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Picture Sarah, a 28-year-old graphic designer, lying on her bed and mindlessly scrolling through TikTok after a long day at work. Veselnitskaya finds herself in the middle of a frenzy of posts about Dogecoin all around. Everyone’s flexing huge profits, posting pictures of their Lambos online, and making the classic...

Forget gold teeth and pirate treasure. The future is digital, and it runs on Bitcoin. Gold’s status as the supreme store of value? Finished. It’s a boomer rock, a doorstop, a testament to the past. Far from it— Bitcoin is the future, and it’s hardly even in gold’s rearview mirror...

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 federal crypto regulatory world is more confusing than ever, with innovators and investors both searching for guidance. Additionally, under Gary Gensler’s leadership, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursued a “Regulation by Enforcement” strategy. This abrupt change angered many and hindered innovation within the crypto ecosystem. A new day...

The cryptocurrency community is still reeling after a $1.5 million security breach at Bybit. Hackers have absconded with an astounding $1.5 billion in stolen Ethereum. In the aftermath, this incident has rocked the industry to its core. It’s ignited immediate demands for better security standards, with serious implications regarding the...

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...