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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Biggest Grift? His ‘Best In Class’ Exchange
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Biggest Grift? His ‘Best In Class’ Exchange
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ETH Staking Has a Bright Future, Despite Regulatory Uncertainty
CoinDesk Indices in partnership with Coin Fund has created the Composite ETH Staking Rate (CESR), a benchmark for investors to hold managers, exchanges, and service providers accountable for their returns. Indices are the cornerstone of…
Staking Risks Are Vastly Misunderstood
Staking Risks Are Vastly Misunderstood
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Is Wrong About Proof-of-Stake Tokens Like ETH
“The investing public is investing anticipating a return, anticipating something on these tokens, whether they're proof-of-stake (PoS) tokens, where they're also looking to get returns on those proof-of-stake tokens and getting 2%, 4%,…
The Barrier to Mainstream Crypto Adoption Isn’t UX — It’s Product-Market Fit
There is a lot of evidence that when the user benefit is great enough, users are willing to jump through UX hurdles and learn new behaviors, in crypto and beyond. Examples include the first iPhone (which lacked a touch keyboard), the…
How Staking Rates Can Drive the Crypto Economy Forward
In traditional finance, borrowing, lending and derivative products are often priced relative to a standard benchmark that provides a basis for comparison and evaluation. This gives market participants a degree of transparency and…
IRS Proposed Rule on Digital Asset Broker Reporting Could Kill Crypto in America
Although the IRS has finally released its proposed rulemaking, it did so nearly two years after the IIJA was passed. If the digital asset ecosystem is to have clarity in tax matters, it will require the IRS to provide both timely and…
A Year of Growth and Transformation
The Merge upgrade, which effectively brought the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism to Ethereum, was activated almost a year ago. The subsequent Ethereum Shapella upgrade, which allowed staked ETH withdrawals, is about six months old. With…
Ethereum Staking Will Decentralize DeFi
Enter crypto staking yields, or more specifically, “post-Shapella” staking yields. Since the Shapella upgrade of the Ethereum network, users can stake and unstake their ether (ETH) at will, significantly de-risking staked ETH from a…
We Need to Reclaim the Narrative on Staking
PoS blockchains, like Ethereum, enable all token-holders, not just those with industrial-scale computer systems, to benefit from securing and in many cases governing the network. The more token owners stake, the more secure, neutral, and…