How Luxury Brands Are Embracing Web3 and Driving Crypto Forward

The End Of The Fake CTO

Whatever Happened to NFTs?

Why Tech Founders Should Be Hiring Product Designers First

What Roles Are Growing In The Current Bear Market?

Crypto ETFs: Temporary Fad, or Pillar of a New Crypto Economy?

Will The FTX Empire Strike Back? The SBF Trial Begins

How Crypto Is Conquering Traditional Markets (While Building New...

How to structure a great CV from a recruiters perspective

Analysing the Current State of Venture Capital in Crypto

A guide to tokens as an employee benefit

The Impact of Regulation and Its Effect on Crypto Employment

Top 4 priorities for candidates joining a new team

The Evolution of Design in Crypto

How to transition your career from Web2 to Web3

Solana’s Rise and Fall (and Rise Again?)

Crypto Regulation: The Current Landscape

Top 5 Interview Tips For Web3 and Crypto Jobs

Crypto Adoption: Back to Basics

The HUGE growth of the rust developer in 2022

How Web3 Is Restructuring The Music Industry

Crypto and TradFi: An Evolving Relationship

If you spend any amount of time on the Twitter, you'll come away CONVINCED that crypto and traditional finance (or TradFi) are sworn enemies.

5 Tips For Investing In Crypto Projects

In the middle of a crypto winter, is it really the best time to think about a long-term winner? Yes! In fact, there’s no better time to fine-tune your method for picking the perfect project.

Yuga Labs – Evolution Of A Crypto Empire

Most know that Yuga Labs - the company behind Bored Apes Yacht Club - is on a roll, purchasing multiple blue-chip NFTs and expanding in all directions.

Will Crypto Follow Fintech’s Path?

Fintech took the investing world by storm in 2020 and 2021.

Terra, LUNA & UST: The Bet & Meltdown Explained

Solana Supporting NFTs: Everything You Need To Know

If you can’t beat them, join them - news that Opensea was adding support for NFTs on Solana made waves when it first dropped.

Why Sports Sponsorships Are CRUCIAL For Crypto

Sports sponsorships from companies looking to increase their visibility has been a lucrative investment ever since Michael Jordan stepped onto the court in his Air Jordan’s in 1985.

The Russia SWIFT ban and how it will impact crypto

A few weeks in, we’re now in a position to start analyzing the effect of one of the most dramatic sanctions in recent memory – the Russian SWIFT ban.

The HUGE growth of the solidity developer salary in 2022

This will come as no surprise to anybody familiar with the crypto space… …but the solidity developer salary has EXPLODED over the past 12 months.

2 Ways to Retain Talent After The Vesting Period

The best developers are people who love to build, create and are always looking for the next big mountain to climb.

Managing Crypto Start-Up Funds (In A Bear Market)

It’s no secret that: A bear market in crypto causes price declines, reduced trading activity, more reserved investment and less confidence in the space.

Demand For Rust Has Skyrocketed: What Role Has Polkadot Played?

I’ve noticed something pretty interesting over the past 6 months… …demand for Rust developers and the Rust programming language has gone through the ROOF.

4 Ways Blockchain Companies Changed Their Hiring Strategy in 2020

Today we’re going to analyse the four main ways that Blockchain organisations changed the way they hired (and who they hired) in 2020.

6 Ways To Tackle Impostor Syndrome In Your Tech Team (And...

Today I’m going to outline 6 ways you can tackle impostor syndrome in your technology team and the tech industry in general.

6 Things To Consider When Building A Diverse Technology Team

Today I’m going to discuss 6 overlooked things you need to consider when you’re building diversity in the workplace.

We meet Jamiel Sheikh, CEO of Chainhaus

This week I had the chance to catch up with Jamiel, the founder of Chainhaus, a blockchain advisory and applications studio based out of New York City.

Crypto, coming out of quarantine?

So how’s everyone doing? It’s been an interesting first half of 2020, eh?

Get the inside scoop on the new Argent wallet with Matthew Wright

Colin Platt (CP): Hi Matthew, congratulations on the announcement of the release of Version 1 of Argent wallet last week, and thanks for coming on. Matthew Wright (MW): Thank you, and looking forward to this.

We talk to Somil Goyal – COO at Adjoint

This week I had the chance to catch up with Somil, the COO at Adjoint, a real-time payments and settlement platform for corporate treasury.

Interview with Toby Lewis – Novum Insights

Interview with Toby Lewis – Novum Insights

Interview with Marta Piekarska, Director of Ecosystem at...

Sid Shekhar – TokenAnalyst Interview

Data is a hot topic in every area of tech, but is especially interesting when we dive into the realms of blockchains.

Tom Bean & Kyle Kistner – bZx Network Interview

We talk a lot about Decentralised Finance (DeFi) on this. I had a chat with a great team actually working in this space, Tom and Kyle from the bZx Network.

A Look Forward at 2020 in Blockchains with Zeth and Shaun

While last month I refused to give my 2020 predictions, which would invariably be wrong, and opted to be different by looking back at blockchains in 2019, even that was wrong as it seems that literally everyone did the same thing.

A Look Back at 2019 in Crypto

There is a tendency for people in crypto and blockchain to send around their forward looking estimates of what the year ahead will bring for cryptocurrency and blockchain around this time of year.

