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Ajit Tripathi from Aave, a Leading DeFi Platform, Comments on Differences Between Technical and Economic Decentralization

Lex Sokolin, CMO at blockchain firm ConsenSys and Co-Head of Fintech and DeFi at ConsenSys Codefi, recently engaged in a conversation with Ajit ‘Half Boomer’ Tripathi, the Head of Institutional Business at Aave (AAVE), a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. 2/ We covered a lot of… Read More

Fintech Expert Discusses how We can Best Understand 100x Revenue Multiples for Affirm, Checkout.com, Rapyd, Other Financial Tech Giants

Lex Sokolin, CMO at blockchain firm ConsenSys and Co-Head of Fintech and DeFi at ConsenSys Codefi, recently discussed how can we “best understand” the 100x revenue multiples for Fintech firms Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and several others. 1/ How can we best understand the 100x revenue… Read More

New York based Blockchain Firm ConsenSys Acquires JP Morgan’s Quorum, a Permissioned Version of Ethereum

Brooklyn, New York based ConsenSys, a blockchain software company focused on Ethereum (ETH) development, has acquired JPMorgan’s (NYSE: JPM) Quorum, which aims to serve as an enterprise-variant or version of the Ethereum protocol. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, even before the first… Read More

Ethereum Compatible Skale Network’s Native Token Set to Launch on ConsenSys’ Codefi Activate on August 17, 2020

Activate, by ConsenSys Codefi, is reportedly the first platform developed specifically for creating decentralized networks and allowing users to purchase, manage, and use their digital tokens through a single application. Leading Ethereum development studio ConsenSys announced on July 16, 2020, that the SKALE Network’s SKALE… Read More

Lex Sokolin from ConsenSys looks into What Happened when DeFi Protocol Compound’s Balance Sheet Increased by Over $500 Million

Lex Sokolin, the Global Fintech Co-Head and CMO at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum (ETH) development studio, recently noted that COMP tokens, which belong to major DeFi lending solution Compound, ballooned over 200%. As reported, decentralized finance protocol Compound saw a dramatic increase in lending dctivity… Read More

Chainalysis: Use of Bitcoin for Retail Payments Declined Dramatically in 2018

Despite Bitcoin having achieved some of the price stability advocates have long said would facilitate its adoption at the retail level, the retail use of Bitcoin declined 80% in 2018, says blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. Currently, many Bitcoin transactions are settled directly to the blockchain, meaning… Read More

Autonomous Research Unveils Fintech Initiative Dedicated to Innovation & Technology for Financial Service Companies

Global financial service research firm, Autonomous Research, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new fintech initiative, Autonomous NEXT, which is dedicated to innovation and technology for financial services companies. While sharing details about the new initiative, Lex Sokolin, Global Director of Fintech Strategy, stated: “We are… Read More

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