Imagine this: A young entrepreneur in Nairobi, previously locked out of traditional financing, finally owns a piece of her city, all thanks to crypto-backed mortgage. Sounds like a dream, right? An innovative story of digital empowerment, wealth-building that walks around these old lines in the ground and goes straight to...
Now, Best Wallet is preparing for a wave of new user adoption that could make it rain. The integration of that $12 trillion U.S. mortgage market with the $3 trillion digital asset economy is coming fast. Lack of leadership and recent mandates from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have...
Sahara AI has been making a lot of noise as its Token Generation Event (TGE) is getting closer. Expectations are high for a variety of reasons, including large investment funds backing it and a very robust community. Forecasting what any new cryptocurrency will launch at is an exceedingly difficult task,...
Is a meme coin ETF the best thing for Africa at this moment?When the CBOE filed for the Canary PENGU ETF, chicken on the crypto community. This ETF puts a large chunk of its holdings into a Solana-based meme coin and Pudgy Penguin NFTs. We saw the headlines: "First Meme...
CBOE’s decision to file a 19b-4 for the Canary PENGU ETF is indeed creating a stir, and justifiably so. At first glance, it seems like yet another legitimizing step for crypto, and especially for the Solana ecosystem. Eric Balchunas 🌚 Beyond bullish Eric’s enthusiasm is contagious, and the market experienced...
PENGU is experiencing a surge in market activity following renewed optimism surrounding the potential approval of the Canary PENGU ETF. PENGU’s price has increased almost 2% in the past 24 hours. It now sits at $0.009832, based on CoinMarketCap data. This surge is a testament to increasing investor confidence, confidence...
The story told about cryptocurrency always seems to include the shady Wall Street suits and Silicon Valley tech bros. That’s not the whole story. Yet one of the most important chapters is lacking. There is a bold narrative emerging from Africa that reaffirms the power of human agency, creativity, and...
Forget Bitcoin millionaires. Today’s real opportunity in crypto is not about finding the next $70,000 coin. It’s in separating the diamonds from the rough, the treasures from the trash, the projects quietly assembling the kind of infrastructure that will transform finance as we’ve known it. As a lifelong editor and...
Impermanent Loss (IL). It's the Voldemort of DeFi – the thing we don't like to name, but constantly haunts liquidity providers. It's that sinking feeling when you provided liquidity, happily collected trading fees, only to find out your portfolio is worth less than if you'd just HODLed. Curve Finance, with...
The GameFi crypto token market is projected to increase by 54 billion dollars. This expansion is largely driven by the increased convergence of gaming with decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A new study projects the market will grow from USD 1.8 billion in 2025 to USD 8 billion...