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Does your avatar in the metaverse have the same rights and legal protections as you do?Virtual worlds are being built to mirror the physical world. You can attend concerts, visit casinos, meet a friend for coffee and even hang out in a lounge sponsored by your bank. When it comes

A recent study highlighted what many have known to be true since "swipes," "likes" and "reels" began to dominate our attention: Social media and the web can aggravate mental health problems, especially in young people.The latest research echoes the findings of a 2020 National Lib

Satoshi Nakamoto imagined a trustless, transparent financial system without the need for intermediaries like banks mediating everyday transactions. Nakamoto’s philosophy reached its zenith with the emergence of smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi). 

Happy Friday readers, David Z. Morris is filling in for Michael Casey today.CoinDesk Editor-in-Chief Kevin Reynolds alerted me this week to a striking Linkedin post by a Coinbase (COIN) staffer. In the post, apparently now deleted, the Coinbaser wrote in part that it’s &ldq

Buying cryptocurrencies like Ether (ETH), the native asset on the Ethereum blockchain, is just about as easy as buying a share of a stock, but buying ETH is just the first step in the process of truly owning and unlocking the potential of the asset.

In 2014, after seeing Satoshi Nakamoto make bitcoin (BTC) a uniquely digital currency, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Kevin McCoy became “obsessive” looking for a way to do the same with artwork.This piece is part of CoinDesk's Metaverse Week

Editor's note: As part of CoinDesk’s “Metaverse Week,” we asked a number of engineers, executives and experts to weigh in on the substantial issues raised by the crypto industry. This roundtable covers how to prevent the metaverse from becoming a nightmare, and

Amid rising interest rates in the U.S. market, asset classes across the board are seeing selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.What’s more, events like the collapse of terraUSD’s (UST) stablecoin could be adding to crypto’s recent pullback. How

Amid rising interest rates in the U.S. market, asset classes across the board are seeing selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.What’s more, events like the collapse of terraUSD’s (UST) stablecoin could be adding to crypto’s recent pullback, but

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, the most used blockchain, thinks he found the next big opportunity in crypto. He wants distributed ledgers to help create and manage our identities – both on and offline – using “soulbound tokens” (SBT).In a rec

Want to ensure the metaverse lives up to its promise? That requires listening to and learning from your community, unleashing your imagination, and letting what’s worked, and hasn’t worked, guide us as we create new, immersive experiences.While the metaverse is a term

Wondering about the opportunities and challenges around digital asset adoption for investment advisory firms? Get our insights here.

The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist's day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a person not often seen. Here, Alex Masmej, founder of social media platfor

The staying power of cryptocurrencies and digital assets in general derives in part from their versatility. Every time I feel like I’m nearing the bottom of the barrel, someone contacts me with a new use case for crypto.Most recently, however, it was Dan Jurek, vice preside

News of digital currencies has been crowding the financial press for several years, yet getting a grip on what exactly "cryptocurrency" means and how to measure its success or failure is a...

Going out for coffee is the best part of the day. She leaves her tiny apartment with her sullen roommates and goes to a cafe two blocks away. She customizes every order. Today it is cookies and cream and almond and vanilla foam, with a dash of green pistachio for flair. There&rsq

Editor's note: As part of CoinDesk’s “Metaverse Week,” we asked a number of engineers, executives and experts to weigh in on the substantial issues raised by the crypto industry. In this roundtable discussion, they answer the question of how the metaverse will b

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has been on the rise since the beginning of the pandemic, with its use peaking in December as 23% of all U.S. adults said they used the service, according to Morning Consult....

Web 3.0 - the decentralized internet - promises a future free of intermediaries and centralized authorities.

We are in the midst of a brutal downturn in equity markets, in large part because inflation has pushed the U.S. Federal Reserve to tighten interest rates. The impacts have been particularly sharp for “growth” or “innovation” assets, including predominantly