Investir ou ne pas investir, telle est la question (crypto) … Mais il est vrai qu’elle se pose un peu plus à certaines périodes, que l’on pourrait juger stratégiques… ou pas. Mais alors que l’on assiste à un bear market qui traîne des pieds et qui fait la moue, cette question revient sur le tapis.

Investir en cet été 2024 est-il aussi risqué que de planifier des vacances en Bretagne avec la météo du moment (pardon, du début de printemps ?). Notons déjà que si nous ne pouvons contrôler la météo, nous ne pouvons pas plus contrôler les baisses et les hausses du marché crypto. Ainsi, il n’y a jamais de “meilleur moment” garanti pour investir en cryptomonnaies, leur marché étant intrinsèquement volatile.

Maintenant que l’on s’est dit cela, il existe toutefois certains facteurs suggérant le potentiel qu’offre un investissement intéressant à un moment donné.

Le bear market continue, c’est le moment d’investir en crypto !

Vous n’y croyez pas ? Et bien, si. Le marché baisse depuis plusieurs mois et si l’euphorie a été palpable en mars, les prix sont redescendus. Ou tout du moins, tanguent comme un catamaran au Cap Horn. Ils sont donc généralement plus bas qu’à leur pic. Voilà sans aucun doute une belle opportunité pour les investisseurs d’acheter des cryptomonnaies à des prix plus avantageux. Bien évidemment, dans l’espoir d’une future appréciation. Et si les opportunités se font moins timides, c’est sans compter sur votre goût aiguisé de la recherche ! Voyez plutôt…

Le bear market continue ? C’est le meilleur moment pour penser stratégie d’investissement crypto !

L’été, place au farniente pour certains, avec les vacances qui ralentissent l’espace temps. Pour d’autres, c’est finalement la meilleure période pour penser stratégie et investir bien ou mieux. C’est donc la période propice pour :

• Comprendre les risques encourus avec tel ou tel investissement, d’où viennent certaines fluctuations importantes de prix, si vous risquez d’y laisser vos plumes ou pas…
• Approfondir vos recherches : sortez votre loupe, c’est l’heure de jouer au détective et de fouiner dans les projets (vraiment) intéressants, leurs technologies sous-jacentes… etc. Et puis d’être un peu visionnaire en affûtant votre flair pour investir dans une crypto durable avec ces 7 piliers.
• Diversifier votre portefeuille : Encore une fois… Tous vos œufs dans le même panier… est risqué. C’est le moment de diversifier vos jetons.
• Définir votre plan d’investissement sur les six prochains mois : et potentiellement investir uniquement ce que vous pouvez vous permettre de perdre (toujours en approfondissant vos recherches et en couplant aux différentes prédictions faites sur la période).
• Même chose sur le long terme : pensez investissements durables. Staker est bon pour la santé (de votre crypto wallet). L’investissement en DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging) peut aussi être intéressant, car cette approche permet de lisser le prix d’achat moyen et de réduire l’impact de la volatilité à court terme. Vous investissez un montant fixe à intervalles réguliers, indépendamment du prix. Et au final, vous achetez plus de coins lorsque les prix sont bas !

Le bear market continue ? L’adoption des cryptos aussi !

Le marché baisse, certes. Mais à en voir l’adoption croissante et l’intérêt grandissant pour les cryptomonnaies, ce n’est pas le moment de baisser les bras. Le nombre de détenteurs de cryptos ne cesse de croître, estimés à 300 millions en 2024. Sans oublier l’intérêt des institutions financières traditionnelles (banques, sociétés, fonds d’investissement) qui rendent légitime son adoption… Et l’instabilité politique actuelle qui pousse à l’achat de crypto comme réserve de valeur ou comme moyen de transférer des fonds de manière plus sûre.
Cela suggère une augmentation potentielle de la demande à long terme, ce qui pourrait entraîner une hausse des prix.
Et là, BAM. Ou plutôt BULL. Ça repart !

Le bear market continue ? L’innovation technologique en crypto aussi !

Pendant que les courbes s’endorment, le développement technologique, lui, poursuit son évolution. L’innovation dans le domaine de la blockchain et des cryptomonnaies produit donc de nouvelles technologies et applications prometteuses en cours de développement. Et heureusement d’ailleurs. La valeur générée par certaines cryptos comme le $GALEON continue d’évoluer avec le temps et augmente. Et pendant que l’ours s’endort, le taureau gratte d’impatience au fond du box. Patience, bientôt ses cornes feront à nouveau des étincelles contre la lisse de l’arène…

Été 2024 : Le meilleur moment pour investir en $GALEON

Si vous doutez encore du projet sur lequel investir, nous ne pouvons vous en vouloir. Mais sachez que certains comme Galeon, ont plus de sens et d’impact que d’autres. Déjà parce que Galeon s’inscrit dans le domaine de la santé et a une réelle utilité publique (la santé touche tout le monde !). Si Galeon est un projet sérieux et reconnu par la Haute Autorité de Santé, et se dote de certifications comme l’ISO 27001 et HDS, il a aussi reçu 3 Innovations Awards au CES de Las Vegas.
Galeon rassemble une communauté de plus 40 000 investisseurs, qu’ils soient médecins, soignants, membres hospitaliers et tout autre profil, très impliquée dans l’avenir de la santé et la décentralisation de la science. Détenteurs du jeton $GALEON, ils sont les Pionniers du nouveau système de santé que propose ce projet DeSci.
Devenir membre de cette communauté et investir en $Galeon, c’est participer à l’amélioration du soin pour tous et pour vous, en premier lieu.
Pourquoi ?

