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For several years now, Malta has established itself as a destination of choice for companies in the crypto industry looking to obtain regulatory approvals quickly. Last December, the archipelago issued around thirty VASP ("Virtual Assets Services Provider") licences in just one month, a process so rapid that it
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Solana established itself in 2024 as a key player in the sector. And the figures speak for themselves: exploding trading volumes, massive user adoption, record transactions... The blockchain seems to have found its recipe for success. But behind this meteoric rise lies a phenomenon that is as fascinating as it
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Ethereum has continued to evolve since its inception, with major updates such as The Merge in 2022 (marking the transition to Proof of Stake) and Dencun in 2024 (introducing blobs for L2). A new update is on the way: Pectra, scheduled for April 2025. its name combines Prague (the execution
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With Ethereum's layer 2s multiplying, it's getting harder and harder for a new entrant to emerge and manage to attract users and an ecosystem of applications. Eclipse seems determined to stand out from points campaigns simply based on the value deposited by users and has a
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What is the Ethereum Foundation? The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is a non-profit organisation founded on 6 July 2014 in Bern, Switzerland, with the aim of promoting, developing and perpetuating the Ethereum ecosystem. It is now based in Zug, also in Switzerland, like many other foundations in the sector. The foundation
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The kidnapping of David Balland and his companion this week, as well as the upsurge in assaults targeting key figures in the crypto ecosystem, have highlighted the dangers faced by major holders. These events highlight the crucial importance of personal and asset security for the fortunes of the sector. For
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The ICO phenomenon An alternative to traditional venture capital, ICOs have revolutionised the financing of blockchain projects. The principle is simple: these projects can raise funds directly from their community by selling their own cryptocurrency. Halfway between equity crowdfunding and an IPO, this method of financing has been a runaway
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Since December 2020, US start-up Ripple Labs, creator of the cryptocurrency XRP, has been at the centre of a legal tug-of-war with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US financial watchdog. The SEC is accusing Ripple of illegally raising more than $1.3 billion through unregistered sales of XRP,
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The XRP Ledger (XRPL) and its flagship product: On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) Launched on 2 June 2012 by Jed McCaleb, Arthur Britto and David Schwartz, XRP Ledger is a blockchain specifically designed to facilitate cross-border payments, usually requiring one to several days and significant fees to execute. XRP, the native currency
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Introduced during the Dencun update in March 2024, blobs represent a major innovation in Ethereum's architecture. These temporary storage spaces represent a sophisticated technical solution to the blockchain's scalability challenges. The revolutionary aspect of blobs lies in their pricing mechanism, which is separate from the main
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An analysis of recent trends reveals a major structural issue in the blockchain ecosystem: the scalability of layer 1s. Faced with the growing adoption of decentralised applications (dApps) and NFTs, these fundamental infrastructures are showing their limits. The data speaks for itself: saturation of layer 1 networks is leading to
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The relationship between Ethereum and its layers 2 is crucial, as it forms the core of the roadmap to strengthen and enhance the Ethereum ecosystem. However, this strategy has recently been the subject of criticism and doubt, particularly due to applications seeming to want to leave Ethereum or describing layers