Ajit Tripathi

Ajit Tripathi, a CoinDesk columnist, is the head of Institutional Business at Aave. Previously, he served as a fintech partner at ConsenSys and was a co-founder of PwC’s U.K. Blockchain Practice.

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Opinion

How Crypto Advocacy Must Change Post-FTX Collapse

Public opinion of this cyclical industry has shifted again.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Will Decentralize the Enterprise

The real innovation of decentralized finance (DeFi) is decentralization, not finance, our columnist says.

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Finance

NFTs Can Bring the Real World On-Chain

NFTs are the first wave of real-economy “e-commerce” transactions on public blockchains, says our columnist.

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Markets

How to Bring Off-Chain Assets to DeFi

Institutions are interested in DeFi for off-chain assets, such as real estate. Here, from our columnist, are some issues they might consider.

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Finance

Why I'm Long Crypto, Short DLT

"Too many champions of crypto want to be the epicenter of decentralization," says our columnist.

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Finance

Banks Need to Adopt Crypto, Now

Resistance is futile and the time for doing nothing with crypto was two years ago, not today, says our columnist.

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Finance

Bitcoin Is Good for PayPal, but Is PayPal Good for Bitcoin?

PayPal's embrace of crypto brings a potential 345 million people into the ecosystem. But where banks go, regulators follow.

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Finance

In Fintech, Fiat and Crypto Worlds Are Converging

Crypto firms and banks are partnering at scale, part of the broader democratization of payments systems around the world.

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Policy

4 Ways COVID-19 Will Bring Banks and Regulators to Crypto

Consensus:Distributed speaker and CoinDesk columnist Ajit Tripathi argues the pandemic will normalize the use of CBDCs and cryptocurrencies.

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