Bitcoin.com 2021 Exchange & Wallet Review Bitcoin.com is probably one of the world’s most sought after domain names. And the company owning this domain name, also has an exchange, the Bitcoin.com Exchange. The website is owned by Saint Bitts LLC and provides exchange and wallet solutions to enable people to use digital currencies including crypto assets such as BCH, ETH, XRP, LTC, BNB, BTC and XLM that can be traded across more than 70 trading pairs.…
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Local.Bitcoin.com 2021 Review Local.Bitcoin.com is a peer-to-peer platform for exchanging Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Bitcoin.com Local is a private peer-to-peer platform where users can find other people who are interested in trading Bitcoin Cash for local currencies via a blind escrow smart contract. https://localcryptos.com/r/DigitalTrader https://decentralised.africa/how-to-deploy-an-ethereum-smart-contract/ The platform offers similar services to LocalBitcoins, Paxful, Hodl…
What is the real peer-to-peer version of electronic cash? **Background** Historically, the four basic functions of ‘money’ have been largely defined as medium of exchange, common measure of value, standard of value and store of value. More recently however, other aspects such as the information function and investment function have been subject of the ever-evolving discourse around what money is, its uses and functions. Today, as both advanced and developing nations move…
Bit.com Crypto Derivatives Exchange Review 2021 Bit.com was established in February 2019 and is incorporated in Seychelles. It’s a high-performance derivative exchange launched by Matrixport, an integrated financial services firm. Matrixport was a spinoff from Bitmain Technologies, the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining equipment producer, and is backed investors such as Jihan Wu, John Ge, Standard Crypto, IDG Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Polychain, Dragonfly…
Why Community Building Is Central To The Success Of A Blockchain Project **Understanding the Mechanics of Blockchain Ecosystem Participation** **Redefining Trust** Open source software projects rely on strong communities of developers and enthusiastic advocates to deliver product or service innovations and stimulate market demand. This means that project creators often have to ensure a delicate balance is maintained in order not to undercut the needs of user communities in…
2021 Guide to Peer-to-Peer NFT Marketplace – NFTfi.com **What is NFTfi?** A p2p marketplace for non-fungible token (NFT) collateralized loans where users can put their own NFTs up as collateral for a loan, or offer loans to other users on their non-fungible tokens. https://decentralised.africa/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explained/ The marketplace allows borrowers to put up assets for a loan and lenders to make offers to lend in return for interest. Lending on NFTfi is simply…
Harvest Finance 2021 Review Harvest Finance is a protocol that’s designed to make yield farming more profitable. It does this by automatically searching a multitude of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols to single out those with the most advantage for yield farmers. The Harvest Finance protocol is governed with a token named FARM. FARM is a cashflow token for Harvest, one of the largest autonomous hedge funds. https://decentralised.africa/defi-101/ Possession of this…
HEGIC Options Trading Protocol 2021 Review The demand for crypto options has remained on the rise for the past two years with volumes growing to over $6B. Nevertheless, liquidity has been a stumbling block for options trading. This has negatively impacted many DeFi platforms. Hegic is aimed at solving the problem. https://decentralised.africa/how-to-earn-interest-on-crypto-with-decentralized-finance-defi/ **Key Points** The smart contracts of the Hegic project already have…
Blockchain.com Exchange, Wallet, & Block Explorer Review This time we are putting the lens on Blockchain.com, to see if aside from having perhaps the best URL in the cryptosphere, whether their service and products are of industry-topping quality too. https://exchange.blockchain.com/trade/signup?referrerUsername=blockpatroller Home to over 60 million free wallets that have transacted over $6.2 trillion in total, the Luxembourg-based operation is the biggest and most trusted…
Curve Finance – Decentralised Exchange Liquidity Pool for Stablecoin Trading Some of the most fascinating platforms in decentralized finance are decentralized exchanges (DEXs). DEXs provide the same services as regular (centralized) cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance or Coinbase. However, instead of a centralized party being in control of all cryptocurrency funds, they are automatically managed and traded using smart contracts – automated applications built on the…
FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange 2021 Review FTX is a latecomer to the cryptocurrency exchange market, having launched in February 2019. The exchange is registered in Antigua and Barbuda, headquartered in Hong Kong, and is backed by Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency liquidity provider which manages more than $100m in digital assets and trades up to $1.5bn per day. Founders Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang continue to develop the platform as CEO and CTO respectively…
Balancer - Automated Market Maker 2021 Review Most decentralized finance platforms in cryptocurrency are built on the Ethereum blockchain. While this provides many benefits, namely transparent transactions along with no central point of failure for these platforms (meaning they will never go offline), it also makes it very difficult to replicate certain centralized platforms. This is especially true of cryptocurrency exchanges which, if built on Ethereum, would be too…
How to Earn Interest on Crypto with Decentralized Finance (DeFi) The recent hype and advancement in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space has seen many blockchain-based applications pop up. In the crypto borrowing and lending space, there are also several centralised finance (CeFi) platforms such as Nexo, Celsius, Coinbase, OKEx, Luno, Binance, Kucoin, just to name a few – where people can also earn interest on their digital currency holdings.…
Different types of cryptocurrency trading strategies Many people are interested and want to participate in crypto trading now more than ever before. This could be a result of the new all time highs that digital assets such as Bitcoin have recently reached. Euphoria and FOMO are typical following such surges in price and that’s the first and most important thing people need to note: there are many risks associated with crypto trading.…
Understanding Crypto Taxes To put things into perspective, it’s important to briefly explore what digital assets are, or what they deemed to be, according to entities such as the SEC. In a recent complaint filed by the aforementioned against Ripple Labs, Inc. – the term “digital asset” or “digital token” was defined as generally referring to an asset issued and/or transferred using distributed ledger or blockchain technology, including assets sometimes referred to as…
Read.Cash Review 2021 A Community-Centric Platform Enabling Creators to Earn Digital Currency Rewards from Readers for Content Contributions When writers/bloggers spend countless hours crafting good quality content and share it with the world but are not rewarded for their efforts, it can disincentivise them to continue doing so. This is evident from the millions of abandoned blogs on legacy platforms such as WordPress or Blogger. These traditional blogging platforms don’t…
dYdX Exchange Review US-based cryptocurrency exchange dYdX has been operational since 2017. The business is mainly a derivatives exchange, which means its focus is on derivatives trading. https://dydx.exchange/ https://decentralised.africa/top-10-derivatives-cryptocurrency-exchanges/ Traditionally, a derivative is defined as an instrument that draws its value from another asset (stocks bonds, commodities, etc). The same is applicable in the cryptocurrency world, where the…
How Decentralised Exchanges Work: Uniswap Case Study In this piece, we are going to look at Uniswap, a name that is almost unavoidable in the DeFi world and has been a successful proponent of some of the sphere’s best innovations, including liquidity pools. https://decentralised.africa/liquidity-pools/ **What is a decentralized exchange?** Let’s take a gentle step backwards. A decentralized exchange is a peer-to-peer online service that allows two interested parties to make…
Prime XBT – Bitcoin Margin & Leverage Trading Platform Review Prime XBT is a Bitcoin-based derivatives trading exchange that enables users to trade cryptocurrencies and other traditional financial instruments such as Forex, S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite indices, commodities like crude oil and natural gas, and more. The Prime XBT platform has great usability and beginners can open accounts in minutes. Having been founded in 2018 and launched in early 2019, Prime XBT is a late…
Valuables by Cent – Explained “As humans transition to a more digital existence, new social norms will develop. Life will evolve faster online than it does offline, because the blockchain enables an impossible velocity to relationships never before seen. Creativity is about to explode on the internet.” - **Cent** **What is Cent?** Cent, currently released as a beta version, is described by the team as a platform that provides the tools to create, curate, or collaborate for a…
