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The Web3 community is, at heart, rooted in profound optimism. The increasing ubiquity of this technology makes it possible to envision a world where everyone is equipped to both survive and thrive.Essentially, Web3 has become a Schelling Point for the hopeful.

It's nice to escape in a good game once in a while. NFT gaming can satisfy that urge. Best of all, many of these games can allow you to earn NFTs or game coins.

Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange FTX, which has emerged as the savior of all things battered in this crypto winter, is reportedly about to close a deal to acquire embattled BlockFi, to which it had...

As the dominoes fall (or wobble) in the wave of financial contagion sweeping the crypto industry, one of the starkest lessons is that no matter the potential of a new technology, you can’t beat the leverage cycle.It’s a lesson investors in traditional finance have rep

To buy the dip or not to buy the dip? This is the question.

The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is emerging as Web3’s answer to the traditional LLC or C-corp.According to one report, the number of new DAO governance proposals, which codify a company's organizational and operational structure, has risen eightfold in the p

Crypto, as big as it once was, often feels like a family affair – and sometimes that’s literally true. Natalia Ameline is the mother of Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, but she may be better known for her personal contributions to the crypto industry.She’s the

While we have entered a crypto winter, not everyone sees this as doom and gloom for the ecosystem. Several experts and advisors offer a more nuanced vision of the industry and its prospects, with one...

Mentioning the metaverse to most people my age will often elicit a bemused expression and the statement they have no idea what the metaverse is. Mentioning that a former tax partner and current partner emeritus is now possibly the first “chief metaverse officer” in th

In what many see as a further blow to the crypto industry, and after several months of delay, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) denied Grayscale Investments' request to convert its...

While we have entered a crypto winter, not everyone sees this as doom and gloom for the ecosystem. Several experts and advisors offer a more nuanced vision of the industry and its prospects, with one...

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that bitcoin (BTC) benefited from the huge money prints the U.S. and other governments made during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. monetary supply ballooned in the first two years of the third decade of the 21st century – and so

State financial regulators will implement crypto regulations before the U.S. Congress does, Jarrod Loadholt, a partner at Ice Miller Public Affairs Group, told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover."Rather than waiting on the federal government to codify rules, states could move

With the news that a spot bitcoin ETF is set to land in Europe this summer, European investors will have unprecedented access to BTC on traditional markets. 

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Spraky practically lost his voice during a video chat with me from the Philippines in late June. It’s been spent talking with hordes of members from his play-to-earn gaming community, whom he’s met while traveling around the country from Baguio to Cebu City.Still hour

Consider the millions of people in advanced economies who began working remotely for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tens of thousands of people whose jobs previously limited them to high-cost cities, such as San Francisco or New York, moved to lower cost areas, taki

Spoiler alert: If you plan to skip to the bottom of this article to find out whether you should include crypto in your 401(k), you’ll be disappointed. There is no “yes” or “no” answer.  What you invest in your qualified retirement plan depends o

If an entrepreneur was to call at 9 p.m., Kyle Samani, the co-founder of Multicoin Capital, would pick up the phone. Thankfully, even during this period of market routs, liquidity crises and unpredictable volatility, none of his portfolio companies has had to call.This article is

In January, as crypto and equity markets were beginning a slow, steady decline, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report warning that crypto was becoming more intertwined with conventional markets. The report’s writers worried that “widespread adoption