The restriction on paying interest to stablecoin users looks easy to circumvent, argues EY’s Paul Brody. So why not just let stablecoin providers pay interest the same as any bank would?
The traditional corporate playbook risks not only underperformance, but a breach of fiduciary duty as cash reserves bleed away on the altar of money-printing, argues Musqet founder David Parkinson.
If you manage a Bitcoin treasury, now is the moment to shift from passive reserve to active participant in the Bitcoin economy, argues Voltage’s Bobby Shell.
In the 20th century, investors who understood energy shaped industries and built massive fortunes. This century, the commodity that matters most is compute, whether you’re mining bitcoin or training AI models, writes HIVE Blockchain Technologies’ Frank Holmes.
What began as a macro-driven unwind on crypto Black Friday rapidly evolved into a market-wide stress event — underscoring how tightly coupled liquidity, collateral and oracle systems have become, writes CoinDesk Data’s Joshua de Vos.
The dominance of Tether and Circle, once seen as unshakable, is now facing its most formidable test yet, crypto product and strategy professional James Murrell argues.
The promise of a seamless digital economy is being sabotaged by a simple, recurring nightmare: network switching, says ZetaChain core contributor Jonathan Covey.
For agents to be truly autonomous they need to have access to resources and self-custody their assets: programmable, permissionless, and composable blockchains are the ideal substrate for agents to do so, Olas’ David Minarsch argues.
Some on-chain investment funds may arrive packaged as “innovation” but conceal higher costs, weaker protections, or unnecessary complexity, Prometheum’s co-CEO Aaron Kaplan argues.
With the SEC running on skeleton staff during the prolonged U.S. government shutdown, crypto ETF reviews are effectively frozen. A weeks-long pause could push Cardano’s long-awaited ETF decision past its 2025 deadline and into the new year.
Whale-led manipulation and disputed rulings have shaken trust in UMA’s oracle. POLY could mark Polymarket’s move to reclaim control of how truth is decided on-chain.
Stablecoins are no longer just a bridge between crypto and fiat — they are becoming the rails of global commerce, writes Nonco CEO Fernando Martinez.
DeFi protocols can rival or surpass traditional financial security standards and introduce frameworks to better assess risks in real-world asset applications for smarter capital allocation, says Cicada Partners Co-Founder Christian Lantzsch.
It's ATH SZN, with Bitcoin, gold and BNB all making fresh all-time highs in the past 24 hours.
Fighting speculation is fighting reality, Stocktwits CEO and co-founder Howard Lindzon argues.
Recent reforms are a step toward improving Chile’s pension system — but without embracing tokenization and other technological innovations, the system may continue to lag, argues María Pía Aqueveque Jabbaz.
Outdated financial systems only appear fast but are inefficient, while blockchain and smart contracts create truly automated, real-time processes that enable new business models, says Polygon Labs’ Aishwary Gupta.
With over $500 billion staked, proof-of-stake assets are evolving beyond a technical function into a new category of investment, as scale, volatility and sophisticated participants combine to push staking toward asset class status, says Gyld Finance Co-Founder Ruchir Gupta.
Digital proof of personhood offers a path out of the arms race between bots and CAPTCHAs, argues Daniel Brunsdon of human.tech.
The messaging network is adding blockchain to its infrastructure with Consensys' help, prompting speculation that it could build on Ethereum.
Stablecoins, the fastest-growing part of digital finance and crypto, will only fully succeed if regulators match their borderless design with cross-border collaboration, argues Patrick Hansen, the Senior Director of Strategy & Policy at Circle.
Vanguard looks ready to offer access to crypto ETFs. Their investors may be getting good entry prices after last week's DAT-driven sell off…
Programmable yield, automated compliance, and access to FedNow could bring decentralized finance, or “DeFi,” into the financial mainstream.
Dominated by platform giants like Amazon and Google, the internet has strayed from Web3’s original vision of decentralization, but innovations like state channels now offer a path back by enabling fast, secure, peer-to-peer interactions without trusted intermediaries, says Alexis Sirkia of Yellow Network.
Private credit — especially asset-backed finance — is plagued by inefficiencies, but blockchain and programmable money are now enabling faster, cheaper and more scalable solutions that could democratize access and disrupt traditional players, writes Ava Labs’ Morgan Krupetsky.
Tokenization of real world assets (RWA) on blockchain rails is not a futuristic thought experiment, argues Nick Cherney, head of innovation at Janus Henderson Investors. It is happening right now.
The next phase of digital asset investing belongs to those who treat this space not as a thematic allocation, but as a dynamic alpha-centric market where strategy, speed, and sophistication are decisive.
Stablecoins are quietly rewriting the rules of global finance. They give anyone, anywhere, access to money that moves instantly, across borders, with incentives aligned to users rather than banks.
Legacy financial firms should embrace competition, not try to kneecap emerging players through anti-innovation regulations, Blockchain Association CEO Summer K. Mersinger argues.