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The new Conservative Prime Minister, who started his career at Goldman Sachs (he's only 42), is an outspoken supporter of cryptos. "He's someone who comes from finance, he understands that crypto is not a fad," Nick points out. "These technologies are going to
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No platform offers both complex products and the opportunity to hold assets yourself. This is precisely what dYdX offers 🤓 "The great advantage of decentralised finance, more than its decentralisation, is the transparency of exchanges," explains Pablo Veyrat, co-founder of the Angle protocol. "Unlike traditional finance, where you
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Since 2019 and your departure from Ledger's operational management, we've seen a bit less of you. What are you up to? A lot of things! I support entrepreneurs as a business angel and I also have more personal activities. I look after my estate in Vierzon,
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For its part, the regulator justifies these delays by the fact that some files are incomplete. "There are companies that clearly haven't understood the importance of the process," explains a source close to the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). In its defence, the authority also cites
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The FTX scandal is without doubt the best publicity decentralised finance (DeFi) could have dreamt of. While obviously not everything is perfect, it brings transparency where centralised finance (CeFi) is particularly opaque. Of course, we're thinking of decentralised exchanges like Uniswap, whose monthly volumes regularly hover between 30
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👉 Jeremy Allaire (Circle) Wonderful year for Jeremy Allaire. While the resounding UST crash in the spring cast doubt on stablecoins, his company Circle, which issues the USDC (dollar-indexed) stablecoin, has never done better. The approach of the American, a supporter of regulation, has a lot to do with it (read
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While the markets are not at their best - bitcoin is trading below $17,000 - the industry is actually holding up rather well. "Let's make no mistake. It's only part of the ecosystem that's been affected," sums up Alexandre Stachtchenko, head
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🏘️ Property: This is the first thing you think of, and the one that your "well-informed" uncle or cousin will obviously recommend. Property has one big advantage (at least in Europe): its price tends to rise when the crisis is over, which can partly offset inflation. In France, property
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The market downturn has in effect acted like a needle in the valuation bubble. "Prices had reached insane levels and the bear market has had its effect," confirms Ivan de Lastours, head of crypto and blockchain at Bpifrance, which is very active on these subjects. Only a few
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This is probably the question we hear most about Web3: "Okay, but what's it for?" And it's a very good question, because with all the talk about bitcoin and the price of this or that cryptocurrency, we almost forget that Web3, which represents this
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Better than ever (laughs)! Once again, there are the much-talked-about markets that are the surface, and then there are all the projects that are being built and developed beneath that surface 🐳. It's the latter that we're betting on. In the last three months alone, we'
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From Web1 to... Web3 "Web3". For the past few months, or perhaps only for the past few weeks, you've been hearing this term bandied about, no doubt wondering, "what the hell is it?" And you're not alone. To answer this question, we