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Written by David Hoffman • 2 days ago • 7 min read Building the Zcash Thesis in 2026 ZEC's second major breakout has a lot going for it.... Citizen-only Opinion 3 0

Written by David Hoffman • 1 week ago • 4 min read Crypto’s First Feature-Complete Onchain Exchange World Markets combines spot, perps, and lending with a fully onchain codebase, launching as MegaETH ... Citizen-only Opinion 4 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 5 min read Prediction Markets Face a Full-Court Press Kalshi and Polymarket may have a wild road ahead as states wage war on sports markets and the public... Opinion 1 0

Written by David Hoffman • 2 weeks ago • 5 min read The Day DeFi Changed Forever The entire onchain industry is set on a completely different path after this week's consequential ex... Citizen-only Opinion 2 0

Written by Lucas Matney • 2 weeks ago • 5 min read Are Lawmakers Moving to Human-Gate the Web? Legislators are ready to age-gate the internet’s most popular services from kids. AI agents may ge... Opinion 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 weeks ago • 4 min read Nouns Is Dead, Long Live Nouns Nouns DAO has been captured. Here's why a V2 is worth rooting for.... Opinion 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read A Return to Golden Age Ethereum DeFi Ethereum DeFi design principles forged in a past era point the way forward during a challenging mome... Opinion 2 0

Written by David Hoffman • 3 weeks ago • 2 min read A Tale of Two DATs Tom Lee and Michael Saylor are taking classic Etherean and Bitcoiner approaches to stacking their fa... Citizen-only Opinion 3 0

Written by Lucas Matney • 3 weeks ago • 3 min read Does Crypto Still Like the Crypto President? Opinion: World Liberty drama galore has the crypto community grappling with Trump fatigue.... Opinion 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 3 min read Crypto Twitter Starts Getting Elon's Attention X is finally starting to close the gap between what it offers and what Crypto Twitter actually wants... Opinion 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 3 weeks ago • 5 min read World Liberty's Sticky Situation The Trump Family's DeFi platform is seeing a surge in scrutiny over its growth and governance tactic... Opinion 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 4 min read The Gamer Uprising That Crypto Should Pay Attention To AAA publishers are facing regulatory pressure to provide what indie onchain devs are already buildin... Opinion 2 0

Written by David Hoffman • 3 weeks ago • 3 min read The Web Is About to Get Very Sick Cryptography-breaking quantum computers and zero-day finding AI models are signaling the end of the ... Citizen-only Opinion 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 4 min read Programmable Chats: Previewing the Sup App What should a social app actually feel like? Sup is one potential answer. ... Opinion 4 0

Written by David Hoffman • 1 month ago • 6 min read The World's First Global Lottery The lottery hasn't changed in 50 years. Megapot is fixing that and letting anyone be the house.... Citizen-only Opinion 7 1

Written by David Hoffman • 1 month ago • 4 min read Ethereum’s Incredible Position This market isn't what we wanted. But looking forward, ETH is still in a great place.... Citizen-only Opinion 6 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read Open Gaming Achievements with Programmable Cryptography What if there was a universal adapter that could translate your achievements across any data sources... Opinion 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read Why I'm Still Bullish on Crypto Gaming Crypto gaming is dead, or so they say. Here's why I disagree.... Opinion 3 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 3 min read Optimizing Trades with LlamaSwap It’s a critical tool for anyone looking to confidently execute onchain trades across 24 popular, E... Opinion 2 0

Written by David Hoffman • 2 months ago • 4 min read The Race to Build Agentic Commerce How AI agents, stablecoins, and micropayments could rebuild the internet’s business model.... Citizen-only Opinion 5 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read Yield for the Weird, Or How I'd Build a Zine in 2026 As Twitter debates paying writers, what can onchain infra do for independent publishing?... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Hoffman • 2 months ago • 3 min read The EF’s Endless Manifestos The Ethereum Foundation's 'EF Mandate' feels like an out-of-touch return to vibes over pragmatic vis... Citizen-only Opinion 4 2

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 6 min read My x402 Wishlist Five theoretical x402 products worth building.... Opinion 5 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read The Ethereum Foundation's Cypherpunk Double-Down The EF is reframing Ethereum's global value with a new mandate, but some in the community are worrie... Opinion 2 0

Written by Lucas Matney • 2 months ago • 4 min read Jay Clayton’s Crypto War The Trump-appointed attorney (and Gary Gensler predecessor) won't stop prosecuting crypto privacy de... Opinion 8 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 3 months ago • 4 min read An Ethereum Killer's Muted Kickoff Opinion: Three months after Monad's much-hyped ICO, the vibes are feeling less euphoric.... Opinion 3 0

