Opinion

The Dollar Is Crumbling. Fiat-Backed Stablecoins Are Next

One possible solution is a new kind of stablecoin whose value is pegged to a real-world, physical stockpile of gold, argues Algoz’ Stephen Wundke.

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Why The Market Crashed On October 10, And Why It’s Struggling to Bounce

MSCI’s proposed reclassification and potential index exclusion of Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies now looms over the market as a major structural overhang, says Dr. Avtar Sehra, founder and CEO of STBL. This helps explain the lack of a sustained recovery in crypto prices since the October 10th crash.

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The Coming Bitcoin Treasury Bubble

Today’s uncertain macroeconomic climate has created an environment where corporate leaders are desperate to look innovative – Bitcoin treasuries give them a way to do that, without fixing their broken business models, says Tony Yazbeck, co-founder of The Bitcoin Way.

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Ethereum Is Like a Shark. If It Stops Moving, It Will Die

Though Ethereum is still the preferred platform among institutions for asset tokenization, DeFi apps and stablecoin creation, it faces threats that will erode its edge if it doesn't move to meet the market, argues Axelar co-founder and CEO Sergey Gorbunov.

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Britain’s Digital ID Push Is Premature and Dangerous

The UK government is moving quickly toward a centralized digital ID system without the technological or legal safeguards to protect against authoritarianism or cybercrime.

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Cleaning Up Crypto ATMs Isn’t Anti-Crypto

The louder these companies protest regulation, the clearer it becomes that something’s off, argue Paradigm’s Katie Biber and Dominique Little.

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The AWS Outage Shows Why Crypto Can't Keep Relying On Centralized Infrastructure

For an industry that prides itself on decentralization and constantly lauds its benefits, crypto exchanges being so reliant on vulnerable centralized cloud platforms for their own infrastructure feels like hypocrisy, argues Dr. Max Li, founder and CEO of OORT.

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Bitcoin: The Dawn of a New Monetary Era

Seventeen years after Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world, it has grown from a cryptographic experiment into a global movement, argues Tony Yazbeck, co-founder of The Bitcoin Way.

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