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.

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

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

Understanding All-Time Highs (ATHs) in Cryptocurrency

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Which Cryptocurrencies Will Be the Winners in 2024?

Unlock a Smarter Way to Invest in Crypto

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.

What is Cardano?

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

What is Ethereum?

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

What is Solana?

A Beginner's Guide to SOL.

What is Bitcoin?

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

How the Lightning Network scales Bitcoin

Can Bitcoin replace fiat currencies? While some investors doubt its scalability, others see potential in the Lightning Network to make it possible.

Bitcoin Cash: One of the largest cryptocurrencies to emerge from Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the largest crypto by market cap but is also one of the slowest to transact with. This limited its ability to scale and thus Bitcoin Cash was born.

Litecoin: The Silver to Bitcoin’s Gold

Blockchain-based peer-to-peer cryptocurrency for digital payments, Litecoin, aims to resolve Bitcoin's issues by modifying its code to finalise blocks quicker.

PAX Gold: The most powerful safe-haven in over two decades

PAX Gold (PAXG) offers a modern and effortless way to own physical gold. It uses blockchain technology to allow anyone to invest directly in gold without the burden and expense of storage and insurance.

Dogecoin: The Multi-Billion Dollar Meme Coin

No one could have predicted that the dog-meme-inspired crypto asset would become one of the market's most widely used crypto assets today.

Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs)

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

PAX Gold- Setting The foundation for Tokenising Real Assets

Gold, the investment of choice in uncertain times. Owning physical gold is expensive, cumbersome and difficult to move. Thus, a digital version of the traditional commodity was made.

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.

CeFi vs DeFi: What’s the Difference, and Which Do I Use?

Two main ways for people to gain access to crypto assets: through a centralised platform, and through a decentralised platform. But what’s the difference?

What is the ENS all about?

The ENS is a distributed, open and expandable naming system that interacts with the Ethereum blockchain, allowing users to buy and manage their own domains.

How to Make the Most of the Bear Market

In a bear market, many will give in to panic but savvy investors see it as an opportunity. Discover how you can navigate a bear market with these helpful tips.

Update on The Ethereum Merge

Ethereum 2.0: The long-awaited Merge upgrade from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. Will the upgrade cause the price of ETH to rise?

The Web 3.0 Revolution

Imagine a new kind of Internet that allows you to monetise your personal data and transfer value from peer to peer without requiring the permission of any centralised authority. Regarding the evolution of the Internet, we are about to enter a new era. It has been termed Web 3.0. Read more to find out how the evolution of the World Wide Web has led us into a new digital economy.

The world's largest crypto exchange has its own coin, and it's here to stay

As of June 2021, Binance was named the largest cryptocurrency exchange globally, supporting more than 1.4 million transactions per second. Binance Coin (BNB) has consistently remained one of the most popular crypto assets - having a return of over +1,500% since its launch in 2017. One can't help but ask, what makes it unique?

Busting Crypto Myths

With any investment class, it is crucial to do as much research as possible to make informed decisions, increasing your ability to identify facts from fiction.

Factsheets At Your Fingertips

Our monthly Crypto Bundle factsheets provide our investors with information about their constituents and performance.

Diversified Bundles: The Smart way to Invest

Given what we know now, we would have jumped at the chance to invest in internet companies like Amazon and Google back in the 90s. But, back then, picking the...

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.

Cardano, The Waking Giant

Cardano's successful Vasil hard fork on its test network attracts more investors. The ecosystem's general codebase update targets improved resource optimisation and developer-friendliness.

Ethereum 2.0: The Merge with Beacon Chain and Transition to Proof of Stake

Find out about Ethereum’s transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-stake and the upcoming merge with Beacon Chain.

Demystifying DeFi: The What, Why and How

DeFi aims to revolutionise our financial infrastructure, and make life more efficient and fun. Read more about our DeFi Bundle.

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.

What is a Crypto Airdrop?

Airdrops involve crypto projects sending free tokens en masse to their communities in a bid to encourage adoption.

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.

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...

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...

Debunking Myths About Ethereum

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

Can You Remove Some Risks When Investing in Crypto?

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

Debunking Myths and Facts about Uniswap

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

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...

Bitcoin Investing 101: A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin

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

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...

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...

Finding the Next Bitcoin: What to Watch

The world is changing. Your investments should too...

The What, Why and How to Invest in Uniswap

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

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...

Why you Should Diversify your Crypto Portfolio

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

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...

DeFi Explained by Altify Investment Experts

Could you still be an early investor in a network that manages over $200Bn?

Avalanche: The Crypto That Returned 3,460%

Each day we watch the fundamental building blocks of our society change in front of our eyes. A lot of it sounds like science fiction, far…

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...

How to Successfully Invest During a Crisis

Let’s face it: we all have to find somewhere to keep our money safe. To some, that’s under a mattress. To others, it’s in a bank account...

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...

Understanding Alt Season: How Altcoins Top Bitcoin

Just 13 years ago, a whitepaper was circulated on a cryptography mailing list. It proposed a radical alternative to the established concept of currency at a time when...

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...

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...

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?

Acclimatising to Alt Season: How to Invest in Altcoins

Welcome to part three of our series of articles designed to help you understand alt seasons, a stage in the crypto price cycle when altcoins outperform Bitcoin...

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...

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...

5 Investing Rules to Create Long-Term Success

While we have seen a recent pullback in the crypto market, the phrase that continues to ring true is: ”It’s not about timing the market but rather time in the market”...

Crypto’s Biggest Scams Of All Time

Market conditions are rough, and you've probably felt some of the sting lately. (Heck, we all are.) But as bad as it stings to lose money on a sound investment, that feeling is nothing compared to the sheer devastation of falling for a scam.

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.