Assessing Blockchain’s Brightest Innovations for 2022 and Beyond
2021 has been a banner year for blockchain. While much of the global news agenda revolved around lockdowns, vaccines and other byproducts of the pandemic, the total market value of cryptocurrencies rose above $2 trillion, fell back – then retook the milestone. Elsewhere, decentralized applications (dApps) flourished on Ethereum and multiple rival networks; non-fungible tokens […]
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