Tag: Oracles
Band Protocol Review: Secure & Interoperable Oracle Solution
A 10x increase in price is normal in cryptocurrency, especially during bull markets. What is not normal however, is a 10x increase during a 30-day period when the crypto market was relatively calm. There are only two explanations for this:...
NEXO Lending Review: Instant Crypto Backed Loans
NEXO is a project which has recently garnered quite a bit of interest in the cryptocurrency community. Not only is NEXO being developed by a large FinTech company but they are also being backed by some pretty influential names in...
Chainlink Review: Smart Contract Solutions for any Blockchain
ChainLink has been getting quite a bit of attention lately. So much so that LINK has risen to a market cap of nearly $1 billion in market cap. The catalyst for these gains was the launch of Chainlink on the...
Gnosis Review: Decentralised Blockchain Predictions Market
Gnosis (GNO) is a decentralized application built on top of the Ethereum blockchain and functions as a predictive market platform. The Gnosis team are trying to develop the “world’s most effective” forecasting tool. The project is also well known for...
Metaverse ETP: Everything You Need to Know
Metaverse ETP is one of the less well understood cryptocurrencies that has recently garnered a lot of interest as they have climbed up the market cap rankings. Metaverse is on a mission to create a financial system where your digital...
Aeternity (AE) Review: Building Scalable Smart Contracts
Aeternity claims that they are developing a brand new and revoltutionary blockchain technology. This claim has been made quite a bit recently as numerous cryptocurrency projects from Cardano to EOS and NEO have envisioned a completely new blockchain. Many people...
Using The Bitcoin Lightning Network for Decentralised Betting
At the Scaling Bitcoin conference at Stanford university last week, one of the most interesting talks was by Tadge Dryja from the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. His talk was on a concept called discreet log contracts which is a kind...
What are Blockchain Oracles?
If you have been following the technology behind smart contracts and the blockchain recently, you may have come across a term “Blockchain Oracle”. These are indeed relatively new concepts that are most applicable to smart contract technology. Blockchain technology is...
How Smart Contracts can be Used in Prediction Markets
Today, the Ethereum blockchain has effectively made smart contracts a reality. There are currently thousands of calls being made each day to these contracts, with capabilities that include everything from insurance estimations and token issuance to time locked exchanges, basic...
