An Introduction to the Dapp Ecosystem

Imagine a day when your car, which sits idle 10 hours a day, puts itself up for rent. Imagine your computer, with idle GPU, utilizing it to render applications for others. Imagine your solar grid, which produced extra energy this month, automatically selling it to the highest bidder. All of this sounds too lucrative and Utopian. Well, yes. But that doesn't mean it can't be a reality. On the contrary, the era has already started when your applications will talk…

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency, most commonly identified as digital money, was first instituted in 2009 with the famous Bitcoin launch. Litecoin followed the launch in 2011; since then, many more crypto assets have joined the crypto world.  Cryptography secures the currency in crypto, thus protecting against counterfeiting and double-spending. The host of crypto is blockchain, a decentralized ledger system using state-of-the-art infrastructure.  Recently, the advancements in the crypto world have made many people think of investing in crypto. Naturally, beginner investors want to…

A Beginner’s Guide to Ethereum (ETH) ERC-20 Tokens

If you're new in the crypto space, the concept of Ethereum and ERC20 tokens can be pretty mind-boggling. Despite being a blockchain such as Bitcoin, Ethereum has numerous capabilities, such as supporting the creation of other tokens and enabling decentralized applications (dApps) to be run on it. In addition, Ethereum provides the necessary infrastructure to create tokens, meaning developers don't have to build an entirely new blockchain.  In creating tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, developers may comply with the ERC-20…

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