Who Insures the Insurer? Cover Protocol Attack Exposes DeFi’s Promise and Peril

Monday’s $4 million attack on the Cover Protocol, a decentralized insurance service, sent my mind to…

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hovers Around $27K While ETH/BTC Pair Goes Bullish

Bitcoin has mostly traded in a tight, low-volume range Monday while some profit-taking from bitcoin into…

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The Rise of the Bitcoin Class

I’ve tried various ways to convince my Dad, a typical Chinese boomer, to allocate part of…

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Cover Protocol Attack Perpetrated by ‘White Hat,’ Funds Returned, Hacker Claims

The decentralized finance (DeFI) insurance project Cover Protocol was hacked earlier Monday in an infinite printing…

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That Decoupling Sound: China, the US and a Year of CBDCs

During the second presidential debate in 1992, candidate Ross Perot warned of a “giant sucking sound”…

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Charting Asia’s Dominant FinTech Frontier

Since its cypherpunk beginnings, the blockchain industry has long positioned itself as something on the fringe…

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Crypto’s Choice: Join the Financial System or Fight It

This has been an extraordinary year. Not for a century has there been a pandemic on…

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Proof-of-Stake Was Bigger Than Eth 2.0 in 2020

In just a single year, staking has gone from an academic exercise to a dominant force…

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DLT Regulation in 2020: Backwards or Sideways?

This has been an unprecedented year in far more ways than one. Above all else, while…

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Three Market Trends Fueled Enterprise DLT Adoption in 2020

After many years of investment, experimentation and infrastructure improvements, the intersection of three market trends are…

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Building the Next Wave of Web 3.0

“Blockchain and bitcoin point to a future, and point to a world, where content exists forever,…

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Now Is the Time for Enterprises to Look at ETH 2.0

Despite the excitement and enthusiasm in the Ethereum community, many people don’t yet fully understand the…

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