Gemini Exchange 2021 Review The name Gemini, the zodiac symbol depicting a pair of twins, is a clever nod to the founders of this cryptocurrency exchange, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. If those names sound familiar to you, it’s because they were the twin brothers who sued Mark Zuckerbuerg (successfully) over a claim that he stole the idea for Facebook from them. http://gemini.com/share/q9mqqwce https://decentralised.africa/facebook-diem-explained/ With the money gained from…
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Explained If you’re interested in the decentralised finance (DeFi) space, sooner or later you’re going to come across the term ‘Non-Fungible Tokens’, often abbreviated to NFTs. What are they? What is fungible? And how does it all tie into crypto? https://decentralised.africa/top-10-defi-based-cryptocurrencies/ That’s what we’re going to explore in this article. However, if you first want to learn about the different types of assets that can be…
How to Manage Risk When Trading Cryptocurrencies Trading digital currencies poses risks such as loss of funds. Major risks cryptocurrency traders face include price volatility, cyber-crimes, mishandling of private keys and insecure trading platforms. **Price Volatility** Prices of cryptocurrency can change within a short time and with large margins. For example, the price can rise or decrease by hundreds or thousands of dollars within a day. Therefore, a sharp decrease in…
Cryptocurrency Atomic Swaps Defined Atomic swaps refer to a technique that allows the quick exchange of two different digital assets, running on distinct blockchain networks. A smart contract technology that allows exchanging one cryptocurrency for another without using centralized third parties such as exchanges, atomic swaps first gained popularity in 2017 when an atomic swap happened between Decred and Litecoin.…
Complete Guide to Cryptocurrency Arbitrage Trading The price of a particular cryptocurrency for example, Bitcoin, is not always the same across all the exchange platforms where people buy and sell digital assets. This is especially true in the case of such digital assets that are not stablecoins. For instance, the difference in price of Ethereum on Luno and Binance, or Bitcoin on Bitfinex and Kraken, or XRP on OKEx and Paxful can be significant. This also depends on the…
Proof-of-Work (PoW) Explained Simply Proof of Work is a system that mitigates double-spends. A double-spend happens when the same amount of funds is spent more than once. This algorithm is used to secure a cryptocurrency’s ledger. It was created by Satoshi Nakamoto in his 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper, even though the mechanism was in existence earlier before. The initial modern application was way back in 1996 under the Hashcash, and it was based on the SHA256 algorithm, like the…
Liquidity Pools Explained **Let’s dip our feet in the topic of liquidity pools** For some readers, this might be the first you’ve ever heard of liquidity pools, but stay tuned, because they’re the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). In this article, we are going to explain, in simplified terms: What liquidity pools are Why we need them How they work And what risks they pose A liquidity pool is a collection of tokens locked into a smart contract. They help traders and…
Aave open source and non-custodial protocol Review Aave is one of the most popular platforms in the cryptocurrency world of decentralized finance (DeFi). It allows you to lend and borrow numerous cryptocurrencies without a third party. It also lets you temporarily borrow over a billion dollars of cryptocurrency using something called a Flash Loan. Aave is licensed in the UK to provide financial services. It is the first DeFi platform to secure official licensing. The team…
Babel Finance – Cryptocurrency Financial Services Provider The high volatility of crypto asset markets can be attractive to traders since it presents opportunities for them to make considerable amounts regardless of the direction market swings, and irrespective of market sentiment being either bullish or bearish. This however, is not the case when it comes to institutional investors who may feel their capital has too much exposure because of massive fluctuations. Most are…
