The Next Era Of Crypto Belongs To Decentralized Markets

Opinion by: Rachel Lin, co-founder and CEO at SynFutures DeFi has come a long way since the boom-and-bust cycle of 2020’s DeFi Summer. Much of the surge in the early days was fueled by experimentation, hype and unsustainably high incentives.  Five years on, DeFi’s foundations look very different. The past year’s experimentation is a quiet … Read more

The Next Era Of Crypto Belongs To Decentralized Markets

Opinion by: Rachel Lin, co-founder and CEO at SynFutures DeFi has come a long way since the boom-and-bust cycle of 2020’s DeFi Summer. Much of the surge in the early days was fueled by experimentation, hype and unsustainably high incentives.  Five years on, DeFi’s foundations look very different. The past year’s experimentation is a quiet … Read more

The Next Era Of Crypto Belongs To Decentralized Markets

Opinion by: Rachel Lin, co-founder and CEO at SynFutures DeFi has come a long way since the boom-and-bust cycle of 2020’s DeFi Summer. Much of the surge in the early days was fueled by experimentation, hype and unsustainably high incentives.  Five years on, DeFi’s foundations look very different. The past year’s experimentation is a quiet … Read more

CZ’s pardon came after an expensive lobbying campaign

Today in crypto, CZ’s pardon by Trump followed a lobbying push that included $450,000 to Trump-linked lobbyists and $290,000 to former SEC chair contender Teresa Goody Guillén, Kyrgyzstan launches a stablecoin and confirms CBDC rollout with the help of Changpeng Zhao. Meanwhile, competition in the Bitcoin mining industry is intensifying, with smaller miners gaining ground … Read more

JPMorgan to Accept Bitcoin as Loan Collateral by Year-End

Bitcoin Magazine JPMorgan to Accept Bitcoin as Loan Collateral by Year-End JPMorgan Chase plans to let institutional clients use Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as collateral for loans by the end of 2025, according to a Bloomberg report.  The new program, expected to roll out globally, will rely on a third-party custodian to safeguard pledged … Read more

CZ’s pardon came after an expensive lobbying campaign

Today in crypto, CZ’s pardon by Trump followed a lobbying push that included $450,000 to Trump-linked lobbyists and $290,000 to former SEC chair contender Teresa Goody Guillén, Kyrgyzstan launches a stablecoin and confirms CBDC rollout with the help of Changpeng Zhao. Meanwhile, competition in the Bitcoin mining industry is intensifying, with smaller miners gaining ground … Read more

AWS Outage Shows Crypto’s Weak Spot: Centralized Dependence

The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that knocked out major crypto and fintech platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, MetaMask and Venmo, has reignited debate over how decentralized Web3 really is. While blockchains continued producing blocks uninterrupted, millions of users were unable to access wallets, exchanges and decentralized applications (DApps) because their interfaces and application programming … Read more

Why The Bitcoin Price May Be Decoupling From Its Four-Year Cycle

Has the bitcoin price finally broken away from its four-year cycle pattern, or is this bull market already entering exhaustion? By studying historical growth rates, liquidity data, and macroeconomic correlations, we can better understand whether the current cycle has truly diverged, and what that means for investors in the months ahead. Bitcoin Price Cycle Duration … Read more

CZ’s Pardon Followed Costly Binance Lobbying in Washington

Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s pardon by US President Donald Trump came after an extensive and expensive lobbying campaign in Washington. Zhao, who served a four-month prison sentence last year for violating US Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, benefited from a months-long effort by Binance and its legal team to win over key figures in … Read more