Our updates for Q1 2023 As always, we have a lot of exciting features and products in the works. Here are a few updates on what the first quarter of 2023 has to offer for Fluid and our users.… Continue reading Fluid Updates for Q1 of 2023
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Fluid Money Management: Surviving a Market Crash
How to survive the market crash Surviving a market crash can be a tricky and stressful process. It is challenging to navigate the ups and downs of the market: things don’t always go the way you planned them. Wondering… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: Surviving a Market Crash
Fluid Money Management: Your 2023 Financial Plan
How to manage your finances in 2023 Given the economic hellscape of 2022, which saw inflation and the crash of the crypto market, managing your finances should be one of your New Year’s resolutions. It’s a good idea to… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: Your 2023 Financial Plan
Seven new digital currencies
New digital currencies are here We’re excited to announce that our Fluid Accounts now offer seven new digital cash currencies. 🇿🇦 DZAR – Digital South African Rand 🇨🇦 DCAD – Digital Canadian Dollars 🇹🇷 DTRY – Digital Turkish Lira… Continue reading Seven new digital currencies
Wild Cards are coming 💳
Wild Cards are coming in 2023 We know you’ve been waiting patiently for for Wild Cards for your Fluid Accounts, and we wanted to provide you with an exciting update before the holidays. Our team have been testing our Wild… Continue reading Wild Cards are coming 💳
Fluid’s Crypto Off-Ramp Just Got Better – Now FREE Until 3rd Jan 🎅
Need to withdraw crypto into your bank account from your Web3 wallet or a centralized exchange? There’s now a much better way to off-ramp from crypto into your bank. Instead of withdrawing from a centralized exchange, waiting nervously and accepting… Continue reading Fluid’s Crypto Off-Ramp Just Got Better – Now FREE Until 3rd Jan 🎅
Fluid Money Management: Six Money Saving Tips
Have you ever felt like it’s still impossible to save money no matter how hard you try? You mean well, but life gets in the way. The moment you save some money, an emergency occurs—your car breaks down, your child… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: Six Money Saving Tips
Fluid Money Management: Five Ways to Make Passive Income
Whether you’re running a side hustle or just trying to get some extra dough each month, a passive income is a great way to help you generate cash flow, especially as inflation ravages the economy. Did you know passive income… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: Five Ways to Make Passive Income
How to use the Fluid P2P Marketplace
Fluid is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to send money to and from Nigeria. In our newest web app update, we’ve introduced our updated P2P marketplace. Here’s a step by step guide: Select P2P in MyWealth You’ll be shown your… Continue reading How to use the Fluid P2P Marketplace
Fluid Money Management: Good and Bad Debt
Debt is a scary word. Owing your friends or the bank money can make you anxious. However, debt isn’t as bad as we might think. Unbelievable right? Most of us don’t know that debt is a strategic tool to improve… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: Good and Bad Debt
Fluid Money Management: How to Retire Early
Have you thought of retiring early? You are not alone: many people have thought about it. The truth is that most of us cannot retire early due to low income or family responsibilities. But if you’re lucky enough to have… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: How to Retire Early
Fluid attends Istanbul Blockchain Week
Last week, the Fluid team attended Istanbul Blockchain Week, three days of product demos, speeches and events. It’s the first event of its kind in Turkey. The recent market turbulence was on everyone’s mind, but Fluid stood out with its… Continue reading Fluid attends Istanbul Blockchain Week
Fluid Money Management: How to Budget on a Low Income
How to Budget on a Low Income It may seem like advice about your finances is for people with higher incomes. You might ask, “Can you budget when you feel like you have no room to make savings?” You can… Continue reading Fluid Money Management: How to Budget on a Low Income
Arbitrum Nitro release date here - Fluid is ready!
Arbitrum Nitro is the long-awaited upgrade to Arbitrum One, the first Ethereum Layer-2 solution that Fluid has integrated with. The Arbitrum network will be upgraded on Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 2:30 PM UTC. As part of this Arbitrum Nitro upgrade,… Continue reading Arbitrum Nitro release date here - Fluid is ready!
Fluid Community Meetups – London
On 12 July, Fluid held a community meetup at the Windmill Pub, Mayfair. Many members of our team, including our CEO, Robert Sharratt, and our CMO, Jessica Walker, attended the meetup, as well as lots of the Fluid community. … Continue reading Fluid Community Meetups – London
Fluid Community Meetups – Kenya
Over the past few months, Fluid Finance has celebrated the launch of our brand new mobile app in various parts of the world. In July, it was time for our official launch event in Kenya. Here’s what happened: Nairobi Our… Continue reading Fluid Community Meetups – Kenya
Announcing: Fluid x Tokenlon Twitter Spaces on 8/3/2022
In today’s world, we need efficient and innovative ways to handle financial transactions. For blockchain technology, this means allowing users to make secure and transparent transactions, without fees. Two contenders, Fluid Finance and Tokenlon, are bringing the biggest evolution… Continue reading Announcing: Fluid x Tokenlon Twitter Spaces on 8/3/2022
How to Get In and Out of Crypto Easily
“Why do I have to pay so many fees when buying crypto? More fees when I want to sell? How come it takes 3 business days to get verified? Why is this so difficult??” We know. It’s a nightmare.… Continue reading How to Get In and Out of Crypto Easily
Fluid Community Meetups – Nigeria and Ghana
Over June we’ve been holding some community meetups and launch parties worldwide to celebrate the launch of our mobile app. Here’s what happened at four Nigerian meetups: Abuja, Lagos, Owerri and Uyo, and one Ghanan meetup. Abuja Abuja’s Fluid Community… Continue reading Fluid Community Meetups – Nigeria and Ghana
Why Banks Don’t Like Your Crypto Earnings
Why Traditional Banks Don’t Like Your Crypto Earnings (And Why We Do) Banks don’t like crypto, and there are a few reasons why. The traditional banking system is directed by a complex framework governing its accounts and users: the cryptocurrency… Continue reading Why Banks Don’t Like Your Crypto Earnings
NFTs and Finance: A Deep Dive into the New World
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are assured to change digital ownership forever. The same technology that allows artists to monetize their creative work like paintings or music, is now being used to streamline financial assets in the banking sector. Have you ever… Continue reading NFTs and Finance: A Deep Dive into the New World
Fluid’s Unique Offering — Why Would You Ever Want to Use an Exchange Again?