Cover Protocol Explained **P2P Coverage with Fungible Tokens** With yield farming becoming more popular in the DeFi ecosystem, coverage for smart contracts is now in high demand. Currently, the challenge is that providers have limited capacity or prices are exorbitant which means that most participants cannot get cover. https://decentralised.africa/what-is-yield-farming/ https://decentralised.africa/defi-101/ This is where Cover Protocol comes into play. Cover provides…
Cryptocurrency Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Explained A cryptocurrency exchange-traded-fund (ETF) has a similar operative method to a regular ETF which is essentially a type of security that involves a collection of securities such as stocks that often tracks an underlying index for example, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), tracks the S&P 500 Index. ETFs are usually known to identify available assets in a financial market while cryptocurrency ETFs are designed to source digital…
1inch Exchange 2021 Review 1inch exchange is a decentralized exchange aggregator, formed to assemble pricing and liquidity from high ranking decentralized exchanges on one platform. This is expected to introduce the lowest slippage, cheapest trades, and access to an extensive range of ERC-20 tokens, which users have ever known. https://decentralised.africa/top-10-decentralised-cryptocurrency-exchanges/ Launched in Mar 2019, 1inch is a DeFi aggregator and a decentralized…
UMA – A Protocol for Building Synthetic Assets on Ethereum Ever since Bitcoin’s creation, people have speculated when cryptocurrency will finally start to achieve mainstream adoption. Of the many recent developments which have hinted that this adoption is near, the release of UMA may just be the most significant indicator. Short for Universal Market Access, UMA makes it possible to create synthetic cryptocurrencies representing virtually any asset you can think of. Not only…
Crypto whales & sharks: why we should care but not be scared The price of Bitcoin is controlled by the forces of demand and supply, the more people buy Bitcoin and sell it, the more the price changes. However, some people can single-handedly move the market. These people buy the equivalent of the Bitcoin that thousands or millions of people can buy, thus, manipulating the market.…
RenVM Decentralized Virtual Machine Protocol Review For the time being, most applications and platforms in decentralized finance are built on Ethereum, a cryptocurrency which doubles as a sort of network spread among different computers. This is primarily because Ethereum has proven itself to be a safe and reliable base on which to build this new generation of applications. https://decentralised.africa/what-is-ethereum/ However, this has made it hard for non-Ethereum based…
5 indicators to consider when making long-term crypto investment decisions Are you wondering whether you should buy bitcoin and either hold the digital asset in your portfolio short or long-term? Well, regardless of the position you decide to take, it’s best to get some direction by utilizing technical analysis and fundamental analysis tools. https://remitano.com/r/za/buy-sell-bitcoin-in-south-africa?utm_source=fanews.co.za&utm_medium=sponsored_article&utm_term=buy_bitcoin…
Synthetix derivatives liquidity protocol and SNX token explained Synthetix is a protocol for issuing and trading synthetic assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Each synthetic asset (or Synth) is an ERC-20 token which tracks the price of an external asset; for example each sUSD token tracks the price of the US dollar. Different kinds of Synths exist within Synthetix, including government issued legal tender, digital assets, commodities, and inverse indexes. Essentially, the…
Top crypto stocks for 2021 The value of cryptocurrencies fluctuates from time to time, affecting prices of related stocks. Crypto stocks are stocks of public companies dealing directly or indirectly with cryptocurrencies. A rise in price of a certain cryptocurrency may lead to an increase in the value of certain crypto stocks and vice versa. As a result, experts predict crypto stocks which may dominate the market in 2021 and beyond. Among the top rated stocks are PayPal…
Robinhood App Review 2021 Robinhood has come on leaps and bounds since it was founded back in April 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, two New York-based financial developers. The name, of course, is a nod to Robin Hood, the historical outlaw of Sherwood Forest, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. The founders are quoted as saying they want to ‘provide everyone with access to the financial markets, not just the wealthy’. Did they achieve what they set out to?…
