News & Updates
Welcome to The Mode Blog. Here you will find the latest news on Mode, its products and the crypto industry!

An open letter from Mode
On Wednesday last week, we announced that we allocated a significant portion of our cash reserves to purchase Bitcoin and adopt it as a treasury

Here’s why we decided to build the Mode app
We founded Mode with a vision: to build a next-generation banking ecosystem for the decentralised economy — integrating the best attributes of traditional and digital finance. Thus,

Bitcoin: Gold reimagined for the 21st century
Article first published in City AM on January 28th 2020. When Satoshi Nakamoto first described Bitcoin in 2008, there was little way of knowing what a behemoth

Bitcoin is like investing in gold… but better
People love to make comparisons between Bitcoin and gold, and the term ‘Digital Gold’ to refer to Bitcoin is being used more and more. While

How to explain Bitcoin to your best friend
Bitcoin. It’s that thing that got that annoying guy you met at a dinner party a new Ferrari. Or the thing you heard you can buy penguins with

We are launching the Mode app
We are excited to announce we have opened the waiting list for our soon-to-be-launched crypto banking mobile app, designed to make cryptocurrencies, and all their

Introducing Mode: The platform delivering the financial products of tomorrow
For over a decade, the rise of digital assets has been a source of global fascination. Since the original bitcoin whitepaper was released in 2008,

Mode’s parent company R8 Limited raises $5m and appoints Twitter founder to its board
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, appointed to R8’s Board ahead its intention to seek an IPO in London. Mode’s parent company R8 Limited (R8) today announced