Every choice gives you something and costs you something else. I've always wanted to argue that nothing exists in isolation. Every gain, improvement, or advantage comes with a corresponding cost, sacrifice,

Traditional finance systems, which are central to global economies will inevitably be replaced by blockchains, but what does this major infrastructure shift mean for the future of finance, markets and

The United States lawmakers have reportedly introduced a new bill targeting members of the US Congress, the president and other high-ranking government officials, in a ban on using prediction markets such

Recent reporting highlights the potential of the new CLARITY ACT draft advancing with yield bans on "passive stablecoin balances." The implication of this has caused Circle's shares to sell-off

BlackRock's CEO, Larry Fink believes that the tokenization of real world assets (RWAs) will make investing as seamless as mobile payments. "Half the world’s population carries a digital wallet on

H100 has reportedly signed a letter of intent to acquire two Bitcoin treasury companies and their BTC holdings, signalling a potential roll-in of a "buy-out phase" for digital assets treasuries.

With artificial intelligence becoming a major part of present day every life, and major developers gunning for artificial general intelligence (AGI), the big question is: What should AGI look like? To

There's a widely predicted impending reality where crypto ETFs become the default wrapper for future capital and native crypto rails get sidelined. The risk of supply being captured by centralized custodians

In recent news, Ryde, a Singapore-based carpool and ride-sharing platform, which reportedly already accepts Bitcoin for customer payments, is embracing crypto assets as an investment of portions of its

Stablecoins are the strongest real-world signal that blockchain payments are not theoretical anymore. It's already happening. Image source Annual stablecoin transaction volumes are growing at an astounding

In recent report, Opera, the Norweigan browser company, is moving to replace US dollar payments with crypto payments, in an agreement restructuring with the Celo ecosystem. Image source Opera, a Nasdaq-listed

Stablecoins are an important part of the decentralized economy but over the years, it has not been particularly easy to define nor design a truly secure and decentralized stablecoin. In 2023, it was reported

As the deadline for banks and crypto firms to resolve the “stablecoin yield” debate draws near, I believe it's an appropriate time to reassess what roles the banks want to play in a blockchain-based economic

As a long-term enthusiast of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), I've always held a strong opinion that the value of NFTs lies where the market has rarely looked. When you look at NFT stats, all you see are projects

Some of us have always pointed out that layer 2 blockchains don't solve the problems of an L1, not for Ethereum and certainly not for Bitcoin or any other L1 blockchain out there. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik

Bybit, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges by trading volume, plans to launch retail banking services on its platform starting in February, the company said Thursday. Bybit unveiled the product,

Google just launched this "Project Genie" model that allows users to create interactive worlds using a couple lines of prompt. This uses artificial intelligence, a world model, from what I've

Don't get wrong, I am a big fan of putting it all on-chain, I have several articles to back this, but once a while, I love to try to look at things from a different angle, mostly to try to piece together

There are two dumb things crypto projects do: Buying back tokens (it's specifically dumb when the aim is to make price go up) Burning tokens (this one is simply just stupid, doesn't matter if a token supply

I've spoken lightly on restaking in the past, but I won't link back to keep the flow here consistent with what I want to discuss: "The poor choice of embracing restaking as a security and governance