Fulcrum (bZx) non-custodial crypto margin trading DeFi platform The notion of “no risk no reward” is known best by experienced traders which deal with leverage – risking entire portfolios to make an unbelievable amount of money. Conversely, the average person may be content to put their savings somewhere to generate interest. Oddly enough, both of these needs are satisfied by Fulcrum, a decentralized margin trading platform which offers annual interest rates of over 30% on…
Facebook Diem Explained **What Is Diem, Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency?** Diem (formerly known as Libra) is a cryptocurrency created by Facebook on a secure and reliable open-source blockchain, backed by a supply of readily available assets, and placed under the management of an independent association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency) According to the White Paper, the Diem Association’s goal is to leverage the innovative approach of using distributed…
How to deploy an Ethereum Smart Contract Ethereum has given birth to new decentralized apps in the blockchain space. Ethereum was created by Vitalik Buterin’s, a programmer. A point to note is that Ethereum’s success credit goes to the implementation of smart contracts. https://decentralised.africa/decentralized-applications-dapps-defined/ https://decentralised.africa/blockchain-technology-explained/ **The Ethereum blockchain allows you to:** Create cryptos that are…
What is a Central Bank Digital Currency? Understanding Central Bank Digital Asset Issuance The implementation of digital currencies and blockchain technology in the modern payment systems of today has been on the rise; particularly in 2020. The need to make secured and cashless transactional operations online has been fueled by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – people forced to stay home due to nationwide lockdown measures. The growing attraction to Bitcoin and other…
PrimeXBT Covesting Copy Trading Platform Trading in cryptocurrency is, undoubtedly, one of the most profit generating activity on the web. Both experienced and inexperienced people venture into trading every day. However, the trading business is very risk. One stands a chance to earn up to 120% profit, yet he/she can lose the entire investment amount. https://decentralised.africa/top-20-regulated-crypto-exchanges/ As result of the high risk involved in trading, many newbies…
Decentralized Applications (DApps) Explained Decentralized applications are programs that exist and are run on a blockchain or peer to peer network of computers rather than a single computer. Furthermore, they are not under the control of a single entity. In crypto, decentralized applications run on a blockchain network in a public, open-source, decentralized ecosystem. **Features of Decentralized Applications** Open source – decentralized applications are autonomous, and…
Understanding End-to-end Encryption An increasing need for privacy and security prompted people to devise ways of communicating through encrypted messages. With an end-to-end encryption communication mode, a person sends a message which the receiver only can read. Essentially, no other person can read or modify the message apart from the sender and receiver of the information. **Here is how it works** A message such as “Hello Friend” is converted into a scrambled message…
Blockchain-based 'Unstoppable Domains' 2021 Review **What is a blockchain domain?** New extensions such as .com or .info launched as smart contracts on public blockchains and .crypto is simply an ERC 721 on the Ethereum blockchain. Blockchain domains are stored by their owners in their wallet like a cryptocurrency so that no third party can take them away. The domains are paid for only once and you own the domain for life so no renewal fees which is a great value…
How to use MetaMask **What is Metamask?** Metamask is a browser extension that makes it easier to access Ethereum’s decentralized app ecosystem. Additionally, it is also a wallet that holds ERC-20 tokens and allows one to use the services within the network. By linking to Ethereum-based decentralized apps, you can spend coins on games, stake tokens in gambling apps, or even trade them on decentralized exchanges.…
How to buy cryptocurrency using PayPal It is interesting that PayPal, one of the renowned traditional payment processor enables people to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, bitcoin cash, litecoin and ethereum or its platform and other interfaces. **Where can people buy cryptocurrencies using PayPal?** There are several platforms, where people can buy cryptocurrencies using PayPal. The major ones include: eToro LocalCryptos Plus500 Apart from these, people can also buy…
