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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
The Big Bet on Crypto’s AI Infrastructure
9.7.2025
A new, decentralized movement is emerging — one that merges AI and blockchain to create open, scalable and trustless infrastructure, says ML Tech’s Leo Mindyuk
The Evolution of Crypto Trading: From Wild West to Regulated Innovation
9.7.2025
The cryptocurrency trading landscape has evolved from a decentralized, unregulated "wild west" to a more sophisticated and regulated environment, fostering institutional adoption and boosting investor confidence, says Patrick Murphy of Eightcap
Risk, Reward, and Resilience: Building Insurance Primitives in DeFi
8.7.2025
Robust insurance can promote deeper liquidity, enhanced counterparty confidence, and broader participation in decentralized finance, says Jesus Rodriguez, CTO, Sentora
Without Operational Alpha, Bitcoin Treasury Company Premiums Will Collapse
7.7.2025
K33’s Torbjørn Bull Jenssen says simply raising bitcoin funds to chase "bitcoin yield" is not a sustainable business plan
The Coming Crypto Tax Bomb
7.7.2025
There’s a growing mismatch between how taxpayers think crypto taxes work and how the IRS now expects them to be handled, says Justin Zanardi, general manager at Countonsheep.com
Asset Managers: Blockchain Can Modernize Your Operations and Reinvigorate Your Product Line
3.7.2025
Blockchain isn’t a speculative detour; it’s a modern financial operating system, says Tuongvy Le
Let’s Build an Automated Abundance Economy
3.7.2025
Zoltan Istvan, a leading transhumanist, proposes a new economic model for the age of AI and robots
What Stripe's Crypto Bets Signal About the Future of Finance
3.7.2025
The future belongs to platforms that can offer a full suite of services in a compliant environment, says Deng Chao, CEO of HashKey Capital and HashKey OTC Global
Ponzi VCs Are Strangling Blockchain
2.7.2025
Most deals are designed for quick exits rather than durable enterprise revenue, says Romeo Kuok, board member at BGX Ventures
Is Crypto Ready for Q-Day?
1.7.2025
Quantum computing is a looming threat to the systems that crypto depends on, says David Carvalho, CEO of Naoris Protocol. Here’s how to get quantum-prepared
Why Are There No Big DApps on Ethereum?
30.6.2025
Ten years into the project, we still haven’t seen an on-chain Amazon or eBay. Our blockchains simply can’t handle the throughput, says Carter Feldman, CEO of Psy Protocol
Europe’s Time Is Now (for Stablecoins)
27.6.2025
EUR-based stablecoins to threaten USD counterparts by 2028, says LIAN Group’s Fiorenzo Manganiello