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By Alamira Jouman Hajjar, Research & Editorial Manager, IOV Labs This article is a part of IOV Labs’ series focused on helping newcomers to the world of Web3 understand the value of decentralized finance. Read on to understand the top 3 factors to consider when choosing a crypto wallet for…

To send any form of transaction over the blockchain, you first need to know the public address you’re sending to. Public addresses are a sequence of up to 42 alphanumeric characters, which act as the recipient’s unique identifier. They are the default method for sending and receiving crypto and are…

When building with RIF, you don’t need to build alone. RIF co-creation options and the new Product Development Workshops make it easy to begin capitalizing on the potential of blockchain technology. Working with RIF and integrating products from the RIF suite benefits businesses looking to create meaningful fintech products, expand…

Gas fees — the long-standing problem of cryptocurrency payments. Gas fees can be costly, hinder adoption and exclude people with limited resources from participating in the digital economy. Imagine you’re buying a coffee using traditional methods; the coffee costs $2.70 plus a 30-cent fee. Your total comes to $3,…

Welcome to Fint3ch Frontrunners, a series of interviews with the leading lights in the future of finance. Learn how they got started and read where they see the world of DeFi, Web3 and crypto going next. Up this week is Dmitry Machikhin, Founder and CEO of BitOK, a portfolio tracker with tax and AML tools for crypto which recently added support for $RIF and the other tokens in the Rootstock ecosystem.

Data breaches impact ±400 million people each year as a consequence of attacks on centralized identity management authorities and intermediaries. Several decentralized applications have emerged recently to ensure better data protection and bring back data ownership to users.

Buenbit is a cryptocurrency exchange and cross-border payment platform focused on making cryptocurrency and DeFi easily accessible to Argentinians and people across Latin America. Nearly one million users in Argentina and thousands more across LATAM rely on Buenbit to buy, sell, and invest in a variety of cryptocurrencies (including stablecoins),…

This article is a part of IOV Labs’ series focused on helping newcomers to the world of Web3 understand the value of decentralized finance. Read on to explore the top 5 reasons more businesses are accepting cryptocurrency as a payment method, the best ways to implement this, and how to tackle the associated challenges.

In February, Rootstock co-founder Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar (DGZ) and IOV Labs VP of product, Tim Paymans (TP) came together for a Twitter Space discussing the future of building on Bitcoin, RIF, and Rootstock. Read on for a part two of a summary…

This article is part of IOV Labs research series that aims to help newcomers to the Web3 world navigate blockchain technology, explore its benefits, and understand its risks. Read on to learn what Layer 2 solutions are, their different types, how they solve scalability issues, and what the future holds…