The crypto borrowing and lending platform Nexo recently provided transparency into exactly how its business makes money. Its lengthy breakdown follows the collapse of numerous high-profile crypto lending firms that were overexposed to defunct projects and businesses. Nexo’s Business Model As Nexo explained in a Twitter thread on Monday, Nexo’s primary business strategy is to facilitate collateralized credit. Its core services include crypto collateralized loans, interest-bearing crypto accounts, and spot, futures, and options trading. Through its Earn product (crypto interest…
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The Story Of Bitcoin And Ethereum’s Reversed Blockchains
Decentralization is the primary selling point of the three worlds of Bitcoin, crypto, and the web. There are several reasons for this. Some are related to the increased transactional efficiency that decentralization can provide. Others are related to creating permissionless, censorship-resistant digital networks. The most important is that decentralization weakens any single-point-of-failure, hence bolstering network security. This not only keeps a network as close to unbiased and ‘neutral’ as possible but almost guarantees its immutability. Yet the crypto world hasn’t…
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The DAO Hack Report and Its Ongoing Implications to Cryptocurrency
Ethereum is one of the top digital currencies shaping the decentralized ledger technology. It's a community blockchain behind the Ether (ETH) cryptocurrency and thousands of dApps. According to CoinMarketCap, ETH is the second-highest traded (over $5,776,058,511 in 24hrs, at the time of writing) coin behind BTC. Ethereum is considered the most stable blockchain hence the preferred infrastructure for most stable coins. However, the blockchain is associated with some minimal flaws. Among these is an attack on the DAO. This article will…
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