Why Buying Bitcoin During Extreme Fear Can Be a Profitable Strategy

Buying Bitcoin during extreme fear has historically led to strong returns — turn market panic into opportunity.

For SA Investors — Earn an 11% USD Return With Private Credit

ALFI is South Africa’s first legal finance token, offering an 11% USD return backed by secured UK legal loans, making private credit investing accessible.

Why Gold Remains a Smart Investment in 2025

Gold is reaching new highs in 2025 — find out why it’s still one of the safest ways to protect your wealth.

Bitcoin vs Gold: Why Choose When You Can Have Both?

Altify’s Shield Bundle combines Bitcoin’s growth potential with gold’s stability. Optimised for returns and reduced volatility, this investment offers a balanced approach to long-term wealth.

The Power of Versatility: Building Altify in a Dynamic Fintech Landscape

Discover how adaptability and collaboration drive Altify's growth in the fast-evolving fintech landscape.

APY vs. APR: What's the Difference?

APR and APY are often confused, but they mean different things. Here’s a quick guide on what they are, when to use each, and examples using USDT as the base currency.

Which Cryptocurrencies Will Lead the 2025 Bull Run?

The cryptocurrency market is primed for growth in 2025, fueled by sectors like DeFi, AI, and memecoins.

Tokenising Legal Finance (ALFI) with the Liquid Network

Discover why Altify selected the Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain developed by Blockstream, to tokenise the Legal Finance Token (ALFI).

From Monolith to Microservices: Altify’s Journey to a Future-Proof Investment Platform

Discover how Altify transformed its investment platform from a monolithic system to a microservices architecture.

Understanding Altify’s Risk Ratings for Smarter Investing

Learn about Altify’s risk rating system which helps investors assess the risk of private credit investments, using a 1 to 5 scale.

Fenchurch Legal: Secured Litigation Financing for Small Law Firms

Learn more about how Fenchurch Legal specialises in secured loans for small law firms handling consumer claims, providing funding for pre-litigation expenses like court fees and expert witnesses.

Investing in Legal Finance: A Unique and Lucrative Sector

Learn more about legal finance, a unique investment where investors fund legal cases in exchange for potential settlement shares, offering high returns and low market correlation.

Navigating Tax Basics: A Guide to Cryptocurrency and Personal Tax Management

This guide explores the basics of cryptocurrency taxation for individuals in South Africa.

The Irreplaceable Value of Human-Driven Customer Support in a Digital Fintech World

Altify blends AI technology with human empathy to deliver personalised, efficient customer support, fostering trust and loyalty in the fintech space.

What Is Fetch.ai (FET)? A Beginner's Guide to Fetch.ai

Discover Fetch.ai (FET), an AI-powered blockchain network designed to optimise industries like finance, supply chain, and smart cities.

Understanding All-Time Highs (ATHs) in Cryptocurrency

Unlock insights for smarter crypto investments with the new All-Time High (ATH) View.

A Beginner's Guide to Toncoin (TON)

Explore The Open Network (TON), a scalable blockchain platform with flexible smart contracts and a growing ecosystem powered by Toncoin.

A Beginner's Guide To Aptos

Discover Aptos, the decentralised, scalable Layer-1 blockchain supporting decentralised application.

What Is Bitcoin Ordinals (ORDI) and How Does It Work?

Discover Ordinals (ORDI), the pioneering BRC-20 token that revolutionises Bitcoin with NFT capabilities.

What Is The Graph and How Does It Work?

Learn more about The Graph (GRT) is a decentralised indexing protocol that organises and queries blockchain data.

Introducing 2 New Crypto Tokens: Maker & Book of Meme

Altify launches Maker (MKR) and Book of Meme (BOME).

Exploring the New Crypto Assets on Altify Platform

Learn more about our 5 new listings: Pendle (PENDLE), Jupiter (JUP), Bonk (BONK), Injective (INJ), and Stacks (STX).

Exploring the Benefits of Private Credit

Altify is gearing up to broaden access to private credit investments, a multi-trillion-dollar asset class.

Expanding Horizons: Introducing Five New Rapidly Growing Cryptocurrencies to Our Platform

Explore our latest additions to the platform: five fast-growing cryptocurrencies, each offering unique innovations and investment opportunities.

Altify Launches 5 New Crypto Assets

Altify Launches Fantom (FTM), THORChain (RUNE), Arweave (AR), Lido (LDO) and Arbitrum (ARB)

A Beginner's Guide To Internet Computer

Discover the Internet Computer (ICP) Protocol, a groundbreaking decentralised 'World Computer' blockchain designed to revolutionise online services.

