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[…]
Category: 2019
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[…]
The QuadrigaCX Case: Taylor Monahan on What We Know From the Blockchain
Quote note to listeners: I’ll be doing a live podcast recording in NYC on the evening of March 20 with guest Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum. Venue TBD. There[…]
Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital on Why This Crypto Winter Is Different
Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital, explains why this crypto bear market is different from the previous one his firm endured, what he believes will give institutional money the confidence[…]