Abra crypto wallet & exchange review Abra was founded by Bill Barhydt, a serial entrepreneur, expert, and public speaker in the mobile technology space. Hailing from New York City, Barhydt was a man on a mission when designing and launching Abra, as he wanted an all-in-one money app where users could buy, sell, hold to earn interest, and trade stocks, ETFs, and crypto. More than that, he wanted something that was user-friendly, intuitive, and attractive to users. Did he and…
How merchants can accept payments in digital currencies Many businesses around the world accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as means of payment. Therefore, whether your business is small, medium or large, you can accept payment in digital currencies. https://decentralised.africa/bitcoin-blockchain-cryptocurrency-explained/ Apart from an increase in revenue, your business benefits from secure payments and lower transaction costs. As a result, you may make more profit.…
Akropolis – Ethereum-based DeFi Protocol Explained Akropolis (AKRO) is a digital asset designed and built on the Akropolis.io network to supply users with the necessary tools to save, grow, and scale. The project’s vision is to build an alternative to informal financial institutions such as ROSCAs, mutuals, guilds, co-ops, etc. https://akropolis.io/ The Akropolis DeFi-token eradicates dependence on geographical locations, middlemen, and central counterparties. Built on these…
Mintable App – NFT Marketplace 2021 Review Mintable allows users to create non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and upload user created content to Mintable’s servers and other third party affiliates, manage existing non-fungible tokens made on the service, or on other third party services, browse non-fungible tokens created on the Ethereum blockchain, and transact between two parties by selling non-fungible tokens. https://decentralised.africa/what-is-ethereum/…
Crypto.com Payment and Digital Asset Platform Review This platform was founded in 2016 and has over 3m users worldwide. The platform is always adding new features and offers to its products, including the exchange, mobile app, wallet, and MCO Visa cards. Its exchange was launched in 2019, and it is powered by its native token, crypto.com coin, CRO. What this means is that CRO holders enjoy certain benefits from crypto.com. Users can trade over 70 market pairs, including BTC,…
Deribit Cryptocurrency Futures & Options Trading Platform Review Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Exchange Deribit is a popular cryptocurrency futures and options exchange with trading leverages enabled up to a very attractive 100x. The leverage you are trading with depends on the equity you have in your account. Deribit uses cross-margin auto leverage. For example: if you wish to trade with 10x leverage and want to open a position of 1 BTC in the Perpetual, you’ll need to have…
SuperRare P2P digital art marketplace explained SuperRare is a peer-to-peer marketplace for non-fungible tokens (ERC-721 NFTs) built on Ethereum. A digital art and decentralized application marketplace operating on the Ethereum blockchain, the SuperRare platform utilizes custom-developed smart contracts that enable artists to sell their digital creations to collectors on the peer-to-peer digital marketplace. Collectors are able to trade, transfer, sell, or simply display…
Kava – DeFi Lending Platform for Digital Assets To the untrained eye, the use case for cryptocurrencies is limited to trading and quickly transferring money across borders. Decentralized finance platforms have opened the door to seemingly limitless possibilities which appear impossible at first glance. One of these is Kava, a cryptocurrency platform which makes it possible to create a stable cryptocurrency which mirrors the US dollar called USDx. It does this using volatile…
Rarible NFT Marketplace Guide Rarible Inc. is a Delaware corporation and the operator of a community-owned NFT marketplace used to create, sell, or collect digital items secured with blockchain. Rarible was launched in early 2020 by Alexei Falin and Alexander Salnikov and consists of the Rarible platform, the Rarible Apps, the Rarible DEX System, RARI token, the Rarible DAO and the Rarible Governance Module. Rarible is an open-source, creator-centric, and community-owned NFT…
Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to be launched on Vertex P2P Market Binance Smart Chain (BSC) will be launched on Vertex, the first and only p2p platform to implement the fastest growing blockchain! *“The most important thing for users to note is that BTCB and USDT issued on Binance Smart Chain will be available for exchange on the Vertex peer-to-peer market. An added advantage for traders on our platform is that they can boost profits due to the lower fees.” –* Alessandro…
