Main trends in blockchain and crypto in 2024: A great year
19-12-2023 | What blockchain trends will dominate in 2024’s technology landscape? What’s the future outlook for NFTs and crypto markets in 2024?
Blockchain interoperability solutions and challenges: Where are we now?
16-11-2023 | Blockchain technology has gained significant attention in recent years
Blockchain and the scalability challenge: solving the blockchain trilemma
17-10-2023 | Today, one of the major challenges associated with blockchain is scalability.
BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF application: a rocky way towards approval
26-09-2023 | BlackRock, the world largest asset manager, last June has applied at the SEC for a spot Bitcoin ETF for its American clients.
Blockchain and Web3.0: A great Marriage
28-08-2023 | An interesting occurrence that is getting growing attention is the gradual shift towards the third phase in the internet’s development journey, named Web3.0
Swift blockchain interoperability experimentation
31-07-2023 | Early June SWIFT, the largest interbank messaging system in the world, announced it would conduct experiments in collaboration with a number of financial institutions to test for blockchain interoperability.
The digital euro project: we are not there yet!
13-06-2023 | In this blog I will go into the various issues described in the reports including the essential requirements, design and distribution options, use cases and look forward into the agenda for 2023 and further.
The EU Regulatory Sandbox for Blockchain: a win-win situation
15-05-2023 | On 15 February the European Commission announced the launch of the pan-European Blockchain Regulatory Sandbox for innovative use cases involving Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT). The sandbox that was initially planned to become operational in 2021/22, now started on 14 April 2023.
The Ethereum 2.0 Journey: From Beacon to Eternity
18-04-2023 | Last year September Ethereum blockchain entered a new phase in its Ethereum 2.0 journey. After launched the Beacon Chain in December 2020, a parallel blockchain which acts as consensus engine that runs on proof of stake, The Merge was concluded in September 2022 whereby the Beacon Chain and the Mainnet, the normal Ethereum blockchain, merged into one blockchain thereby switching from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake.
Sarafu: crypto currency for rural communities
13-03-2023 | Carlo de Meijer | treasuryXL | LinkedIn | Recently I read a very interesting and stimulating article in a Dutch newspaper. It was about the Community Currency named Sarafu that is used in Kenya’s rural communities thereby trying to solve the issue of proper circulation of finances.