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Good morning, and welcome to Protocol Fintech. This Wednesday: good bets and bad in fintech, credit card debt on the rise and the Nomad bridge hack. Off the chain Tinder’s doing crypto all wrong. Match Group scrapped its experiment with a cryptocurrency-like reward currency, Tinder Coins. What it needs to do instead is team up […]

Much like “Barbiecore” or having a TikTok, cryptocurrency is hard to avoid. These days, it’s the stuff of small talk at parties, targeted ads, splashy magazine features. It makes appearances in Top 40 pop songs. And no matter how far removed you are from the fin-tech space — professionally or personally — odds are, blockchain […]

Are cryptocurrency wages an idea whose time has come? Maybe not. It’s one thing, after all, to dabble in Bitcoin (BTC) with one’s excess cash and quite another to take a significant portion of one’s salary in BTC. Moreover, there are often tax and custody questions about crypto, as well as concerns about price volatility. […]

ChangeNOW is a scam! ChangeNOW illegally holds my money! ChangeNOW are thieves! These are some of the hostile comments that have been making rounds on the internet. These accusations got the crypto community looking closely into it, and some have gone ahead and seemingly done a detailed analysis of things leading up to the entire […]

In brief Crypto and esports industry firms have engaged in sponsorship deals plus collaborated on NFT and gaming projects and more. Decrypt spoke with leaders from crypto firms and notable esports teams to explore the reasons for the increasing convergence and what’s ahead. When cryptocurrency exchange FTX announced a 10-year, $210 million sponsorship and naming […]

Pump-and-dump operations, which fraudulently manipulate prices by disseminating false information, have existed in economic contexts since at least the 1700s. For instance, con artists with shares in the South Sea Company started making false statements about the business and its revenues in the beginning of the eighteenth century.  The plan was to inflate the stock […]