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Staying safe When Participating in Crypto Public Sales

Even people with viable business ideas struggle to gather money to launch new companies because the ...

What is Cardano’s Vasil hard fork upgrade, and what does it mean for ADA?

The ADA coin powers the open-source Cardano blockchain platform, which is used to host ...

The main differences between a DEX & CEX explained

Exchanges are the locations that you can use to buy or sell a cryptocurrency. Whether you are a ...

Cardano 2023 Roadmap | by Genius Academy

2023 Cardano Roadmap - All You Need To Know

Though the bear market continues in 2023, Cardano is determined to make significant strides in its ...

Understanding Crypto & Your Taxes

In the United States, every crypto-to-fiat or crypto-to-crypto transaction is considered a taxable ...

What is a Multi-Token ISPO?

On the 12th of August 2022 Genius X, a Cardano startup accelerator created by the world-class team ...

Cardano sidechains explained: Midnight

In November 2022, Input Output Global (IOG) announced Midnight, a data protection-based sidechain ...

Introduction to CIP-1694 (Cardano Improvement Proposal)

Cardano is on the brink of its most exciting chapter yet. The Voltaire era is just around the ...

Understanding Crypto Taxes in 2023

Do you Pay Taxes on Your Crypto? Yes, in the majority of countries you have to pay tax on your ...

Understanding Crypto Launchpads

Whether you look forward to funding your project at an early stage or invest in the project before ...

Will NFT be our new identity?

NFTs' emerging trends could change the current generation’s relationship with the web, brands, ...

How are Cardano Blockchain Transactions Completed

Introduction You might already know that the Cardano blockchain can be used to transfer ADA or ...

Cardano ADA For Beginners (2022)

Over the past few years blockchain and cryptocurrencies have attracted considerable attention among ...

5 Things You Need to Know Before Joining a Public Sale

You may have some experience in the world of Web3 and cryptocurrencies and you want to take the ...

Cardano Stake Pools Explained

Cardano stake pools are block-producing server nodes that reliably hold the combined stake of ...

What unique problems does Cardano solve?

Cardano blockchain is built from the ground up with a solid foundation of peer reviewed research. ...

Best Non-Custodial DEX Wallets in 2022

A popular adage in crypto is: 

The Future of Digital Wallets: How NFTs and Tokenization Can Eliminate the Need for Credit Cards and Prevent Identity Theft

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have been making headlines in recent months as a revolutionary new way ...

Top DeFi Myths & Facts Debunked

With the rapid growth of DeFi, or decentralized finance, there have been a lot of DeFi facts and ...

Cryptojacking: An overview of the crypto-mining malware

The prosperity of earlier blockchain-based coins is primarily due to mining. To link blocks and ...

What is a token generation event (TGE)?

The acronym TGE stands for Token Generation Event, which represents the moment when, for the first ...

Understanding Public Sales in Crypto

Young and growing cryptocurrency companies need to raise money, much like any start-up or mature ...

Blockchain Architecture For Beginners

Learning blockchain architecture will give you a good understanding of cryptocurrency platforms ...

The advantages of building on Cardano

Cardano is a third-generation blockchain network with significant improvements over most competing ...

Why Cardano is Attractive for Decentralized Exchanges & DeFi Solutions

  In 2014, Mt Gox Exchange almost buried Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency industry when a ...

Exploring Cardano Layer-2 Scaling Solutions: Sidechains, Hydra, Mithril, and Off-chain Computing

  Cardano is a modern blockchain created to delicately balance security, decentralization, and ...

Decentralized Finance vs Traditional Finance

DeFi, or decentralized finance, remains one of the fastest growing industries. From 2019 to 2021, ...

What is DeFi

DeFi definition DeFi, or decentralized finance, is a consortium of peer-to-peer financial services ...

What are the pros and cons of using a crypto launchpad?

Cryptocurrencies are high-risk investments hence the need for launchpads. The digital asset class ...

What is Blockchain and it's Features

We’ve talked about the basics of blockchain and blockchain architecture. But what can you use ...

What is a DEX?

DEXs, or decentralized exchanges, represent one of the biggest categories of DeFi applications in ...

What is Cardano?

Cardano is a decentralized public blockchain platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions ...

Your Beginners Guide to NFTs

What Are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)? Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are cryptographic assets on a ...

How to stay financially stable in a bear market

Events like the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stablecoin meltdown, and bankruptcy of 3AC capital and ...

Understanding Proof of Stake Methodology

Blockchain technologies are decentralized ecosystems managed by consensus mechanisms where the ...

How NFTs Will Revolutionize the Management of Consumer Private Healthcare Data

Non-Fungible tokens, or NFTs, are digital assets that are used to store information in a digital ...

A beginner's guide to central bank digital currencies

To fulfill the evolving economic needs throughout history for the storage and transfer of value, ...

A Brief History of NFT Technology

Year 2021, early March: the digital artist Beeple rose to global fame by selling at Christie’s a ...

How does DeFi work?

Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, is a consortium of peer-to-peer financial services that uses ...

Cardano Delegation Protocols Explained

Blockchains are distributed ledger systems that store immutable data.  Blockchains require a ...

Understanding the Basics of Blockchain

History The biggest technological innovation involving blockchains are cryptocurrencies.  Multiple ...

NFTs: Revolutionizing Retailers' Data Security and E-commerce Strategies

All retailers must use various ways to protect their customer’s personal information, which are ...

5 Signs of the Best DEX Platforms

By now, you may know what a decentralized exchange (DEX) is and perhaps be looking to trial one. 

What is Web3?

Web3, originally called the Semantic Web by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, is an idea for ...

3 Main Differences between UTXO versus Accounts-based models

  For decades, finance and data systems relied on centralized systems. This bottleneck created ...

