Unfinished Business September 1, 2020 Back in 2015, I co-founded a challenger Bank called Starling with a super smart group of people (plus me) with different talents – mine was technology – and with a common drive, determination and goal ‘to change financial services for the better’. I think we went a long way in achieving that aim, helping people [...]
Gas Wars and The Hotgate August 31, 2020 2-3 months ago, a Defi presale would be 100 Ethereum (ETH) at the most. At that time, ETH was around $200. The sale lasted for a day or two, and the standard announcement was: “We are going to launch this project. We will launch it at this particular time. Buy it at Uniswap.” Fast forward [...]
Defi – The industry is moving at the speed of light. Can you keep up? August 28, 2020 If you are from traditional finance and look at what is going on in the DeFi space, it would be similar to watching a Formula 1 race, where Uniswap would be the leading driver of the decentralized exchange (DEXs) team. Uniswap came out of the closet in May, and exploded onto the scene in July [...]
Exclusive: Crypto exchange Coinbase appoints new UK boss August 25, 2020 Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has appointed Marcus Hughes as its new general manager in the UK and Europe, City A.M. can reveal. Hughes, who joined the San Francisco-headquartered exchange in 2018 as legal counsel, will be tasked with growing the business across the region at a time of rapid change for [...]
The Dark Side of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) August 25, 2020 Once again it feels like the technologists are dragging us down a rabbit hole of complexity and claiming that blockchain and crypto will be our saviours. The next ‘magic bunny’ out of the crypto hat? Ethereum Name Service or ENS for short So what the heck is ENS? Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a service [...]