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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. __________ 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....