Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He holds some ETH, BTC and LINK.

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Policy

Trump Treasury Pick Bessent Opposes Idea of U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency

Scott Bessent, who is immersed in the Senate confirmation process as President-elect Donald Trump's Treasury secretary nominee, only addressed crypto briefly.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent

Tech

The Protocol: Sony Launches Blockchain to Controversy

Also: Bubblemaps roadmap; Babylon interoperability

Bubbles in Laundromat

Opinion

Good Riddance to Gary Gensler

Passing the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act into law would establish a responsible new regulatory framework that clearly defines the role of the SEC and the CFTC, says Rep. Mike Lawler, a member of the House Financial Services Committee.

Congress

Markets

MicroStrategy Targeting $2B Perpetual Preferred Stock Offering: Benchmark

Benchmark hosted an investor meeting with MicroStrategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Credit: CoinDesk/Danny Nelson)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Hashed's Simon Kim Says AI Has a 'Black Box' Problem

Centralized AI is opaque, centralized, and a huge burden for intellectual property owners. Here's how he thinks blockchain fixes this.

Simon Kim

Policy

Analysis: Prediction Markets Have a Gambling Problem

Academics get it: prediction markets aren't gambling because the house doesn't always win. But regulators around the world have differing opinions – and Polymarket is feeling the heat.

(Donald Trump Jnr. who recently became an advisor to Kalshi.)

Opinion

Why Investor Protection and Enforcement Still Matters

Public-private forensics partnerships are necessary to ensure that scams don’t rise with crypto prices this cycle, says Nick Steegmans, VP of Training and Investigations, Crystal Intelligence.

(Pixabay)

Policy

U.S. Judges Demand SEC 'Explain Itself' for Rebuffing Requests for Crypto Rules

In another 11th-hour court loss for Chair Gary Gensler's tenure, judges in a Coinbase case again call the SEC's crypto position "arbitrary and capricious."

Coinbase CEO Brian Amstrong and SEC Chair Gary Gensler

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Stacks’ Muneeb Ali: Let the Bitcoin L2s Bloom

Fresh off completing significant technical upgrades, Ali is now laser focused on growing Stacks’ user base.

muneeb, ali

Opinion

Why 2025 Will Be a Year of M&A in DeFi

Recent M&A activity suggests we’re entering an era where finance is finally a unified ecosystem combining traditional and decentralized finance, says Mona El Isa, co-founder of Enzyme Finance.

(Pixabay)