Crypto & DeFi
Apps & Rewards
Crypto apps, rewards and points programmes for UK users: how they work and where the catches are.
Apps & Rewards
Points Farming: Free Airdrop Points or Free Labour for a Startup's Marketing Budget?
How 'earn points, get an airdrop later' campaigns actually work, why they've become so common, and the real costs hiding behind the word 'free'.
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SocialFi and Farcaster: What Happens When a Social Network Puts Your Data On-Chain
The pitch behind decentralised social platforms, how Farcaster actually differs from a conventional app, and the practical trade-offs of owning your own social graph.
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DApps: Apps That Run on a Blockchain Instead of a Company's Server
What actually makes an application 'decentralised', and why that label covers a much wider range of genuine decentralisation than the marketing suggests.
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DAOs: Organisations Run by Code and a Vote, Not a Board of Directors
What a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation actually is, what it's genuinely good at, and where the theory of leaderless governance runs into the reality of how people actually organise.
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Governance Tokens: When Holding a Crypto Asset Also Means Getting a Vote
What a governance token actually lets you do, why 'decentralised' voting is often less decentralised than it sounds, and what to check before treating one as a serious say in a protocol's future.
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Crypto Airdrops: Why Projects Give Tokens Away for Free
What an airdrop actually is, why a project would hand out free tokens, and the tax and scam risks that come attached to something with no purchase price.
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