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Why are people spending millions on NFTs?
Simply put, NFT stands for a non-fungible token which is a digital asset that is distinctive from the others out there. In other words, it is one of its kind and you can not duplicate it. To read more about what NFTs are read our article: Blockchain NFTs in Art. With the steady and rapid […]
Stablecoin Explained
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum offer a number of benefits, and one of the most fundamental is not requiring trust in an intermediary institution to send payments, which opens up their use to anyone around the world. But one key drawback is that cryptocurrencies’ prices are unpredictable and have a tendency to vary, sometimes […]
What matters more: Blockchain or Bitcoin?
A very very brief definition Blockchain is the technology that enables the existence of cryptocurrency (among other things). Bitcoin is the name of the best-known cryptocurrency, the one for which blockchain technology was invented. So, the question is: What matters more: the technology or the creation, which this technology was invented for? To answer this […]
Cryptocurrencies and privacy [part 2]
Privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies While the previous blog post concerned itself with privacy-enhancing Bitcoin-compatible protocols, in this one we will analyze a different approach to increase privacy, namely privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies. The main distinguishing features of them are: They improve on older cryptocurrencies by placing privacy at the core of their new design They aren’t backward compatible since […]
Games on Blockchain or Blockchain for Games?
The video gaming industry is huge and shows no signs of slowing down. While there were almost two billion video gamers across the world in 2016, this figure is expected to rise to over three billion gamers by 2023. People are exposed to millions of games, spanning across multiple genres and platforms that give players […]
Cryptocurrencies and privacy [part 1]
Privacy-enhancing Bitcoin-compatible protocols Nowadays, privacy has become such an important topic within the many technologies we use in our lives that it’s only natural for us to ask the question: Where does privacy stand in the world of cryptocurrencies? The intuitive answer of many people unfamiliar with blockchain technology is that cryptocurrencies provide full anonymity […]
Blockchain & Gambling – Benefits and Challenges for the Industry
Blockchain is already shaping the future of many industries (for the better) and is set to be the next big technology to ring sweeping changes through sectors and the gambling industry is one of them. Compared to the pre-mobile days of exclusively physical, in-person gaming and gambling, nowadays online-player numbers around the world have soared, […]
How Blockchain is taking over the world [2021]
Blockchain technology has to be one of the biggest innovations of the past decade. Considering it’s something that began with mere cryptocurrency, now – it has a ripple effect on several important sectors, from manufacturing, supply chain to Fintech, Art, and education.Many predict it is going to transform the nature of transactions, trading across the […]
Hack is Awarded Grant for Native Integration of Chainlink on Terra
We are very pleased to announce that we have been selected as a recipient of a blockchain integration grant for the native integration of Chainlink into the Terra Protocol. This applies specifically for the launch of Chainlink Price Feeds on Terra, which allows smart contract developers to build a wide range of use cases and […]
Blockchain NFTs in Art
Everything began back in 2017, when a Canadian start-up Dapper Labs invented a game called CryptoKitties where you own and breed (crypto)cats that are one-of-a-kind and cannot be replicated, taken away, or destroyed. Basically, Cryptokitties was the first enormous boom of the craze for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Long story short, in September 2020, Christie’s […]



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