A Beginner's Guide to Filecoin (FIL)

Discover Filecoin: Revolutionising storage with decentralisation and security through blockchain, redefining data storage in the digital age

Tips to Enhance Security on Your Altify Account

Mastering Account Security: Your Essential Guide to Cyber Protection

Why Memecoins Could Outperform This Cycle: The Driver Of A Digital Movement

Uncover why cryptocurrency meme coins like Pepe (PEPE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) might stand out in this cycle. Learn how they reflect a cultural shift challenging the financial norm.

A Beginner's Guide To Shiba Inu (SHIB)

Dive into the world of Shiba Inu (SHIB) and learn how this viral Ethereum-based meme coin is challenging Dogecoin (DOGE) with its rich ecosystem featuring its own Layer-2 blockchain, decentralised exchange, and thriving NFT market.

How Altify Calculates Its Cryptocurrency Prices

Are you getting the best price when buying and trading assets? Altify's Smart Trade System saves you from manual crypto price comparison. Read more here

A Beginner's Guide To Pepe (PEPE)

Dive into the world of Pepe (PEPE) and learn how this Ethereum-based meme coin, inspired by 'Pepe the Frog', transcended its comic origins to become a viral crypto sensation.

Altify Launches 6 New Cryptocurrencies

Altify introduces 6 new cryptocurrencies: Filecoin, Render, Internet Computer, Near Protocol, Shiba Inu, and Pepe. Explore these innovative assets for fresh investment opportunities.

Navigating The Bitcoin Halving & The Roadmap to $150,000 a BTC

From scarcity to skyrocketing prices, Bitcoin's halving is a game-changer. Find out how this programmed event could drive the price of Bitcoin (BTC) to over $150K.

Altify Authorised for Crypto Assets

RVX SA Capital (Pty) Ltd - an existing Category I and II Financial Service Provider (FSP) - is now additionally authorised as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP).

Which Cryptocurrencies Will Be the Winners in 2024?

Unlock a Smarter Way to Invest in Crypto

Maximise Your Crypto Investments With Effortless Dollar-Cost Averaging

Shift your focus from trading to investing; embrace Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) with Altify's Recurring Buys for a disciplined, stress-free approach to long-term crypto investment.

What Benefits Does Altify's Smart Trade System Offer?

Altify's smart trade system transforms your crypto trading experience with the best prices across global exchanges & optimises for large-scale transactions

The Art of Rebalancing: Why Alfity Crypto Bundles Thrive on Adjustments

Is a Crypto Bundle the same as an Index Fund or ETF?

Discover how Crypto Bundles are changing the investment landscape, offering a unique alternative to traditional ETFs and Index Funds.

Bitcoin's ETF Era

Analysing The Recent BTC Sell-Off and Predicting a Future Gold-Like Surge.

Revix, Coinpanion & BitFund Join Forces to Form Altify

Newly formed Altify will offer broader investment avenues for South African investors.

What is Cardano?

A Beginner's Guide To The Revolutionary Third-Generation Blockchain.

Crypto Unlocked: Navigating the High Rewards and Risks of Digital Investing Webinar

Read about our latest webinar where Sean Sanders offers valuable insights for everyday investors and wealth managers who are curious about the potential rewards and risks of investing in cryptocurrencies. A recording of this webinar is included in this piece.

Our Secret Sauce: A Glimpse into Our Core Values and What Sets Us Apart

Altify's Head of People, Simonn du Plooy, takes a look at their core values and what makes Altify “tick”.

What is Solana?

A Beginner's Guide to SOL.

What is Ethereum?

A Beginner's Guide to the World's Largest Smart Contract Cryptocurrency.

What is Bitcoin?

A Beginner's Guide to the World's Most Popular Cryptocurrency.

Polygon: Ethereum’s largest and most successful scaling solution

An easy-to-use layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, Polygon provides Ethereum users with improved speed and reduced costs.

You’d still be an early crypto adopter if you invest in 2022

Now that crypto is becoming more mainstream, is it possible that you missed the boat?

Gold-Backed Crypto Assets, How Did We Get Here?

Certain assets offer protection against the risk of rising inflation. To this day, gold still holds the crown as the most successful inflation hedge in history.

Can Ethereum overtake Bitcoin?

Ethereums vision is to offer more use cases and programmability than Bitcoin. While BTC remains the market leader, can ETH eventually overtake it?

Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs)

UTXOs (unspent transaction output) - the output of a transaction that a user receives and can spend in the future.

What does the Liquid Network mean for Bitcoin?

The Liquid Network has emerged as a popular solution for scaling the Bitcoin network and adapting it to enterprise needs.

Closing the Gender Gap. Meet the Face at Altify who Leads Transformation

Creating a diverse workplace takes hard work and accountability in order to be successful. Read more about how we are closing the gender gap at Altify.

