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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
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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 of blockchain
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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,
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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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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