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Statement on the Mention of Smart Contracts in the Data Act

The Draft for an EU Data Act which is currently discussed is the first legal provision of the EU to define the concept of a ‘Smart Contract’. The Data Act furthermore sets out specific requirements for Smart Contracts for data sharing, including a so-called Kill Switch functionality. This has raised concerns in the crypto industry […]
June 19, 2023
Academy
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The Zero-Knowledge Rollups

In our previous blog post, we discussed the three most important Optimistic rollups: Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base. In this blog post, we will explore the three leading ZK rollups:   zkSync Era  StarkNet  Polygon zkEVM zkSync Era   Matter Labs was the first team to ship a functional zkEVM to mainnet with their zkSync 2.0 rollup, albeit […]
May 24, 2023
Academy
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The Optimistic Rollups

In our last blog post, we covered what Ethereum rollups are, why they are important, and the two major types of rollup that are currently being developed: optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups. In this blog post, we are going to explore the three most important optimistic rollups and some of the differences between them. These are: […]
May 23, 2023
Academy
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What Are Ethereum Rollups?

Ethereum is an engineering marvel: the first true “world computer” with a global, shared state that can be read from and written to in a permissionless manner by anyone. Despite its enormous achievements so far, Ethereum still has a long road ahead before it is usable by the masses.   One of the main hindrances to […]
May 19, 2023
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Should Europe develop into a token economy?

NYALA participated in this great initiative from the European Commission and the Association of German Banks which aims to drive tokenization! Read the complete report below. Tokenise_Europe_2025Herunterladen
January 19, 2023
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Back to El Salvador: First Impressions

¡Hola! I am Lukas, NYALA’s General Counsel, and in the next couple of posts, I will be reporting from my recent travels through Latin America (ie El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru). Make sure to follow #BTCLatAm22 on Linkedin in case you are interested to hear more. Key takeaways: Overall no significant changes in the […]
December 21, 2022
Academy
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Mass Adoption of Security Tokens

The first Security Token Offering (STO) was launched in 2018 by the US-based Praetorian Group, which subsequently issued the PAX coin (not to be confused with the PAX stablecoin) [1]. European players followed swiftly, and by July 2019 Bitbond made headlines with the first approved German STO, which raised more than two million Euros [2]. […]
October 17, 2022
Academy
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Crypto Contagion

As interest rates rise and the tide of central bank stimulus that boosted markets during the covid years recedes, the cryptocurrency industry is undergoing an explosive deleveraging process. Vulnerable positions and faulty assumptions are being systematically tracked down and picked apart by markets. Due to the somewhat incestuous nature of the cryptocurrency industry, the largest […]
June 20, 2022
Academy
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Burning the Moon

In the wake of the collapse of Terra, a debate is raging online over how best to engineer restitution for those left holding bags of $LUNA and $UST. Since our last article about Terra it has been revealed that the reserve fund to defend the $UST peg, previously worth billions of dollars, has been nearly […]
May 25, 2022
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Luna returns to Terra

If you are reading this, you have likely heard about and possibly felt the portfolio impact of Terra USD losing its peg to the US dollar in recent days. Students of the history of financial markets will observe that price pegs are like promises: they are often broken. This is doubly true of algorithmic stablecoins, […]
May 18, 2022

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