How Upstream is staying warm this crypto winter

The fall of FTX, cryptocurrency, and a crypto winter. How Upstream’s unique methodology was built to prevent these issues and enforce failsafes By Vanessa Malone Upstream, a MERJ Exchange Market, is the first regulated exchange for digital securities and NFTs powered by a blockchain. As a blockchain-powered trading app, Upstream sometimes gets mistakenly looped into […]Continue Reading

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How Ethereum is bringing blockchain to mainstream finance

Ethereum-powered markets are driving mainstream acceptance and adoption for blockchain technology Bitcoin and Ether continue to hold their places as the top two cryptocurrencies by market cap.  Hovering around $723.4 billion and $324 billion, respectively, these digital currencies are ushering in a new way to transfer money outside the control of a centralized entity.  This […]Continue Reading

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GameStop stock frenzy re-ignites call for the democratization of finance

How “Reddit Investors” put the spotlight on capital market access By Vanessa Malone For the last month, in true Main Street versus Wall Street fashion, the world witnessed Reddit community wallstreetbets take a stand against Wall Street by pumping the stock prices of GameStop (GME) and various others to counter Wall Street hedge funds that were […]Continue Reading

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Digital Securities: Finding the Goldilocks Zone between Centralization & Decentralization

By Vanessa Malone with insights from Dr. Andrew Le Gear, CTO of Horizon What’s discussed: What is decentralization. Why compliant security tokens cannot be fully decentralized. How technology can be used to find the right balance of centralized and decentralized components for digital securities. In 2008, blockchain technology made its debut in Bitcoin’s whitepaper describing […]Continue Reading

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