Tanks on the street. You’d be forgiven for thinking this was Ukraine. Armoured vehicles patrolling the thoroughfares of a city at war. But it’s not, it’s China. Henan province to be precise. And the tanks have been sent in to protect the local branch of a bank. One embroiled in a scandal as users were…

Ether above $1500, Bitcoin at $23.5k. As temperatures soar across Europe a fire seems to have been ignited under crypto’s bottom prompting belief, relief and a sense that maybe, just maybe, the pain is over. It’s a sea of green out there. But what’s driving it and how is it that even the revelation of…

Strange times these. The human brain has an infinite capacity for making the best of a bad situation. COVID hasn’t gone away, it’s still very much with us. But like Dua Lipa peeps be all like IDGAF. Celsius declares bankruptcy. The $CEL token pumps 9%. The Euro finally reclaimed its dollar peg this week before…

Two weeks ago we released a film about the suit filed against the artist Ryder Ripps and others by Yuga Labs. The alleged neo-nazi themes underpinning the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection have fired a sub-section of the NFT community to band together in the name of ethics, morality and free speech. All of which…

The euro was last worth the same as the dollar in December 2002, shortly after the currency was established. 19 European countries use the Euro and that’s a lot of GDP to make a mess of. And of course we’re looking to the Fed’s interest rate hikes which have made the dollar dollar bill a…

Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, the founders of 3 Arrows Capital appear to be ghosting the lawyers involved in their liquidation proceedings. According to a Coindesk article court documents filed on friday indicate that the pair had ‘not yet begun to cooperate with the process in any meaningful manner’. They had appeared on a Zoom…

You’ll no doubt be hearing the word contagion from all corners but didn’t we just escape the clutches of the pandemic. Well yes. But crypto is really like a house of mirrors where nothing is ever what it seems. But it’s also a house of cards, built on a complex system of levered dependencies. And…

A quick bit of news to fire you on your way today. And it’s a tale of two bear markets. On the one hand we have Voyager Digital who have just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just the latest sorry chapter in this deeply sorry saga. As we reported on Monday, in their July 1st…