Vanity Fair’s March feature, “Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously,” was meant to capture a maturing industry for a mainstream audience. Instead, it triggered a rapid backlash from crypto insiders who saw the imagery and framing as a… Read More »Why Vanity Fair’s Bathrobe Crypto Shoot Sparked Industry Backlash
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is moving to rein in insider-style trading and manipulation risks in prediction markets, a fast-growing corner of derivatives that now overlaps heavily with crypto-native platforms and retail trading apps. For crypto traders, prediction… Read More »CFTC Targets Insider Trading Risks in Crypto Prediction Markets
The U.S. Treasury has, for the first time, explicitly acknowledged that lawful users of digital assets may turn to crypto mixers to protect their financial privacy on public blockchains. The language, contained in a March 2026 report to Congress, does… Read More »US Treasury Opens Door to Regulated Crypto Mixers for Financial Privacy
AI is moving from experimental side project to everyday tool inside tech companies, including crypto firms. But the data emerging from job postings, usage metrics, and early academic work points to a more nuanced shift than a simple story of… Read More »How AI Is Reshaping Tech Careers: More Senior Roles, Fewer Entry-Level Paths
Cardano’s core funding engine for ecosystem projects has just been shut off mid-cycle. Project Catalyst, the on-chain grants program that has deployed more than $150 million across 2,200 projects, is transitioning from Input Output Global (IOG) to the Cardano Foundation… Read More »Cardano’s Project Catalyst Transition Exposes a Painful Funding Gap for Builders
Block is executing one of the sharpest workforce resets in big-cap fintech, with CEO Jack Dorsey moving to cut nearly half of the company’s staff while asking investors to buy into an “AI-era” operating model and richer profit margins. The… Read More »Jack Dorsey’s ‘AI-Era’ Reset at Block: Halving Headcount to Double Down on Automation
Bitcoin is back near the center of the U.S. conversation, even as its price drifts further from last year’s peak. Search data shows American interest in Bitcoin has climbed to its highest level in roughly five years, a pattern that… Read More »Why U.S. Interest in Bitcoin Is Surging Even as Prices Slide
The CLARITY Act is being sold in Washington as a long-awaited way to bring order to U.S. crypto markets. But among DeFi users, builders, and some policy analysts, the core concern isn’t that the bill will outlaw smart contracts or… Read More »How the CLARITY Act Could Use Bank Secrecy Rules to Choke Off DeFi Access Without Banning Code
Landing in London, opening your banking app, and seeing that £1 still buys more than $1 can feel as jarring as a meme coin with eight decimals. For crypto natives used to thinking in sats, token supplies, and market caps,… Read More »Why £1 Still Buys More Than $1: A Crypto Native’s Guide to Fiat Exchange Rates
On paper, crypto’s capital markets staged a dramatic comeback in 2025: $50.6 billion deployed across 1,409 transactions. At first glance, that sounds like the industry is back to funding a new wave of protocols, consumer apps, and experimental primitives. Look… Read More »Behind Crypto’s $50 Billion Boom: How Mega Mergers Are Squeezing Out Real Innovation
Iran’s latest currency shock has pushed the limits of what a modern fiat collapse looks like, and it is unfolding under conditions that also test the resilience of decentralized money. With the rial plunging to around 1 million per US… Read More »Bitcoin, Blackouts, and a Broken Rial: Can Decentralized Money Help Iranians Preserve Wealth?
Each year, the same ritual plays out: a quiet winter morning, a familiar cup of tea, and the December 26 Bitcoin price chart. Taken in isolation, a single Boxing Day close is just another datapoint. Lined up across the exchange… Read More »What Bitcoin’s Missed $95K Christmas Target Signals for Traders