Coin Intros

Right on the heels of the Winklevoss twins’ enterprise announcement that Gemini will be matching cryptocurrency and fiat finances dollar-for-dollar with its new stablecoin, New York-based Paxos joins the realm of federally regulated crypto assets. Introducing Paxos Standard With...

Litecoin is a persistent frontrunner in the payment cryptocurrency race. With technological limitations, many Bitcoin (BTC) investors have shifted to Litecoin (LTC)—an open-source fork of Nakamoto’s original cryptocurrency with founder Charlie Lee. As a faster, cheaper version of Bitcoin, Litecoin is...

Online advertisements are obnoxious, intrusive, and irrelevant. They are also many website owners only means of revenue – but with adblockers and many advertisers pulling their ads, site owners are struggling to stay afloat. The Oyster Protocol solves all...

The global eSports industry is projected to be worth over $900 million by the end of 2018 and that figure is expected to reach $1.65 billion by 2020. Unikoin Gold is a cryptocurrency that aims to capitalize on this massively...

Formerly known as Antshares, NEO is reinventing commerce with blockchain technology by creating a smart economy in which businesses and governments will be able to digitize assets and automate their management. Often referred to as the “Chinese Ethereum,” NEO is...

The development of blockchain technology is currently hindered by numerous stumbling points, including a lack of scalability, consumer-friendliness, and interoperability. The next wave of projects, coined “blockchain 3.0”, aim to address these shortcomings and allow blockchain technology to fuel...

The volatility of cryptocurrencies can make them unsuitable for daily use. Stablecoins however, are pegged to reliable sources of value, and aim to combine the advantages of the blockchain with the stability and reliable valuation of a known asset....

Interoperability is the focus of many projects within the blockchain ecosystem at the moment, with several platforms developing solutions that will facilitate communication and the transfer of assets between disparate blockchains. The Bytom project, however, isn’t aiming for mere...

2018’s bearish bloodbath took a heavy toll on the market cap of many tokens, but the defiant Ontology project has bucked the trend. Married to the success of its big brother NEO, ONT’s show-stopping growth has turned heads market-wide....

Steem is the lifeblood of Steemit, the contagiously popular media platform that rewards its users for posting content. With no supply limit and built-in inflation rate, Steem is a radical cryptocurrency that opts for participation and bucks the trend...

Hundreds of millions of gamers trade weapon skins (camouflages) for real currency. In fact, the gaming skin trading industry is worth approximately 50 billion dollars. Dozens of sites have popped up in recent years, specializing in the exchange of...

Buying a property is a tedious, costly venture that involves multiple intermediaries who all want a piece of the pie. Propy aims to digitize title deeds through the blockchain and save customers time and money. What Is Propy? The...

The disruptive nature of cryptocurrency is self-evident, offering the world an alternative to the existing financial paradigm that has governed the transfer and storage of value for centuries. While libertarian ideologues may focus on cryptocurrencies as an engine of...

Bitcoin heralded triumphant success as the first peer-to-peer currency, yet its profound transparency quickly sparked the search for a cryptocurrency capable of a confidential transaction. A hard fork of Bitcoin, Zcash sidled up to the likes of Dash and...

Ark is a fast, delegated proof of stake cryptocurrency that focuses on the interconnectedness of blockchains. Currently, Bitcoin and Ethereum are unable to transact with each other. The Ark team plans to change this through the use of Encoded...

Verge is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency offering anonymity, speed, and low transaction cost. As the 30th most prominent coin by market cap, XVG a.k.a. “the future of privacy” finds itself competing for top tier in the privacy world, sizing up...

Digital currencies and blockchain technology are everywhere right now. They’ve transcended their niche status to become a near constant preoccupation for millions of people. Their incredible value and technological innovation can, in a good way, feel all-consuming. Ironically, while...

The telecom industry is dominated by a few players who leave little room for real innovation. DENT is offering users a mobile-data marketplace that has the potential to change the way in which people utilize and manage their extra...

Institutional interest in distributed ledger technology has increased dramatically recently, with major Wall Street players, hedge funds, and venture capital now entering the market on a large scale. As a result, a range of platforms has launched that are...

In November of 2017, the number of Coinbase users surpassed that of stock brokerage Charles Schwab. Centralized exchanges have become incredibly popular in recent years, despite their vulnerability to cyber attacks. Moreover, they make a commission from every transaction...

Blockchain technology may be decentralizing the world, but there is one element of the distributed ledger technology ecosystem that is in dire need of urgent decentralization — cryptocurrency exchanges. Loopring, an open source decentralized exchange protocol, is aiming to...