This article was originally written and published by Archon. Disclaimer: I am working as a part-time advisor for Fluid Finance SA and am an investor in $FLUID. This statement is intended to disclose any conflict of interest and should not… Continue reading Fluid’s Unique Offering — Why Would You Ever Want to Use an Exchange Again?
The Rise of Stablecoins, Digital Dollars, and Achieving Stability in a Highly Volatile Market
Introduction The growing demand for stablecoins has been relentless since early 2020, when the total market cap was still below $10 billion. Today, stablecoins have become a significant force within the cryptocurrency space and a very polarising topic, especially since all stablecoins together… Continue reading The Rise of Stablecoins, Digital Dollars, and Achieving Stability in a Highly Volatile Market
The Stablecoin Trilemma: Scalability, Decentralization & Maintaining the Peg
Stablecoin Trilemma Designing stablecoins is challenging. Stablecoins are faced with “the stablecoin trilemma” and have to trade-off between various degrees of decentralization, scalability, and control over the peg. Stablecoins are a crucial component of DeFi infrastructure. As more users enter… Continue reading The Stablecoin Trilemma: Scalability, Decentralization & Maintaining the Peg
Vampire attacks: from SushiSwap to DeFi
What is a Vampire Attack? Are we witnessing one take place before our very eyes? A vampire attack, aptly named, refers to when one protocol attracts (sucks) liquidity from another. The most textbook example in DeFi was that of SushiSwap,… Continue reading Vampire attacks: from SushiSwap to DeFi
Politicians Debate Stablecoin Regulation on Senate Floor
Wednesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) focused her attention on stablecoins, debt, and a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC). “We are 28 TRILLION DOLLARS in debt, and both parties sit here and blame each other for… Continue reading Politicians Debate Stablecoin Regulation on Senate Floor
Summary of the Surprise call on 1st Oct, 2021
Robert Sharratt, Nic Duerr, Nikolay Tnuyev, Elsa Schneider, Maxwell Cochrane, discuss recent events & future steps in under 20 minutes, here. On the tech side, the development team has been focusing on resolving support tickets and queries for users, who… Continue reading Summary of the Surprise call on 1st Oct, 2021
Making DeFi More Accessible
The Rise of Decentralized Finance More than one year passed since we were able to witness the “2020 DeFi Summer”, where Compound’s launch of the $COMP token and its subsequent liquidity mining campaign led to a wildfire of new Decentralized… Continue reading Making DeFi More Accessible
Summary of the September 24 AMA
The following is a summary of the topics and events mentioned and discussed during the Fluid Finance AMA, on the 24th of September. The start of the AMA featured Amadeo Brands. Amadeo had been invited to the mainnet conference… Continue reading Summary of the September 24 AMA
Introducing DigitalDollar (DUSD): Real Money, On-Chain
Real Money. On-Chain TL;DR Current stablecoins suck. So do centralized exchanges. So do banks. We wanted to allow our users to go directly from their bank account into DeFi and back, cheaply and fast. Out of this we created DigitalDollars… Continue reading Introducing DigitalDollar (DUSD): Real Money, On-Chain
Why Fluid Finance Deploys to Arbitrum L2
TLDR; Arbitrum is an L2 scaling solution for Ethereum, offering a unique combination of benefits: Trustless security: security rooted in Ethereum, with anyone party able to ensure correct Layer 2 results Compatibility with Ethereum: able to run unmodified EVM contracts… Continue reading Why Fluid Finance Deploys to Arbitrum L2
Fluid Community Progress Update
After many discussions with the community and internally, this is the plan. As we speak, selected community members are signing up for the beta, who have been asked to share screenshots, progress, and feedback with the rest of the community. … Continue reading Fluid Community Progress Update
From Dinosaurs to Teslas, what are Automated Market Makers, the history of DeFi?
The world of crypto may have just become apparent to most ordinary people, but for those truly behind the support and innovation, the world has become evident. However, do you really know the history of how a lot of the… Continue reading From Dinosaurs to Teslas, what are Automated Market Makers, the history of DeFi?
OMGNo! Crypto and women’s sexual pleasure
The failure by Stripe to provide services to OMGYes, a site that offers educational videos in relation to women’s sexual pleasure, illustrates the difference between fintech and crypto. Fintech is the cool, slightly hippie version of the traditional financial system.… Continue reading OMGNo! Crypto and women’s sexual pleasure