player advantage….
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Peng Zhong, the CEO of Tendermint. With a background in interaction design and front-end engineering, he focuses on guiding blockchain technology across the chasm to the mainstream. Blockchain, or programmable money, is an incredible breakthrough that will insert itself into every aspect of our day-to-day lives, with far-reaching…
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Emile, the co-founder and CEO of multi-chain DeFi wallet XDEFI. XDEFI Wallet’s Chrome extension is engineered to deliver the fastest possible experience for DeFi and NFTs. Unlike its competitors, it achieves this through native integrations with nine blockchains, proprietary gas pricing algorithms to ensure users never miss…