Opinion

The collapse of play-to-earn gaming has exposed the dangers of tying fun to financial speculation. A new play-to-own model offers a sustainable future over speculative rewards.

Crypto adoption is rapidly growing in high-growth markets, where the technology is solving real-world problems, like remittances, financial inclusion and supply chain inefficiencies.

The CARF regulation, which brings crypto under global tax reporting standards akin to traditional finance, marks a crucial turning point.

Unified liquidity breaks DeFi’s oracle dependency, enabling truly permissionless leverage and shorting for long-tail tokens, and ushering in a scalable, composable and censorship-resistant financial market.

AI models generate immense value from user data. It’s time to demand onchain attribution and pay the people whose data makes AI possible with Payable AI, to ensure fair recognition and payment for everyone.

Despite surging crypto adoption in emerging markets, the promise of financial sovereignty remains unfulfilled. Millions hold digital wealth they can’t easily use without seamless payment systems and practical off-ramps.

Crypto hacks underscore the urgent need for CEXs and DeFi to overhaul their security, collaborate on risk management and embrace self-regulation.

Crypto's true value isn't in dismantling traditional finance, but in bridging it with decentralized innovation. The crypto industry can create a more open, efficient and resilient financial system that enhances, not replaces, established institutions.

Decentralized AI breaks open the gates of intelligence, with communities worldwide building, customizing and governing their own tools. DeAI dismantles centralized control and empowers communities to create and govern their own AI systems.

Emerging markets are not just adopting crypto, they’re redefining it. People in high-friction economies set new standards for the global crypto ecosystem.

In the UAE’s complex crypto landscape, founders who treat legal and regulatory structuring as a core element of their go-to-market strategy — not an afterthought — are the ones who thrive.

The explosion of new blockchains has fractured DeFi’s once-unified liquidity, threatening its core advantage of composability. Without infrastructure that seamlessly connects siloed markets, DeFi risks losing its revolutionary qualities.

Bitcoin’s rising correlation with stocks is less about investor exuberance and more about eroding trust in the dollar. The real story is not a newfound appetite for risk — it’s a flight from the perceived fragility of the US dollar.

Blockchain’s next leap is about intelligence. Predictive infrastructure anticipates demand, erases latency and enables new levels of trust and scalability. Blockchain can become proactive and invisible.

Bitcoin’s June price action during the Israel–Iran conflict shows that it remains a macro asset, albeit one increasingly shaped by global instability.