• Vous développez la visibilité du projet et sa légitimité afin que de plus en plus de centres de soin rejoignent l’aventure. Et donc que la communauté grossisse.
• Vous aidez Galeon à améliorer les fonctionnalités de son logiciel et donc à se développer pour toutes les spécialités de l’hôpital. Vous aidez donc les soignants à mieux travailler, tous les jours,
• Vous votez pour soutenir des recherches à but non lucratif financées par la DAO de Galeon,
• Vous financez la recherche médicale et aider la médecine prédictive à monter d’un cran.

Investir en $Galeon, c’est donc bien pour vous, pour les soignants, pour l’hôpital, et surtout pour permettre un meilleur accès au soin, au global.

Voilà.
Maintenant, vous savez ce qu’il vous reste à faire, que vous soyez coincé sur votre chaise de bureau, à votre pause déj avec votre collège pénible ou posé sur un transat brûlant au bord de la piscine. Prenez le temps de penser stratégie d’investissement adaptée à votre profil de risque, et ne perdez surtout pas espoir. Cela pourrait justement bien être LE moment pour dire OUI à la crypto.

DeSci, for Descentalized Science. But before we speak about how we decentralize it, let’s talk about traditional science first.

Traditional science is broken

2024, Science is in the hand of few organizations. In fact, governments, big businesses and publishing companies decide whether a scientific project is good for funding and sharable to the world or not. Censorship takes place This is not how science moves forward. And if it is? It gets published and recognized for its seriousness. But if not… the project stays in the shadow, whether it’s really helpful for science or not. And nobody hears from it.

The problem? Scientists are having hard times to get funds. Instead of doing what they are good at (research), they spend their time asking for funds… writing proposals to get research journals attention. There is another problem here. The research or scientific journals themselves. Scientists and researchers share their studies and new discoveries through those media. This is how scientific information (taking the shape of articles or publications) is shared with the rest of the medical world. But of course, it stays within the journals’ hands, again.

How does scientific research basically work?

It’s simple: scientists or researchers send their articles to journals. Editors then send them to a pool of other scientists that are working in the same field to validate them. This is called ‘the peer review process’. Scientific peers give their feedbacks whether it is good enough or not to be published by the scientific journal. Then, the submission of the study is decided. Sometimes, a study could take years to be published.

Unfortunately a trend has been observed: journals tend to publish the most sales worthy studies. They leave bad news on the shelf as they know they would make poor journal sales. Scientists then determine the topic of their research based on that, consequences being that they repeat researches that have already been conducted elsewhere multiple times. But they don’t know about it.

Big companies are complicated to fight against as they control academic publishing and therefore make or destroy scientists’ careers.

Sharing scientific information among scientists is also difficult as the major part of ‘negative’ studies, showing bad results are just not published. Or they could also remain in private database. These non-circulating study results lead to scientists doing the same researches over and over again in different corners of the world, without knowing that their studies have been a success somewhere else. Because results are not made public, money is wasted with test replications and searches costs.

All of this slows science down.

DeSci is a game changer for science progress

Traditional science evolution keeps making its way through, despite the difficulties mentioned above. But scientific information could spread at the speed of light, benefiting humanity.

Open access means that there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing information. It means that people can read it, of course, but also download it, share it, copy it, or print it.

This is when decentralized science has a huge role to play. It makes science collaborative & results at reach for everyone. Because it is decentralized, it would allow a greater speed and spread of discoveries in every scientific fields.

This open process creates a fairer research system. Researchers can ask for more funds. They can seek for open online access to academic information publications or data for instance.

Thanks to DeSci, the next revolutionized industry will be the scientific research.

Blockchain is shaking up traditional science and healthcare industries.

Decentralized Science has started to gain influence and popularity as a movement in 2020-2021 with projects and initiatives conducted by the scientific community. Groups of scientists started exploring the blockchain ecosystem and technologies. They applied decentralized ideas and concepts to improve science towards a more modern one.

Blockchain networks could help funding scientific researches but the sharing of results as well.

DeSci and companies that have started working with it like Galeon all have the same goals:

• Eliminate the reliance on big pharmas or publishing companies,
• Free scientific research through open access to data, studies or publications,
• Ease communication of information and collaboration between scientists all around the world,
• Facilitate research funding.

The room for fast-paced improvements and DeSci promises are big.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations at the heart of DeSci

The DeSci revolution takes place right through DAOs. They are entities or organizations providing a structure to a community, gathered around a specific project they believe in. They collaborate together, participate and contribute to democratic decision-making within this organization.

Applied to science, DAOs gather researchers, scientists, doctors, caregivers, patients but also scientific project investors and other communities that communicate together and propose projects that address urgent community needs. They take democratic decisions about them and collaborate to have them funded and supported by a global network of peers and stakeholders.

