Opinion


Opinion

3 Big Drivers Determining the Future of Crypto in the U.S.

Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith weighs where the digital asset industry may be in the next half decade, on the organization's five-year anniversary.

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Opinion

What Will Be the Next Target of the SEC's Enforcement Regime?

Troutman Pepper lawyers predict that crypto wallets and TradFi firms could face the agency's wrath.

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Opinion

What Has the Blockchain Association Actually Achieved?

After five years in Washington D.C., crypto’s lobbyists should be humble about their “wins” and learn from their losses.

Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith said crypto lobbyists helped beat back disastrous regulations on "unhosted wallets." (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

What Correlations Tell Us About the Value of Multi-Asset Crypto Portfolios

Investors focusing solely on bitcoin forego more than they may think.

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Markets

Crypto’s Interest in Rates

U.S. interest rates are back on the rise, but digital assets appear to be unaffected.

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Opinion

Vitalik Buterin Wants a Better Crypto Mixer

A group of crypto and privacy experts may have found a way to anonymize blockchain transactions.

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin at Techcrunch London 2015

Opinion

Building Trust in the Bitcoin Network in El Salvador

Jonathan Martin reports from El Salvador on programs to build literacy in Bitcoin. This is his fourth dispatch from the first nation to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender.

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - NOVEMBER 22: A shoe shiner works outside a shop that accepts Bitcoin for payment on November 22, 2021 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Merchants in El Salvador slowly adopt Bitcoin as a means for payments after more than 2 months of the cryptocurrency being approved as legal tender by the Legislative Assembly (Photo by Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

Opinion

What's Wrong With PayPal's Stablecoin?

If PYUSD is to gain true and lasting traction, the newly minted stablecoin issuer needs to address certain centralization concerns, Kima Chief Technology Officer Guy Vider writes.

The ability to transfer all PYUSD user funds into PayPal may leave crypto natives hesitant to adopt the stablecoin. Oliver Buchmann/Unsplash)

Opinion

Will the CFTC Blot Out DeFi in the U.S.?

Recent actions by the agency raise impossible questions for decentralized finance platforms.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Opinion

The G20’s Crypto Hand-Wringing Is Not Significant

The G20 can say what it wants on the crypto regulations front. It’s not a threat to the ecosystem, says Noelle Acheson.

Joko Widodo President of Indonesia presents Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India a tree sapling at the G20 on September 10, 2023 (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images).