Since 1991, the American Dialect Society’s has published a ‘Word of the Year’ as determined by a panel of independent linguists, as well as their pick of words from a variety of categories such as ‘Most Useful’, ‘Most Creative’ and ‘Most Likely to Succeed’. 2011 saw ‘cloud’ emerge as the likeliest word to succeed, capturing the optimism surrounding this new computing trend.   

Since the start of July 2017, ICOs have raised $19bn. Projects looking to token offerings as a fund raising mechanism must evaluate trade-offs between allocating a greater proportion of tokens to investors and keeping hold of tokens to incentivize the development team.

Facebook’s recent decision to remove Alex Jones’ Infowars from their platform has shone a light on the disproportionate control wielded by centralized tech giants. Calls for applications which run on a shared ‘world computer’ that is trustless and available for everyone to access are growing louder. Yet these decentralized applications are hampered by the low throughput of their underlying base protocols as they seek to chart a course to mass adoption.

If a system is only as strong as its weakest link, then the centralized exchanges are certainly the Achilles heel of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We take a look at the top decentralized exchanges and why they are so important for the ecosystem.

Decentralized exchanges offer a solution as they allow users to retain control of their funds throughout the trading process, remember ‘not your keys, not your coins’.

After a year-long, $4bn ICO, the anticipated EOS mainnet finally went live in early June 2018. The migration of EOS tokens from the ERC-20 standard to the independent EOS blockchain has brought with it increasing scrutiny regarding the true extent of decentralization on the EOS network. However, wealth inequality and voting centralisation is raising questions.

The advent of Blockchain technology has allowed us to represent and communicate digital scarcityTogether with the introduction of smart contracts by the Ethereum project in 2014, we are now able to build a novel class of software products, known as decentralized applications, that function without a centralized server

When Satoshi conceived of Bitcoin as peer-to-peer digital cash, he introduced the Proof-of-Work mining system as a means of incentivizing network participants to play fair, but how does this system affect the security of the top coins?

As the pace of innovation in the blockchain space speeds up and the crypto asset class gradually penetrates the mainstream, we can expect to see a corresponding increase in the number of asset managers entering the space.

While the creation of blockchain technology allowed us to disrupt the way we transact with money, the uneven distribution of cryptocurrency is still an issue preventing Satoshi’s vision of a more inclusive financial system from being realized entirely.