We talk crypto custody and DeFi with Alex Batlin

Nearly the end of 2019, which means we’re out there chatting with interesting people doing cool things in crypto and DLT.

Crypto fought the law and the law won

Colin Platt here again, time for another blog, exploring some of the topics that Zeth, Shaun and I found interesting.

ETC Cooperative – Interview with Bob Summerwill

Interview with Bob Summerwill, Executive Director, ETC Cooperative Colin Platt, here, and I managed to line-up an amazing conversation with an amazing individual, Bob Summerwill, the Executive Director of the ETC Cooperative.

Crypto Ratings Council

Colin Platt here again, time for another blog, exploring some of the topics that Zeth, Shaun and I found interesting.

ETH 2.0 – What’s in store?

Scaling has always been the elephant in the room for all blockchains. From debating block sizes, to layered approaches, the issue has consumed a lot of bandwidth.

We talk Ethereum with Andrej Bencic & Bogdan Habic from...

This week I got to chat with two of the co-founders at Tenderly, Andrej (CTO) and Bogdan (Distributed Systems Engineer)

IEOs – Initial Exchange Offerings

Just when you thought that crypto had exhausted every possible permutation of three letter acronyms they surprise you once again.

Interview with Charlie Hayter – CryptoCompare

One thing that I absolutely love about this industry is meeting new people, meeting Charlie Hayter, CEO and Co-founder of CryptoCompare, was doubly great because we got to chat about crypto over tapas in sunny Barcelona.

Coinscrum_markets Event

Coinscrum, the UK’s largest & longest running Bitcoin & Blockchain networking group is proud to have partnered with Blockchain.com

John Salmon of Hogan Lovells talks crypto, technology, the rules...

This week I had the good fortune of catching up with John Salmon technology lawyer at Hogan Lovells

Libra – the new Facebook supported crypto

If you follow cryptocurrency at all, even in the slightest –frankly even if you don’t– you’ve no doubt heard of Libra

CryptoCompare – Digital Asset Summit

On 12th June, Plexus were lucky enough to exhibit at the first CryptoCompare Digital Asset Summit in London.

Plexus at Consensus 2019 for New York Blockchain Week

This week however, I cornered them for a chat about their trip to Consensus 2019, the showcase event at New York’s annual Blockchain Week.

Cryptocurrencies and all that drama…..

By far, the biggest story –which was actually four stories in one– centred around Bitfinex and Tether parent company iFinex.

Crypto & Bitcoin with Paul Gordon of Coinscrum – Part 2

Last week we shared part one of our two-part interview with Paul Gordon, where he talked about where the industry has been and the trends that he’s witnessed in the crypto space.

Bitcoin & Crypto with Paul Gordon of Coinscrum – Part 1

An insightful two-part interview covering his long history that goes back to the early days of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in London.

Deconomy 2019: Shilling at the Shilla

This blog will be a bit different than normal, as I took the opportunity to cover… myself. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the playful nature of it.

Decentralised Finance, DeFi, Open Finance

This year has seen a focus on securities tokens, stable coins, new technical features, and now: “DeFi”, short for decentralised finance

Stablecoins: What’s that all about?

A digital currency backed by deposits held at JP Morgan, aiming to speed up transfers among its institutional clients and reduce costs.

Securities Tokens Offerings (STOs): The crypto story in 2019?

We’re going to look at what they are, how they are different, and a bit about why people are excited.

Interview with Areiel Wolanow, MD of Finserv Experts

Areiel has had an amazing experience around delivering new technologies at large financial institutions, including within insurance.

Blockchain’s Big win for Healthcare: HUN

Blockchain technology is potentially game-changing for not one or two industries, but the complete outlook of how we perceive the global business landscape.

One If By Land, Two If By SEC.

The SEC announced two sets of settlements, the first involving Airfox and Paragon Coin, and the second involving Floyd Mayweather Jr

Public Smart Contract Platforms: Ethereum, but what else?

We now shift back to public blockchains, and more specifically those which focus on smart contracting

Enterprise Distributed Ledger Stacks, what are the options?

Today we are changing tack and looking into the world of enterprise distributed ledger technologies.

Smart Contract platforms, where are people developing? Where are...

What was interesting for me was their relentless focus on two things: usability and developer adoption.

Zeth on Tackling the Blockchain Talent War at Blockchain Live 2018

While a lot was covered we have outlined some of the key takeaways around talent in the blockchain space:

Crypto markets are down, so does this mean that we have to go...

It is quite obvious that the H2 run-up in cryptocurrency prices and flurry of ICO raises was unsustainable.

How to get a job in the Blockchain space

Zeth Couceiro, one of the Founders was asked during an interview with 11-FS how to get a job in blockchain.

Zeth meets 11:FS on the Blockchain Insider podcast

Here’s what he had to say about breaking into the Blockchain industry

Write a modern CV & bag that dream job!

To bag that dream job you need a stand out CV. A modern CV should be eye catching, without being an eyesore.

Should I be on GitHub?

Posting a project on GitHub allows other users to review your code and offer feedback, highlighting any possible flaws or conflicts

Blockchain Expo Europe 2018

The last event we attended was the Blockchain Expo Europe 2018 which took place in Amsterdam on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th June 2018.

Consensys Dublin Launch Party 2018

We were part of 310 attendees which included 2 Government Ministers.