Bitstamp, one of the original crypto exchanges, now getting picked up by Robinhood? It’s not only a great headline, but a real potential pivot point. Never mind the short-term impact on market share and trading volume. I'm thinking bigger. I'm thinking about forgotten voices and the raw, untapped potential bubbling...
Still, Gensler’s SEC certainly did seem like a moralizing, inflexible gale force wind. Enforcement, enforcement, enforcement. It sent a message that has left many in the crypto ecosystem feeling cornered, repressed, and quite honestly, persecuted. Was every project a scam? Of course not. Under Gensler, it seemed like that was...
The EU’s MiCA regulation has only recently touched down, a heavyweight champion of crypto rules. Over at the pond, something rad is fermenting. With a potential Trump resurgence, we're staring down the barrel of a radically different US crypto policy – one that could inadvertently become a lifeline for Southeast...
One, the global cryptocurrency landscape is rapidly changing. Regulatory strategies play an outsized role in determining the fate of digital assets. The other joint leaders in the global crypto landscape are the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). They are using fundamentally different approaches to regulate cryptocurrency. The...
As a Southeast Asian artist navigating the complex world of crypto, I'm constantly searching for projects that resonate with my values and offer more than just fleeting gains. Cast aside all of those Lamborghini fantasies. Let’s get back to funding work that focuses on community building, artists as agents of...
New projects and ecosystems are all the time coming into existence and gaining reputation within the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). Of these, the Shiba Inu (SHIB) ecosystem has stolen quite a bit of SHIB-laced thunder. In response to congestion issues faced on the Ethereum network, the Shibarium layer-2 blockchain...
The world of crypto is buzzing, but a big question mark hangs over it: regulation. Right now, a lot of regulatory attention is focused on if a cryptoasset is sufficiently “decentralized.” Is that really the best approach to take? A dozen of the nation’s experts discuss the fraught issue. Marcin...
The global narrative on crypto regulation is becoming more and more out of touch. This has never been clearer than in the context of Southeast Asia. We're so busy debating the degree of decentralization, a metric that feels ripped from a Silicon Valley whiteboard, that we're missing the forest for...
Back in Europe, the EU has been doing some self congratulating for being “first” with MiCA. First to what? Last to fully embrace digital asset innovation at home, but first to possible destroy its own crypto industry? We strongly support the good intentions that underlie both financial stability and consumer...
The United States and the European Union are taking opposite approaches to regulating the fast-growing cryptocurrency industry. This divergence is opening up a race to the bottom arena ripe for global competition in digital asset innovation. The EU has already advanced considerably with its all-encompassing Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework....
