Tag: Opinion
Crypto for Advisors: Post-Election Review
A week after the election, crypto sentiment remains strong. Polymarket, bitcoin and a possibly more efficient and crypto-positive government are all t [...]
The Post Web: Read, Write, Own, Delegate
The last decade of Web3 has battle-hardened a stack of distributed architecture and incentive games. While too complex for individuals to operate at s [...]
How Tokenized Money Market Funds Dulled the Stablecoin Star
Regulatory uncertainty around yield-bearing stablecoins has allowed regulated tokenized yield-bearing instruments like money market funds to steal thu [...]
The Many Ways Crypto Won in This Election
People are policy, and Trump surrounds himself with an orange-pilled group. VP-elect JD Vance owns Bitcoin, and has a long track of engagement with cr [...]
How Escape Hatches Can Boost Crypto’s Reputation
It didn’t matter much to the success of Ford. After all, people needed cars, and weren’t discouraged by safety factors. By contrast, those of us in bl [...]
How We Can Make the Agentic Internet Work for Everyone
On October 31, Bangdao Chen, Co-Founder of the Oxford Blockchain Research Centre, and Ramesh Ramadoss, Chair of the IEEE Blockchain Technical Communit [...]
Time for Crypto to Put the Pedal to the Floor
Cryptocurrency and the American economy as a whole are not zero-sum competitions. When crypto projects and small businesses succeed, we are all enrich [...]
Intense Competition — Not Technology — Will Fuel Blockchain's Rise to Dominance
Like the internet itself, decentralized networks aren't always the most efficient tools for some tasks. However, the open, permissionless nature of t [...]
We’ve Been Thinking About Blockchains Wrong. They’re About Time, Not Money
The good news is it’s not too late. We need to look past the allure of financialization and remember that blockchains, as universal timekeepers, can d [...]
Market Impact and Policy Shifts
On election night, Nov. 5, bitcoin surged to an all-time high, breaking past $75,000 as Trump claimed victory. With a Republican sweep across Congress [...]
The Fed Is Set to Cut Rates, Boosting the Outlook for Crypto
In March 2022, the Fed started raising interest rates due to the economic distortions it saw. We looked at the same aberrations above in labor, inflat [...]
How to Build an Asset Class in Three Easy Steps
Kelly Ye, portfolio manager at Decentral Park Capital and Andy Baehr, head of product at CoinDesk Indices, trade views, active manager vs indexer, on [...]
Crypto’s Big Trump Gamble Is Risky
He stands on a stage at the Bitcoin Conference, in Nashville, and says how much he likes crypto people. He announces a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve. He p [...]
Crypto Voters Are the Key to Victory in 2024
Stand With Crypto, our advocacy group, held a successful tour through five swing states — AZ, MI, NV, WI, PA — and Washington, DC, where we engaged wi [...]
The ‘Trump Trade’ Crypto Narrative is Overblown
Recent rises in bitcoin prices have led some to believe that Trump, should he win, will be great for the industry. But the reality may be more complic [...]