Opinion


Opinion

The New Crypto Bill Gary Gensler Doesn’t Want You to Know About

U.S. law doesn't let appointed regulators override elected official. But the SEC head may be doing exactly that.

America is still a democracy. Technically, at least. (Andy Morffew, Flickr/CC)

Opinion

The SEC Has Started an All-In Political Battle Over Crypto

The SEC's lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase are likely to play out across the U.S.'s legal and political system over several years, says Michael Casey.

Gary Gensler, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

Opinion

Can Binance Survive the SEC's Charges?

Don’t bet against someone with eight million Twitter followers who built by far the largest crypto exchange.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Opinion

When AI and Blockchain Merge, Expect the Mundane at First

As the transformative technologies of generative artificial intelligence and blockchain find their way in business, inevitably they will interact. The pairing has the potential to achieve wild, weird and presently unimaginable results, but expect the first experiments to be boring and predictable, says EY's Paul Brody.

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Web3

Banks Have Come to the Metaverse

Several big-name financial institutions have set up shop in virtual worlds, making inroads to a whole new generation of clients.

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Opinion

The SEC Is Fighting the Last War

SEC chair Gary Gensler wants you to think Coinbase and Binance are the same as FTX and Celsius. They’re not.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill, September 15, 2022 in Washington, DC.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin (Somewhat) Takes Binance Accusations in Stride

As the U.S. government’s fight against crypto intensifies, there is some evidence the industry is weathering it better than past shocks.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)

Web3

To Identify or Not in a Web3 World?

By striking a balance between privacy and identity verification, blockchains can realize their full potential and lure institutional money.

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Opinion

Are Centralized Exchanges in the U.S. Doomed?

With the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, the agency is signaling it really is now or never to “come into compliance.”

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (CoinDesk screen grab from video)

Opinion

How to Build a Compliant Crypto Exchange Post-Coinbase

Crypto isn’t going anywhere — though Coinbase might — so what the market needs is a fresh start: new exchanges that can avoid the ever-present threat of SEC enforcement by being structured correctly in the first place, writes Preston Byrne.

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