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What’s in Your Bear Market Backpack?
13.7.2022
From existential dread to blissful ignorance – reactions to Ethereum’s market slump vary across the board
Nervous Network (CKB) price posts double-digit gain after Godwoken layer 2 launch
12.7.2022
CKB booked a 35%+ gain after the release of its Godwoken L1 solution and the launch of a new NFT marketplace
Watch Out for Illicit Actors Gaming Crypto Games
12.7.2022
P2E and GameFi offer a glimpse into the types of financial crime complexities that will arise as tech companies work to usher in the metaverse, says a former CIA analyst
Behind Voyager’s Fall: Crypto Broker Acted Like a Bank, Went Bankrupt
12.7.2022
In an industry where counterparties are tightly bound together by a weave of debt and leverage, dominoes can fall fast and hard
Satoshi Wept: How Crypto Replayed the 2008 Financial Crisis
12.7.2022
It only took 13 years for crypto to recreate the same kind of financial crisis it was designed to prevent. Here’s how it (almost) all went down
Suing SEC Is a Possibility, Bitwise Chief Compliance Officer Says
12.7.2022
“It’s about getting answers to some of the technical questions,” Bitwise Chief Compliance Officer Katherine Dowling said, regarding the SEC’s denial of the asset management firm’s spot bitcoin ETF application, on CoinDesk TV’s “All About Bitcoin.”
Crypto Investors Can Rely on ‘Frankly Nothing’ in Current Regulatory Environment, Says Former FDIC Official
12.7.2022
Former FDIC Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Meghji joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss why crypto investors today can rely on “frankly, nothing.”
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
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