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As climate change-induced heat waves present an exceptional crunch on power grids worldwide, an opportunity arises to make lemonade from lemons using the world’s premiere decentralized internet currency.

The U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the consumer price index (CPI), the “inflation number,” for June this week. So macro trends are this week’s featured flavor since CPI wasn’t exactly pretty. From the press release:“Over the last 12 mon

Investors have turned to both gold and cryptocurrency as alternative investments meant to keep their money safe. But how does crypto compare to gold?

What is the future of non-fungible tokens? Will they become more than digital art and collectibles? A couple of experts certainly think so. See Our List: 100 Most Influential Money Experts Small...

While in the era of paper money and the fractional bank system this model mostly worked, the rapid digitalization of finance means that central banks will need to shift to new types of monies and intermediaries as the world evolves to digital and cryptographic forms of currency.

There’s a hopeful meme going around crypto circles in the wake of the recent crypto meltdown.Here’s Bankless writer Donovan Choy’s version in the headline of a newsletter column that tells us “CeFi Broke. DeFi Didn't.” Here’s Pantera Capital CE

Hashdex's exchange-traded products replicating crypto-asset indexes have raised more than $117 million year-to-date.

Yesterday, crypto lending firm Celsius filed for bankruptcy. What we should be concentrating on is what we can and cannot learn from the story.

Let’s rewind back to the March 2020 market crash to get a baseline for how specific assets have performed since then.

Because of the rarity of NFTs, many are bought as soon as they are available, making them challenging to purchase at initial release. But many NFT and cryptocurrency sites have an NFT drop calendar that announces upcoming drops.

If knowledge is power, then crypto’s earliest adopters are blessed with riches and resources in equal measure.

Celsius Network, a crypto lender that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, could stick around in some form, according to one restructuring expert.Ryan Preston Dahl, a partner at the law firm Ropes & Gray LLP, told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” that Ce

The crypto lending meltdown doesn't show any sign of stopping.

Cryptocurrency Market Triples in less than a year from $770B to $2.7T

Wednesday’s U.S. inflation numbers came in higher than Wall Street economists’ expectations, with the overall Consumer Price Index rising a shocking 9.1% over the past twelve months. Total inflation surged in June, up a dramatic 1.3% on a month-to-month basis compared

Nietzsche famously declared, “God is dead” in the 20th century. But nature abhors a vacuum. In the 21st century, brands like SoulCycle have replaced Catholicism as new secular religions in the West.Walk into any SoulCycle in any of the same interchangeable global citi

Polygon (MATIC) is different from many other cryptocurrencies on the market. Rather than running on its own blockchain, matic tokens are traded on the Ethereum blockchain.

What do a 3D TV and a Web3 avatar have in common? No one asked if anyone actually needed these things. While the 3D TV is no longer around, numerous Web3 projects continue to emerge, despite any proof that they actually have everyday utility. If you look at who is building the pr

Fast-growing protocols and ecosystems often have to make trade-offs between horizontal and vertical integration strategies to grow their product offerings and user bases. This is a difficult choice to make

However, the rise of crypto incubators in the past few years came as a boon to emerging businesses and entrepreneurs. By upholding the innovative nature of DeFi and nurturing potential projects, these incubators promise to dictate the next wave of growth in the crypto and DeFi.