Technically speaking: a data analysis of Uniswap October 16, 2020 The biggest crypto craze of the moment is decentralised finance, and the most popular decentralised exchange is Uniswap. The Novum Insights analyst team has pulled together data on the most active of the 14652 trading pairs on Uniswap and it has been a rollercoaster ride as to where volume is. The sector has lured in [...]
A fairy tale or history in the making? October 16, 2020 Once upon a time, in a strange and complex binary kingdom, there lived a king and a queen who were giving the power back to the people. The rulers of the legacy system ignored them at first, then they laughed at them, and then… Could that be a bedtime story in the not so distant [...]
Introducing MiCA: Europe’s proposed cryptoasset laws, explained October 16, 2020 As the European Commission launched its long-awaited Digital Finance Strategy in late September, a senior official announced: “The future of finance is digital”. The Commission sees digital finance as a weapon in its arsenal as it seeks to relaunch and modernise the European economy to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Strategy sets out [...]
There are few ways to skin a crypto podcast October 15, 2020 Podcasts are pretty weird, but Steve Jobs was always a big fan as I reported for Forbes more than two years ago. He insisted that podcasts were the audio of the future and while he could never have predicted (or could he?) how they would prosper during a time of plague, his insistence they be [...]
The City View: LMAX CEO urges City to ‘support young talent’ amid Covid October 15, 2020 In this episode Christian talks to David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Group, the fast-growing fintech firm and FX and institutional crypto exchange that clocked up $56m (£43m) in gross profit in 2019, with trading volumes of $3.5tn. Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS LMAX Group is listed in the Deloitte Fast 50 and The Sunday Times [...]
A decentralised financial future October 14, 2020 If you’re involved or interested in the crypto space, you may have heard about decentralised finance (DeFi for short) quite a bit in the past year. Even amidst the COVID-19 crisis, 2020 has seen DeFi grow from an ecosystem with $675.92 million to $10.77 billion total value locked (source: https://defipulse.com/). The world of crypto lending [...]
The DeFi Bubble and the Next Bitcoin Boom October 13, 2020 Programmers have found a way to replace the core service offerings of Wall Street and an army of corporate lawyers with 800 lines of smart contract code. The “De” in DeFi stands for “decentralized,” meaning there are no intermediaries in the process. Despite the raw and unpolished user interface, billions in assets flow through new [...]