What is Open Finance? *Updated November 2020* Also known as DeFi (decentralized finance), open finance can be defined as financial products and services built on public blockchains. While Bitcoin itself is technically considered a form of open finance, a new crop of open finance applications largely built on Ethereum are now at the forefront…

Founders of struggling businesses using decentralized technology have learned that they cannot simply replicate everything traditional applications do using decentralized technology and win customers. Obtaining competitive advantage using decentralized technology requires founders to completely transform their business models. More on this below after a brief introduction. Decentralized applications are products…

You’ve probably heard the statistic that approximately 90% of all startups fail. The reasons for why they fail differs depending on who you ask. But, a survey of failed start-ups published in Fortune showed that 42% of failed startups offered a product or service with little to no market need. …

By Drew C on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE — One of the biggest challenges in the world of crypto is keeping things simple, and nowhere is this more true than when it comes to valuation and pricing. The analytical tools currently used tend to be complex, and the more complex the analytical tool the more likely something will go…

It should be a simple question: “What’s going on in crypto?” Try to come up with some sort of layman-level answer, however, and it quickly becomes clear that there is far too much terminology in the digital asset space, and that most of it follows no real rhyme or reason…

By now you’ve likely heard of Blockchain from friends, family, colleagues or a news outlet. Many are calling Blockchain the most transformative technology available for business today — so much so that giant companies like IBM, Samsung, Oracle, Microsoft, among others are allocating significant resources to their own Blockchain initiatives. …