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Paribus: Learning to Trust Yourself.

The idea of self-custody is as old as the hills. Whether it’s stuffing bank notes under a mattress or keeping gold bullion in a safe, it’s always given people equal amounts of fear and freedom. It’s only now though, with cryptocurrencies, that people can have secure and portable self-custody of their assets. Self-custody is as integral to the ethos of crypto as decentralization and peer-to-peer transactions. These concepts give blockchain technology the ability to create a new kind of asset ownership that has never existed before. As Deniz, our CEO

Paribus: Price & Value Explained

Price and Value Warren Buffet famously said, “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” When developing a new type of borrowing and lending platform one of the most complex aspects is understanding how to weigh both price and value. With fungible tokens such as Bitcoin and Ethereum assessing their value is relatively simple and straightforward. A protocol can take live data from a variety of market makers and adjust collateral values based on price and liquidity. However, when it comes to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) this gets much

The Solution to Scalability

The narrative which pervaded much of the last bull run centered around scalability issues as both Ethereum and Bitcoin experienced congestion as their popularity increased. The main problems were the speed and cost of transactions. Without addressing scalability, the concept of mass adoption was dead in the water for cryptocurrency. Solutions such as the development of the Lightning Network for Bitcoin helped its rollout as legal tender in El Salvador. For Ethereum, it was a combination of roll-ups, sidechains, and sharding that helped to maintain its growth. Whereas Bitcoin’s surge

What is cryptocurrency decentralization

The main idea of ​​digital money is distributed processing of financial transactions. The blockchain functions through the actions of ordinary users. Cryptocurrency network participants connect to Bitcoin and other chains through a software client and become nodes of the system. They perform the main work - they process transactions, create new links, and so on. This is called the decentralization of cryptocurrencies. The capacity of a peer-to-peer network depends on all nodes, not a single server. However, one should understand where and how decentralization is applied in the field of

MEXC Global lists $MYST by Mysterium Network, a cryptocurrency to fight growing internet censorship worldwide

Switzerland, 14th July 2022 Major cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global has listed $MYST token by Mysterium Network, the Swiss-based Web 3.0 company challenging the $30 billion VPN industry with its next-generation anonymity network. Trading of the MYST-USDT pairs opens at 12pm UTC on Thursday, July 14th, 2022. The VPN market is estimated to reach more than $77 billion by 2026. With increasing censorship, shutdowns and surveillance online, over a quarter of the world’s internet users depend on a VPN for daily internet access. Most recently in Sudan, authorities cut off access

Catalyst Blockchain Platform launches on Corda

Build enterprise-grade blockchain networks with high automation and guaranteed uptimes  Wednesday 8th June 2022 — Catalyst Blockchain Platform is now available on Corda, the leading distributed ledger technology platform from R3, created specifically for highly-regulated markets. Users benefit from both Corda Community Edition and Corda Enterprise Edition, using Catalyst’s highly-automated processes and intuitive user interface to streamline the development, deployment, and maintenance of their Corda networks and applications. On Corda, privacy is paramount. The protocol enables scalable, secure data transactions between network participants while ensuring the highest level of privacy