4 Years Ago

Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
ANT a potential Chinese world beater in payments and Blockchain among others

2 min video looking under the hood at ANT Group as it looks to IPO


Reuters are claiming ANT Group (ANT), the Chinese Fintech firm and on -line shopping conglomerate, is to be the worlds’ biggest IPO which is correct in terms of amount raised at $35 billion but not in terms of creating the biggest company as this accolade goes to was Saudis ARAMCO.

ARAMCO raised $25 billion and capitalised the business at $2 trillion but then they do own a lot of oil and at a cost of production of...


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4 Years Ago |
Challenges of cybercrime as we see a huge growth in on-line payments


2 min video looking at the challenges of cybercrime as more payments are made on-line



There has been a huge increase in digital crime during the covid-19 pandemic as more transactions have migrated on-line, with the FBI reporting a 75% rise in digital crime

On-line payments are estimated to be doubling in the next 4 years to over $8 trillion by 2024

Juniper research estimate on-line payment fraud will be over $23 billion p.a. by 2023

Mastercard is looking at how to protect its card users from malware, monitoring spending patterns that could spill...


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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
EU Digital Asset proposals September 2020

 

The EU have recently issued a report looking at Digital assets and the use of Blockchain technology. A number of items offer guidance on how the EU are approaching this sector. The EU commission would appear to be looking to actively embrace Digital Assets and Blockchain technology. Having issued a series of press releases the EU is looking to bring in new legislation to offer legal clarity, they are proposing to alter EU financial services directives and implement a clear strategy on digital finance. Four factors when looking at how to regulate Digital Assets, the...


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4 Years Ago |
Digital payments increasing traction in Asia



2 min video about how Asia is leading the way when it comes to making payments digitally


UnionBank which is the 10th biggest bank in the Philippines is using Coins.ph, a regulated Philippines-based Blockchain-powered platform to offer remittances and other payments services for people via their mobile phones.

Coins.ph’s majority shareholder,r is Go-Jek which is a ride hailing/taxi company, not dissimilar to UBER, has its own digital payments solution called Go-Pay which is in stiff competition with one of Asia’s fastest growing firms, based out of Singapore, called Grab. Grab operates GrabPay — a tokenised payments platform, which also offers...


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4 Years Ago |
Ethereum transaction costs keep rising and people make money from Blockchain

A 2-minute video looking at Ethereum transaction costs — Gas

Recently there has been much comment in the press about the volatility and price of GAS (carrying out transactions on the Ethereum Blockchain). The average cost of doing a transaction is approximately $2.3, which is an increase of 565% compared to this time last year, but down from over $12 at the start of September 2020. Arguably, the two main reasons for the cost of transactions on the Ethereum Blockchain increasing of late is due to the surge in interest in Decentralised Finance...


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4 Years Ago |
Lessons DeFi and TradFi can teach each other

 2 min video looking at the lesson DeFi and the traditional finance sectors can teach each other

There are lessons that Traditional Finance (TradFi)can teach DeFi and some that DeFi can teach TradFi.

In order to gain mass adoption DeFi needs to have less jargon as terms such as flash loans, yield farming, staking, liquidity pools, vaults algorithmic market-making APY, even stablecoins which may not be so stable if they are not 100% backed by $ i.e. potentially Tether.

Exposure to equities is greater now due to lots of investor education just look at any newspaper at...


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4 Years Ago |
How close are we to a Digital Euro?

2 min video, are we soon to see a CBDC — Digital Euro?

5 of Europe’s leading economies have called for a ban on stablecoins being used in the private sector until there is some form of regulatory oversight.

These calls are being expressed under the pretence to protect consumers and over fears of money laundering however it is a digital currency may well seriously dent sovereign states ability to manipulate and control their economies.

Given almost Zero interest rates governments have lost a key monetary tool perversely digital currencies could provide them with another lever to control monetary...


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4 Years Ago |
How Decentralised is the DeFi sector?

Bet you wished you had earnt 6,300+% in six weeks?


The Decentralised Finance (DeFi) sector has evolved to offer a range of financial services such as lending, borrowing, insurance, payments and derivatives. While some of the firms involved have been preaching and practicing DeFi for years such as Maker DAO — established in 2014- the DeFi really took off this summer.

With tokens like YFI rising by 6.300% in six weeks it is easy to see why DeFi sector as sucked in literally billions -YFI rose in value from $6 to $38,000- see attatched chart

‘yield farming’ (which has been described...


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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
How Decentralised is the DeFi sector?


2 min video — maybe the Decentralised Finance sector — DeFi is more centralised than you realise.




The Decentralised Finance (DeFi) sector has evolved to offer a range of financial services such as lending, borrowing, insurance, payments and derivatives. While some of the firms involved have been preaching and practicing DeFi for years such as Maker DAO — established in 2014- the DeFi really took off this summer.

With tokens like YFI rising by 6.300% in six weeks it is easy to see why DeFi sector as sucked in literally billions -YFI rose in value from $6 to $38,000

‘yield farming’ (which has been described...


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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
Do any cryptos actually generate revenue?


2 min video looking at how some cryptos are now generating revenue

If I were to be cynical the easy answer is yes cryptos have faced lots of fines and penalties from regulators around the world. There are those that claim that the whole crypto sector is a scam and it will come crashing to the ground in a mighty thump or is this the politics of envy, wishing they had been a buyer at launch of BTC, ETH or XRP to name a few?

The trouble is that the crypto sector is not helped by one of...


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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
Token Swaps can mean different things



2 min video on why token swaps can mean different things

A number of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been launched using Ethereum’s ERC20 token and then carried out a token swap into a token once their own Blockchain was ready which is sometimes called a ‘mainnet’ swap. Also a token swap may be offered when a token upgrades and offers more functionality.

ERC20 tokens are sometimes used initially as they enable a token to be created and issued quickly, can be listed by various exchanges as no bespoke tech is needed and ERC20 is lower risk...


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4 Years Ago |
Are we stumbling into having ID cards?

2 min video — yes Blockchain tech can hold data on travel, spending and health records but do we want an ID card with all this data hat could be misused?

A digital identity scheme, was announced last week by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, as the UK government try’s to introduce a Digital Identity card? Do other countries want to have the ability to track and trace it citizens such as they do in Pakistan.

In some of Pakistan’s ‘so called smart cities’ they have CCTV camera that have built in facial recognition that are...


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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
The backbone of USA’s equity settlement looks to digitise

2 min video about how Blockchain technology and Digital Assets are upgrading the infrastructure and way US equities are settled 

Up until 1973 US stock markets were shut on Wednesdays and early each trading day, to enable brokers to take cheques and stock certificates to tally up the trading between each other.

The sheer amount of paperwork was huge, as was the opportunity for mistakes and fraud as brokers swam through a sea of paper.

To help solve this problem it was agreed that all paper stock certificates were to be kept in one location and to...


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