by Chad Steinglass Every Trade Has A Buyer & A Seller It takes two to tango, as the saying goes. Every trade, in every financial market, in every asset class, follows this rule: every trade has a buyer and a seller. This is not exactly a profound revelation. What traders may not think about, however, is that there…

Our collection of CrossTower Classroom pieces written in 2021, for your enjoyment. What Are Wrapped Cryptocurrencies? Full Post Here by Justin Caccappolo | December 20, 2021 Centralized Tokens Although decentralization is an integral characteristic of the majority of digital assets, certain tokens can lean away from decentralization to further expand the infrastructure of the digital asset…

by Martin Gaspar Web 3.0 Involvement — Big Brands It’s incredible to see the amount of big brands getting involved in Web 3.0 and the Metaverse. We first saw companies like Visa and Budweiser purchasing NFTs like Crypto Punks this summer. Then, more major brands followed as NFTs continued to prove they are not just a…

by Martin Gaspar Crypto Prices Decline MoM, but NFT Interest Surges January saw Bitcoin fall from around $48,000 to $38,000 (-20%), while Ethereum declined by roughly 27% to $2,700. Total crypto market cap fell from $2.4 trillion to $1.8 trillion (-25%), which compares to an all-time high of $3.0 trillion in November 2021. …

by Martin Gaspar THORChain Catalysts Decentralized liquidity network THORChain has several exciting catalysts in the near-term that we are closely monitoring. THORChain allows users to swap native assets across several chains directly. For example, you can swap native BTC for native ETH in a seamless fashion. …

by Katherine Webb NFTs In 2021 Over the last 12 months, Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) have dominated media attention, even becoming the Collins dictionary 2021 word of the year.1 NFTs can be used to represent anything unique. They are recorded as blockchain based assets, which can be powered using smart contracts. NFTs contain identification codes…

by Martin Gaspar What Adoption Means For Ethereum

by Katherine Webb What Does A Digital Asset Represent? The internet and Web 2.0 revolution was all about the transfer of data, where the unit byte was used to represent the amount of data being transferred between two points. For digital assets and Web 3.0 we are now transferring value using blockchain technology. In the same…

by Martin Gaspar Times flies, but especially so in crypto, and we can’t believe 2021 is almost over. And what a year for crypto it was, with all-time highs in many coins. Looking back, there were several themes that dominated: Bitcoin Further Evolves Into Macro Asset Bitcoin had a banner year, reaching an all-time high of…