Yearn Finance Explained In the first few months of 2020, as wildfires raged in Australia and a coronavirus made its way out of China, a South African developer and DeFi architect by the name Andre Cronje (creator of the Eminence project, and the recently launched KP3R token on the Keep3r Network) was digging deep into his crypto-strategy and trying to figure out how to choose the best lending protocol for his stable coins. Each morning he’d manually look at the protocols and…
How Cross-chain Atomic Swaps Can Help Grow Your Cryptocurrency Portfolio Did you know that you don’t have to buy bitcoin in order to acquire the much sought after digital asset? You can simply swap some other cryptocurrency such as Ethereum or Litecoin for Bitcoin. A crypto swap or cross-chain atomic swap is an inter-chain exchange that involves exchanging one crypto or digital asset for another. https://remitano.com/r/za/buy-sell-bitcoin-in-south-africa…
Peer-to-peer Marketing: Why Your Brand Will Not Survive Without It **Business is Social!** *“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.”* – African proverb. In a digitally connected world, positive customer opinions and recommendations can tilt scales in the favor of a particular project, product or service and consequently increase participation, adoption, uptake or sales. More often than not, when recommendation or peer-to-peer marketing isn’t…
A Guide to Content Creation for Crypto Bounty Programs As the crypto frenzy grips the entire world, many people are searching for ways to earn cryptocurrencies. Of course, there are many ways that they can earn them. People can stake, yield farm or trade. Since these methods involve investing sums of money, many individuals take part in bounty programs, where they get free tokens or coins. https://decentralised.africa/five-simple-methods-of-earning-bitcoin-btc/…
Crypto University 2021 Review **Why Learn About Digital Currencies?** To appreciate the power of digital currencies or what makes cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin so revolutionary and transformative, you need to understand the history of money. This will help you understand why blockchain is such a revolutionary technology and how it solves some fundamental problems we have with existing fiat currencies. Love it or hate it, money makes the world go round. It is the very…
Sweet.io – A Marketplace for Loyalty Rewards & Digital Collectibles Sweet.io was founded by Tom Mizzone and Nathan Elliott under SocialSweet, Inc., which is regulated by the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission and incorporated in the state of Delaware. Sweet provides brands with a platform for tracking customer engagement through social media. Customers can be ranked based on customized parameters that a brand defines. This may include such actions like tweeting about the…
Top 50 Cryptocurrency Exchanges **1)** **Binance** https://www.binance.com/ Binance has become the biggest centralized cryptocurrency exchange in the world based on trading volume, web traffic, average liquidity, and the amount of quality market pairings available, they are the world’s best and biggest. Check out our full review here. https://www.binance.com/?ref=26687058 https://decentralised.africa/binance-exchange-review/ **2)** **Coinbase Pro** https://www.coinbase.com/…
Luno Exchange – 2021 Review Back in 2013, an exchange called BitX was launched, before later being rebranded as Luno in 2016. Co-founder and CEO, Marcus Swanepoel, was behind much of the successful growth of the company, which now boasts over 200 employees and 5 million users in over 40 countries. Luno is headquartered in London, but you will also find important regional hubs in Cape Town and Singapore. The company has raised more than $13m in funding, with backers such as…
Top 10 Derivatives Cryptocurrency Exchanges Derivatives are tradable securities or contracts that derive their value from an underlying asset. Where cryptocurrency derivatives are concerned, the underlying asset is almost always Bitcoin (BTC) or other popular cryptos. The most common types of derivatives include futures, forwards and options, which are based on a variety of assets, including stocks, currencies, bonds and commodities. Among crypto derivatives, Bitcoin futures…
Ethereum Blockchain Upgrade Eth2 Explained Ethereum 2 (ETH2 or ETH 2.0 or ‘Serenity’) is a set of upgrades that improve the scalability, security, and sustainability of Ethereum. Although each is being worked on in parallel, they have certain dependencies that determine when they will be deployed. ETH 2.0 embodies improvements put in place to increase the productivity of the pioneering Ethereum blockchain network. ETH 2.0’s primary goal is to ensure efficiency and…
