Crypto Basics

Some of the most popular blockchain and crypto projects are categorized as decentralized finance protocols, offering efficient and fast swaps and exchanging of tokens and cryptos. Although it’s not the only network of its kind, Bancor stands out as one of the best in that category, operating as an automat

Many find the legacy financial system unwelcoming. It can be hard to access for ordinary people, exclusionary towards smaller investors, prone to high fees, slow, and unavailable outside of banking hours.

Most cryptocurrency coins and tokens are fungible. One Ether coin is the same as any other. But some tokens are associated with unique real-world items — artistic masterworks, for instance. We refer to these unique tokens as non-fungible.

It all started with Bitcoin. Here's a soup-to-nuts guide to the blockchain world's first and most widely used cryptocurrency. From Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper to forking and smart contracts, this guide will bring you completely up to date.

The Tron network brings the dApp community 2,000 transactions per second and no transaction fees. Initially popular mainly in Asia, Tron has broadened its reach since purchasing the peer-to-peer content-sharing platform BitTorrent.

Did you ever wish all your FinTech apps ran on the blockchain? That's the ambitious goal behind Synthetix, a project that lets you buy, sell, and invest in off-chain commodities – including fiat currencies – as blockchain-based derivatives.

Algorand is a blockchain platform for the creation of tokens and decentralized applications. The Algorand network uses a Pure Proof of Stake Byzantine consensus mechanism capable of validating and securing 1,000 transactions per second.

Launched by the team that created the popular blockchain game CryptoKitties, Flow is an ecosystem for creating dApps, NFTs, and games. Flow's programming language, Cadence, is optimized for high-performance blockchain apps.

Orion Protocol is an open-source platform that acts as a liquidity aggregator for crypto exchanges. Orion Protocol was created to give cryptocurrency users and traders the best rates for trading tokens and coins across multiple exchanges.

You can explore the Kriptomat website as much as you like without creating an account, but to buy, sell, or trade cryptocurrencies, you must have a verified account and you must log in. This article explains just how easy it is to get started.

Time is something we all take for granted, but most blockchains don't make any reference to time when they record transactions. Agreement on time is one of the most difficult problems to solve in distributed systems, especially adversarial systems like blockchain, where network nodes can't trust an external source of time.

What if smart contracts were really smart? That’s the inspiring notion behind Fetch.ai, a platform for building and deploying intelligent software agents that can cooperate to provide services to individuals, companies, governments, and other organizations.