Aaron Watts, Publisher at CoinCodex
Aaron is passionate about technology and finance. Aaron first discovered blockchain technology in 2016. After learning about the transformative power of crypto, which he primarily credits to Alex Tapscott's Blockchain Revolution, he sought to expand his knowledge by becoming more intimately involved with the blockchain space. He joined CoinCodex in 2018 and has since been covering a variety of topics, ranging from Bitcoin and Ethereum to NFTs and the metaverse.
Aaron Watts Latest Articles
The number of crypto wallets added to gaming blockchain databases in Q3 of 2021 alone increased by 25x, while sales of in-game NFTs topped $2.3 billion in the same period. In other words, blockchain gaming is booming! The Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) provides a space for members of the blockchain gaming industry to come together and share development knowledge, create common standards, and establish best practices regarding blockchain games. It also supports networking and collaboration between developers. Find out which are the major players in the space.
With Ethereum’s ongoing flaws and the speed at which new smart contract blockchains facilitate the next generation of projects, the competition to dethrone Ethereum has advanced rapidly. Still, only time will tell which smart contract blockchain will establish its dominance over the growing new markets within the blockchain ecosystem.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, players from developing countries earned incomes by playing Axie Infinity. Here's a list of the most popular blockchain crypto games with the Play-to-Earn or P2E concept.
The rapidly growing non-fungible token (NFT) platform Mintable has announced an integration with the Immutable X protocol to provide its 10 million monthly visitors with an opportunity to trade more than 24 million NFTs with zero transaction fees at near-instantaneous transfer speeds.
BitTorrent, a leading peer-to-peer (P2P) infrastructure provider, has announced it completed its first investment in the WOO Network as a part of the Series A funding round. The two blockchain companies will work together on providing liquidity to the decentralized ecosystem and on the BitTorrent Chain (BTTC).
Immutable, the creators of Immutable X, the first Layer-2 scaling solution for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum sporting zero gas fees and instant trades, have appointed three senior executives to manage the company’s expansion to new markets.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the most used financial benchmarks to track inflation in the traditional finance (TradFi) ecosystem. However, the CPI measure is rightfully criticized for being outdated and incorrectly reflecting the actual extent of inflation.
After the success of the Kusama parachain slot auctions, the decentralized Web 3.0 blockchain interoperability network Polkadot is now holding the much-anticipated parachain slot auctions on the main chain.
As the world rapidly moves towards digitization, people find themselves living two different lives - their physical, everyday existence and their digital self. As digital information grows in volume and variety online, the more the true digital self is uncovered, hence completing the missing pieces and becoming even more valuable. Nonetheless, the owners of the information rarely gain any value from their data despite big corporations benefiting directly from their data.
Flash loan is a rather new lending instrument that has made its way into many decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Debuting in 2020 on Aave, crypto flash loans allow advanced users to instantly borrow large sums of crypto without having to deposit any collateral. However, as the name implies, these loans need to be repaid straight away, this is within the same block. Nevertheless, flash loans have several important use cases despite their short-lasting nature.
