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Stablecoin Legislation Must Ensure Financial Privacy
24.4.2025
Lawmakers designing stablecoin legislation must ensure that anti-money laundering measures don’t open the door to unfettered financial surveillance of stablecoin users, says Cato Institute’s Jennifer J. Schulp
Will Canada Lead on Digital Assets?
24.4.2025
Canadian voters, who go to the polls April 28, have shown that they want their government to act on crypto, says Dean Skurka, CEO & President of WonderFi. The question is whether politicians will follow the U.S. and Europe in creating a more favourable environment for blockchain development
Canada’s Blockchain Advantage: Small Enough to Move Fast, Big Enough to Matter
23.4.2025
Whoever wins the election April 28, Canada has the talent, history, and agility to become the first G7 nation to fully embrace a blockchain-forward future
Death by a Thousand Pools: How Liquidity Fragmentation Threatens DeFi
23.4.2025
Securing sustainable liquidity will be essential for DeFi's future, says Jason Hall of Turtle Club
Hedge Funds Going On-Chain: The “Indexification” of Active Strategies
23.4.2025
Crypto’s influence is expanding from individual assets to the very structure of asset management, says L1’s Miguel Kudry
The AI Monetary Hegemony: Why Dollars, Crypto, and Autonomous AIs Will Soon Clash
22.4.2025
When AI agents have the ability to create and promote their own cryptos, will humans still control monetary systems? It’s a question we should be thinking about, says Zoltan Istvan, a leading transhumanist thinker
Beyond Incentives: How to Build Durable DeFi
22.4.2025
Jesus Rodriguez outlines eight ways DeFi projects can attract and retain users that don’t revolve around yield farming
The GPT Gold Rush Is Failing Crypto Traders
21.4.2025
Crypto traders don’t need another ChatGPT wrapper. They need battle-tested copilots built for the thrill of the trade
5 Ways the SEC Can Embrace Innovation
21.4.2025
Tuongvy Le, a former senior SEC attorney, lays out an agenda for the world’s most important regulator to stay ahead of the competition. One approach: adopting blockchain tech
Is ETH Still Special?
21.4.2025
Andy Baehr, Head of Product at CoinDesk Indices, says ETH has yet to find a “growth story” this cycle. Among the CoinDesk 20, it sits in 16th place YTD
The Case for User-Owned AI
18.4.2025
You self-custody your bitcoin. Why not control your AI agent too? David Minarsch says we shouldn’t be trusting important tasks to rental agents
Ethereum Is What Bitcoin Was Meant to Be
16.4.2025
The other major cryptocurrency is becoming the global settlement layer for on-chain assets, says Advantage Blockchain’s Alec Beckman
Bitcoin Leads a Fundamental Shift in the Crypto Market
16.4.2025
A report by CoinDesk Indices provides a detailed analysis of the crypto market’s recent performance and the significant shift being driven by institutions. Dive into the results with CoinDesk’s Joshua de Vos and Jacob Joseph
Criminals Are Watching the DOJ’s Crypto Shift. So Should We
15.4.2025
Treasury’s move to shift prosecutorial resources away from crypto may please the industry. But the decision could prove harmful down the line, says Yoav Keren, CEO and Co-founder of BrandShield
Market, Data Suggests Favorable Outlook for Bitcoin — CoinDesk Indices
14.4.2025
And the tide that lifts bitcoin rarely leaves other quality projects stranded, says CoinDesk Indices Managing Director Andy Baehr
Crypto’s Biggest Barrier to Adoption? It’s Not Regulation — It’s UX
12.4.2025
The goal should be to design tools that make crypto accessible, secure, and simple — without sacrificing self-custody or decentralization, says Katelyn Perna, Crypto Chief Information Security Officer, Robinhood
Weekly Recap: Crypto Emerges From the Tariff War
11.4.2025
Plus: Paul Atkins was confirmed and ETH ETF options were approved
Killing the IRS DeFi Rule Is an Industry Win — But It’s a Temporary One
11.4.2025
The end of one rule is the beginning of crypto’s unresolved tax issues, says Robin Singh, CEO of crypto tax platform Koinly
Bitcoin Is Not a Payments Platform
10.4.2025
Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin needs payments to scale. Rena Shah, COO of Trust Machines, disagrees. It can continue to be this asset of generational wealth or store of value against inflation, while actually being an active asset across an evolving financial ecosystem, she says
Working Through the Riddles of Tokenized Securities
10.4.2025
Despite the recent regulatory thaw around digital assets, regulating digital assets remains a thorny problem. Here is a primer on the more common riddles currently facing developers of tokenized securities from Skadden’s Daniel Michael, Michelle Gasaway and Greg Zaffino