Since 2016, Galeon’s DAO gathers a community of 40,000 Pioneers interested in healthcare, blockchain and artificial intelligence. They are patients, caregivers, doctors, scientists, hospitals, innovators, investors, and more. Thanks to Galeon’s blockchain that connects hospitals together and AIs, they allow more medical advancements and the sharing of value within the community around Galeon.

All Galeon’s stakeholders align through blockchain.

Discover more about our DAO on our whitepaper.

The hospital is overwhelmed with data. Whether it is information from occasional consultations or prolonged hospitalizations, caregivers often find themselves managing this data rather than actually providing care to their patients. But not all data is the same. There are certain ways to collect, process, and reuse it that are much more effective than others.

A patient generates an average of 5 letters per day per hospital.

Freeze-frame, an impressive number of patients passing through a hospital over the course of a year. Five letters is the figure taken from one of the hospitals that has integrated Galeon as their EHR system. Still for this same hospital group, we have recorded over 57,000 consultations over the past 3.5 years.

When we scale this to 365 days, it amounts to roughly over 80,000 documents sent to patients. That’s 285,000 over more than 3 years. And since a large majority of hospitals still work on paper… The numbers are simply staggering.

These documents take different forms depending on the country. In France, for example, a medical summary is systematically sent for hospital stays longer than 24 hours. Other documents, such as consultation reports, are sent to the patient’s primary care physician and/or other specialists, and then to the DMP (French Ameli’s shared medical record).

There are also prescriptions, standardized by the HAS (High Authority of Health in France), which have high medico-legal value. Their use is external to the hospital. Other documents are very important, such as the birth declaration. This document allows for the declaration of an individual’s citizenship and the request for their identity papers.

The daily routine of caregivers is tedious. Because while they have to generate numerous documents, they also have to use multiple software programs within the same department to work. In some cases, they have to go through up to 7 signatures just to prescribe a single medication for their patient. With around twenty patients per day (or more), the calculation is quickly done. They simply do not have the time and end up not prescribing the treatment if the patient’s case is not critical.

The Storage of Medical Data in Paper Format Poses a Problem

The staggering numbers obviously do not account for the storage and transportation costs of paper patient files when the archive location is a few kilometres away from the hospital (sometimes 20 km!). These paper files can reach up to 50 pages.
And to retrieve a file?
There are two possible scenarios here:

• Caregivers is lucky and gets the file in 4 or 5 days because it is located within the hospital.
• Or they receive it after more than a week, as it needs to be retrieved from the archive centre… including high courier costs and an ecological footprint as a bonus…

Managing paper becomes a challenge for hospitals. Its consumption is excessive, of course, but it also poses confidentiality issues for health data. Paper files can be easily stolen, lost, or even accidentally destroyed in some cases (e.g., flooding of the archive centre).

Galeon Revolutionizes Hospital Daily Life thank to Medical Data Hyper-Structuring

Reducing the number of letters per patient (or the number of patients altogether) in the hospital seems difficult, if not impossible. However, considerable time can be saved in a caregiver’s daily schedule. This can be achieved by reducing paper management costs for the hospital and systematically auto-generating all these documents based on the patient data entered in each file. So, how is this done?

First, let’s recall that an EHR (Electronic Health Record) stores data and can do so intelligently by hyper-structuring it through artificial intelligence. And it does this in a simple way. This is what Galeon does. Healthcare professionals enter various patient information into the software by following pre-filled protocols within the software.

A major advantage is that this prevents them from having to re-enter the same information multiple times in multiple places, thus reducing errors or omissions. A definite time-saver!

Galeon Structures Medical Data to Auto-Generate Hospital Letters

Galeon goes beyond just embedding protocols within the software. Thanks to its AI-enhanced configuration module, the patient’s name, surname, and other important information are automatically populated into letters, prescriptions, etc., through a system of tags. This data flow is optimized through the structuring of this data.

The documents are auto-generated by the software. They are also customizable according to the needs of each hospital and are also sent to the DMP (Shared Medical Record). For example, for biological results, caregivers can save an average of 2 minutes per patient. That’s a total of 80 days saved over 3 years (for the hospital mentioned at the beginning of the article). This configuration module does not require extensive or special training, as it is not complex to use.

A real plus for everyone.

Imagine you are peacefully sorting your emails at home, when one of them catches your sight. A particular email from your hospital that you have not visited for 3 years and half. This email is not really what we call a ‘positive’ one. With a drop on your forehead, you read. Here lies the news: there was a data leak in the hospital you used to go to. You know it’s bad. But how bad?
Stay with us, we are telling you more about cyberattacks in hospitals and what happens to your stolen data.

Cyberattacks in hospitals are frequent, and their number underestimated.

Figures about cyberattacks are not small ones. For example, in 2022 in France, total cost of cyberattacks held against public institutions and private companies that were a success reached €250,000,000,000 according to Asterès’ study.
Another attack happened on February 10th this year for the Armentières Hospital Center in the north of France within the night. The hospital had to temporarily close its health emergencies’ doors to reorganize its patients’ arrival and their treatments. All the computers were switched off after a ‘ransom demand’ message was sent through the hospital’s printers. Patients were moved to another hospital. As for the maternity service, it was less impacted by this cyberattack, but 130 files had to be printed to follow up 130 patients’ cares. Records that could have been stolen.
Again.
It impacted the hospital for 3 days. 



