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Crypto for Advisors: Digital assets outran stocks and gold in Q3
8.10.2026
Crypto Long & Short: Zcash and the case for privacy in the age of AI
7.10.2026
AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t age out. Michael Zhao of Grayscale Research explains how Zcash’s shielded transactions address this problem, and why close to 29% of all ZEC ever mined now sits in...
Crypto for Advisors: The CLARITY Act failed, but the rules came anyway
1.10.2026
Crypto Long & Short: What will the AI agents run on?
30.9.2026
Crypto for Advisors:The hidden costs of holding your own bitcoin
24.9.2026
Crypto Long & Short: Inside the chain settling $150 billion of stablecoins a week
23.9.2026
Tron launched as a content-distribution project and has become the settlement layer for a large share of the world's USDT, processing roughly $150 billion to $190 billion of stablecoin transfers a week. Josh Olszewicz of Canary Capital breaks down how the network's economics work and what...
Crypto for Advisors: Beyond bitcoin and ether
17.9.2026
Crypto Long & Short: Six signs a crypto winter is ending
16.9.2026
Crypto for Advisors: Hyperliquid and the future of finance
10.9.2026
Crypto Long & Short: Inside the 300-to-1 onchain gap between the dollar and euro
9.9.2026
Ryan Connor of RockawayX writes that the dollar leads the euro about 3 to 1 across the offchain economy and more than 300 to 1 onchain. Euro-pegged stablecoins total €711 million, under 1% of supply. He traces the gap to path dependency and missing euro DeFi infrastructure, and argues...
Crypto for Advisors: Why crypto earnings reports can be misleading
3.9.2026
Crypto Long & Short: Crypto VCs are mistaking consensus for discipline
2.9.2026
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Varun Datta of Truth Ventures writes that crypto venture capital's retreat to later-stage deals is a consensus trade dressed as discipline. With proven companies taking 57% of last quarter's capital, he argues the founding-stage gap is where the returns are,...
Crypto for Advisors: How staking on Ethereum is changing in 2026
27.8.2026
Crypto Long & Short: Tokenized equities: the model underneath the trade
26.8.2026
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk's Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more than $590 billion in perpetual futures in a single year, but that the headline growth hides the question that matters most. Two tokens can trade under...
Crypto for Advisors: What are tokenized deposits?
20.8.2026
Banks are moving deposits on-chain using permissioned systems, not open ones. See why privacy and compliance dictate this path in this week's newsletter
Crypto Long & Short: Where DeFi yield really comes from (and why it broke this spring)
19.8.2026
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Solstice Finance's David Plisek argues that most of the money lost in DeFi this spring wasn't taken by hackers but by yield strategies that quietly stopped working. Looking at April's $13 billion drawdown, he shows that a headline yield number reveals almost...
Crypto for Advisors: The crypto advice gap
13.8.2026
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Crypto Long & Short:
12.8.2026
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, LMAX Group's Jenna Wright argues that markets break down not from too little capital but from capital stuck in the wrong place, trapped by settlement cycles while risk reprices by the minute. She makes the case that stablecoins and tokenization are quietly...
Crypto for Advisors: Europe's crypto rules, U.S. Preview
6.8.2026
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Crypto Long & Short: Putting the bitcoin sizing question to the test
5.8.2026
In a follow-up to his essay on sizing crypto risk, Lionsoul Global's Gregory Mall backtests bitcoin in a 60/40 across bull, bear and sideways regimes, showing how a straight bitcoin position, a large-cap basket and a trend-managed sleeve part ways and why the way you hold bitcoin can matter as much...