Zachary Fallon, a former SEC staffer and author of the Reg A JOBS Act crowdfunding rules and a principal at Blakemore Fallon, discusses Blockstack’s filing for a token offering under[…]
Category: 2019
Coinbase Custody: Keep Your Crypto Safe and Use It Too
Sam McIngvale, head of product for Coinbase Custody, describes its new staking service. He explains how Coinbase Custody plans to allow its customers to participate in crypto networks while keeping[…]
How Useful Is the SEC’s Guidance on ICOs?
Marco Santori, the president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discusses this week’s big regulatory news — the SEC’s guidance on initial coin offerings and its first no-action letter. We[…]
Why Has MakerDAO’s Dai Struggled to Keep Its Dollar Peg?
Ryan Todd and Matteo Leibowitz, research analysts at The Block, discuss why Dai has fallen below $1 in price, how the community has attempted to keep it pegged to $1[…]
Why Ethereum 2.0 Could Fail and How It Could Be Fixed
Delphi Digital recently released a report on Ethereum’s short- and long-term prospects. It showed why there’s been such high selling pressure on Ethereum, plus dived deeply into the economics of[…]
How Uniswap Quickly Became One of the Most Popular Dexes
Hayden Adams, founder of the new decentralized exchange Uniswap, discusses how Uniswap differs from a traditional exchange based on order books, how market the contract determines the price of the[…]
How to Earn Money on Collateral in DeFi — and Why That’s Risky
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, describes a concept he describes as superfluid collateral made possible in the decentralized finance space. We talk about which DeFi projects make this[…]
After Massive Layoffs and Losses, What Are Bitmain’s Future Prospects?
Blockstream chief strategy officer Samson Mow, who used to work at a competitor to Bitmain, discusses the recent news that the crypto mining manufacturer suffered a $500 million loss in[…]
How AirTM Hopes to Get Venezuelans to Use Cryptocurrency
Ruben Galindo Steckel, cofounder and CEO of AirTM, describes how his companies enables everyday Venezuelans the ability to escape the hyperinflation in their currency, the bolívar, to save in U.S.[…]
How Korea’s Crypto Scene Differs From That of the US
Joyce Yang, founder of Global Coin Research, discusses the crypto scene in Korea today. An epicenter of the crypto craze in 2017, Korea still has a number of young people[…]