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As the metaverse – or virtual reality world increasingly powered by cryptocurrencies – continues to boom, it’s becoming hard to pick the industry's winners.

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In “Snowcrash,” the groundbreaking novel in which he coined the term “metaverse,” Neal Stephenson writes, “See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.”With this holiday season&

With 2021 winding down and 2022 hopefully being the year of the Merge, I wanted to do a deeper dive into five of the top things to expect with Ethereum’s impending transition to proof-of-stake. The Merge itself will not be as initially glamorous as many market participants

The story of crypto is one of a global asset and technology class, and it’s one we intend to cover as comprehensively as possible. Here’s what CoinDesk’s new regulatory team is watching for next year.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter lo

Attention in Bitcoin in 2021 has been glued to El Salvador making history as the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender and bitcoin’s chronically fluctuating price. But behind the scenes, plenty of game-changing work is being done as well, such as devel

2021 was a historic year for crypto with many milestones. And there are no signs of the momentum slowing down in 2022!As per our tradition since 2015, here are my 10 crypto predictions for the coming year:

Since officially leaving Twitter, now full-time Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey has become immensely more vocal and opinionated about blockchain and cryptocurrency debates. That’s a really great way to get entangled in extremely heated online fights – and woul

It was the year of crypto! For this, the first of two holiday editions of this Money Reimagined column, we frame this remarkable year in terms of how, in different ways, money was reimagined in 2021. We look at five themes, with links to past newsletters and podcasts.

2021 has been an extraordinary year for crypto. We saw decentralized finance (DeFi) swell to a $100 billion+ industry, bitcoin (BTC) reach a price peak of $69,000, massive ecosystem growth for companion blockchain networks (layer 2) such as Arbitrum and alternative chains like So

According to Telegram, its TON blockchain is not dead anymore but has returned to life as Toncoin, independently from the company that created it.Telegram CEO Pavel Durov published a post in his official Telegram channel on Thursday that gave backing to the project.

Today’s investors have proven that sustainability and social impact factor highly in their decision making. In 2020, environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) funds surpassed the $1 trillion mark for the first time, accelerated in part by a growing social and pol

Of course, without a crystal ball, no one knows how bitcoin and other digital assets will perform in the new year. If the largest digital asset cooperates, 2022 could be exciting for the following crypto ETFs.

Even if you suffered losses on your crypto investments this year, there’s still some good news.Michelle O’Connor is VP of Marketing at TaxBit

2021 has been a wild ride for bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies in general, but if you look past the volatility, it has also been a truly significant year.

Earlier this week, Ethereum developer Tim Beiko and the Ethereum Foundation announced the deployment of the Kintsugi Merge test network.Kintsugi is a “longer-lived, public testnet” that will allow application developers and users to become familiar with a post-merge E

We made it! 2021 is coming to a close, the U.S. Congress is on vacation, and we very likely won’t have a Christmas Eve President’s Working Group statement again. As we wrap up this year, it’s worth taking a look at what actually happened over the past 12 months.

As they say, change is hard. In a dynamic digital world, it’s tempting to protect ourselves from the pressure of change by simply refusing to acknowledge it and clinging to the status quo. But while that approach may feel comfortable, it’s a poor way for policymakers

Investors have witnessed a bloodshed in cryptocurrency markets in recent weeks, as crypto struggles to find a direction amid a global selloff in financial markets

Of late, the terms “metaverse” and “Web 3″ have been used interchangeably. While they both point to a vision of a better, future internet, it’s important the two concepts not be conflated or become a source of division around ideologies of how we wan