Category: Crypto and Fintech
MoonPay and Upbit Operator Dunamu Explore Stablecoin Payments Together
MoonPay is adding another Korean partner to a growing list. In a press release distributed via PRNewswire on October 20, the crypto payments company said it is pursuing a strategic collaboration with Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange. The fine print matters. Every commitment in the release is framed as something…
What a Barrel of Oil on the Blockchain Means for Weekend Oil Trading
Oil traders have spent the year asking for a weekend market. The biggest U.S. futures exchange just backed away from building one. A crypto startup is stepping into the gap. Energy Substantiation, a privately held company based in Larkspur, California, said on October 15 that its WTIC token is now available for institutional spot trading…
Webull Adds CME’s Smallest-Ever Equity Index Futures
Webull (NASDAQ: BULL) said on September 14 that eligible customers will gain access to two of CME Group’s newest and smallest futures products, E-nano S&P 500 and E-nano Nasdaq-100 futures, expected to go live on the platform in mid-September. For retail traders who already use Webull’s futures tools, the update matters less as a headline…
Crypto Regulation: How the Legal Landscape Is Shaping the Industry’s Future
Regulatory uncertainty has been a persistent theme throughout the cryptocurrency industry’s history, and the pace at which regulatory clarity has developed varies significantly across jurisdictions and specific segments of the crypto ecosystem. Understanding the current state and trajectory of crypto regulation is essential context for evaluating every other topic discussed in this category, since the…
Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Public Sector’s Answer to Crypto
As private cryptocurrencies and stablecoins have grown in scale and commercial significance, central banks around the world have responded with their own digital currency initiatives. A central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a digital form of a country’s official currency, issued and backed directly by the central bank rather than by a private company…
Tokenization: How Real-World Assets Are Moving Onto the Blockchain
Beyond native cryptocurrencies, one of the most commercially significant applications of blockchain technology is tokenization: representing ownership of real-world assets — real estate, private equity, bonds, commodities, and even fine art — as digital tokens on a blockchain network. This approach promises to bring blockchain’s efficiency, transparency, and programmability to traditional asset classes without requiring…
Crypto Custody and Security: How Institutions Are Safely Holding Digital Assets
Owning cryptocurrency requires solving a problem that traditional financial assets rarely present so starkly: whoever controls the cryptographic private keys associated with a digital asset controls that asset absolutely, with no central authority able to reverse a transaction or restore access if those keys are lost or stolen. This unforgiving reality has made secure custody…
Decentralized Finance: How DeFi Is Rebuilding Financial Infrastructure
Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, represents an attempt to rebuild core financial services — lending, borrowing, trading, and asset management — using blockchain-based smart contracts rather than traditional financial intermediaries. The ambition is significant: replacing banks, brokerages, and exchanges with open, programmable protocols that anyone can access and, in principle, that no single entity…
Stablecoins: The Bridge Between Crypto and Traditional Finance
Cryptocurrency’s price volatility has long been one of the central obstacles to its use as a practical medium of exchange rather than purely a speculative asset. Stablecoins — digital currencies designed to maintain a stable value, typically pegged to a fiat currency such as the US dollar — have emerged as the practical solution to…