Sometimes, even insurances refuse to insure surgeons that operate without having the patient’s record available.
Hackers use different methods to attack, but the most often used is phishing (a text message or email is sent, encouraging the person to click on a fraudulent link or to download a file containing a malware). Or they can come directly within the hospital to leave an infected USB key somewhere, for someone to take and try it, out of curiosity.
Then? They could take possession of the healthcare centre’s services, monitor its activities, encrypt their data, or stole them.

Those cyberattacks are scary for those who live them, but also for the triggered patients when they know what could happen with their data.

What happens after a cyberattack?

The hospital usually needs to answer the ransom demand but for public ones, they have no legal right to give money to hackers (the French CNIL’s recommendations it to not pay as the data recovery is not guaranteed). Then, it verifies the security of its IT systems, analyses the attack in details to set up restoration work priorities, with the help of the ANSSI (the national agency in charge of the information systems security).

The CNIL also warns hospitals using not-secured enough EHR, requesting corrective measures for the data treatment. Some special confidentiality treatments can be required for patients from penal institutions.

An important point concerns the tracking of the EHR access. Knowing who logged in, when and what did this person reach is super important. Controls over these accesses need to be done regularly to spot fraudulent usage of the software.

What consequences for your personal data after a cyberattack?

Several consequences could derive from it and there is nothing good here to consider…

• You could receive a tremendous amount of daily spam emails or unknown calls,
• Your personal information are publicly displayed on the internet (first name, name, social security number, medical information like cancer, genetic diseases, consultations summaries, biological exam results, pathologies, …),

• Your bank details are used all type of purchases,
• Your infos are sold on the black market for a significant amount of money (€200 per health record),
• Your stolen passwords are used to create another attack…

Healthcare data is the new gold. The more data you get, the more money you can get out of it.
And the more pathologies the patient has, the more valuable its data will be!

With this data, you could create new treatments, accelerate drug marketing, do predictive medicine, improve diagnosis… etc.

The more value to get, the more money at stake! The first person to find the new treatment for this or that disease will win the market, for instance.
For that matter, it is not important but mandatory for an EHR to provide super secured health data storing solutions, compliant with the evolving legal regulations in a country.

And it’s exactly what @Galeon does with its EHR solutions and its HDS and ISO 27001 certifications. 


Investing during bull run periods takes some strategy

First of all, a quick reminder of what a bull run is: a period where prices are rising within the crypto market. It is also characterized by great upward trends, with the pressure of digital assets sales going down and trading volume going up.

Bull markets usually last from months, even years. Just like bear markets, even if there are many differences between the two.

Let’s keep in mind that if the bull run shows a good dynamic and opportunities for investors to profit from interesting returns, following the trends really closely is mandatory to spot a shift in the tendencies and act in consequences.

And while there are many types of crypto investors, there are also some common crypto investment techniques, met during a bull run market. Stay with me, I’m going to run you through the 7 common methods investors use to invest and do profit.

Get ready to invest during the bull run

If we are not sure we are entering a bull market period yet, there are some things to know like the useful techniques to start investing in crypto. Ready to dive in?

1. ‘The Buy and Hold’ (HODL) technique:
   Typical behaviour? Investors buy digital assets and choose to hold it for an extended period of time to sell it later on, regardless of short-term price fluctuations.
   This is what most of $GALEON holders are doing when purchasing their tokens and staking them.
   Basically, Buy and Hold technique can be paralleled with when your great-great-grandparents bought gold and stack it within their mattress.
   
2. The ‘Dollar-Cost Averaging’ (DCA):
   DCA involves investing a fixed amount of money (weekly or monthly) at regular intervals regardless of the current price of the cryptocurrency. This strategy helps smoothing out the impact of market volatility and can be effective during bull markets to gradually accumulate assets over time.
   It is also a non-stressful technique, it does not require staying up-to-date everyday, and that implies a long-term vision: one has to be convinced the asset will perform in the long run.
   The best way to operate? Defining the total amount you want to allocate to a specific asset during the next 12 months and the frequency of the entries (it could be weekly or monthly entries). Then, you just have to divide this total amount to the number of entries that will be made in the 12 upcoming months.
   Another parallel here would be when you pay for your mortgage: your DCA is organized by your bank for you to invest in real estate.
   
3. The trading method:
   Trading actively involves to buy and sell cryptocurrencies frequently to take advantage of short-term price movements. Investors may use technical analysis, chart patterns, or key indicators to identify entry and exit points for trades. They follow the trends, breakout & momentum trading.
   Compared to the technique above, it is more stressful and requires time to check those indicators and stay on page. You need to choose to build a trading plan in advance, then pick up your best crypto trading platform, and closely monitor your investments.
   For example, an investor could do a prediction on the fall in value of the USD token. Then, he would decide to sell it against Bitcoin tokens. If his prediction was right, he would benefit from this trade. If not because USD would rise against Bitcoin, he would lose from this transaction.
   
    It’s like putting your shoes in Dicaprio’s in the Wolf of Wall Street: buy stocks when they are low and sell them high on a daily basis. But careful here: daily trading is a real know-how! There are no traders that succeed without putting any limits to prevent from unconsidered risks. Every trader knows it. Jerome Kerviel learned it the hard way.
   
