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Today, blockchain technology allows cryptocurrency-backed payments alongside any other online payment method. Cryptocurrencies are not controlled by governments, banks, and corporations. It makes them an alternative to traditional financial instruments. If you ask, “How do I create a cryptocurrency wallet?” you will fi...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most common elements of any sci-fi narrative. J.A.R.V.I.S. taking care of Stark Mansion in Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Trek’s food replicators — these and many other examples seem to be the perks of a distant future. But is this future so distant? IoT technologies have a...

Businesses often lack trust in technology, especially when creating a digital product from scratch. Founders argue that bespoke software development is too expensive and the system’s effectiveness cannot be evaluated. However, changes in customer behavior are pushing companies towards digitalization. We have reviewed s...

Metaverse is a unique and revolutionary trend that takes the digital entertainment industry to the next level. The meaning of metaverse is simple: you can play games, make virtual friends, purchase virtual land, and build your dream estate here.  Despite the high market competition, Sandbox and Decentraland are top 3D...

Compliance has always been challenging for the FinTech industry. However, the regulatory environment has become even more complex in the last few years. For example, In September 2019, the transition period to the new standards of the EU Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) ended. Among others, financial companies had t...

NFTs (non fungible-tokens) marked the beginning of the new concept called the metaverse. With the advent of Meta, Facebook declared a gradual transition to an augmented reality experience using NFTs. It will become the foundation of next-generation social media.  Moreover, NFT and the metaverse also include game mechan...

Many software development teams commonly use a distributed approach and agile methodologies to develop digital products. Although both concepts are well-known separately, the сombined “distributed agile” term is a new concept for the entire industry.  While agile solutions point out in-house collaboration, the remote s...

The global streaming services market received a major boost during the pandemic. Now it’s projected to reach $842 billion by 2027, although some analysts believe it will break the trillion mark. At the same time, there’s a lot of competition between the platforms fighting for the time and attention of the viewers physi...

The end of the 20th century marked the beginning of the Third Industrial Revolution, leading to the vigorous development of digital technologies for decades. However, such a rapid pace of growth only intensified the formation of the so-called consumer society and affected the planet’s ecology. And now, when the natural...

Many famous companies did not look like their early-stage ancestors. For example, Slack was a minor messaging feature of a game called Glitch and Flickr was conceived as an image-saving tool for the Game Neverending. Then, the founders decided to give up on the entire entertaining idea, focus on an in-built tool and de...

For decades, enterprises followed the strategy of total redesigning the company website every X years. Business owners often saw a redesign project as a universal tool for problem-solving. Sales have dropped, users spend less time browsing the site, and conversion is decreasing — let’s redesign our platform and fix eve...

To provide a quality user experience, you should ensure that you choose a proper way of managing data in your app. Moreover, this data must be carefully stored so intruders cannot access it. You cannot rely on the well-designed app’s interface and clean and lean code until you provide quality receiving, processing and...