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Bitcoin is considered the first crypto-currency in history. It all began in October 2008, a few weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, one of the biggest US banks. A mysterious document was uploaded to the internet: "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic payment system." Its author, Satoshi Nakamoto, proposed
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Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is an alternative financial system that aims to be more decentralised and transparent than traditional finance. First appearing a few years ago, DeFi is built on a public blockchain, like Ethereum, and relies on smart contracts, programmes that are automatically executed on the blockchain if pre-established conditions
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An atmosphere worthy of the "Bull market". Since Thursday evening, and the decision of a New York judge in the lawsuit between the American company Ripple and the American stock market regulator (SEC), the crypto markets have been on a steep rise. This is because the magistrate ruled
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The brainchild of Sam Altman, who also heads up OpenAI, the start-up that develops the ChatGPT conversational robot, the Wordcoin project has been evolving quietly of late (it was initiated in 2020), but it is about to change scale, thanks in part to the notoriety of its co-founder, Sam Altman.
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In this context, and to hold out, you need money! For crypto companies, there are no 36 solutions.... While the few banks that were willing to lend to the sector have turned off the tap (we're preparing an investigation into this 🧐 ), only investors, notably funds and business angels,
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The best-known DeFi applications are Maker (decentralised stablecoin), Aave (loans without intermediaries) and Uniswap (digital asset exchange without intermediaries). But how many people are actually using them? "DeFi is still in its infancy. Whether it's the number of applications or the number of users, the figures are
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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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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