4. The leveraged trading:
   Some investors may use leverage to amplify their trading positions during bull market and gain potential return increasing their profits.
   Traders would borrow funds to multiply the potential returns on their investments. In doing so, they can better control a larger position with a smaller amount of cap. But this technique also comes with higher risks, as losses can exceed the initial investments. It is basically trading with others’ money.
   For instance, if he uses a crypto leverage of 5x, it would allow him to control a position 5 times larger than what he invested initially. Let’s say he had $100, he could then open a position of $500 using this leverage.
   
5. The ‘swing-trading’ technique:
   Investors would buy and sell with big parts of their portfolio of digital assets to maximize profits. This technique implies significant risks but can offer opportunities for high returns.
   This technique requires staying up to date with the latest trends within the crypto market: only one bad swing trade, and every past profit goes in smoke!
   
6. The diversification technique:
   Traders would diversify their portfolio across multiple digital assets to reduce risks and also seize opportunities across different market segments.
   Simply put, investors put their eggs in different baskets. They open diverse positions on different digital assets to maximize their earnings while reducing the risk of losing a lot with one or two coins only. They could choose according to:
   – Various use cases,
   – Various blockchains,
   – Sectors,
   – Market caps,
   – Geography…
   
   To give an example here apart from the crypto world, let’s take the oil market: when you buy stocks from different oil companies across the globe, you assume the oil market will go up overall, but you don’t know the particularities of the Venezuelan oil reservoirs. So you invest in several companies to decrease the risk.
   
7. The Staking and Yield Farming technique:
   Some investors may participate in staking or yield farming activities to earn additional rewards or interest on their crypto holdings.
   This requires to lock cryptocurrencies in smart contracts or decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to support network operations or provide liquidity. In exchange, investors get rewards.
   As for Yield Farming, it requires active management: traders provide liquidity to decentralized finance, which comes with significant risks, like impermanent loss, smart contract vulnerability, and market fluctuations…

Whatever the investor type you are and the technique you use, not one of them is more efficient than another. Return on investment is never 100% guaranteed. Let’s keep an eye on the latest trends and prepare efficiently for the next bull run!

Ever heard of the terms bull or bear market on the internet?
Those two words are frequently used in the financial and crypto world. They refer to an upward and downward market trend on the stock exchange and are notions that investors have a closer look at when they manage their investments.

Why bear and bull markets?

A good question indeed.
Why do we use the words bear and bull when referring to markets? Well, in some people’s mind, bear market gives its name to the fact that when a bear attacks its opponent, it uses its claws to bring it down, on the ground. Which directly refers to the decline of prices.
As for the bull market, it refers to a bull’s attack: the animal uses its horns to reach its opponent in an upward direction. Just like the bull market tendency does. 

Now that we have answered this simple question, let’s dive in their own definition to better understand their differences.

What is a bear market?

A bear market in crypto refers to a prolonged period of decline in the price of cryptocurrencies. During a bear market, investors’ sentiment is predominantly negative. This leads to a sustained downward trend in prices across various digital assets.  
And in such market conditions, selling pressure outweighs buying pressure, resulting in a continuous price decrease. Those bear markets show price volatility, where selling volume increases. And if sales go up, then a tendency emerges with a lack of confidence from investors, leading to further declines.
Just like a vicious circle.

Bear market periods can last for a while: from months to years.

They often coincide with broader economic downturns. Due to significant regulatory events within the cryptocurrency industry, for example.

As previous bear market periods, we could mention the cryptocurrency crash of December 2017 where Bitcoin drastically fell from $20,000 to $3,200 in just a few days. A more recent one happened in 2021 where Bitcoin mining had a social, corporate and environmental governance problem and Elon Musk accepted it and banned it subsequently from its payment method for the purchase of Tesla cars.

What is a bull market?

It won’t be a surprise: a bull market is the opposite of a bear market. It is a sustained period of rising prices and overall positive investors’ sentiment within the cryptocurrency market.

During that period of time, optimism widely spreads and buying activity increases.

Investors observe upward price movements across various digital assets.
They get more confident in general about the potential for future growth, which directly encourages further investment and speculation.

Bull markets are typically characterized by strong upward trends, reduced selling pressure, and rising trading volumes.

Certain factors can characterize these periods, such as:

• Favourable market conditions,
• Technological advancements,
• Increased adoption,
• Positive regulatory developments,
• Or significant institutional investment.

Just as for bear markets, bull markets last for years. They often provide opportunities for investors to profit from the appreciation of asset prices.

To quote some bull run periods:

• 2015-2017: Bitcoin price ranged from $200 in December 2015 to $670 in December 2017 due to mainstream media coverage of cryptocurrencies.
•  2020- 2021: from September 2020 to November 2021, demands for digital payment rose and had an impact on cryptos during the COVID-19 pandemic, then was followed by the crypto winter 2022 bear market period.  
  
  There are lots of techniques to invest during a bull run period.

2024 crypto markets: are we entering a new bull run era?

Since the beginning of this year, Bitcoin price has tremendously increased. This could mark the entrance into the bull market with a flow of money, causing a surge in prices.

According to Glassnode, the Bitcoin market cap has increased by 141,2% since December 2023. The Ethereum market cap has increased by +79,4%.

