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Consensus Magazine

MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont: NFTs Are Already Part of Art History

“Yes, there has been a hyper-financialization in the NFT space, but money is not a dirty word in art,” says the Consensus 2024 speaker.

MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont brings Web3 experiences to the New York modern art mainstay. (Gen C podcast/CoinDesk)

Opinion

What Visa’s ‘Organic’ Stablecoin Report Misses

A new metric co-developed by the payments giant says only 10% of stablecoin transactions in April were “real” or “organic.” But the methodology appears to leave out some key use cases.

Visa headquarters in Foster City, California. (Wonderlane/Creative Commons)

Opinion

The U.S. Government’s Hypocritical Case Against Tornado Cash

You would think the government would be against an online privacy service facilitating money laundering. But it actually created one of the best, says attorney Alexandra Damsker.

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Opinion

The SEC Can’t Stop Suing Crypto Companies

Robinhood apparently made strenuous efforts to comply with the agency, even applying to become a special purpose crypto broker-dealer. The SEC is likely to sue for alleged securities violations in any case.

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Consensus Magazine

‘AI-Agents Will Do Crypto Transactions’: Arif Khan on the Future of Crypto-AI

Alethea CEO Arif Khan, a speaker on the AI Stage at Consensus 2024, says we’ll soon be automating large parts of lives including paying bills and responding to emails.

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Opinion

The Dollar Won, but Might the U.S. Lose Control of the Dollar?

We have a world currency already: it's the dollar. Do we want to keep it that way?

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Finance

Crypto for Advisors: Digital Asset Custody’s Future

Once they reach a certain level of sophistication, there’s a clear trend for Web3 asset holders to transition their digital asset wealth to self-custody.

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Consensus Magazine

CZ’s Trial Proves It Pays to Cooperate

His four-month sentence was vindication for the Binance founder’s legal strategy.

Changpeng Zhao

Opinion

Privacy Isn’t Just an Edge Case for Crypto

Financial privacy is useful for dissidents in extreme situations. But nobody should have to justify keeping their personal lives private, says our columnist.

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Finance

An ETH ETF Wouldn’t Deliver Full-Returns to Investors

An SEC approval for spot ETH ETFs looks unlikely but even if the SEC approves exchange traded funds for Ether, investors should learn about total return ETH investment products. That way, they can gain from staking rewards as well as the underlying asset, says Jason Hall, the CEO of Methodic Capital Management.

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