Tag: Opinion
Spreading the Benefits of the Gig Economy
Companies like Uber and Airbnb pioneered the operator economy when they started delivering valuable services using crowdsourced infrastructure and lab [...]
Crypto for Advisors: The Professionalization of Crypto
The professionalization of crypto is here, whether it’s tokenized securities, crypto-forward financial products from the world’s largest asset manager [...]
Samourai Wallet Charges Raise Existential Questions for Privacy Tech
There is much to say about Samourai Wallet’s co-founders Keonne Rodriguez, 35, and William Lonergan Hill’s, 65, op-sec (i.e. “operational security), o [...]
The FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Is Good for the Crypto Industry
Employment contracts that stop free movement of labor conflict with an innovative industry’s open-source ethos, says Linda Jeng, CEO of Digital Self L [...]
Do Kwon’s Huge Fine Shows the SEC Is Ratcheting Up Penalties Against Crypto Firms
“The recent high-profile cases against Terra/Do Kwon and Ripple, with penalties reaching hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, do signal a [...]
Your Crypto Project Needs a Sheriff, Not a Bounty Hunter
There’s a reason, after all, that bounty hunters in movies are so often morally ambiguous “gray hats” – think of Boba Fett, Clint Eastwood’s "Man With [...]
Coinbase’s Base Chain Set to Propel Crypto Adoption into Mainstream with Layer 2 Innovations
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The Inevitable Shift to On-Chain Integration
Currently, on-chain RWAs represent a $7.5 billion market. While this might seem marginal relative to the tens of trillions of dollars worth of assets [...]
How a Conservative German Bank Offering Crypto Makes Sense
The current institution emerged in 1999 as the result of a merger, but the family tree goes back as far as 1818. Despite being owned by the Federal St [...]
Institutional Digital Assets: The Future of Finance Is Here
Tokenization initiatives from BlackRock, JP Morgan and others presage a revolution in payments, wealth management and other key activities of Wall Str [...]
Web3 Artist Shavonne Wong on the Future of NFTs
My husband told me about NFTs and I was like, “Don't know what it is. Sounds very technical. But let’s try stuff, right?” So I basically got into NFT [...]
How the Bitcoin Halving Will Drive Action to Layer 2s
The launch of Runes, a new protocol that enables the creation of meme coins on Bitcoin, coincided with the halving. Already hundreds of tokens have la [...]
Bitcoin Will Power the Next DeFi Summer
Ultimately, the initial buzz about NFTs and blockchain's expansion turned to fear during the 2022 crypto winter, although this wouldn’t be the end for [...]
Google Searches for ‘Bitcoin Halving’ Get Higher Than 4/20
Interest in the term has steadily ramped up since the start of 2024, alongside search interest in the phrase “Bitcoin” (which is still below its 2017 [...]
This Bitcoin Halving Is Different. But Is It ‘Priced In’?
“The people, institutions and governments that matter in the big picture are only *just beginning* to wake up to Bitcoin,” Lane Rettig, founder of Spa [...]