Opinion


Policy

The Fundamentals of Crypto's $2T Market Cap

The meaning of "fundamental" means something different with crypto projects than with traditional companies, says our columnist.

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Markets

The Node: Coinbase Is the Listing to End All Listings

Coinbase is the first of many crypto startups to go public. But, as crypto continues to eat traditional finance, will those listings matter?

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Policy

The Node: Balaji's Blueprint for India

A proposal to integrate digital wallets into India's national software stack shows how crypto could go mainstream with government help.

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Markets

Asset Managers, Owning Bitcoin Is Now Your Fiduciary Duty

Fiduciaries who ignore bitcoin take on another risk: the failure to correctly identify monetary reality, says the author of "Layered Money."

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Tech

DeFi Is Transparent, Unless You Look Closely

We need more researchers and better metrics in DeFi to fulfill the promise of a more robust and transparent financial infrastructure.

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Policy

DeFi Governance Needs Better Tokenomics

The Fei stablecoin's troubled launch last week reveals a misalignment in how DeFi projects are sometimes governed, say two RMIT researchers.

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Policy

How to Minimize Your Crypto Taxes

Your tax strategy may be every bit as important as your investment strategy, say two crypto tax experts.

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Tech

There's Certified Fair Trade Coffee, So How About Certified and Persistent NFTs?

As the hype dies down, the pressure is off to mint every NFT imaginable for a quick buck and the industry can turn its attention to less sexy but crucial foundational matters.

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Markets

Predicting the Future Is Easy, Profiting Is Hard

There are obvious crypto investments to make but, judged by the dot-com boom, they may not be the best ones, says EY's blockchain lead.

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Markets

The Node: Bitcoin, Warts and All

If mass adoption is the aim, we might as well tell the truth about what that world looks like. The whole truth.

Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation at Consensus 2019