Industry Insights

The fall of FTX shook the financial world and ignited conversations about the security, sustainability and future of crypto trading. In response to this, new companies and projects have emerged that offer superior decentralized solutions that mitigate the custody risks inherent in centralized platforms like FTX.

The US presidential debate at the end of June was a pivotal moment not just for the US election, but also for the breakout of crypto prediction markets into the mainstream. These markets have gone from relative obscurity to being quoted by the New York Times and Bloomberg, with over USD300m currently wagered on the election outcome.

Blockchain disruption is moving beyond the digital realm and into the physical. Today, physical infrastructure networks like mobile phone networks are capital intensive to build and as a result are highly centralized and run by oligopolies.

At Token2049 in Dubai, the founder of Telegram came on stage to make a string of announcements related to crypto integrations on the messaging platform. Telegram has almost 1bn users and over 800m of them now have access to Telegram’s crypto wallet.

On April 19, Bitcoin will go through its fourth halving event. This is where the supply of new bitcoins issued to bitcoin miners is cut in half.