Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He holds some ETH, BTC and LINK.

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Opinion

We Must Protect Crypto-AI From Financial Nihilism

Financial nihilism is a common philosophy in Web3 but, ultimately, there’s no way to build long-lasting value without finding real customers for real products and services that solve actual problems, says Lex Sokolin.

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Opinion

Stablecoin Legislation Must Respect the Dual-Banking System

The Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin bill subordinates state regulation to federal control, giving Washington too much power as to which entities can issue these important digital assets, say Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp at the Cato Institute.

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Opinion

DePIN for the Win: Spreading the Benefits of the Gig Economy

Community protocol networks that coordinate hardware-based services with tokens promise an upgrade in efficiency and fairness, says Ivo Entchev, a partner at Youbi Capital.

Teleport, a decentralized car-sharing service competing with Uber, is one example of a DePIN.

Consensus Magazine

Samourai Wallet Charges Raise Existential Questions for Privacy Tech

Co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill are charged with money laundering related to the privacy-protecting wallet.

Profiting from a crypto mixer is likely illegal, experts say. (Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

The FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Is Good for the Crypto Industry

Employment contracts that stop free movement of labor conflict with an innovative industry’s open-source ethos, says Linda Jeng, CEO of Digital Self Labs, a Web3 advisory firm.

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Markets

Why Base Chain Has Potential to Lock the Next Generation of Crypto Users

The next era of Web3 will be defined by the ability of projects to attract and retain users, says Kelly Ye of Decentral Park Capital. Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 is showing the way forward.

Santa Monica Pier

Finance

Why Asset Tokenization Is Inevitable

On-chain real-world assets and the integration of wallet infrastructure will replace intermediaries and become standard in the modern asset management lifecycle, says Mehdi Brahimi, head of institutional business at L1.

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Opinion

How a Conservative German Bank Offering Crypto Makes Sense

Germany is a relatively conservative financial market, and landesbank are among its most conservative institutions. So what is the country’s largest landesbank doing launching crypto services? Noelle Acheson explains.

German bank LBBW and Bitpanda partners to offer crypto custody services. (Bitpanda)

Opinion

Institutional Digital Assets: The Future of Finance Is Here

Tokenization initiatives from BlackRock, JP Morgan and others presage a revolution in payments, wealth management and other key activities of Wall Street, says author Annelise Osborne.

Art installation reminiscent of digital ecosystems

Consensus Magazine

Web3 Artist Shavonne Wong on the Future of NFTs

“Having an eye on the horizon makes things less crazy,” says the Consensus 2024 speaker.

Shavonne Wong, NFT artist cropped