Ekin Genç

Ekin Genç

Ekin Genç has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, EUobserver, Motherboard, and Decrypt. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

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What Is Sudoswap? How to Use the NFT Marketplace
The decentralized NFT marketplace functions in a very different way than more familiar centralized options.
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What Is MEV, aka Maximal Extractable Value?
Miners and validators have found ways to profit off of pending transactions by including, excluding or reordering transactions in any block they mine.
Abstract Ethereum blocks and dollars (Dall-E, modified by CoinDesk)
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DeFi vs. CeFi in Crypto
Decentralized finance is a core value in crypto, but DeFi platforms can have a steep learning curve. Centralized finance platforms can provide an easier and more familiar poin...
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How to Get Liquidity From NFTs Without Selling Them
Renting, fractionalizing and using non-fungible tokens as collateral are some ways to turn your asset into coins.
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Signs Bitcoin May Have Bottomed: Here’s What Experts Told Us
Where will bitcoin bottom out? As investors face a crypto bear market, many are looking for signals the cryptocurrency has hit a bottom. There are no sure signs, but here's wh...
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From stETH to wETH to Gwei: Understanding the Different Shades of Ethereum
It's important to understand the difference between staked ether tokens and staked ether deposits and more so that you don’t make an expensive mistake.
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How to Avoid Crypto Bear Market Mistakes and Be Ready for the Next Bull Run
CoinDesk surveyed some survivors of the last bear market for advice on what to do – and not to do – during crypto downturns.
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How Are Institutions and Companies Investing in Crypto?
From putting bitcoin on their balance sheets to setting up shop in the metaverse, the ways brands and institutions are investing in cryptocurrencies continues to expand.
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Bitcoin ATM in Moscow (Anna Baydakova for CoinDesk)
Bitcoin ATMs: What You Need to Know Before Buying Bitcoin at an ATM
Buying crypto doesn’t have to involve dealing with complicated exchanges. In some places, there are ATM machines designed specifically for facilitating transactions.
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What Is Optimism?
Here’s what you need to know about the layer 2 scaling solution and the Optimism token, OP, including the problems with the first OP airdrop.
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