Experienced investors know it. The fact that Ethereum does not outperform Bitcoin is a signal that there is still room for growth in large caps and Altcoins.

Certain Wall Street experts assume that the Bitcoin will reach $100,000 in 2024.

One thing remains steady: investors need to stay up to date as the crypto market seems to slightly wake up.

A revolution in the Healthcare Data Security landscape thanks to AI

In the ever-changing and complex world of healthcare, Galeon has the ambition to combine artificial intelligence & blockchain with healthcare data security. The idea behind here is to protect both patients and hospitals. Galeon has been committed for over seven years to pushing the boundaries of medicine using cutting-edge technologies.

No need to say that our current healthcare sector faces different challenges, such as the working conditions of healthcare professionals, the financial constraints found in hospitals and lack of resources or the increased threats of cyberattacks. In that context, Galeon’s innovative solution brings here a ray of hope. It secures and efficiently hyper-structures sensitive hospital data through an intuitive and advanced Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

This EHR tool allows the confidential storage of:

• Medical histories, 
• Lab results, 
• Diagnosis, 
• Treatments,
• Allergies, 
• And much more. 

It has been so far already adopted by twelve French hospitals. Its aim is to connect all hospital services together on a national and international scale, thus providing unprecedented interoperability between them.

Afnor Group certified Galeon with HDS & ISO 27001 norms

Enhancing security is part of Galeon’s essential technology features. Indeed, as said above, the very main goal is clear: protecting the patient by securing his data, of course with his consent.

To specifically answer this need, Galeon ensures:

• rigorous data access control, 
• automatic backups, 
• and advanced encryption to protect data against cyber threats. 

It’s a fact: when a cyberattack happens, Galeon has already proven its ability to maintain hospital operations thanks to its HDP® (Hacker Defense Protection® system). In case of a local security system intrusion, the software switches to SAFE MODE. However, caregivers can still save lives and do their job. Patients do not have to be moved from a hospital to another. Galeon has also been rewarded at 2024 CES with 3 Innovations Awards, including the Innovation Award for Cybersecurity and Privacy. 

So, Galeon has always been committed to ensuring the protection and confidentiality of healthcare data in an uncompromising way. It is considered as a trusted partner for healthcare professionals and for that reason, it has received HDS and ISO 27001 certifications in last December by the Afnor Group (the French Association in charge of Normalisation).

At the heart of this initiative lies the use of artificial intelligence on structured and large-scale health data, combined with a decentralized collaborative network called Blockchain Swarm Learning® on which IAs are trained. This innovative approach guarantees data security and integrity while preventing any unauthorized copying attempts.

Let’s recall that Galeon was already following a very strict confidentiality and security process, helped by HDS partners that were audited by Orange Security. Afnor have audited the tech company, covering a large amount of aspects (technical, regulatory and practical ones). This certification shows Galeon has a legitimate partner, able to maintain the highest standards in terms of security and privacy for healthcare information.

Why being HDS & ISO 27001 certified is so important?

Both certifications have important meanings.

• The HDS certification (Hébergeur de Données de Santé) is provided by the Afnor Group (Association Française de Normalisation). It plays a crucial role for healthcare data in France. It is designed for entities that monitor sensitive data, such as hospitals (of course), healthcare or software providers.
  Basically, its core objective is to verify that all those entities comply with strict security and privacy standards established by French regulations (spécificaly those outlined in the French Public Health Code (Code de la Santé Publique). These standards are aimed at protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of health data throughout its lifecycle, from collection to storage and transmission.The audit all entities have to go through evaluates various aspects, including access controls, data encryption, backup procedures, staff training, and incident management processes.
  
• Regarding the ISO 27001 norm, it is an internationally recognized framework for information security management systems (ISMS). It provides a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Some of its key roles are as followed:
  
  – Establishing an Information Security Management System (ISMS)
  – Risk Management approach
  – Legal and Regulatory Compliance
  – Enhanced Customer Confidence…
  – And more.

With those 2 certifications, Galeon ‘officially’ answers ethical imperatives met in medicine, embodying the power of technological innovation in the medical field. By unlocking the potential of AI, the company is paving the way for a safer, more efficient, and collaborative healthcare system.

Tell us which crypto strategy you’d like to adopt, and we’ll tell you which crypto investor you are.

First-time investor? HODLer at heart? Crypto gem hunter? There are many categories, and you may belong to more than one of them.

Find out which statuses are most like you.

1/ The beginner crypto investor

Beginner is not necessarily a pejorative term – you have to start somewhere, after all. As you’d expect, the beginning crypto investor doesn’t really know where to start, but felt it was right to invest in crypto at some point.

If you find yourself in this beginner category, it’s a good idea to educate yourself on crypto-related topics and the surrounding news, not least to build your Wallet as well as possible.

2/ The Crypto Early investor

In a similar style to its predecessor, Crypto Early comes at an interesting time in the development of a crypto or technology.

Although he’s aware of the risks and potential stakes involved, this doesn’t mean he won’t take the risk of becoming involved in the project ecosystem.

3/ The crypto expert

The expert crypto investor stands out here because he’s more or less in tune with one ecosystem or another, such as NFT, DeFi or play-to-earn games.

Always on the lookout for the latest projects, he is the reference in the field. But beware: it can be difficult to keep up with him, as he’s always a thousand trains ahead.

