Hybrid DEXs are the next step to creating truly on-chain and fair markets. They are DEXs that retain the crypto primitives of decentralised and permissionless asset trading while adding features found on centralised exchanges to bring a truly streamlined user experience. Onomy Protocol is launching a Hybrid DEX, but what…

Crypto’s price swings are, for better or worse, enormous. Those invested in crypto over the long term have lived through vertiginous falls in asset prices alongside market-confounding gains, with millionaires minted from tiny early-doors bags, and fortunes lost from one over-aggressive trade. Bitcoin went up by over 2000% in 2017…

Prices are not the same on every exchange. Arbitrage is when a trader spots a difference in the price between the same asset on two different marketplaces, and buys the asset from one marketplace in order to sell it on the other, pocketing the difference in profit. …

In crypto, burning is a mechanism by which tokens are destroyed forever. It’s usually to reduce the overall supply of a given token with the intention of increasing its scarcity and thus its value. It can also be used to restore balance to the mining or staking pool to stop…

Building a layer 1 blockchain is no easy task, but one of the chief reasons it is undertaken is because it means a blockchain can retain complete sovereignty over its operations. Its validator set, its consensus, its uptime, its throughput and its security can all be defined by the progenitors…

Cryptocurrency, right? That’s all it’s good for, right? Wrong. To those not in the crypto know (and who harbour media-fuelled doubts about its legitimacy), crypto is still just about creating an alternative currency. They believe that crypto is nothing more than an attempt to replace fiat with magical internet money…

Blockchains, due to their differing coding languages and consensus mechanisms, do not talk to each other easily. This means that, in general, assets recorded on one layer 1 blockchain cannot exist or be used on another chain, and can’t be utilised cross-platform; the same way you can’t use Euros in…

The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (or IBC) is a way to connect the discrete blockchains of the Web3 economy in order to create a more interoperable, interconnected environment in which data-value can transact without boundaries or borders. Kickstarted by the Cosmos Network, it offers a way for application-specific blockchains to do…

If you’ve been part of crypto for even a short while, you’ll have heard the terms Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 (L2). Layer 1 blockchains are sovereign consensus architectures like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cosmos. Onomy Protocol, for example, is a Layer 1 blockchain based on Cosmos that runs with…