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Stablecoins Are Not New. So Why Are Regulators Attacking Paxos?

Former Paxos head of portfolio management for BUSD argues that stablecoins can be as safe as regulated financial products like money market funds.

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Policymakers Need to Focus on Tokenization, Not Just Tokens

Representing real-world assets on a blockchain could allow everyday Americans to buy into durable prosperity, says John Rizzo, an ex-Treasury Department official.

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I’m Glad There Are No Crypto Super Bowl Ads: Here’s Why

Sportswashing and crypto company hubris are no longer in play this year. And that's a good thing.

Super Bowl LVII: Kansas City Chiefs, the Philadelphia Eagles and no crypto ads (Peter Casey/Getty Images)

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An Ode to LocalBitcoins (and a Lesson About Maintaining Bitcoin's Public Goods)

Bitcoiners can take a leaf out of Ethereum's book when it comes to founding and funding open infrastructure needed for all.

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Policymakers Should Embrace DAOs in the New Future of Abundance

Whereas corporations accumulate capital, decentralized autonomous organizations accumulate engagement and focus on returning benefits to all participants.

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Regulating Crypto by Enforcement and Stealth Will Set the US Back

Moves to outlaw staking and stop banks from servicing crypto companies will harm the industry and send it overseas, says CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey.

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Stablecoins Are Not Worth the Risk

Stablecoin issuer Paxos is being investigated by a New York financial watchdog. Regulators should take more action, says Mark Hays of Americans for Financial Reform.

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Setting the Record Straight

The co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronow, shares a frank letter touching on his recent diagnosis of heart failure and responding to accusations of racist and Nazi imagery embedded within the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project.

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How to Avoid the Death of DeFi in the Wake of FTX

The crypto exchange’s collapse is an inevitable outcome for an industry yet to find its use case. For crypto to survive, it needs to learn from the very financial sector it set out to replace, says Brent Xu, the CEO of Umee.

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Blockchain Privacy Is at Risk in the EU

The EU's comprehensive Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation is ambitious and sets a high standard globally. Article 68, however, goes too far and poses a risk to innovation, privacy and security.

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