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In 2020, as U.S. presidential candidates squared off, the mob of Democratic hopefuls sought to separate themselves from the pack. As part of his bold campaign for fixing imbalances in the economy, Andrew Yang didn’t shy away from predicting cryptocurrencies may have a usefu

The European Union is set to be the first major jurisdiction in the world to agree how to regulate the digital asset sector, via its Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA).Under the recently agreed text, providers of crypto services – which means anything from trading t

The U.S. election is next week. Control of the Senate and House of Representatives is up for grabs, not to mention state legislatures and governorships. The crypto industry is playing a bigger role in 2022 than it did in 2020, but still not a large enough role to apparently matte

A long-term BBC investigation has discovered new and shocking details about one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of all time. OneCoin, which fraudulently branded itself as a cryptocurrency, appears to have received significant support from high-ranking government leaders in both the

The saying “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it” is intended to underscore the idea that tone and confidence can (at least sometimes) take you further than the words you use. Although that may be true in certain instances, that is not true when spea

How quickly things can change in the cryptoverse.

Twitter could be a $10 billion bird. That’s if Elon Musk can quickly transform the struggling social media giant into a super or ‘X’ app, a process he expects his $44 billion acquisition will help accelerate.

Ethereum’s highly publicized recent update, “the Merge,” radically changed how the second-biggest blockchain network works by eliminating its reliance on cryptocurrency miners and dramatically reducing its energy costs. The network’s next upgrade, “S

HONG KONG — On Monday, at the opening of Hong Kong FinTech Week, regulators declared the city’s ambitions to be a virtual asset hub. The government announced that it will hold consultations for allowing retail investors to invest on licensed platforms and is open to c

Elon Musk is now “Chief Twit” after taking Twitter private last week, and the transition period seems as wracked with uncertainty as the months-long buyout negotiations. Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla and of SpaceX, has brought on a number of advisers with familiar fa

A few weeks ago, I went down to Miami to speak to hundreds of marketing professionals at Adweek’s annual Brandweek summit. They planned a day dedicated to Web3 and the metaverse, the latter of which still seems to confuse many. What follows are the key tenets of the present

When the Terra system and its UST algorithmic stablecoin collapsed in May, it triggered a meltdown in the crypto world that has been compared with the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. Some people called Terra/UST “Crypto’s Lehman.” Others think the crypto fund Th

A mountain of crypto riches can’t automatically purchase a seat in Congress. But, for many campaigns winding their way toward the U.S. midterm election next week, it certainly doesn’t hurt.This year’s elections mark the first wave of races in which industry dona

Go around the room at any highbrow crypto gathering and ask what the suited participants are most excited about. The answer you’ll most likely hear is “regulatory clarity.” They’re not wrong – it would indeed be a boon to the industry as it would giv

In 2023, Litecoin will be experiencing its third halving event, undergoing a 50% reduction in the amount of newly minted Litecoins.

Across the world, people are losing trust in the institutions that underpin society. Any thinking person can see the institutions of governance, finance and money are corrupt, incompetent and yet unavoidable.As a result, the world is in a continued state of crisis, gyrating from

In September, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) brought two actions against bZeroX, its two co-founders and the Ooki decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and underlying regulations.

Sometime in the (Eastern time zone) evening on July 25, 2021, was the start of a magical run for bitcoin, punctuated by a late night 5% jump (noted by the yellow arrow in chart below). Bitcoin was in the mid-$30,000s range at the time, but by November it had reached an all-time h

Electric car mogul/aspiring Martian Elon Musk took over Twitter. This could mean a lot for free speech online, or not. We just don’t know. Here’s an attempt at parsing his statements and actions over the past few months.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk

As web3 founders and builders brace themselves for continued volatility during this current downturn, let’s be reminded that the cyclical ebbs and flows of market prices or market capitalization, although important, are not the only metrics to determine success.