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AIRDROPS + ALPHAOct 17, 2024

Business
Why Gnosis Pay Isn’t Just Another Crypto Card
Crypto payment cards have become a popular way for cryptocurrency holders to spend their hard-earned satoshis, enabling them to pay with cryptocurrency through widely accepted networks like Visa and Mastercard. Launched in 2023, the Gnosis Pay Visa debit card is unique among crypto payment card offerings—it’s self-custodial, affording users full control over their crypto funds, and enables early users to pay directly from their blockchain address with no fees. As a Visa card, it’s accepted world...
Aug 15, 2023

Build
Fintech in the Front, DeFi in the Back—Crypto's Quiet Revolution Is Underway
PayPal’s stablecoin rollout highlights a revived trend in the crypto industry. It’s one that captured Wall Street’s imagination since 2016, promising speedy settlement times and lower backroom overhead. The so-called blockchain revolution: newer, cheaper rails for the financial system. That line of argument stopped making headlines amid a long and cold crypto winter followed by an uptick in meme coins, yield farming, and the sector’s equally powerful memetic force of getting rich quickly. With B...
Jul 17, 2023

Technology
Crypto Wallet Provider Gnosis Launches Self-Custodial Visa Debit Card
Gnosis has announced the launch of their debit card, Gnosis Card, that will utilize their new payment network, Gnosis Pay. This product will originally be available in EU and EEA countries as well as the UK; with plans of expanding into the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, and Hong Kong in Q4. Gnosis Card users will be required to connect their wallets to use their funds for real-world payments. Payments can be made anywhere that Visa is accepted, with funds being directly taken from your wallet...
Mar 22, 2023

DeFi
Why True Decentralization at Scale Is Hard and Rare: Gnosis Co-Founder
Gnosis co-founder and COO Friederike Ernst doesn’t like seeing “decentralization” thrown around as a superficial marketing term. It’s why she takes such pride in the fact that it’s very affordable right now—1 GNO token, about $108 at the time of writing—to become a validator on the Gnosis Chain. For context, it costs 32 ETH, worth almost $58,000, to become a validator on the Ethereum network. That low bar to entry has helped the Gnosis Chain, one of the earliest Ethereum sidechains, amass more...