Opinion


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)

Analyses

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)

Analyses

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)

Analyses

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)

Analyses

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)

Analyses

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.

Robot arm pointing at stylized globe with binary code

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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Analyses

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)

Marchés

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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