Opinion


Opinion

How the Play-to-Earn Industry Can Rebuild Better After the Ronin Attack

Now is the time for Axie Infinity leadership and solidarity from the competitive crypto gaming industry, CoinDesk columnist Leah Callon-Butler writes.

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Opinion

Top Talent Is Migrating to Web 3

Chief Investment Officer of Rockaway Blockchain Fund takes an investors view on the talent wars between Web 3 and Web 2.

Filmmaker working with MacBook Pro 14 M1 on Davinci Resolve. (TheRegisti/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

A New SEC Definition for ‘Exchanges’ Has Big Implications for Crypto

The crypto community should seize the opportunity to be heard as the SEC looks to expand its remit.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Dontworry/Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

Web 3 and the Rise of Small Media

Taking on Web 2's ad bot-infested business model with Sybil-resistant media.

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Opinion

The Bigger Problem With Axie Infinity

The $620 million Ronin exploit isn't the half of it; play-to-earn ain't free.

Medieval illustration of men harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks, on a calendar page for August. Queen Mary's Psalter (Ms. Royal 2. B. VII/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Why Bitcoin Mining Is a Matter of National Security

Buying and holding bitcoin (BTC), the asset, is not what gives people power over the Bitcoin network.

The ESG Debate of Bitcoin Mining

Finance

NFTs Take Hollywood: My Week at NFT LA

The star-studded week brought out the good and bad of NFT mania. But who was it for?

Attendees gather outside NFT LA. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Praises 'Bitcoin Maximalism' (Maybe)

The blockchain mastermind also took shots at Ethereum in a richly ambiguous April Fools’ post.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, speaks during ETHDenver in Denver, Colorado, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Opinion

NFT Punks With the FU Money

Michael Casey visits NFT.LA and finds permissionless innovation in the capital of storytelling.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

What Netflix’s QuadrigaCX Documentary Gets Right – and Wrong – About One of Crypto’s Worst Scandals

Is “Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King” worth watching? Two CoinDesk staffers watched the film and came away with different conclusions.

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