On 12th July we came together at County Hall for the launch of FTT DeFi – the one-day show exploring the opportunities and challenges of decentralised finance, crypto and Web3 in financial services. After wrapping up our launch event last week, we recapped some of the key takeaways as our community came together to connect,

The traditional banking systems in place across the world have served billions of people and allowed them to save, invest and borrow for decades. But there are also billions of people who have been left behind as the conventional banking offering fails to meet their needs and they find themselves being excluded from the global

Both the hardest critics and proponents of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can agree on the fact that, for better or worse, these digital currencies are fundamentally different from fiat currencies. One of the under-discussed differences between these two currencies is their energy consumption.  In a 2022 report, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) estimated that Bitcoin

With hundreds of billions of dollars of total value locked into the decentralised finance (DeFi) market, this burgeoning sector is rapidly becoming an attractive target for cyber criminals and hackers. According to a CertiK State of DeFi Security Report released earlier this year, more than $1.3 billion was lost across 44 DeFi hacks due to centralisation