Nowadays, it’s pretty easy to license digital media by using an existing license or by purchasing a new one. Unfortunately, protecting and enforcing your license can be challenging. A person can simply copy and repost digital media with the...

Many of the top blockchains, such as Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash are either hard forks or software branches of the original Bitcoin code and blockchain. However, that is not the case with NEM. It’s built with 100% original code....

Some of Bitcoin’s most significant challenges revolve around the lack of equity in governance. Decentralized currencies should distribute power evenly across their networks. Despite this, it seems as though miners currently have too much power. These are the issues...

Augur is a decentralized oracle and prediction markets platform, built to conform to the logic of the Ethereum network protocol. Prediction markets as such are event derivative markets created for the purpose of trading the outcomes of concrete events,...

Supporters of this relatively new cryptocurrency revolving around the Internet of Things believe this ‘Third Generation Crypto’ is going to take over the cryptocurrency space, surpassing even Bitcoin by solving some of its most significant issues. On the other...

With the advent of the blockchain, the world slowly realizes the full potential of the IoT—Internet of Things—business model and how it can help revolutionize the way in which commercial transactions are carried out online. Simply put, IoT technology...

Polymath, called by some the “Ethereum of security tokens,” is an ERC20 token that plans to be a security token platform. The platform will allow the launch of financial services on the blockchain and create a new security token...

The rapid growth of blockchain technology has produced a spectrum of new, emerging platforms that offer stable, robust, and highly efficient feature sets. Blockchain platforms are now being seriously considered by large-scale organizations as a viable solution to the...

One of the coins that has received an increasing amount of community attention over the past several months is Vertcoin — an impressive platform from a technical perspective. It combines the features of Bitcoin and Litecoin such as the Lightning Network,...

The cryptocurrency market is currently awash with hundreds of different innovative projects. Many of these blockchain projects are highly vocal regarding their development process, spending a significant amount of capital on marketing. Others, however, are quiet achievers, and often...

The cryptocurrency market is emerging from a lengthy bear run, with major players such as Bitcoin and Ethereum entering recovery mode. While high market cap cryptos are slowly regaining lost ground, however, quiet performer and decentralized market platform Syscoin...

Blockchain technology is disrupting industries left and right, and one project stirring things up in the healthcare sector is Medicalchain. A solid team solving a real problem – storing health records and maintaining a single version of the truth....

While cryptocurrencies are continuing to make headlines as an intriguing investment vehicle with potentially impeccable growth opportunities, many are realizing that the blockchain represents as compelling an asset as the digital currencies that they power. As the World Economic...

Bounties have become an increasingly integral part of the crypto ecosystem over the past few years. If you’ve seen advertisements or forum posts about bounties, they probably sound like rewards for treasure hunters, which partially true. Bounties are simply...

On December 31, 2016, the total cryptocurrency market cap was less than $18 billion. Just one year later, that number approached $800 billion. As cryptocurrencies rose in value, so did the number of people looking at them as a viable...

Advertising is big business. We see its lurking presence on huge signs as we drive down the highway, our TV shows are interrupted so that we can see a quick sales pitch for laundry detergent, and even gas stations...

New public and private blockchains are popping up everyday. So much so that research and consulting firm, Deloitte, identified that blockchain interconnectivity as an essential technology development for 2018. The report states that, “Companies should look to standardize the...

The term ‘DAO’ (otherwise known as decentralized autonomous organizations) still carries with it the negative stigma following the DAO hack in 2016 (leading to the controversial hard fork that resulted in Ethereum and Ethereum Classic), but it would be...

The notion of a DEX (or decentralized exchange) has been floating around since the first “altcoin’s” appearance. It seems antithetical to the very foundation of cryptocurrency that such reliance is placed in centralized trading platforms such as Poloniex or...

TRON (TRX) has taken the market by storm, and for good reason. It has an an outspoken, well-connected founder in Justin Sun. It is attempting to disrupt a $1 trillion global entertainment market. And it has 100 employees in its...

The Golem Project stands out as one of the more unique projects in the cryptosphere. Having raised over $8 million in a matter of minutes during its 2016 ICO, the team have been working hard to bring to life...

Cardano is the first peer-blockchain powered by scientists. The goal of Cardano is to roll the best of Bitcoin (store of value), Litecoin (cheap, fast p2p transactions), and Ethereum (smart contracts) into one coin. It is a coin that...