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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Altruism Wasn’t Very Effective

16.2.2023
The disgraced CEO's altruism fell short, and with it, undermined the credibility crypto could have on innovation, Lucía Gallardo, founder of regenerative finance project Emerge, writes

What Fat Tails and Revolutionary Ages Mean for Digital Assets

16.2.2023
Stock market returns are overwhelmingly driven by a small group of winners. Jennifer Murphy, CEO of Runa Digital Assets, expects the same trend in digital assets

State of Crypto: Interpreting the Paxos-Binance Tea Leaves

15.2.2023
Remember how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s declaration of war against crypto staking was big news for like two days? This week we’re looking at the other big news from last week: Paxos and the Binance USD stablecoin it issues. The SEC has apparently alleged the sale of BUSD violates...

Is the SEC Really the Bad Guy?

15.2.2023
It’s easy to say the SEC is going after the wrong targets in its crypto crackdown. But it’s all a consequence of real failures by the industry, says CoinDesk's David Z. Morris

Crypto CEOs Need to Accept That Existing Regulations Also Apply to Them

15.2.2023
Coinbase’s CEO thinks the rules that apply to other financial services don’t apply to his multi-billion-dollar financial services company. His ignorance – either intentional or literal – is concerning

Crypto Long & Short: Sorting Out Bitcoin’s P/E Ratio

15.2.2023
This week, Glenn Williams Jr. taps his equity research analyst background – the land of price-to-earnings ratios and other valuation techniques – to sort out whether bitcoin is under- or overvalued. Then, Jennifer Murphy, the CEO of Runa Digital Assets, puts digital assets into very broad...

Security Tokens and Tokenized Securities Are Not the Same Thing

15.2.2023

The SEC Is Taking Aim at Paxos and (Annoyingly) It’s Good For Bitcoin

15.2.2023

4 Reasons Why Lawmakers Shouldn’t Back Sen. Warren’s Latest Crypto Bill

15.2.2023
The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act is unworkable and assuredly unconstitutional

Arbitrum Surges Ahead as Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape Takes Shape

15.2.2023
Layer 2 rollups now see more transaction volume than Ethereum’s main network

Dollar Stablecoins Are Great for Users and the US Government

14.2.2023
Omid Malekan writes that because stablecoin issuers liabilites live on-chain, the asset-backed tokens are arguably more secure than payment providers we use today, including PayPal

Why Bitcoin Miners Need to Take Ethereum Seriously

14.2.2023
Far from competitive projects, Bitcoin and Ethereum can work harmoniously together, says Sam Tabar, of Bit Digital

Stablecoins Are Not New. So Why Are Regulators Attacking Paxos?

14.2.2023

Stiffing the Staker: The SEC’s Latest Crackdown on Crypto Innovation

11.2.2023
The crypto world was jolted last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shut down Kraken’s staking program, much to the satisfaction of Chairman Gary Gensler and his team. But what does this mean for the future of cryptocurrency and, more specifically, staking? The following...

Experts Predict Future Regulation of Crypto Exchanges by 2025, With Split Opinion on Similarity to Traditional Finance

3.2.2023
Following finder.com’s reports on bitcoin and ethereum predictions, the product comparison site polled 56 specialists in the fintech and cryptocurrency industry to gauge their thoughts on future regulation of crypto exchanges. The experts predict that virtual currency trading platforms will...