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Neufund was a security token company that wanted anyone in the world to invest in any businesses they want.For decades, investing has been exclusive, inaccessible and unequal. This has contributed to the growing wealth disparity in Europe and the U.S. We wanted to change that.

The U.S. Constitution is the foundation of America, ensuring rights and responsibilities for every American. Today, another new world is being created as we speak: the metaverse. Without some of the same guiding principles, we fear the metaverse will fail as a public, open system

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are having a rough few weeks. Bitcoin is currently down more than 18% over the last 30 days. CoinGecko’s tabulation of total crypto market cap shows a peak way back on Nov. 10, and steady declines since. The floor prices of some NFTs have

El 2021 fue el año de la organización autónoma descentralizada, conocida como DAO por sus siglas en inglés. Proyectos como PleasrDAO, Friends With Benefits y ConstitutionDAO mostraron el potencial de la acción colectiva y la gobernanza. Las DAOs

2021 was the year of the decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO. Projects like PleasrDAO, Friends With Benefits and ConstitutionDAO showed the potential for collective action and governance. DAOs are novel legal structures with a big future. But how will they work in pract

A big disruption in Bitcoin’s hashrate this week can be pinned on one man: Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who after declaring a state of emergency during opposition protests ordered telecom carriers to impose an internet blackout, which meant Kazakh-based Bitco

Although the dollar valuation of Bitcoin (BTC) hit some hiccups at the beginning of 2022, analysis from legacy finance titan Goldman Sachs has claimed that, by taking over gold’s role as a store of value, Bitcoin can reach a valuation of $100,000 in the not-so-distant future. 

Apparently "bividends" are going to be a thing now. BTCS (BTCS, $4.36), a self-proclaimed blockchain technology-focused company, on Wednesday announced the first-ever dividend payable in bitcoin by a Nasdaq-listed company. 

In a recent open letter reflecting on his invention of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee first thanked his boss.“I was very lucky, back in 1990, to be allowed some time to sit and code,” he writes, before entering into a straightforward account of how HTTP, HTML and

Thanks to 2021, most people have at least heard of crypto by now – not just Bitcoin and Ethereum, but altcoins like DOGE and SHIB, as well as terms like NFTs and the metaverse.In CoinDesk Research’s 2021 Annual Crypto Review, we aim to summarize some of the key themes

A clip has been tearing its way around Twitter this week, showing a Walmart-branded demonstration of shopping in “the metaverse.”This article is excerpted from The Node, CoinDesk’s daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news. You can

By Season 13, most TV shows have exhausted all but the most absurd plotlines. Like long-running soap operas, it can be hard to remember who’s mad at whom and why. In the meme-induced fog of propaganda between Bitcoin maximalists and Ethereum boosters, it might be hard to ke

Since the start of 2020, and at the time of this writing, Bitcoin has appreciated in value by over 700% and has acted as an effective hedge against federal government money printing.

It’s time to stop explaining crypto and start putting it to work

While looking back on August’s London hard fork, it is easy to focus on the millions of ether burnt via transaction fees. While important, just looking at the burn mechanism would be shortsighted and overly focused on “number go up.”This article originally appea

Uno de los objetivos y beneficios más importantes de la revolución de la Web 3.0 es que los ecosistemas informáticos del mundo se vuelvan a descentralizar. Internet, cuando nació, era un sistema altamente descentralizado. Pero con el paso del tiempo lo

Who will dump my bags now? Yesterday, it was reported that Igor Bogdanoff, twin of Grichka, passed away due to complications of the coronavirus, six days after his brother’s untimely death of the same disease. The two were known for their flamboyance, outlandish scientific

Anyone who has conducted their own trades in any asset should be aware of slippage. However, this issue becomes even more of a problem in trading some cryptocurrencies.

After a yearslong saga of accusations, investigations and angry denial, erstwhile business media darling Elizabeth Holmes has reached the final stage of investor grief: conviction. A jury late Monday found that she defrauded investors in Theranos, the health-testing startup she f

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have slowly emerged from the fringes of the cryptosphere, and the art and music industries welcomed the blockchain-based technology with open arms.