Author: Edwin Munyui
-
Crypto Security in 2023: Dissecting Hacks, Exploits, and other Security Insights
Security remains one of the biggest challenges in the digital asset industry; In 2022 alone, the total value of crypto stolen through hacks amounted to $3.8 billion. While this figure is down 77% as of June 2023 compared to the same period last year, it is hard to ignore the imminent threats that hacks and…
-
Missing Point in the Energy Debate: How Blockchain Fuels Sustainability
As environmental consciousness grows globally, the demand for renewable and sustainable energy becomes increasingly pressing. However, a significant gap persists in harnessing the full potential of emerging technologies, like blockchain, to meet global climate sustainability objectives. For starters, blockchain can help create a revolutionizing solution market of globally accessible and decentralized carbon credits. Moreover, blockchain-driven…
-
The Stablecoin Debate: Types of Stablecoins, Assessing Value Proposition, Stability, and Stablecoin Regulation
The debate surrounding stablecoins has been gaining momentum since the collapse of Luna’s algorithmic stablecoin ‘UST’, which resulted in the loss of over $60 billion worth of investors’ capital. This year, the discussion has intensified even further, with regulators, especially in the US, tightening their grip on the crypto industry. Most notably, the SEC issued…
-
How the Crypto Venture Capital Space Turned Risk Averse in the Bear Market
Across the board, valuations on practically all crypto projects rose significantly during the 2020-2021 bull market, but as the market contracted throughout 2022, VC’s also started to see valuations of investments taking a heavy nosedive.
-
Optimistic vs ZK Rollups: A Deep Dive into Ethereum’s Layer-2 Scaling Solutions
Optimistic rollups are a layer 2 protocol designed to increase the throughput of Ethereum’s base layer. They are called “optimistic” because they assume that off-chain transactions are valid and do not publish proofs of validity for transaction batches posted on-chain. Similarly, Zero-knowledge rollups bundle transactions into batches that are executed off-chain. ZK-rollup operators submit a…