4/ The “trader” profile

The crypto trader is a trader all in all who manages his assets in a similar way, even digitally. They know the market and its risks, and prefer to invest for the long term.

5/ The gem tracker

Once gold hunters, gem trackers search the top crypto lists for tomorrow’s nuggets. The idea being that there are so many crypto projects springing up every day, why not take advantage of a potential hype.

The crypto tracker will bet on the period during which the nugget found will increase in value. He will take care to resell everything before the price drops. Bonus to see if you’re a gem hunter: try to list more than 50 crypto projects.

6/ The famous crypto investor HODLer

The aim of a HODLer is to maximize the capital gain realized on the sale of his cryptos. However, he’s in no hurry to sell his assets immediately.

HODLers will tend to bet initially on stablecoins or bitcoins, the anchors of the good investor.

7/ A Whale

The Whale is an old hand in trading and investment. He has earned his reputation and wealth of crypto knowledge through his previous investments. Whatever the method, what counts is his sharp opinion on the matter.

8/ Satoshi’s fans aka the Bitcoin Maximalists

A final category concerns the natives of the first hour, those who followed and continue today to keep the myth alive regarding Satoshi.

Behind the one whose identity we don’t seem to know, we find Bitcoin, the mother crypto among all cryptos, and on which, the purists of the first hour support the movement of decentralization and blockchain technology.

The aim of this article is first and foremost to simplify the technical concepts associated with crypto-currencies, in order to make them accessible to everyone. These comments are solely those of the author. It is not intended as investment advice.

Investing in a sustainable crypto doesn’t necessarily require experience in the business, at least, it’s necessary to take a step back on several points.

Beyond the research aspect of determining which cryptos are promising in the coming months and years, there are a few key elements that will give you confidence in an emerging project.

The question is: what makes a crypto-currency sustainable?

To ensure the solidity and longevity of promising crypto, here are a few important elements.

1/ Sustainable crypto with solid technology

It is supported by robust, innovative technology. We add to this a secure architecture, scalability to meet growing demand and features that meet real user needs.

2/ Widespread use of durable crypto

Widespread use and, what’s more, widespread adoption. A sustainable crypto needs these elements to be viable over the long term. If it succeeds in creating an ecosystem where users, merchants and businesses accept it as a means of payment, this reinforces its value and sustainability.

3/ The power of community

To grow a crypto’s reputation, you need an active community. By “active”, we mean: a community engaged on a daily basis. As a leverage effect, the project does everything in its power to consolidate the ecosystem on which users rely, in particular by resolving potential problems. In fact, it’s this community that supports crypto during periods of Bear or Bull Market.

4/ Focus on security when developing a crypto

Security is paramount to sustainable crypto. Logically, too, since we need to think about the community of investors who have confidence in the project. Hence the need for robust security measures to protect funds from hacking or attacks.

5/ Maintaining transparency throughout the project process

This transparency is expected both in operations and in the surrounding environment. Key information, such as governance, protocol updates and transactions, must be publicly accessible. Feel free to consult the White Paper.

6/ Continuous innovation to adapt to the crypto market

A good crypto project is one that constantly innovates and updates crypto’s functionality and foundations.

The market undergoes regular changes, sometimes expected, sometimes unexpected. That’s why it’s so important to keep abreast of the latest technological advances, so that you can offer continuous improvements to remain competitive and relevant over the long term.

7/ Taking external regulations into account

While this is not the purview of crypto projects, you should always be aware of government regulations and policies. The latter can have a significant impact on a crypto’s lifespan.

Why should Galeon be considered a “good crypto” for the long term?

Galeon is a promising long-term crypto for all these reasons. Solid technology that adapts to maintain a secure architecture with a community that’s growing day by day.

The Galeon ecosystem is an environment based on a single objective: Good for Humanity. that makes sense. Health concerns us all, and improving hospital operations contributes to it. One example is the Buy back & burn concept, which diversifies the way hospitals are financed.

Finally, Galeon remains transparent about the direction of the project. AMAs are organized on a regular basis to keep users abreast of the latest functionalities and the progress of service rollouts in a given territory.

The purpose of this article is above all to simplify technical concepts related to crypto-currency, in order to make them accessible to everyone. These words engage only their author. It is not intended to advise the reader on his investments.

Inspired by the concept of crypto, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a currency issued digitally by the central bank of a sovereign country.

In other words, CBDC is not destined to follow the phenomenon of decentralization unlike the concept of crypto, and what is more, it is regulated.

However, this new form of digital currency will use technologies such as blockchain in its mode of operation.

Having a fixed or variable value, depending on the currency to which it is attached, the CBDC, just like fiduciary money, can be used in transactions by individuals as well as institutions.

So why are governments and banks, in general, increasingly interested in CBDCs?

Beyond the security, speed and transparency of transactions, there are other factors that lead these institutions to consider an CBDC program.

The rise of Bitcoin and decentralization, the response of central banks with CBDCs

In the late 2010s, Bitcoin and other crypto’s are booming. And with this, the very spirit of distribution and exchange of value is called into question, along with the decentralization movement.

This idea that it is no longer central banks or institutions that should control all transactions.

? Cryptocurrency: hype or fact?

