Explainers

Atkins is in. The crypto world is buzzing. The bottom line Are we all just crossing our fingers here? Or rather, are we really ready for what his SEC chairmanship is going to signify. Forget the Bitcoin ETF hype. Let's talk about the real wild west: altcoins. So will they...

The Bitcoin vs Gold debate isn’t all about the metrics. It’s a contest of faith. The debate is a tug-of-war between the old guard of tangible assets (ie musicians) and the shiny, new world of digital scarcity (ie your popular uncle). We see headlines: Bitcoin at $94,230, gold at $2,350....

Now the entire DeFi world is buzzing about Ethena’s USDe. Another stablecoin, you might yawn. But what makes it attractive is a delta-neutral strategy that shorts perpetual futures against staked ETH. This new way of doing business has amazed both DeFi dreamers and TradFi onlookers just the same. Guy Young,...

Could Ethena’s USDe be the DeFi savior we’ve all been waiting for? Or is it merely, as many critics have charged, a nicely built illusion, a digital Potemkin village on a sandy substructure? We've all seen the headlines: skyrocketing yields, institutional adoption on the horizon, and promises of a new...

Put Paul Atkins at the helm of the SEC, and things get nasty. The crypto world holds its breath. We see the headlines: a pro-crypto chairman, ETFs on the horizon, clarity at last! Are we really prepared for what “clear regulation” would really look like? Have we become so dazzled...

The recent news of Bybit getting whacked for $1.5 billion in Ethereum would seem like a surreal fiction headline. Despite its reputation as a crypto wild west, this scenario is somewhere between a stagecoach robbery in daylight and embarrassing highway robbery. While the internet remains a revolutionary, enormous, democratizing force—akin...

$1.5 billion… gone. Vanish into the digital ether. The Bybit hack stings, not just because of the sheer scale, but because it forces us to confront a truly uncomfortable truth: we are often our own worst enemies in the crypto world. It’s easy for us all to point the finger...

Let's be brutally honest. The altcoin space is a minefield. The bounty of get-rich-quick schemes posted all over would be hard to find if half of them weren’t… shall we say, “overly-enthusiastic.” Before you even think about throwing your hard-earned money at the next shiny new coin, understand this: do...

You’re in crypto for the freedom, right? The escape from centralized control? Then why in the world are you allowing a charismatic talking head on YouTube to shape your investment future. It's ironic, isn't it? We leave the banks behind, just to be pulled in by digital pied pipers.Let’s be...

Let's be honest. How many hours this week have you spent hunched over crypto YouTube. Coin Bureau, Altcoin Daily, BitBoy Crypto suck you in with the content farm. They dupe you through price forecasts, technical analysis and never-ending declarations of immeasurable wealth. First, don’t get me wrong – these channels...