Visa is now settling transactions via stablecoins on the Ethereum network. While these are just a tiny sliver of Visa’s total volume, and only apply to one client, the fact that the largest payments network is using a public blockchain signals the integration between traditional finance and crypto is strengthening. The first such transaction in…

A DAO bought the artist pplpleasr’s Uniswap V3 teaser video for $525K and she has committed to donating all proceeds to charity. Here’s how probably this year’s most inspiring DeFi story went down.  The 46 second video shows a pink unicorn walking through a barren landscape while tubes, which pplpleasr has later said symbolize the…

It’s that time of the year again. No, I don’t mean March Madness bracket busting, and I’m not talking about emerging from the depths of winter. That’s right, it’s the yearly time that we all get together and try to figure out how the heck we’re going to do our crypto taxes this year. And,…

Jim Bianco has decades of experience as a macro markets researcher. He's been leading his firm Bianco Research since 1990 and was at UBS and Lehman Brothers before that.  It was after installing MetaMask, and doing some yield farming and NFT investing, that he realized, DeFi is a new financial system, and it will replace the old one.…

You see, if you thought that just because you’re “decentralized” the regulators can’t touch you, well you might have to think again. There’s new guidance and the implications are startling. A big conversation about a big topic with Joseph Weinberg of Shyft Network

The NFT boom has yet a new twist: social media. Nifty’s, which is led by NBA’s former SVP of new media Jeff Marsilio, is creating an NFT-focused social media platform. Members will be able to create, collect, and display all sorts of NFTs under one community.  Nifty’s recently closed pre-seed round secured support from Mark…

As prices retrace across the board in crypto, it is helpful to analyze fundamentals and assess to what extent have prices and fundamentals changed. Leveraging key on-chain indicators from IntoTheBlock, it is evident that Ethereum’s demand and store of value proposition continue to grow, unaffected by the recent price volatility.  Ethereum’s fees have been notoriously…

The highest amount of Bitcoin options ever is set to expire this Friday, which might put some temporary selling pressure on the largest cryptocurrency. $5.5B in options contracts come due tomorrow, according to derivatives data platform Bybt. Options are investment contracts which give traders the right but not the obligation to sell or buy a…

After a New Yorker profile on Beeple revealed that the NFT-megastar converted $53M worth of ETH into USD from the sale of his record-breaking “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” some members of the crypto community seemed to feel betrayed. Betrayal “Beeple rugged us like a 2017 ICO scam,” said EthHub co-founder Anthony Sassano in a…

Alpha Finance Lab will be launching its ALPHA tokenomics system “in the coming days,” allowing token holders to earn fees from staking across all of ALPHA’s products, including Alpha Homora on Ethereum, Alpha Homora on Binance Smart Chain, and Alpha Homora v2.  Token stakers will gain access to features on Alpha products with the goal…