Sure, Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws aren’t very popular in crypto-land. However, they are a necessary evil, and wallets and exchanges should ensure they are legally compliant. And KYC/AML compliance is easier than you might think. This guide is a blog-article, and should not be relied upon, or…

Getting users to try your product is hard. Even more so, if your product is a decentralized application or game. But when your decentralized application (Dapp) makes users download a third-party wallet first, it becomes virtually impossible to get adoption. We set out to solve this with NeoLogin. …

Let’s not kid ourselves. We would have liked seeing more blockchain adoption by now. Adoption rates for even the most used blockchain applications are low. The most used dApps don’t even reach 5k users a day. A big part of the problem is the terrible user experience (UX) within blockchain…

If you haven’t heard about Libra yet, you must be living under a rock. The recently announced digital currency from Facebook has been in the news everywhere. The recently unveiled coin, which is held stable by backing it with other currencies and debt obligations, might cause significant changes in the…

Comparing Utility Tokens, Security Tokens and Hybrid Tokens — I see many articles proclaiming the death of the Initial Coin Offering. Indeed, volumes of ICO funding have indeed gone down drastically. At the same time, many praise the Security Token Offering (STO) as the ‘next big thing’. The new hype, that will catch people off-guard. However, many misunderstand the…

Last month, director Hinman of the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance shocked the (legal) blockchain world with some peculiar statements during a speech. He stated that Ethereum, the cryptocurrency that fuels “the world computer”, is not a security. Instead, he believes Ethereum tokens stopped being a security sometime after its…

If you would have told me last year that a startup without a product was to raise over $4 billion, I would have probably not believed it. In fact, I still find it hard to believe. Yet, EOS, a blockchain-startup without a product, managed to do just that. Everything about…

On Monday, North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced one of the largest coordinated series of securities enforcement actions ever. If you have been following the crypto space over the last two years, this should not come as a surprise. In fact, this weeks actions were inevitable. …

Just 8 months ago, a blockchain project called Tezos raised $232 million with an initial coin offering. It was the biggest ICO ever. Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the young couple that founded the project, literally raised over 10x more than their wildest estimates. 8 months later, the couple and the…