Month: July 2025

International sanctions against money-laundering breakdowns topped $19.3 billion in 2024 (according to Corlytics). Brussels has already adopted an AML single rulebook to be enforced directly throughout the EU and, starting in 2025, by a new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA). Fintech companies are caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, they […]

Tokenization & NFTs Explained Tokenization is the process of creating digital tokens on a blockchain that represent ownership rights or shares in an asset, whether physical or digital. These tokens act like digital certificates of ownership that can be traded, transferred, or divided, enabling fractional ownership and enhanced liquidity of assets that are traditionally illiquid, […]

Decentralized Applications (dApps) are software programs that operate on a blockchain or peer-to-peer (P2P) network instead of centralized servers, meaning no single entity controls them. Unlike traditional apps like Uber or Twitter controlled by a company’s servers, dApps distribute control across many nodes in a network, providing transparency, security, and censorship resistance. Key features of […]

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a system of peer-to-peer financial services built on public blockchains—primarily Ethereum—that enables users to access traditional financial operations such as lending, borrowing, trading, and earning interest without relying on centralized intermediaries like banks or brokerages. DeFi uses smart contracts, which are self-executing programs stored on blockchains that automate financial agreements and […]