Learning the Fundamentals of Cardano

Cardano is a 3rd generation blockchain platform which is more scalable and energy efficient by ...

Blockchain Wallets Explained

Unlike a bank account or physical wallet, your crypto isn’t in a wallet, it is on the blockchain.  ...

Difference between Initial Stake Pool Offering (ISPO) and Initial Decentralized Exchange Offering (IDO)

  Startups typically require initial financing to build a robust financial base before takeoff. ...

Problems DeFi Solves

How does DeFi help? What are the real problems that DeFi solves? While DeFi, or decentralized ...

Investing in Crypto - Is using a launchpad worth it?

Since the launch of Bitcoin, the global financial ecosystem has experienced an explosion in the ...

5 Things to look out for Before DEX Trading

Decentralization is a core tenet that guides all blockchain-based dApps. For decades, users trying ...

Comparing Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes): Concentrated Liquidity Adoption as a Gauge

  To appreciate what concentrated liquidity brings to the table, one must herald back to 2018. ...

Your Full Guide to Crypto Staking

Crypto staking is a way of using your tokens to help run a Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain or a ...

The Ethereum Merge: Rewards, Penalties, and the Future

The Merge In the Web3 world, the Merge refers to the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a ...

Understanding Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Trading

Every day billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies change hands on different platforms. ...

How do DEXs Work?

A decentralized exchange (or DEX) is a peer-to-peer marketplace where cryptocurrency traders can ...

Phases of Cardano Technology

Cardano’s development has been organized into five phases: Byron, Shelley, Goguen, Basho, and ...

What are crypto phishing attacks and how to prevent them?

Blockchain technology has recently gained attention, but the increase in popularity has also lead ...

Simplifying The Current DeFi World

 

Differences between Public and Private Blockchains

One of the biggest innovations involving blockchains is cryptocurrency. However, cryptocurrencies ...

Web 3.0 & The Metaverse

Web 3.0 is the new paradigm within the internet that we started to experience recently and will ...

Comparing the Best DEX Platforms in 2022

Decentralized exchanges (or DEXs) are going to disrupt the future of trading on blockchains. They ...

Understanding Decentralized Lending

One of the successes of DeFi has been decentralized lending, which has passed $50 billion in TVL in ...

What is Impermanent Loss ?

  Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a nascent sector that’s nonetheless rapidly growing. If you are ...

What Is a Liquidity Pool and Why It Is A DEX Game Changer

  DeFi is synonymous with innovation. After Uniswap innovated the first Automated Market Maker ...

The Benefits of DeFi

DeFi, or decentralized finance, are peer-to-peer financial services that utilize blockchain ...

DEX and It's Future Beyond 2022

A decentralized exchange (or DEX) is a peer-to-peer marketplace where cryptocurrency traders can ...

Details of the Vasil Hard Fork Combinator (HFC): What You Should Know

  When IOHK began working on Cardano in 2015, their overarching objective was to launch a superior ...

The Future of DeFi after 2022

According to DeFi Llama, from January 2020 to December 2022, the total valued locked (TVL) in ...

Smart Contracts Benefits and Risks

What are smart contacts? Smart contracts are self-executing agreements based on predetermined ...

What is CeFi

CeFi, or centralized finance, represents financial services for crypto such as centralized ...

Blockchain, crypto and the future of Fintech

In 2021 cryptocurrencies reached a market capitalization of $3 trillion, as hundreds of millions of ...

The Role of NFTs in Ensuring Secure Ownership and Validation of Licensed Digital Assets

In recent years, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have begun to gain traction in the digital world to ...

Staying safe When Participating in Crypto Public Sales

Even people with viable business ideas struggle to gather money to launch new companies because the ...

IOHK Releases the Plutus Fee Estimator

  After five years of active development, Cardano is now a functional blockchain following the ...

Order Book versus Automated Market Maker (AMM) Models in Decentralized Exchanges

  Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a multi-billion market for good reason, with over $258 billion in ...

Avoiding SCAMS is the Smart Move

  The world of decentralized finance is an exciting frontier, full of promise and opportunities. ...

Is The World Ready For DeFi?

DeFi offers many benefits, including inclusiveness, transparency, and potential lower costs. While ...

What is a Smart Order Router (SOR) in the Genius DEX?

  Genius DEX is the first order-book based decentralized exchange with concentrated liquidity and ...

Cardano Increases Block Size and Plutus Script Memory for Scaling

  The tail end of January 2022 was a mixed bag for Cardano. Five months after Alonzo and Plutus ...

What are Genius DEX’s Smart Swaps?

  Liquidity is the lifeblood of cryptocurrency markets. This decentralized asset class had to ...

Understanding Concentrated Liquidity in the Genius DEX

  Genius Yield is building a concentrated liquidity order-book decentralized exchange called the ...

 

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The 2022 Ultimate Guide to

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All you need to know about the

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Lars Brünjes holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Regensburg in Germany. After a postdoctoral year at the University of Cambridge in the UK and several years of research and teaching at Regensburg, he spent a decade working as a lead software architect on mathematical optimization software and web applications for an international IT company.

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Loïc Staub is a Swiss attorney-at-law who has been active in the crypto field since 2016. In 2021 he joined JayBee AG, an established firm based in Zug (Switzerland) specialized in Compliance, Regulatory and Risk Management in the blockchain and fintech field.

As regulatory leader at JayBee AG, Loïc helps entrepreneurs and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) set up their fintech or crypto business in Switzerland.

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Christopher G. Fox, Ph.D. helps financial innovators around the world - from fintech and blockchain startups to unicorns to the largest global institutional banks - show up and shine as thought leaders. He is a thinker, writer, speaker, and motivator. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Syncresis, a communication strategy firm that gives clients the tools to share their thinking, their story, and their passion for change in the world of finance.

 

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