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CoinDesk Confidential_ Ambre Soubiran

Ambre Soubiran is the CEO of one of the most important crypto startups, Kaiko. The mathematics graduate left an analyst job at HSBC for the crypto...

CoinDesk Confidential_ Bradley Miles

Bradley Miles, co-founder of social token infrastructure platform Roll, owns Bitcoin, doesn't own DOGE, and believes there will be fewer currencies in 100 years. His platform...

Metagood uses NFTs for social purposes

Danny Yang was part of the team behind what he calls a historic crypto transaction when his non-fungible token (NFT) project became the first to mint...

CoinDesk Confidential_ Loretta Joseph

CoinDesk Confidential is a version of the Proust questionnaire, an interview style that was popular in the French writer's time. A series of questions are asked...

Polygon courts Terra developers and shoots at Solana

Layer 2 platform Polygon is once again trying to lure Terra developers following Terra's collapse. In addition, the India-based company is also taking action against Solana,...

Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide_ CBDCs and Public Funds.

Consensus Festival 2022 will attract speakers who will lead the global discussion on cryptocurrencies, including how CBDCs - digital central bank currencies - could change money...

Under-collateralized USDN stablecoin needs a makeover, says Waves founder

The algorithm that powers the Waves Protocol's Neutrino USD (USDN) stablecoin needs to be adjusted in the wake of two recent decouplings from the U.S. dollar,...

Merge Ahead_ Ethereum's dress rehearsal (and a hiccup).

As Ethereum continues to lay the groundwork for its highly anticipated transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), the network reached a major milestone on Tuesday with the launch...

CoinDesk Confidential_ Kristin Smith

The Proust Questionnaire - an old-fashioned magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in...

Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide_ Getting Up Close and Personal with DAOs

Getting up close and personal with DAOsThe 2022 Consensus Festival is a showcase for everything crypto has to offer, including how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), a...

SuperRare in SoHo_ NFTs in the Real World

SuperRare, a digital art market on the Ethereum blockchain powered by the RARE token, opened its first pop-up gallery on May 19 in SoHo, the historic...

Grayscale CEO says bitcoin will find its place

Against the backdrop of rising interest rates in the U.S. market, all asset classes are under selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception. In addition, events such...

CoinDesk Confidential_ Alex Masmej

The Proust Questionnaire - an old magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in...

CoinDesk Confidential_ Jesse Johnson

The Proust Questionnaire - an old-fashioned magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical, and prosaic questions that, in...

Tether 'transparency is necessary' after collapse of Terra's UST_ analyst

Following the collapse of Terra's UST, stablecoin issuers may soon face stricter auditing protocols as investors seek more clarity. Alexandre Lores, head of blockchain market research at...

How Web 3 is changing philanthropy

Ten years ago, the rebels had not won. There was no Web 3, no non-fungible tokens (NFTs), no decentralized finance (DeFi), no decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)....

Virtual Beers and Digital Orgasms_ Welcome to the Age of Metaverse Commerce

Guess what holiday falls on July 31? That would be National Orgasm Day. That was the occasion for French cosmetics brand NARS to unveil NFTs of...

Disappointed by PayPal, anti-war journalists speak out

Earlier this month, we reported on PayPal's decision to ban two independent media organizations, Mint Press and Consortium, from using its payment platform. The websites are...

Everything you always wanted to know about "Miladys" but were afraid to ask

If you've spent any time on crypto-Twitter in the past few months, you may have noticed a strange new presence in your feed - an army...

China can't seem to stop bitcoin mining

Last week, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge released an update to its much-cited (and rightly so) Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity...

Justin Sun still thinks Algorithmic Stablecoins is a good idea

Justin Sun, founder of the Tron blockchain and Grenada's ambassador to the World Trade Organization, said the collapse of UST and LUNA is a good lesson...

Dai creator Rune Christensen on Terra's breakdown

The founder of a so-called decentralized stablecoin believes that the collapse of Terra is a wake-up call for those who have not yet realized the risks...

BIP 119_ Unpacking CTV and How It Would Change Bitcoin

Currently, when you send a bitcoin transaction, it goes something like this: You get an address from your recipient, you choose which unspent transaction outputs (or...

Will a proof-of-stake Ethereum lead to more centralization?

Lido is the most widely used protocol for liquid stakes. According to data from Nansen and Etherscan, it accounts for one-third of all ETH wagers on...

Ransomware gang extorts 725 BTC in one attack, on-chain investigators find out

The bottom lineCombining chat transcripts leaked in February with subsequent analysis of blockchain data, researchers have gained new insight into the infamous Conti ransomware gang.According to...

How not to run a cryptocurrency exchange

The Takeaway:From the outside, Japan's Liquid exchange looks like a crypto success story. Trading house FTX recently acquired it for an undisclosed price, estimated to be...

Meltem Demirors_ 'If I dress like a disco ball, let me'

I first met Meltem Demirors in Singapore. That was in 2018 - an eternity in crypto years. This was before DeFi, before NFTs, and before even...

The LUNA and UST crash explained in 5 charts

The Terra money machine has all but collapsed today. UST stablecoin remains low in the sub-dollar range for the third day in a row, and LUNA,...

Merge Testing on Ethereum_ What is it and why is it important?

Welcome to this week's guest author, CoinDesk reporter Eli Tan, who is filling in for Sam Kessler. Follow him @elitanjourno. As the Ethereum network approaches "merge" and...

While most crypto prices were down, smart money NFT trades were up_ Nansen Data

The most searched keyword for all crypto-seekers in the last 24 hours has been "crypto crash," and yet savvy cryptocurrency traders are still making big jumps. Data...

Nansen data suggests that "smart money" wallets shed APE and replenish with aSTETH

According to data from blockchain analytics firm Nansen, successful and active cryptocurrency traders have been unloading Yuga Labs' ApeCoin and topping up with Aave's aSTETH. In the...

'Smart money' wallets accumulate GAL, reduce APE holdings_ Nansen Data

Following the launch of Project Galaxy on Thursday, profitable cryptocurrency traders have taken a large position in GAL, the governance token of the Web 3 Credential...