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In a desperate attempt to stay relevant with crypto-curious audiences, marketers around the world are FOMOing into the metaverse trend, experimenting with everything from branded non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles, to virtual shops and offices, through to issuing their very ow

The past couple of weeks have been some of the most tumultuous in the history of crypto. As the broader cryptocurrency and equity markets have plunged into bear market territory, the price of ether (ETH) has collapsed to numbers we haven’t seen since 2021. Meanwhile, Terra&

In the wake of Terra’s UST collapse, stablecoin issuers may soon have to grapple with stricter auditing protocols as investors look for more clarity.Alexandre Lores, director of blockchain market research at Quantum Economics, said stablecoin issuers like Tether, the issuer

Ted Cruz, the Republican U.S. senator for Texas, said he wants the Lone Star State to be an “oasis on planet Earth for bitcoin [BTC] and crypto." He said that, reiterating previous support for the state’s mining industry, during a keynote address at a Heritage Foundat

What is Star Atlas?Star Atlas is a space-themed, multiplayer gaming metaverse based on the Solana blockchain. It was developed by Automata and allows players to “team up, organize, and fight their way into unknown territories,” its economic paper states.

The metaverse is probably overvalued.We’ve seen funding in metaverse companies balloon to $12.1 billion in 2021 from $5.9 billion in 2020, according to Crunchbase. It’s hard to say if valuations are lofty even if most projects don’t have a working product. The c

In an increasingly crowded field -- with exchanges, apps and banks fighting for a slice of the crypto pie -- a new sector is also emerging to offer crypto trading. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platforms...

The metaverse isn’t just about making realistic virtual experiences, but in enabling hyperreal ones. This is the process of creating personalized content based on data, or the things people do and say and what that reveals about them.In some sense, the hyperreal isn’t

Amid an increasingly crowded field, GameStop launched a beta version of its digital asset wallet, which allows gamers and others to store, send, receive and use cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The move...

CSDs play a mission-critical role in capital markets infrastructure by providing registry, safekeeping, settlement, and asset servicing, such as corporate action processing, for financial instruments.

Every so often a figure arises who so perfectly encapsulates society’s great flaws, humankind’s natural greed and our cross-cultural tendency to scapegoat our problems. That person is divisive, obviously. But also strangely beloved.Martin Shkreli, 39, the former hedge

The metaverse will allow us to do things we cannot do in reality, much as video games do. We can destroy things and kill people without fear of punishment or retribution. We can be risqué and push cultural and societal norms beyond traditional boundaries, cloaked by anonym

As stocks tumble toward a bear market, cryptocurrencies and even entire exchanges are crashing right alongside them. The stock market, however, has history on its side. Bull markets fall into bear...

In this piece, we discuss important elements of both blockchain equities and bitcoin futures, and why we believe combining these two exposures in one fund can provide an efficient and comprehensive approach to the blockchain and digital assets theme.

Investing in Bitcoin isn't the only way to get in on the blockchain action. These top blockchain stocks are less expensive but still packed with potential.

As powerful long-term trends continue to evolve and disrupt vast segments of the global economy, we believe it is increasingly valuable to see and evaluate these themes in action.

After the People’s Republic of China carried out its harshest-ever ban on bitcoin mining in 2021, Bitcoin’s hash rate plummeted; however, new data suggests that production in China has quietly been roaring back to earlier levels.

​​In his seminal novel “Ready Player One,” author Ernest Cline describes a grandiose virtual reality where people spend the majority of their time, offering an escape from a reality battered by social, economic and political strife.This is a world where di

In October 2008, a mysterious whitepaper touting a potentially revolutionary monetary concept made its way to a cryptography mailing list

Every year on May 22nd, the crypto community celebrates the anniversary of the first real purchase with bitcoin – two pizzas that would change the history of payments, inspiring projects, platforms, and exchanges to make crypto truly useful.