Empire

We can’t all have impeccable taste in music — some of us need to spend the next 2 weeks diversifying our listening experience

The “root lesson to be learned,” Ahluwalia says, is “not to borrow from Genesis to go levered long on your own product”

The Van Eck CEO says conditions are leading to a “close to perfect setup” for crypto

FinCEN’s broad definition of “convertible virtual currency” mixing includes “basically anything in DeFi,” Variant’s Jake Chervinsky says

According to Forman, 500 to 1000 different RWA pilots are set to launch in the next couple years

Week 3: Inside the FTX trial courtroom with Blockworks reporter Casey Wagner

FTX unwind will be an “absolute fiesta of grift,” says Dialectic’s Zurrer

“A lot of teams come to me and say, ‘Hey, we’re going to raise another five, 10 million because we want to hire a head of marketing,’ and I’m like…you don’t even have a product,” Santos says

“If you have a lot of employees in the reserves,” Yanowitz says, “that means half your staff is gone and not working”

The key barrier to more stablecoin adoption is the user interface, not the value proposition, says Carrica

Reporter Wagner sat just a few rows behind Sam Bankman-Fried over the past few days in court

DeFi innovations are aimed straight at the juggernauts, Blockchain Capital’s Larsen says

Account abstraction allows the blockchain to “meet users where they already are”

Industry leaders need to be “more discerning when it comes to talking about real-world assets,” Santos says

The numbers may be relatively small for now, but the “proof point is real,” says Lobban

While optimistic rollups rely on “socioeconomic games,” Nailwal says, zero knowledge proofs instead rely on mathematics

An ETF offers tax advantages and investment opportunities like Roth IRAs, Santos says

ETFs will change the “aura of acceptance” around crypto, says Shaughnessy

The Chaos Monkeys author and expert applies his ad-tech wisdom to the blockchain

Should crypto developers be held liable if their tech is used for criminal behavior?

Ansem warns that betting on Friend.tech shares is highly speculative: “If it goes up too fast, it’s going to come down”

Framework Ventures’ Michael Anderson expects “catalyzing events” to “make all these things real”

Taking away complexity from the user experience is the “north star” that the Coinbase team is following

Blockworks Research explains Curve was the “end target” of the hack and Vyper was the means by which it took place