Opinion


Opinion

Gary Gensler’s Catch-22 Vision of ‘Regulated’ Crypto Brokers

The SEC-registered trading platform Prometheum pitched the House on Gary Gensler's vision. But skeptical legislators highlighted that the platform won't offer major assets – including bitcoin.

Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan went on CoinDesk TV to discuss is Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker-dealer license approval. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Ecosystem Is Getting Busier, Not Quieter, Amid Layer 2 Shift

Many transactions are getting offloaded onto layer-2 blockchains, and those should be included in any analysis of the Ethereum ecosystem.

(José Martín Ramírez Carrasco/Unsplash)

Markets

A Crypto Lesson From George Soros Amid Binance and Coinbase Accusations

Positioning and expectations explain why the Binance case drove prices down but markets rebounded after Coinbase.

George Soros (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Opinion

Ripple Does Not Care Whether XRP Is 'Sufficiently Decentralized'

Common interpretations of the so-called Hinman document dump misunderstand Ripple’s legal strategy.

Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, speaks at Davos 2020. (CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance Goes to Court Against the SEC

Binance and Binance.US have made their case against the SEC's motion to freeze all Binance.US funds.

Binance's Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Opinion

House Bill Shows Challenge of Regulating Crypto Without Giving TradFi a Free Pass

House Republicans Patrick McHenry and GT Thompson face a central problem with their crypto bill: Removing SEC discretion over whether a crypto token is a security allows issuers of traditional stocks and bonds the opportunity to arbitrage regulation, writes Todd Phillips.

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Opinion

SEC’s DeFi Rulemaking Do-Over Falls Short

An attempt at classifying decentralized, open-source protocols as regulated exchanges is a "gussied up ban on blockchain in the U.S.," ConsenSys lawyer Bill Hughes writes.

(Mark Duffel/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Binance and Coinbase: Experts Weigh What’s Coming Next

Will the SEC win? Will Binance close in the U.S.? What will Congress do? As the SEC launches wide-ranging suits against crypto’s biggest players, we asked a range of experts to peer into the future.

Gary Gensler (Third Way/Flickr)

Opinion

The Memecoin Grift and How It Threatens Ethereum Culture

If Ethereum is to grow it’ll have to mature beyond the antics of those shilling the token-of-the-moment, says CoinDesk columnist Paul Dylan-Ennis.

Pepe the Frog (PepeCoin's Twitter account)