Andrew Singer

Cointelegraph talks with Coinbase protocols lead and Base creator Jesse Pollak about the company’s new blockchain, which is already a force to be reckoned with.

Combining blockchain with digital monitoring, reporting and verification protocols may not only improve VCMs but even rescue them.

Switzerland, Singapore and the EU have taken the early regulatory lead, but Japan and the UAE are coming on now. Even the U.S. may be awakening.

Blockchains’ tracing capacities can help certify that crops weren’t grown by razing woodlands or harvested with child labor.

The use of physical currency for transactions is plummeting globally, so why is the U.K. so tentative with its own central bank digital currency?

Have the world’s largest financial firms finally “seen the light” with Bitcoin? Will demand outstrip supply, making a BTC price rise inevitable?

Swift, the interbank payments network, has enlisted a dozen world-class institutions — and Chainlink — to fix blockchain’s interoperability deficit.

The Biden administration wanted to nix a “special tax subsidy for cryptocurrency,” but it wasn’t in the May 28 debt ceiling bill. Another narrow escape?

Is the EU’s crypto regulatory framework a useful model for U.S. legislators? Can a “security” token really morph into a “utility” token?

Asking exchanges to identify users might seem like a minor inconvenience, but could it drive DeFi firms overseas, and would crypto users even care?

The latest fork on the “roadmap” shores up the network’s new validation mechanism while finally allowing stakers access to their ETH rewards.

Are U.S. agencies conspiring to “un-bank” crypto and put Binance out of business?

SVB’s epic failure occurred “at a bank that happened to deal with crypto customers” but “was not a crypto-induced problem,” said Mick Mulvaney.

Did the depegging reveal stablecoins’ limitations, or was it a learning moment?

Some foresee benefits if the U.S. finally gets sensible crypto regulation post-Silvergate, and traditional banks “may become warmer to establishing [crypto] relationships.”

Should the International Monetary Fund leave the door open for developing countries struggling with inflation? “Bitcoin was made for the Global South.”

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may be focused on custodial staking programs today, but does it also have proof-of-stake blockchain networks in its sights?

The crypto lender froze withdrawals in mid-November. It will resume operations in Q1 2023, buoyed by a Series A recapitalization.

There may be no single reason for BTC’s 39% January price gain, but some suspect institutional investors. Can their impact be quantified, though?

TradFi firms with expertise in risk management may soon “fill the void” left by bankrupt crypto lenders, a Duke finance professor predicts.

The collaboration will allow both individuals and institutions to launch subnets that can operate as self-sufficient blockchain systems.

Bipartisan support for cryptocurrencies exists on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers, but extreme elements could still thwart legislation.

In Latin America, "crypto is functional, it has a real utility." It can hedge inflation, provide access to dollars and internationalize wealth.

Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse nearly brought the world financial system to its knees. Does FTX really compare? Are such analogies even useful?

The collapse of crypto-exchange FTX hit the crypto world like a tropical storm. It bears asking once again: How stable are stablecoins?

With election integrity under assault in the United States and elsewhere, is blockchain technology part of the solution? Greenland explores voting options.

With the internet, elliptic curve cryptography, even Merkle trees and PoW protocols all present, Bitcoin was “technically possible” in 1994.

Is the multilateral lending institution throttling useful DLT experiments in the developing world, or is it saving crypto from itself?

Bitcoin’s creator seemed to succeed where others failed — initially. What did he do differently? He rotated record-keepers.

Blockchains can help to insure the world’s uninsured, but daunting challenges remain: How does one explain crop insurance to indigent farmers?