Bijan Shahroki argues that Big Tech will turn the metaverse into a surveillance state unless zero knowledge proofs are tapped to protect privacy.

A recent report by ArtTactic revealed something startling about web3: for an industry that casts itself as an egalitarian panacea we still have a long way to go. More than three quarters of NFT sales went to male artists, between January 2020 and September 2021, while only 5% went to female artists (the report also…

Prof. Andrew Hall writes that democracy provides a fitting template for solving some of thornier governance problems in DAOs.

In this exclusive report, IntoTheBlock explores the financial structure of decentralized exchanges and how they produce revenue.

An exclusive DappRadar report explores the separation between NFT valuations and the crypto market during the selloff.

The revelation that Frog Nation's CFO was the co-founder of scandalous crypto exchange has rocked Daniele Sesta's group.

Gabriela Chang writes that DeFi was made for impact investing, and the two forces must work in tandem to address sustainability.

Ethereum's transition to Proof-of-Stake this year is expected to cut energy use by 99%.

unders, hackers and investors who helped advance the open economy; politicians and regulators who are laying the groundwork for the industry or threatening to restrain it; CEOs in DeFi adjacent industries who, with their global influence, shape the space; artists and community builders who are pushing crypto further into mainstream culture.

DAOs are poised to become a dominant new structure in DeFi in 2022.