Institutional support for bitcoin may soon be coming around the corner or is already here from the largest publicly traded companies in the world, and governments/sovereign wealth funds.

What was fit for the 70s to the 90s are not appropriate for the 20s. The gap between program trading executing at microseconds at the front end and the creaky settlement world at the back was most evident recently through the breakdown of the smooth functioning of markets during the GME saga.

Binance’s support gave a significant boost to yEarn protocol's YFI token—even as its price was growing exponentially on its own.

DeFi-related tokens have experienced a great and rapid increase, and currently occupy 4.6% of the $1 trillion cryptocurrency market.

Recently, the asset received the blessing of the Japanese Virtual Currency Exchange Association.

Charm, the decentralized platform, assures users "options markets which are liquid and cheap to trade on."

It was widely recognized that 2020 was the year institutional investors starting to buy Bitcoin. Moreover, as CME rolled out the Ether futures at the beginning of 2021, there shows early signs that Ethereum will experience additional interests.

Throughout 2021, DeFi has become increasingly discussed among the market. DeFi, short for decentralized finance, is a kind of application on public blockchain aiming to establish a centralized-medium free financial service. DeFi describes a prospect that each one could directly participate in the worldwide peer-to-peer financial activities. This may have a long way to go, but will eventually change the world.

Not only cryptocurrency and blockchain industry but also decentralized finance (DeFi) experienced an incredible 2020. After a whole-year ups-and-downs, DeFi has become a driving factor in the blockchain industry.

10 years or so since the creation of Bitcoin have witnessed central banks have quietly been developing their own digital currencies.