Opinion
The CLARITY Act Won't Save Crypto From Itself
Even if the bill passes, it addresses only one specific source of regulatory dysfunction. The industry's other self-inflicted problems will not solve themselves.
Marcus Webb//Apr 19, 2026//6 min
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Stablecoin 'Yields' Are Not Yields. They Are Net Interest Margin.
The terminology has been doing a lot of work that shouldn't be left unexamined. What looks like passive income is often just deposit margin paid back to depositors.
Olivia Chen//Mar 18, 2026
Opinion
Restaking Is Eating Itself, and Nobody Wants to Say It
The economic primitive was novel at small scale and has become structurally fragile at large scale. Pretending otherwise is increasingly costly.
Anya Verma//Feb 26, 2026
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Bitcoin's Decoupling From Equities Is a Mirage
Every six months, someone declares the BTC-equity correlation broken. They're always wrong, and the data is now too clear to keep entertaining the idea.
James Thornton//Jan 15, 2026
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Bitcoin's Treasury Imitators Will Define the Bear Market Casualties
MicroStrategy made the playbook look easy. The next downturn will reveal which copies were genuinely operational and which were leveraged caricatures.
Helena Cross//Jan 9, 2026
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Why Solana's Ethereum-Shaped Aspirations Will Trip on Client Diversity
The chain's institutional ambitions require operational resilience that its current near-monoculture validator stack structurally cannot deliver.
Idris Yamamoto//Dec 30, 2025//6m
The Four-Year Cycle Is Not a Law of Nature. Stop Treating It Like One.
Bitcoin's halving-driven boom-bust pattern emerged in a specific market structure that no longer exists. The next cycle will look different.
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Public Bitcoin Treasuries Are Leveraged Bets Dressed as Strategy
The MicroStrategy playbook works beautifully in a bull market and brutally in a sustained drawdown. The next twelve months will be the test.
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Crypto Has an AI Problem and Doesn't Want to Talk About It
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Sofia Marchetti//Nov 13, 2025//6m
AI Compute and Bitcoin Mining Will Coexist Less Comfortably Than We Hope
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The ETF Era Has Killed the Old Cycle Playbook
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The Stablecoin Trillion-Dollar Race Has Already Been Won
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ENS Was the Only Web3 Promise That Worked
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Idris Yamamoto//Aug 9, 2025//5m
Pump.fun's Revenue Will Not Survive a Real Bear Market
The launchpad's nine-figure revenue is impressive and almost entirely dependent on a single procyclical activity that historically goes to zero in downturns.
Theresa Volkov//Aug 2, 2025//5m
RWA Hype Forgets That Real Estate Is Already Tokenized — On Paper
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Carmen Diaz//Jul 4, 2025//5m
The Real Scaling Frontier Is User Experience, Not TPS
Crypto has spent a decade optimizing the wrong metric. Throughput is solved at the protocol level. The hard problem now is consumer experience, and we're losing that race.
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Account Abstraction Is the First Real Opt-Out From Wallets-as-Crypto
EIP-7702 isn't just a technical upgrade. It's the first credible path to letting users transact on-chain without ever thinking about a wallet.
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The Memecoin Economy Is Just Gambling, and It Should Be Regulated as Such
Pretending that anonymously-launched joke tokens are software products is a regulatory fiction that has cost retail traders billions.
Alejandro Ruiz//Apr 9, 2025//6m
The Case Against a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Even crypto-friendly observers should be skeptical of putting a volatile speculative asset on the federal balance sheet, regardless of which side benefits politically.
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The NFT Obituaries Were Premature — Here Is What They Missed
Yes, JPEG floor prices are far below their 2021 peaks. No, that does not mean tokenized digital ownership has failed.
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