In addition to the emergence of a crypto community, the DIEM episode will accelerate things. DIEM is the digital currency developed by Meta (Facebook), before 2020, which aims to enhance the user experience.

The problem is that institutions and central banks have in front of them one of the biggest DATA companies in the world, reaching over 3 billion users.

As a result, DIEM will face a number of hurdles as it moves toward release, some of which are related to regulations.

In the meantime, it was renamed LIBRA, and the problems followed: price stability, confidence from large investors and legitimacy.

Little by little, the project will lose its allies (PayPal or Ebay), and in November 2020, the prospects are reduced to end up being backed by the US dollar.

Thus, we have here, the example of a virtual currency, functioning as a crypto, but which would be managed and controlled by Meta. In fine, a beautiful project, which shows the premises of the CBDC, but which will lose its interest at this time.

However, forced to note that Bitcoin and crypto are more than established, and having already considered the issue of a digital and stable currency, states will launch several test programs.

And that solution is CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency).

Distinctions between CBDC and crypto: centralization, regulation and backing to an existing currency

The main distinction is in their ethics and their mode of operation.

CBDCs are issued by the state as a centralized form of digital currency, while crypto-currencies are decentralized digital currencies, meaning they are not issued by a central authority.

Yes, CBDCs can use blockchain technology, but their centralized form sets them apart.

Thus, central banks can control and regulate the creation, distribution and value of CBDCs, which is not the case for crypto.

And then CBDCs are generally going to be backed by an existing fiat currency and have a fixed or variable value relative to that currency, whereas crypto has a value determined by supply and demand in the crypto markets.

The different categories of CBDCs: use, mode of operation and technologies used

If we do not have the exact number of CBDCs that were created day by day, it is possible to classify them according to several categories.

• How they are used: for retail or wholesale transactions, or for interbank transactions. They can be issued as account currencies, which are held by commercial banks as a form of reserve money, or as payment currencies, which can be used directly by consumers and businesses.
• CBDCs can also be classified according to their mode of operation, such as distributed account system, centralized or decentralized systems. In addition, CBDCs can be based on different technologies such as blockchain, DLTs, open-source technologies and other similar technologies.

Today, although the classification is a bit fuzzy, it is important to remember that CBDCs are considered money because they are issued by central banks and used as a means of payment.

Example of CBDC

While there are no officially issued and used CBDCs in the world today, more than 60 central banks and institutions are trying to establish programs for the future:

• China’s Central Bank (CB) is working on an CBDC program called DCEP (Digital Currency Electronic Payment), which has already been tested in some cities across the country. ? On this point, issues of traceability and control of expenditures are raised .
• The Bahamas CB launched a pilot of its CBDC in 2020, called Sand Dollar, which is currently being tested.
• The Cayman Islands CB is working on a project called Project Sand Dollar, which should be launched soon.
• The Bank of France launched an experimental CBDC program in March 2020, which aims to explore the potential uses of this technology.
• The Bank of England has established a working group to explore the possibilities of creating an CBDC.
• The European Central Bank has also announced that it is studying the possibility of creating an CBDC for eurozone citizens. ♻️ See below on this last point.

Why CBDCs are increasingly developed by institutions: reasons and benefits

There are many reasons for this.

1/ Restore economic activity: by using innovative technologies to carry out transactions (blockchain, DLT…etc), CBDCs can be redistributed directly by central banks to individuals and companies in a faster, less expensive and more secure way.

2/ In times of economic crisis: central banks could thus help governments to provide targeted aid to certain areas or groups of people.

3/ Improve the traceability of transactions: these could be traced, with the possibility of updating in real time the results of an economic activity.

In summary: speed, efficiency of transactions, stability of economic activity, the possibility of acting better in a hurry, transparency of exchanges and cost reduction.

? Of course, these are the reasons, from an objective point of view.

Ecology, an angle to compete with private companies on the development of a green CBDC

Outside of regulatory cases, central banks and institutions are becoming aware of the challenges of the digitization of money and new technologies, with a strong trend towards decentralization.

Within the framework of the EU, the issue is being studied in the direction of the fight against global warming. Thus, the idea currently discussed would be to create an account named “CO2 account”, an account fed with euro-green, a CBDC that rewards the efforts of citizens.

The concept is still under consideration and would be as follows: as soon as emissions or efforts made to this effect are recorded, a Euro-Green will be issued. For example, if a citizen buys an electric bike or a bicycle.

One can imagine the complexity of implementing these measures on a national scale, and moreover, on a European scale. However, this could come to give CBDCan appeal, to possibly stand out from some crypto.

In a nutshell

• CBDCs are digital currencies issued by the central banks of a sovereign country and can use blockchain technology in their operation.
• Central banks can control and regulate the creation, distribution and value of CBDCs, which is not the case for crypto.
• CBDCs can be classified into several categories, including their use, mode of operation, and technology used.
• More than 60 central banks and institutions are currently working on CBDC programs, such as the DCEP in China, Sand Dollar in the Bahamas, and the Sand Dollar project in the Cayman Islands.
• Ecology is also an angle to compete with private companies, with the idea of creating an account called “CO2 account” that rewards the efforts of citizens in the fight against global warming.
• The advantages of CBDCs are speed, efficiency, transparency of transactions, stability of economic activity, the ability to act better in a hurry and cost reduction.