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It’s clear enough now to say that Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) attempt to force a vote in the U.S. Senate to block the popular social media app TikTok is a sideshow. Today, his grandstanding was curtailed by fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who voted agains

When walking my dogs, I often run into a septuagenarian named “Harry” (not his real name), a former New York City detective who each morning feeds a colony of stray cats at a nearby golf course. We’ve bonded over animals, but that’s where the touchy-feely

When walking my dogs, I often run into a septuagenarian named “Harry” (not his real name), a former New York City detective who each morning feeds a colony of stray cats at a nearby golf course. We’ve bonded over animals, but that’s where the touchy-feely

El comienzo del 2023 ha estado lleno de acontecimientos y ya parece ser un año repleto de noticias en solo tres meses. A su vez, la rentabilidad de las criptomonedas en lo que va del año ha sido muy superior a la habitual para un solo trimestre:Capa 1

The Ethereum network is set to undergo its next upgrade, called Shanghai, on April 12, 2023. When the Shanghai upgrade is implemented, this will effectively unlock the ether (ETH) that has been staked since the “Merge.”In September, when Ethereum underwent the Merge,

Between Coinbase, Binance, Justin Sun, Do Kwon and Custodia, there has been just so much news over the last week. And that’s largely just the U.S. But Binance is the most interesting, not only for what happened (the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued it), but also fo

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Perhaps the biggest challenge of writing about cryptocurrency is that everything is happening all the time and it’s all some mix of important, fascinating and dramatic. Case in point: The past two weeks have been so dominated by the ongoing banking crisis and crypto crackdo

Are regulators trying to kill crypto by forbidding banks from doing business with crypto companies? Sure looks that way.And if they are, the nation’s federal and state regulators are doing a huge disservice to investors, hindering American innovation and inflicting long-ter

In 2022, crypto news coverage sometimes felt like a 1970s made-for-TV movie, complete with cliffhangers, cartoonish villains and escapist melodrama. “Could one supervillain kill crypto’s glorious rise? Tune in next week to find out …”To those on the outsi

In a recent article, I explored potential opportunities at the intersection of ChatGPT and Web3 technologies. The hype behind generative artificial intelligence (AI) and technologies such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 is warranted, and Web3 hasn’t been exempt from it. In recent week

On March 14, the European Parliament voted in favor of new data controls to be included in a larger bill designed to address data privacy without stifling innovation. A new clause in the bill known as the Data Act requires all smart contracts to include a “kill switch.&rdqu

A U.S. court in California has ruled in favor of plaintiffs who alleged that the bZx protocol, and governance token-holding members of its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), were negligent and liable for losses resulting from a hack that drained its treasury.The putativ

A founding principle of this whole cryptocurrency experiment is to extol the benefits of decentralizing the financial system.“Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled” network, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator, wrote in 2008. &l

Last week, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.25% amid banking turmoil, marking the ninth increase in a year and placing rates between 4.75% and 5%. The Fed aimed to balance fighting inflation while addressing banking sector upheaval, which already had a “t

Binance, the largest global crypto exchange by trading volume, and Chief Executive Changpeng Zhao were reportedly taken off guard by the U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) decision to file a civil lawsuit against the company on Monday. The firm, which

A key feature of the NCI’s™ methodology , designed to ensure the index is appropriate for professional investors, is a quarterly rebalance of the index constituents and its weightings.

For the past nine months, overall macro conditions have taken a back seat to the idiosyncratic failures (FTX, Terra's LUNA/UST, BlockFi, CoinDesk sister company Genesis) and success stories (the Ethereum Merge, various layer 2 launches) that drove most of the price action. But ma

Last week, Benjamin Von Wong unveiled an art installation he was commissioned to create by Greenpeace USA for its “Change the Code, Not the Climate” campaign. The $5 million campaign is funded by Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and aims to change Bitcoin's proof-of-wor

Illia Polosukhin didn’t set out to build a blockchain protocol. Ever since he was a 10-year-old in Ukraine, Polosukhin has been fascinated by machine learning and artificial intelligence – he thinks it might have started with seeing the movies “The Matrix”