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What Bitcoin's Velocity Says About Its Future
1.8.2025
Falling on-chain velocity doesn’t necessarily mean bitcoin usage is slowing. In fact, it might just mean we’re looking in the wrong place, says Stefania Barbaglio
Red Coin, Blue Coin: The New Politics of Exposure
1.8.2025
Bitcoin is politically neutral. But bitcoin treasury vehicles aren’t. Are we buying the coin, or the campaign?
Regulators Handed the Crypto Industry a 5-Year Head Start. Can Wall Street Catch Up?
1.8.2025
Regulatory clarity means that traditional broker-dealers are no longer on the sidelines, says Aaron Kaplan, Co-CEO and founder of Prometheum
Ethereum Could Win the War, But Lose the Prize
30.7.2025
Ethereum’s success presents a new challenge — invisibility, writes CMT Digital’s Aryan Sheikhalian. As Ethereum powers more applications behind the scenes, it risks becoming something everyone uses but no one notices
"A Whale of a Problem: Why Self-Custody Might Sink Bitcoin Giants"
30.7.2025
For whales with scale, the trade-offs of holding spot BTC are increasingly hard to justify. Bitcoin ETPs are an alternative, offering an efficient structure that allows big investors to sleep easy at night, says 21shares' President Duncan Moir
Crypto Has a Comms Issue
29.7.2025
Crypto doesn’t need stadium naming rights, Super Bowl ads and flashy celebrity campaigns. It just needs to post its very credible numbers, say Aubrey Strobel and Elena Nisonoff
The Protocol of Agents: Web3’s MCP Potential
29.7.2025
The combination of Web3 and the influential Model Context Protocol (MCP) might just be a new foundation for decentralized AI, says Jesus Rodriguez, Co-founder of Sentora
Ethereum Turns 10 — Time to Leave the Trilemma Behind
28.7.2025
Decentralization doesn’t have to be a dirty word where performance is concerned, say Muriel Médard, MIT Professor, Co-Founder of Optimum and Kishori Konwar, Co-founder of Optimum
Still Loving My ‘If It Went to Zero’ NFT
28.7.2025
My long relationship with a "Bert Is Evil" on-chain JPEG that may, or may not be, worthless
Why 'Expensive' Ethereum Will Dominate Institutional DeFi
24.7.2025
You shouldn’t judge Ethereum by retail metrics, says Martin Burgherr, Chief Clients Officer at Sygnum Bank
The Node: Tim Draper on Bitcoin’s Gravitational Pull
23.7.2025
Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper first invested in bitcoin at $6 — and he’s still super bullish on the digital asset. We chatted about it last week
The Future of Digital Asset Infrastructure in Latin America
23.7.2025
Although cryptocurrencies have the potential to entirely change the economy and access in Latin America, their success hinges on infrastructure that prioritizes the needs of marginalized populations, regulatory clarity and educational efforts, writes ChainMyne’s Kimberly Rosales
The Rate Renaissance: How Benchmark Rates Unlock DeFi’s Potential
23.7.2025
Forward rate agreements (FRAs) serve as a foundational tool in the fixed income market to allow participants to manage expected interest rate fluctuations, and ultimately provide structure and scalability to unlock the next evolution of DeFi, write Treehouse Labs’ Jun Yong Heng and Si Wei Yue
The Node: JPM’s BTC Lending Play
22.7.2025
One of the trends that I’m keeping an eye on is the growing availability of bitcoin-backed loans. Let’s check in on the sector real quick
Tokenized Stocks Expose a Major Tax Reporting Gap in Crypto—Robin Singh
22.7.2025
As platforms like Robinhood and Gemini roll out tokenized stocks, will crypto tax reporting finally catch up with TradFi? Koinly’s Robin Singh says a day of reckoning is coming
Privacy Is Key to the Next Phase of Ethereum
22.7.2025
As Ethereum celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, it must double-down on its original commitment to privacy, say Zac Williamson, Co-founder and CEO of Aztec Labs, and Sam Richards, Lead of PSE at Ethereum Foundation
The Senate Must Finish the Job on America’s Pro-Crypto Future—Emmer, Begich
22.7.2025
Passage of the GENIUS Act last week was a landmark for digital assets. But we still need to pass CLARITY and our Anti-CBDC law, say U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Representative Nick Begich (R-Alaska)
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey
16.7.2025
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Why 24/7 Digital Markets Will Power Development in Frontier Economies
10.7.2025
Tokenization will create a new financial order for U.S.-led reconstruction, says Davis Richardson
DAOs 2.0: What’s Next For Decentralized Governance?
10.7.2025
As with many idealistic movements, DAOs need to balance pragmatism with progress, says Kurt Watkins