Articles for author: Dan Opondo
On Tuesday September 8, Visa, a global payment giant said that at the end of the second quarter 2026, over 160 stablecoin linked programs ran live on its global infrastructure. On top of everything, the payment volumes in the period surged by nearly 200%. Visa noted that stablecoin-linked card programs have seen immense expansion. Visa ...
Blockchain development used to be just for people into cryptography, but now it’s a big area of software engineering. It involves creating smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps). Maybe you’re someone deciding which blockchain to use, a developer looking for a career change, or a company wanting to see how blockchain can improve a specific ...
On September 13, 2026, 248,655 New Bitcoin addresses joined the BTC blockchain for the very first time. As you read this article, there are newer and newer bitcoin addresses joining the bitcoin blockchain, contributing to the daily count. Since January 2009 when the first ever new address was recorded in the chain this has been ...
On Monday September 7, Banca d’Italia directed crypto asset service providers to verify if every transfer that goes through their systems, however small, underwent a sanction screen. In the release, The central bank sent a direct warning to crypto firms to stop setting minimum transaction thresholds in their screening systems. Direct Mandate on Sanctions Compliance ...
Crypto markets boast of offering 24/7 access to services for every trader. Bitcoin in its very nature never sleeps. However, despite offering year round access, did you know that Bitcoin has rush hours? Key Takeaways In our analysis, which includes research from sites like Maketo, Kaiko and other market trackers, we discovered a daily trend ...
Are you contemplating establishing your own NFT platform? You might want to think again. To create your own NFT marketplace typically costs over $600,000 and can take around eight months of hard work involving a team of people. Therefore, many businesses should go for a ready-made white label NFT marketplace instead of hundreds of thousands ...
According to DappRadar’s third quarter 2025 report, around 18.7 million wallets connect to a decentralized application every day. One of the most popular use cases of decentralized applications is gaming, accounting for 25% of interactions. Others that follow include NFTs at 18.5% and DeFi at 17.9%. In fact, the DeFi sector alone has locked up ...
In 2021, when the concept of NFT was merely young, the entire building principles around non-fungible tokens revolved around hype. The story is quite different today. Now, more than ever, NVT development involves displaying a keen interest, not just in beautiful arts, but also in tokens that unlock some form of utility, or something tangible. ...
Remember the 2021 NFT boom? In 2026, the NFT market is just a shadow of what it was in 2021. Yet, many NFT marketplace development services continue to ride on the nostalgia of the NFT boom. Key takeaways: NFT data analytics indicated that the trading volumes plunged to merely 823 million in Q2 2025, a ...
On Monday, August 31st, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the social media giant telegram is starting the rollout of its Gram wallet to a select group of users. The CEO announced that the network targets to roll the wallet out gradually in the next few weeks targeting over $1 billion users. In a post ...