Decentralized finance (DeFi), an alternative to the traditional banking and financial system developed on public blockchain networks (such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Solana, Avalanche, Terra, etc.), has been growing exponentially since its emerg
The fall in cryptoasset prices is causing a lot of ink to flow and obscuring a piece of news that should, however, mobilise us all, much more than yet another stock market episode. On 16 June, the American company Circle – the world’s second largest is
In the context of the ongoing European trialogues, Adan – in partnership with Cryptoast, the crypto-asset media – has launched a video series entitled “🇪🇺 Regulation as seen by crypto-industry”.
In recent weeks, digital assets have been highlighted for their use in the war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On the one hand, they have helped to quickly raise over a hundred million dollars in relief for Ukraine, helped support local populations on both sides of the conflict, and raised questions about whether Russia should use them to circumvent economic sanctions against it. In this article, Adan sets out to answer this legitimate question and decipher why crypto-assets are not an effective tool in circumventing economic sanctions.
In order to compensate for the lack of confidentiality of Bitcoin transactions, some crypto-assets such as Monero, ZCash, Dash allow to reinforce the anonymity of the protagonists of a crypto-asset transaction
This article aims to highlight – without being exhaustive – the main non-financial risks faced by users of decentralised finance protocols.
DeFi is considered an alternative to the traditional banking and financial system developed on open and decentralised blockchain networks. This article identifies its main use cases.
This article briefly presents these different projects facilitating the ecological transition. It does not aim to question the energy consumption of the crypto-blockchain industry, but it does bring a new angle to the debate on the environmental footprint of crypto-assets.
This educational article aims to introduce the subject of non-fungible tokens (NFT).
For several months, crypto-assets – bitcoin in the first place – have been the subject of heated controversy regarding their energy footprint. The proposed classification tends to diversify the debate.
Crypto-assets are “highly speculative assets that have enabled fascinating and reprehensible business and money laundering activities”. Christine Lagarde stated this at a conference organised by Reuters on 13 January.
What are the characteristics and differentiators affecting energy consumption resulting from the use of blockchain technologies? How will their ecological impact improve in the future?
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