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NFTs Are Now Collateral for Secured Loans. Are You Legally Protected?
11.7.2022
Repossessing used cars is one thing, but a lender may find it hard to know the right jurisdiction to lay claim to a Bored Ape owned by “MoonBoiBallz99.”
Bitcoin Will Make a Comeback, Rockefeller International Chairman Says
8.7.2022
“We need the excesses to get weeded out,” Ruchir Sharma told CoinDesk TV
Decentralization's Failed Promise in Iran
8.7.2022
While exchanges are abiding by fiat’s monetary rules in countries like Iran, it is dishonest to call Bitcoin decentralized money, says a journalist based in that country
Celsius Looks Sloppy in New Lawsuit, but So Does the DeFi Legend Suing It
8.7.2022
While underscoring Celsius’s disregard for risk and weak controls, KeyFi’s lawsuit also casts new, unflattering light on the crypto whale known as @0x_b1
Need a Use Case for Decentralization? Start With Energy
8.7.2022
Amid the bear market, the crypto/blockchain industry needs to demonstrate socially-useful use-cases. The dysfunctional energy system is a good place to make a mark, says CoinDesk's chief content officer
Bull or Build, There is No Bear
6.7.2022
Chandler De Kock is Growth Strategist at UMA, an optimistic oracle built for Web3.
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It's easy to get caught up in the chatter and concern that erupted in recent weeks around the collapse of TerraUSD stablecoin and then the latest round of losses that has set off job cuts and extreme...
Nic Carter vs. The Bitcoin Maximalists
6.7.2022
If maximalism has become nothing but a refusal to think through bitcoin’s actual usefulness, it has become an intellectual dead end. No surprise, then, that the intellectuals are jumping ship
New York Regulators Have Planted a Seed for Stablecoin Transparency
6.7.2022
New guidance from the New York Department of Financial Services should shake up how stablecoin issuers do attestation and other reporting, says our columnist
Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?
6.7.2022
Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization
The Era of Easy DeFi Yields Is Over
5.7.2022
Alpha in DeFi is about to get a lot scarcer (although still super attractive). Luckily, risk management will eventually get much simpler
Why Startups Are Front on Bitcoin Base Layer for Building the New Age of dApps?
4.7.2022
It’s no secret that dApps and Blockchain-oriented businesses have taken the world by storm these past few years. However, Ethereum, Solana, and the like have started to crop up issues. These Blockchains have been facing issues with security and uptime while being overwhelmed with the number...
Ethereum Transfer Costs Continue to Slide — Network Fees Tap a 19-Month Low
3.7.2022
On Saturday, Ethereum transaction fees tapped a low not seen since November 2020 as the average network fee dropped to 0.0016 ether or $1.67 per transfer. Average fees on Saturday have been as low as 32 gwei or $0.69 per transfer as Ethereum gas fees have been steadily dropping since May 11, 2022....
Custodia Bank's CEO Says Bad Actors and Regulators Caused Crypto Crash
1.7.2022
Caitlin Long said bankruptcies were inevitable the moment bitcoin “started being leveraged, rehypothecated, or financialized with debt.”
From One to Zero: BlockFi’s Fire Sale Shows the Uber Startup Model Is Disastrous for Finance
1.7.2022
Peter Thiel’s monopolistic theories about building companies have clearly hit their limit: banking
LTCM and Other History Lessons for Crypto
1.7.2022
From Long-Term Capital Management to the 2008 financial crisis, crypto's recent woes have echoes in the past
Layer-1 blockchains: How crypto winter could slow the challenge to Ethereum
1.7.2022
A Chainalysis report analyzes the layer-1 blockchain ecosystem, questioning if alternative L1s will continue to challenge Ethereum this crypto winter
Hedge or Cause? Unpacking Bitcoin and Inflation
30.6.2022
The digital asset, often called digital gold, soared as governments printed money and crashed as they tightened
How DAOs Open Doors for the Unbanked
30.6.2022
It’s a new, borderless world, and DAOs hold the key to economic opportunity for billions of people, including the world’s 1.7 billion unbanked adults
Why the Crypto Unwind Wasn’t Contagious (This Time)
29.6.2022
The IMF has warned that crypto is becoming more integrated with mainstream finance, increasing systemic risk. Is that what's actually happening?
A Major Crypto Exchange Abandons Ethereum: Is the World’s Computer Falling Behind?
29.6.2022
By ditching Ethereum for Cosmos, dYdX has sparked claims that it has chosen sovereignty over security