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What’s the value in NFTs?

Early this year, a piece of art called Everydays: The First 5000 Days was auctioned and sold for $69 million at Christie’s Auction House. It is not surprising to see eight-figure art sales, however, this one has drawn a lot of attention as the piece was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) – a unique …

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Why Crypto Derivatives?

The beginning of derivatives trading signals the maturity and mainstream acceptance of any asset. The derivatives are designed for the more sophisticated traders and investors. Below are the main reasons why crypto derivatives will continue to rise in 2021 and beyond: Derivatives are used to hedge cryptocurrency volatility risk The main reason for traders to …

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Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake

While cryptocurrencies are crazing the world recently, many wonders about the mechanics behind the craze — the process of how to mine coins and blockchains that are using Proof of Work or Proof of Stake as their process model. Both models are the current requirement to confirm transactions that are made on the blockchain, without …

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Pty & Ltd – What is the difference?

We constantly stumble upon the terms ‘Pty’ and ‘Ltd’ at the end of a business name, a vast majority of people might know what they mean respectively, the abbreviation implies ‘proprietary’ and ‘limited’, but too often that this is the extent of everyone’s knowledge. To most people, these abbreviations are meaningless as most company names …

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Altcoins

Since the induction of Bitcoin, everyone has got their attention on it, the oldest cryptocurrencies of all of them is also the most valuable digital currency on the current market. Altcoins, on the other hand, are more like offspring of the former while being different in its own way. Altcoins also known as Alternative Cryptocurrencies …

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NFTs – and the management of Digital Assets

One now resides in the world where Covid has ultimately impacted humans both in the way we lead and live our lives. This means that the business world must innovate in order to stay relevant. For some businesses and individuals, this means the focus is on creating or converting physical to digital assets and selling …

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Decentralised Finance (DeFi)

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) refers to an ecosystem of financial applications that are built on top of the blockchain networks with the aim of thoroughly transforming finance with networks that are run by financial intermediaries. Cryptocurrencies like Ether, Bitcoin and many others could be traded peer-to-peer securely without intermediaries. Users have full control over their crypto …

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Amazon prioritises American companies for their cross-border e-commerce

American companies as a priority The rapid development of the cross-border e-commerce industry has not only promoted the continuous expansion of the scale of related companies and the continuous increase in demand for employees, but also enabled the industry to have sustainable development. At the same time, many cross-border e-commerce companies have full confidence in …

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SPACs: Popular in the United States, what about Singapore?

Special purpose acquisitions companies (SPACs) are companies incorporated with the intention of raising capital through an initial public offering (IPO) to acquire existing target companies or assets that are only identified after the IPO. Retail investors are able to participate in investments commonly only available to private equity funds. It is typically conducted via a …

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The Cayman Islands Exempted Limited Partnership

The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and the leading jurisdiction for establishing offshore investment funds globally. It is considered to be the most attractive hubs for offshore financial businesses as it provides a stable, tax-neutral platform but also offers a sound legislative and judicial system, confidentiality, a leading banking sector and legal and …

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