The old-guard financial industry is aware of the competitive threat from decentralized finance, but it's not moving fast enough to catch up.
The stock-trading app will debut in a fast-cooling market, costing it millions in cash and billions in market cap, says our columnist.
Pseudonymity is a key reason for the emergence of the $110 billion stablecoin market. If regulators are worried about financial stability, they should have some KYC controls.
The controversial DeFi Education Fund will pay off for the whole industry.
If you're going to warn people about stablecoins by citing 19th century history, you should at least include the full record, says our columnist.
A cute NFT pet game called Axie Infinity is currently raking in more protocol revenue than Ethereum and Bitcoin. Filipinos are benefitting.
As commerce moves online, transactions are increasingly subject to vetoes by middlemen who impose their values. Innocent people need alternatives.
For the first time ever, a publicly traded company is navigating crypto's doldrums. Wall Street analysts may not react kindly.
If the Bitcoin network is a collectively told story, as the philosopher Craig Warmke argued, wouldn't hard forks be fan fiction?
Jackson Palmer and others sometime conflate bad behavior with deeper technological bias. Spike Lee sees things differently.
Dogecoin co-founder Jackson Palmer says bitcoin is "inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic" but, really, it's whatever you want it to be, says our columnist.
Blockchains can’t rebuild roads or end sectarian violence, famine or natural disasters.
From sandboxes to the definition of money, Australia has to decide whether to support innovation or tamp it down, Finder's co-founder says.
Compass Mining is just the latest firm to show how bitcoin's economic incentives could spur a greener grid.
Bitcoin has shown an increasing tendency to track interest rate hikes, but professional investors still think record-high inflation is fleeting.