Disgust over GameStop’s trading shutdown will accelerate DeFi adoption. Here’s how to gain DeFi investment exposure. Last week’s frenzy around GameStop’s stock (GME) and firestorm over Robinhood’s trading shutdown laid bare real problems with our existing market infrastructure and its lack of transparency. These problems (which are nothing new, just…

Here’s how to invest and profit on their growth via Blockchain.com Stablecoins, cryptocurrency tokens that use various mechanisms to keep their price “stably” pegged to a national currency like the US dollar, have been exploding in use lately. …

Can you really borrow money at negative rates, earn double-digit annual yields on savings deposits, and see 1000x token returns? — As excitement over DeFi continues it is useful to remember just how small a percentage of the population is currently participating in not just DeFi, but crypto as a whole. Today, even as we approach this month the 12-year anniversary of the publication of the bitcoin white paper by Satoshi…

A look at the winners and losers of financial repression — Listen to the podcast recording here. Quick Take: Of the various mechanisms for addressing growing government debt, financial repression is compelling from the perspective of policymakers Traditional savers and bondholders, such as banks and pension funds, are some of the biggest losers from financial repression The crypto industry and its users stand…

DeFi lending remains significantly smaller than lending via digital asset platforms (for now) — Listen to the podcast recording here. Like many in crypto we have been watching the growth of DeFi with great interest and enthusiasm. The DeFi boom has been a major factor in the 2020 price outperformance of Ethereum (ETH), on which much of DeFi operates, over bitcoin (BTC). …

So much has changed in the past twelve months since we first published our general cryptoasset investment thesis, a 150-slide presentation examining the drivers and barriers to broadening ownership of cryptoassets such as bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). With the COVID pandemic and ongoing economic fallout, along with developments within…

Traditional finance emerges from its crypto trough of disillusionment — Listen to the podcast recording here. There have been few true constants in the evolution of cryptocurrencies over the last five years, but speculation around the arrival of institutions and institutional investors has been one of the most consistently heralded themes. For years, “Wall Street is coming” to crypto has…

A new US digital dollar, seemingly imminent, will transform the financial world and digital currency landscape — Listen to the podcast recording here. The introduction of a “US digital dollar” — the creation of which just last year seemed far away, but now under serious consideration — represents nothing short of a tectonic reconfiguration of money and the global financial system. The US dollar is the world’s…