Opinion


Opinion

Web3 Should Be Built on Bitcoin

The Bitcoin community must eliminate its anti-innovation attitude to fulfill the first cryptocurrency's potential, or risk losing talent and capital to developer-friendly chains like Ethereum.

Lolli CEO Alex Adelman says Bitcoin has an opportunity to fulfill its potential by becoming a hub of digital experimentation. (Josh Olalde/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

3 Strategies Crypto Firms Can Use to Land a New Banking Partner

After the recent collapse of three crypto-friendly banks, many firms are left hunting for new banking partnerships. Brett Philbin, Rachel Millard and Rosie Gillam of Edelman Smithfield offer advice.

Author and investor Tatiana Koffman is just one among many who have turned to bitcoin amid a plague of bank runs – possibly the beginning of what she has described as the "Great Reset." (K8/Unsplash)

Opinion

Anti-TikTok Politicking Shows Worst Tendencies of U.S. Pols

The RESTRICT Act and other attempts to ring fence foreign tech would disrupt the open internet at the same time crypto is under threat.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Editorial: It Sure Looks Like the U.S. Is Trying to Kill Crypto

The federal government’s recent actions against crypto are – rightly or wrongly – widely perceived as a coordinated attempt to maim digital assets. This risks sending a vital industry overseas without actually protecting investors.

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Finance

How Advisors Can Prepare for Ethereum’s Unlock

Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade will unlock ether that has been staked since the Merge, potentially leading to selling pressure that market participants could ride out or take advantage of.

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Opinion

The Questions That Linger After Do Kwon’s Arrest

CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris suggests that the Terra founder's attempts to avoid prosecution may have added to his troubles.

Do Kwon (April 2021)  (Terra, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

The Short-Sightedness of Run-Amok Regulators

Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals, talks about a key reason why crypto’s future looks bleaker: an apparent effort to cut it off from U.S. banks.

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Opinion

Why Crypto Philanthropy Continues to Outperform the Market

Crypto donations boomed in 2022, with stablecoin and NFT-based giving increasingly popular, says Pat Duffy of The Giving Block.

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Markets

Cryptos Gained in Q1 Despite Weakened Asset Class Perceptions

Glenn Williams Jr. discusses the confounding first quarter, which delivered massive gains to crypto investors even as the industry’s prospects appeared to worsen.

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Opinion

The Next ChatGPT Won’t Be in Web3 Unless Some Things Change

Web3 infrastructures do not possess the compute, data or data science framework foundations to embrace generative AI. But it’s possible to build them, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock.

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