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Opinion

Beating the Bots: In Defense of Human Traders

As bots come to dominate trading on DEXs, a new price prediction platform allows human traders to demonstrate what they are good at, says Maksim Balashevich, the founder of Santiment.

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Markets

Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Market - A Week in Review

A recap of the crypto market from August 11th to 17th.

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Opinion

Art Is Not a Security

NFTs “expose the incoherence of the SEC’s understanding of what it’s authorized to regulate,” says law professor Brian L. Frye, following news yesterday that the SEC has issued a Wells notice against OpenSea, claiming the NFT platform has violated securities law.

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Opinion

OpenSea Gets SEC 'Wells Notice' – Industry Reaction

Rounding up commentary on the SEC's latest enforcement action. Will all NFTs be treated as securities?

Donald Trump's popular trading card NFTs. Will they be found illegal as part of the SEC's new probe? (CollectTrumpCards.com)

Opinion

Crypto Is Now a Non-negotiable for Traditional Banks

Simple “engagement” isn’t enough. Banks need to start experimenting with tokenization and blockchain-powered settlement, or risk getting left behind, says Sygnum Bank’s Lucas Schweiger.

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Opinion

Narrow Boom: The Mismatch of Token Supply and Demand in the Current Cycle

While BTC and Ethereum have made strong comebacks in the last year, much of the rest of the market is still catching up, say Kevin Kelly and Jason Pagoulatos, of Delphi Digital.

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Opinion

Bloomberg and Better Markets Are Wrong About Crypto

Crypto is far from the currency of choice for financial predators, says former CFTC Commissioner Fred Hatfield. That’s really the U.S. dollar.

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Opinion

Pavel Durov: The Imperfect Free Speech Hero

Pavel Durov is a free speech hero, but Telegram is far from a perfect free speech platform, writes CoinDesk's Ben Schiller.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov

Opinion

It’s Time to Build a Sustainable Blockchain Ecosystem

For years, the industry has created and lost value without establishing real business models. It’s time to demonstrate that we’re on the path to turning blockchains and the applications built on them into real businesses, says Azeem Khan.

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Opinion

Accelerating Innovation in the DePIN Sector

Everyone agrees the real-world utility of DePINs is what makes them so interesting, but it’s also what makes them so difficult to build. Companies and investment firms like IoTeX, Hotspotty, EV3, and DePIN Pulse are building tools to lower the barrier to entry for DePIN founders and increase the pace of innovation in the industry, says Connor Lovely.

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