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Trying to figure out whether crypto is here to stay isn’t as simple as tallying up the industry’s wins or losses. For a while there it genuinely seemed possible that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could wipe crypto off the map (maybe with the help o

One important consideration for any digital asset investor allocating money to alternative coins is tokenomics. For the uninitiated, tokenomics refers to the economic and financial aspects of a cryptocurrency or project’s ecosystem. It encompasses the design, creation, dist

BlackRock’s (BLK) recent filing for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sparked renewed institutional interest in spot bitcoin ETFs. The development seems only to have increased divisive discussions on crypto-related financial ins

Despite the billions of value and millions of users, many people are still looking for crypto’s “killer use case” and wondering if the one-true solution exists at all. What they fail to understand is that innovation is a process of novelty search and consequent

We speak with Dan Edlebeck, head of Growth at Phi Labs, about why investments in the infrastructure in the crypto and blockchain spaces are critical.

When AI meets Tokenization, the integration of the two supercharges their implementations and applicability – and not to mention opportunities – exponentially.

Last month’s votes by the House Financial Services Committee and House Committee on Agriculture on the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT Act) was a milestone for the digital assets industry.While not yet perfect, the FIT Act is the most compr

Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy’s founder and executive chairman, has seen his bold bet on bitcoin vindicated as BTC’s price has risen dramatically since his resignation as CEO.

Despite fighting what must be an incredibly cost-draining battle against the top U.S. securities regulator, Coinbase (COIN) is in a period of fluttering activity. Last week, the biggest publicly traded crypto company launched a new blockchain, Base, which has seen a surprising am

Behind closed doors, global economic leaders called for global coordination on crypto regulation, rat her than have nations attempt to ban the industry.The meeting, held under Chatham House rules, took place as India wraps up its presidency of the Group of 20 nations.Leading econ

You know times are interesting in crypto when some of the most enthusiastic founders and developers are wholeheartedly agreeing with criticism. At EthCC, the community-led Ethereum conference held in Paris, France this year, I gave a speech titled “Crypto is a Theater Right

There’s a new game-changing trend in the digital finance landscape. Liquid staking is a concept that's quickly establishing itself as a cornerstone of Decentralized Finance (DeFi).

Update: Judge Lewis Kaplan has now revoked Sam Bankman-Fried's bail and returned him to jail.Sam Bankman-Fried spent 2021 and much of 2022 talking himself into the role of a cryptocurrency mogul. A court hearing today will decide whether he has now talked himself from cushy house

This week, Rep. Maxine Waters, (D-California) declared she was “deeply concerned” with payments giant PayPal (PYPL) for launching a stablecoin under the New York Department of Financial Services regulatory framework before federal legislation addressing such crypto in

I didn’t really have anything prepared to write about this week, but the Department of Justice is on it. Prosecutors told the judge overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial that they intend to fold campaign-finance allegations into a wire fraud charge, after anno

If you go by a handful of headlines and chatter on Crypto Twitter, you might think that the largest publicly-traded crypto exchange Coinbase now thinks bitcoin is about as valuable as a Beanie Baby. And forsooth, good man, woman or human! It is a comparison the exchange drew, in

Money doesn't make the world go round; credit does. Credit predates any known form of currency and was in use at least as far back as the ancient civilization of Sumer around the year 3500 B.C.E. In Sumer, citizens could get loans for agricultural purposes, later paying these bac

Binance’s options in Europe seem to be narrowing as evidenced by a recent string of withdrawals and rejections from local regulators.With the EU’s crypto regulation MiCA set to take effect in the next year or so, the firm only needs to be licensed in one member nation

A Barbie doll is like a virtual reality (VR) headset. Both are made of plastic. Both are mass-produced retail products. And both have had the absolute crap marketed out of them in the name of consumerism. But also, both are gateways through which humans have found the capacity to

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve JobsOn August 7, 2023, PayPal announced that they were launching PYUSD. In five years, we will look back at this exact moment and realize this was the beginning of the turn in history. Why do I