Category: Crypto & Web3

The Great NFT Cleanse The NFT market of 2021 — where JPEGs of cartoon apes sold for millions and “right-click-save” was a meme that missed the point — feels like…

The Global CBDC Landscape The Atlantic Council’s CBDC Tracker counts 134 countries and currency unions — representing 98% of global GDP — exploring central bank digital currencies as of early…

DeFi’s Comeback Decentralized finance took a beating in 2022-2023 — LUNA/UST collapsed, FTX imploded, and DeFi total value locked (TVL) plummeted from $180 billion in December 2021 to below $40…

The Biggest Upgrade in Crypto History Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake — known as “The Merge” — completed on September 15, 2022. It was the blockchain equivalent of replacing…

In March 2021, a digital artist known as Beeple sold an NFT — a non-fungible token — at Christie’s auction house for $69.3 million. It was the third-highest price ever…

Deja Vu with a Twist Bitcoin entered 2024 trading around $44,000 and hit new all-time highs above $73,000 by March. By early 2025, it was trading in the $80,000-$100,000 range…

Four years ago, the Bahamas became the first country to launch a central bank digital currency — the Sand Dollar. Nigeria followed with the eNaira in 2021. China’s digital yuan…

Decentralised finance — DeFi — has survived its first real crisis. The collapse of FTX, the Terra/Luna implosion, dozens of bridge hacks and a brutal bear market that slashed total…

Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake — “the Merge” — on 15 September 2022 was the most significant technical upgrade in blockchain history. More than two years later, the data…

Bitcoin surpassed $100,000 for the first time in December 2024, driven by a combination of spot ETF inflows, the April halving and improving macroeconomic conditions. The rally has drawn comparisons…