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Are Central Bank Digital Currencies The New Global Money?
CBDCs are digitally native fiat currencies that are directly issued and backed by central banks. They aim to extend the utility of physically settled monies to the digital world by removing extra steps and intermediaries from digitized banking and payment infrastructure. In so doing, CBDCs are intended to make transactions more efficient, manageable and financially…
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Travel and Hospitality: Adapting to the “Next Normal” with Blockchain Technology
The following analysis is grounded in the central themes of Deloitte’s assessment with a focus on how blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) can reduce friction and increase transparency, ultimately improving trust in a trustless environment.
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Crypto Derivatives: A Precursor
#Derivatives are changing. And the future of #Futures is unfolding at a rapid pace. Learn how these changes set the scene for a new evolution in #crypto derivatives.
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Facebook’s Libra vs. Algorand: The Road to Decentralization
“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” – Santosh Kalwar Trust is in short supply today. The lack of public trust in governments, institutions, and private companies is taking its toll on society in increasingly costly ways. In many cases, this erosion of trust hinges squarely on technological shortcomings and a distinct lack of…
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How Decentralization Can Benefit Your Business: Evaluating Bitcoin, Hyperledger, Algorand, and Elixxir
Centralized services like Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo keep all your eggs in one basket. This means that bad actors only need to attack one weak link to compromise all your data. And there are many ways to do it, including DDoS, Man-in-the-Middle, and credential stealing to name a few. Decentralized services keep your data safe…
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Delivering Practical Privacy in Blockchain and DLT Applications
In the early days of crypto, privacy was a critical focus in blockchain development but difficult for the average user to achieve. From 2011–2014, creating multi-signature transactions was considered a cutting-edge technique that provided advanced users more privacy and security than executing standard peer-to-peer transactions alone. Now multisig is standard and more user friendly than…
