Why does SIX invest in a Spanish Real Estate Tokenization and Trading Platform via its Spanish subsidiary, BME @Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, the Spanish Stock Exchange? Why should we care? Is OpenBrick just another startup in a niche market, tokenizing securities for real estate projects in Spain (i.e. “Blockchain Real Estate Tokenization”)? Or is there […]
Imagine basking in over 320 days of sunshine each year, with stunning views of the deep blue sea or a picturesque golf course, and reaching your sunny paradise in less than half a day. Sounds like a dream? This dream could soon become a reality with a property on the Costa del Sol. This region
Today, “crypto” is hardly understood as an investment instrument. Crypto is obviously not crypto, and the positions on what is valid sometimes diverge diametrically, even between proven authorities. This leads to great uncertainty among experts, and even more so among the general public. In my new article “Cryptoassets: Intrinsic Value Matters” on More Than Digital
Why is the SEC hitting PoS staking… or is it not doing that at all? – An UPDATE ???? In his recent article in #Cointelegraph , Andrew Singer lets experts have their say on the #SEC enforcement against Kraken Digital Asset Exchange‘s Staking -as-a-Service, including my own assessment ???? Opinions actually vary, from once-off action,
While the Ethereum community is celebrating its great success, SEC Chair Gensler sends the newly PoS-powered ETH currency South. Approx. -15% was the dip (when writing this post) since Sep, 15th, “The Merge” day which is net still -10% compared to the overall crypto market. The surprise was not a dip per se, but the
Last week, on July 7, two senators, Cynthia M. Lummis (Republican, Wyoming) and Kirsten E. Gillibrand (Democrat, New York), introduced legislation to regulate digital assets. So what? The bill can be assessed here Exiting times, more to come, stay tuned …
Why care? In March the Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge was hacked and $625 million stolen, supposedly by North-Korean cyber criminals. What is special of the crypto-hack this time? Its scale, one of the biggest in history, its malicious actors, a Nation-backed criminal cyber group (Lazarus), and particularly its novel means of enforcement. In this short
Virtually any real asset can be mapped on a DLT system through tokenization. According to a WEF estimate, 10% of global GDP will be stored on the blockchain in 2027, around USD 9.38 trillion. Even if these dimensions will not be reached as quickly, it is quite obvious that this and the underlying Blockchain technology
How general-purpose blockchains and other powerful smart-contract platforms are taking the market by storm. Bitcoin is blockchain, but blockchain is not Bitcoin. Today, hundreds of standalone blockchain systems exist, the most powerful besides Bitcoin is Ethereum. As the first general-purpose blockchain, it goes far beyond Bitcoin’s readiness for use as a payment system, virtually single-handedly
Crypto breaks Wall Street’s ETF barrier – Was that now the turning point the crypto market was hoping for so long? Markus Hammer in Cointelegraph alongside other industry experts such as Arca CEO Rayne Steinberg, Ben Caselin from the crypto exchange AAX, Jay Hao, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, or academia, Campbell Harvey, professor at
