Opinion


Markets

Open Finance Is Better Than Broken Finance

Traditional financial services fail to meet the core needs of a global economy. DeFi is not perfect but it's for everyone.

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Tech

The Dark Future Where Payments Are Politicized and Bitcoin Wins

If the payments system ever becomes seriously politicized, Bitcoin's apolitical nature could become more appealing. But that's not a scenario worth looking forward to.

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Policy

What the History of Airlines Tells Us About Blockchain Commerce

The ability to represent all industrial capacity as tokens on a blockchain will have huge implications for resource use, says our columnist.

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Finance

The Smart Money Economy

Digital money in a crypto wallet is only the first step. The bigger shift is a new software economy anchored in programmable blockchains.

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Markets

Why Bitcoin Thrives (and Why It Won't Replace the Dollar)

A world in which bitcoin becomes the global reserve currency is a world many of us would not want to live in.

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Finance

Crypto Execs Need Liability Insurance

When crypto companies are denied liability insurance, they are disincentivized from innovating.

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Policy

Data Is Labor: Why We Need Data Unions

It's time to unionize and take back the wealth created by personal data, says a leading activist.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: The US' Kodak Moment

China's moves on digital currency have potential to rock the global economy. The U.S. risks getting left behind, like Kodak.

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Finance

Why DeFi Needs to Branch Out From Ethereum

For its long-term viability, decentralized finance cannot be defined by a single blockchain network.

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Tech

Flash Loans Aren’t the Problem, Centralized Price Oracles Are

Flash loans attacks have received a lot of press attention. But they're not DeFi's biggest vulnerability, says Chainlink's CMO.

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