Different types of tokens issued on the blockchain The concept of asset tokenization involves converting the rights to an asset with economic value into a digital token. A token on the blockchain is used to create, generate and stimulate value. It is a unit of account and a means of exchange. A token can essentially be a digital representation of anything. For instance, a token can represent a stock, bond, option or real-estate asset. A token can also represent an…
eToro 2021 review Recently it was reported that online social trading firm eToro is to go public in Q3 2020 via a SPAC deal. Unlike most of the platforms that I typically review, eToro is not primarily a cryptocurrency trading exchange, but rather, this is a feature that it came to introduce later. The Israeli social trading multi-asset brokerage platform launched back in 2007, but it wasn’t until January 2014 that the development and management teams collectively introduced…
Chainlink – Blockchain Oracles for Connected Smart Contracts Explained **Introduction** ChainLink ($LINK) has consistently proven to be one of the big guns in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space ever since its inception in 2017 by SmartContract. The American-based company is a decentralized oracle solution that serves as a **link** between smart contracts, cryptocurrency networks, and conventional data systems which are seemingly geared towards Decentralized Finance…
SushiSwap 2021 Review The state of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem can be explained in two words: food fight. The addition of this new automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX) currently on the Ethereum blockchain to the DeFi space can somewhat be confusing as it comes in a food-themed outlay which is sushi. There are several thoughts as to what brought about this and many experts feel like the DeFi space may be going extreme with this one.…
Ampleforth – Digital Asset Protocol for Smart Commodity Money The blockchain technology behind cryptocurrency makes it possible to create currencies and programs which would be impossible to make using regular technology. One of these unique cryptocurrencies is called Ampleforth. It is modeled after a theoretical currency called the Ducat proposed by famous economist Freidrich Hayek. The Ducat would be able to adjust its supply based on demand. Ampleforth uses cryptocurrency…
How Digital Entrepreneurs Are Making Passive Income Trading Digital Assets on Peer-to-peer Platforms In South Africa, the official unemployment rate increased to an astronomical 32,5% in the fourth quarter of 2020. In Nigeria, the jobless rate currently stands at 33.3% according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. Not only is unemployment rife particularly among the youth in many countries across the continent of Africa and other developing and even developed…
0x open protocol and ZRX token explained 0x protocol and its native token, $ZRX, were created out of the necessity to bring a much-needed upgrade to already existing decentralized exchanges (DEXs). To do this, the Ethereum blockchain will be used to develop a network of exchanges that are immutable and totally independent of middlemen. https://decentralised.africa/top-10-decentralised-cryptocurrency-exchanges/ **Key Points:** · 0x is a trustless exchange for Ethereum assets.…
Exploring Asset Tokenisation *“Capital markets are still in the early phases of the adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and the industry continues to seek viable use cases. One broad category of such use cases is the creation of digitally tokenized assets, in which the token either represents a property interest that exists only in the Blockchain (such as non-certificated securities) or represents an asset existing off the Blockchain.” –* **BNY…
Celsius Network Explained Simply Two of the most trending raves of the moment in the cryptocurrency sphere are crypto interest accounts and lending programs. These options have succeeded in doing away with greedy intermediaries and promoting interest-yielding cryptocurrency accounts and low-fee lending that accepts digital assets as collateral. They have also paved the way for platforms to offer higher interest rates to savings accounts and make loan rates considerably lower…
BlockFi Crypto Loans & Interest Accounts 2021 Review **Is BlockFi Safe, Legit, and Worth Your Time?** BlockFi was founded in 2017 by Zac Prince and Flori Marquez. The mission being to provide credit services to markets that currently have limited access to products such as simple savings accounts. BlockFi’s unique proposition and what sets it apart from other crypto asset service providers is that the company pairs market-leading rates with institutional-quality benefits.…