The Latest on Crypto Regulation in South Africa

The South African crypto industry welcomes the introduction of regulations.

Inflation is No Match for Our Shield Crypto Bundle!

Our team at Altify developed a one-of-a-kind bundle that offers you inflation protection, as well as, the upside potential offered by cryptocurrencies.

A Bitcoin ETF: What Does it All Mean?

This past Sunday, October 18th, it was confirmed that the USA’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would not block the very first Bitcoin-based ETF.

Why Wealthy Millennials Love Bitcoin

Wealthy Millennials' love affair with crypto is burning red-hot right now...

Will Ethereum Remain the Second Largest Crypto?

Smaller cryptocurrencies like Polkadot and Cardano are challenging Ethereum's dominance in the general purpose blockchain space...

Debunking Myths and Facts about Uniswap

Uniswap is both, a cryptocurrency and a decentralised exchange...

Can You Remove Some Risks When Investing in Crypto?

Yes, by building a balanced portfolio that helps spread some of the risks...

Debunking Myths About Ethereum

We want to shed some knowledge about one of the top-performing cryptocurrencies.

Where Are The Market Returns Coming From?

Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, have come a long way as there are now over 5,000 digital currencies in existence...

Bitcoin’s Competing Against Innovation

It’s why you need a diversified crypto portfolio...

The Ethereum Killer that No-One is Talking About

While Solana grabs all the limelight, Binance is slowly growing in the shadows...

5 Things to Consider When Investing in Crypto

‍Investing in cryptocurrencies has become a controversial and much talked about topic; one of the biggest arguments for investing...

Why you Should Diversify your Crypto Portfolio

Investing in bitcoin alone is a sub-optimal strategy...

Why Solana is 2021's Top Performing Cryptocurrency

The new crypto kid on the block that’s eating everyone’s lunch...

Why Bitcoin’s Design Makes it More Valuable

The rand turned 60 this year. It’s a sobering thought but a basket of goods costing R100 in 1961 would today cost R9 700. Compare that to the deflationary power of bitcoin...

There’s A Lot More To Crypto Than Bitcoin…

‍Here’s how to invest in the weird and wonderful world of crypto...

The Top 10: An Easy Fix to A Complex Market

Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009, blockchain technologies and, in turn, cryptocurrencies have seen enormous growth...

The What, Why and How to Invest in Uniswap

Uniswap is the largest decentralised exchange (DEX) in the crypto space...

Connecting The Dots For Polkadot

Connecting the dots is actually very apt when we’re talking about the blockchain platform Polkadot and its cryptocurrency DOT...

Blockchain, A Bigger Deal Than The Internet?

Ah yes, the Blockchain, a word that’s become synonymous with most of the leading digital innovations taking the world by storm today...

Bitcoin Investing 101: A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin

The burgeoning realm of blockchain and cryptocurrency can seem complicated and overwhelming at first...

What Has Outperformed Bitcoin?

Crypto has outperformed all other asset classes over recent years but it’s not just a story of Bitcoin’s growth...

Understanding the Flow of Money in Crypto: Part 1

It’s becoming more difficult by the day to deny that Bitcoin seems set for a meteoric climb back to all-time price highs. A perfect storm of almost universally positive...

Turn your Crypto FOMO into Smart Investments

2021 was a big year for cryptocurrencies. In mid-November, the asset class reached a monumental $3Tr. The hype was palpable worldwide as crypto...

Stop Inflation from Stealing your Spending Power!

The last few years have been hard. The global pandemic forced us into some challenging changes...

DeFi: The Crypto Changing the way we Bank

We’re all feeling the belt-tightening effects of the recession in South Africa. Covid was not kind to our economy or our bank accounts. At the same time, inflation...

The Crypto Revolution Disrupting Finance

Throughout history, financial intermediaries have connected buyers to sellers, enabling the exchange and transfer of products and money that make up markets...

Understanding the Flow of Money in Crypto: Part 2

Welcome to part two of our series of articles designed to help you understand the flow of money through different types of cryptoassets...

Understanding the Flow of Money in Crypto: Part 3

Welcome to part three of our series of articles designed to help you understand the flow of money through crypto investments. We examine historical trends...

DeFi Growth Set to Break $250Bn Dollar Highs in 2022

The crypto markets have survived some of the toughest economic conditions in a generation, with a global pandemic, conflict, and record inflation crammed into three years...

Crypto vs The Fed: What you Need to Know

Regardless of bull or bear markets, Bitcoin has returned over +27% a year for any 5 year period in its history. On Wednesday the 5th of January, the US Federal Reserve...

DeFi: Invest in the Future of Personal Finance

When was the last time you were excited about the interest on your savings account or loan rates? Do you think the fees you pay for your banking services are worth the...