Over the past few months, the seismic shift in investor sentiment for digital assets has made international media headlines. But while some institutional investors only recently started incorporating these assets in their portfolios, the smartest are already looking ahead to the next phase of technological innovation set to disrupt the…

Bitcoin’s Taproot update — the most anticipated change to the Bitcoin blockchain since the Segwit softfork in 2017 — has received the green light after over 90% of miners signaled support. In its most basic sense, Taproot is a bundle of several improvement proposals that seek to bring greater privacy…

Bitcoin was once the undisputed king of the crypto world, accounting for more than 90% of the market at the start of 2017. Today, the original cryptocurrency is facing a massive challenge from Ethereum, the second largest digital asset. The gulf between the two cryptoassets — once vast and seemingly…

A slew of high-profile fund managers and technology business leaders have made big moves to support digital assets in recent months. We’ve seen former crypto critics, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, start offering Bitcoin services to their institutional clients, with the latter also recently reopening its crypto trading desk. …

’Zero Trust must be the de facto standard in today’s remote-working world’ When it comes to the relationship between a service provider and a client, trust should be sacrosanct. Yet, it is often disregarded and in some cases, abused outright. In the event of a security breach (whether intentional or…

In the real world, there is only one Mona Lisa, the iconic painting by Leonardo da Vinci which is on permanent display at the Musee du Louvre in Paris. Similarly, in the digital world, there is only one Nyan Cat, a GIF of a pixelated flying kitten with a Pop-Tart…

Last month, Stefan Qin, the enigmatic founder of Virgil Capital, pleaded guilty to fraud in federal court in New York. Qin had moved to the U.S from Australia in 2016 to launch Virgil Capital, which ran two cryptocurrency funds; the VQR MultiStrategy Fund, and the Sigma Fund (which the SEC…

Bitcoin leapt to a new all-time high today after Elon Musk’s Tesla disclosed it had bought $1.5bn of the cryptoasset and signaled plans to start accepting it as a form of payment. The vote of confidence from the electric-car company is being hailed as the most prolific endorsement of digital…

A global pandemic which has slashed oil prices and prompted unprecedented experiments in monetary policy has meant Gulf states are redoubling their efforts to diversify their economies and shift from being oil-powered to digitally-powered. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) governments, particularly those of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Saudi…