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Ethereum’s success presents a new challenge — invisibility, writes CMT Digital’s Aryan Sheikhalian. As Ethereum powers more applications behind the scenes, it risks becoming something everyone uses but no one notices.

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For whales with scale, the trade-offs of holding spot BTC are increasingly hard to justify. Bitcoin ETPs are an alternative, offering an efficient structure that allows big investors to sleep easy at night, says 21shares' President Duncan Moir.

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Crypto doesn’t need stadium naming rights, Super Bowl ads and flashy celebrity campaigns. It just needs to post its very credible numbers, say Aubrey Strobel and Elena Nisonoff.

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The combination of Web3 and the influential Model Context Protocol (MCP) might just be a new foundation for decentralized AI, says Jesus Rodriguez, Co-founder of Sentora.

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Decentralization doesn’t have to be a dirty word where performance is concerned, say Muriel Médard, MIT Professor, Co-Founder of Optimum and Kishori Konwar, Co-founder of Optimum.

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My long relationship with a "Bert Is Evil" on-chain JPEG that may, or may not be, worthless.

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You shouldn’t judge Ethereum by retail metrics, says Martin Burgherr, Chief Clients Officer at Sygnum Bank.

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Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper first invested in bitcoin at $6 — and he’s still super bullish on the digital asset. We chatted about it last week.

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Although cryptocurrencies have the potential to entirely change the economy and access in Latin America, their success hinges on infrastructure that prioritizes the needs of marginalized populations, regulatory clarity and educational efforts, writes ChainMyne’s Kimberly Rosales.

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Forward rate agreements (FRAs) serve as a foundational tool in the fixed income market to allow participants to manage expected interest rate fluctuations, and ultimately provide structure and scalability to unlock the next evolution of DeFi, write Treehouse Labs’ Jun Yong Heng and Si Wei Yue.

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One of the trends that I’m keeping an eye on is the growing availability of bitcoin-backed loans. Let’s check in on the sector real quick.

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As platforms like Robinhood and Gemini roll out tokenized stocks, will crypto tax reporting finally catch up with TradFi? Koinly’s Robin Singh says a day of reckoning is coming.

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As Ethereum celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, it must double-down on its original commitment to privacy, say Zac Williamson, Co-founder and CEO of Aztec Labs, and Sam Richards, Lead of PSE at Ethereum Foundation.

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Passage of the GENIUS Act last week was a landmark for digital assets. But we still need to pass CLARITY and our Anti-CBDC law, say U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Representative Nick Begich (R-Alaska).

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The White House is tightening the screws on Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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As banks like Citi and Bank and America enter the stablecoin market, they’re likely to bring their own tech stack and clearing expertise with them. If crypto consortiums do not step in with alternatives, TradFi-style clearinghouses will dominate the landscape, says John deVadoss.

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DACFP’s Ric Edelman shares insights from a recent white paper explaining the substantial upside in bitcoin’s price and why the risk/reward ratio strongly favors a significant crypto allocation – certainly one that’s far higher than a measly 1 or 2 percent.

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Joshua de Vos of CoinDesk Data breaks down the July digital assets report and touches on corporate treasury adoption, the digital assets dominating the headlines and the role of benchmarks in capital decisions.

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Q2 was the quarter that DeFi stopped acting like a series of isolated experiments and started acting like mainstream-ready financial infrastructure, says Ryan Rodenbaugh, CEO of Wallfacer Labs, the team behind vaults.fyi.

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There’s a really solid chance the House of Representatives will be passing the much-awaited GENIUS Act on Thursday, so it’s time for us to look at stablecoins.

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Most people don’t want or need to know they’re using a blockchain, says Marc Vanlerberghe, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the Algorand Foundation.

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Congress may pass the most consequential crypto law of the century this week. That’s bad news for one of DeFi’s murkiest gray areas, yield-bearing stablecoins.

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AI workloads are traditional systems beyond their limits. Incentivizing distributed energy and data is the answer, says Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network.

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The head of the Blockchain Association says lawmakers have an opportunity to renew American financial supremacy this week. But does Congress have the capacity for careful, technical legislation?

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We’ve got a big week ahead of us in terms of U.S. crypto legislation, so I asked Katherine Dowling, general counsel at Bitwise, to give us a rundown.

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With competing AI projects and performance-based rewards, Bittensor represents a shift from speculation-driven to utility-driven tokenomics, says Arrash Yasavolian, Founder and CEO, Taoshi (Subnet 8 on Bittensor).

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Too many Democrats “standing in the way” of crypto and “out of step with the very voters we need to win,” says former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.

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Tokenization will create a new financial order for U.S.-led reconstruction, says Davis Richardson.

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As with many idealistic movements, DAOs need to balance pragmatism with progress, says Kurt Watkins.

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A new, decentralized movement is emerging — one that merges AI and blockchain to create open, scalable and trustless infrastructure, says ML Tech’s Leo Mindyuk.