Written by David Hoffman • 3 months ago • 3 min read A First-Principles Defense of Prediction Markets Prediction markets are markets. Markets should be regulated at the federal level.... Citizen-only Opinion 5 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 months ago • 4 min read Getting Started with ETH Strategy's ESPN Vault ESPN tokenizes the ETH volatility trade into one asset, with auto-accruing yield for holders.... Opinion 3 0

Written by David Hoffman • 3 months ago • 5 min read The 3 Fights Over Prediction Markets As prediction markets boom, three battles will shape what they become.... Citizen-only Opinion 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 months ago • 4 min read The Aue Era: Ethereum Foundation's Next Chapter Begins Inside the Ethereum Foundation’s latest leadership shift and its new co-executive director Bastian... Opinion 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 3 months ago • 4 min read Why Some Traders Are Rethinking Perpetuals The 10/10 liquidations have prompted some crypto investors to take a harder look at perpetual future... Citizen-only Opinion 2 0

Written by David Hoffman • 3 months ago • 2 min read The zkEVM Is the New 'Merge' Ecosystem morale, narrative control, and ETH price all do well when we have a collective rallying cr... Citizen-only Opinion 4 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 months ago • 4 min read Trustless Stablecoins Are Back in the Spotlight New trustless stablecoin protocols are taking shape amid TradFi's embrace of the hot sector.... Opinion 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 months ago • 5 min read What's Next for Crypto Twitter & Onchain Social Crypto Twitter feels broken – can X fix it? And where does onchain social fit in?... Opinion 2 0

Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 3 months ago • 5 min read PSA: Don’t Keep Crypto at Home Going bankless in the age of wrench attacks.... Opinion 4 0

Written by Arjun Chand • 3 months ago • 10 min read The Best Ways to Stop Crypto From Hitting $10 Trillion Guest Op-Ed: A reverse playbook for keeping crypto small, divided, and insular.... Opinion 3 1

Written by David Hoffman • 4 months ago • 3 min read Ethereum in the New World Order What Ethereum represents in a world where global coordination is fragmenting rather than consolidati... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Hoffman • 4 months ago • 2 min read Iranian Builders & Freedom Tech Iranians building freedom technology across the globe are watching freedoms disappear at home.... Opinion 2 1

Written by Jack Inabinet • 4 months ago • 4 min read Why Ethereum is Built Different Crypto is closer than ever to mass adoption, but its founding values aren’t embedded in every bloc... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Christopher • 4 months ago • 5 min read The Prediction Market Insider Trading Problem As Polymarket and Kalshi go mainstream, highly visible insider trading episodes create risks for ear... Opinion 5 0

Written by Jean-Paul Faraj • 4 months ago • 4 min read The Crypto Industry After Crypto-Natives Crypto is entering a new era in 2026, and its builders are chasing a new cohort of users.... AnalysisOpinion 8 0

Written by David Hoffman • 4 months ago • 2 min read Why 2026 Will Get Weird Frontier tech is accelerating, and Ethereum is in the critical path.... Opinion 5 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 5 months ago • 7 min read How Trump Reshaped Crypto in 2025 It's been a wild first year of term two, and Donald Trump is largely living up to his self-declarati... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Hoffman • 5 months ago • 3 min read Crypto's Yearly Candles David Hoffman: 2025 was slightly red for ETH and BTC, and we should prep for another transitional ye... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Hoffman • 5 months ago • 6 min read David Hoffman's 2026 Crypto Predictions Tokenization wins, ICOs return, and crypto’s next narratives take shape.... Opinion 6 0

Written by David Hoffman • 5 months ago • 2 min read This Crypto Cycle Skipped ETH With this cycle firmly in its twilight, it feels like ETH never had its moment.... Opinion 6 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 5 months ago • 5 min read 2025's Five Hottest DeFi Protocols In a year with no shortage of crypto headlines, these protocols made an outsized impact.... Opinion 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 5 months ago • 5 min read Trump’s DOJ Is Fumbling Crypto Privacy OPINION: Trump-appointed prosecutors are waging a war on crypto privacy and using Biden era tactics ... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Hoffman • 6 months ago • 4 min read Bitcoin's Quantum Threat Isn't ETH's Problem A quantum attack wouldn’t kill crypto — just Bitcoin.... Opinion 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 6 months ago • 6 min read Searching for Safer Crypto Yield Where can yield farmers find juicy rates of return without maxing out risk? ... Citizen-only Opinion 5 0

Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 6 months ago • 1 min read Uniswap Restores the Faith Ryan Sean Adams: Uniswap's long-awaited fee-switch proposal sends a message.... Opinion 6 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 6 months ago • 3 min read Ethereum Is Scaling From zk appchain breakthroughs to PeerDAS’s blob boost, Ethereum's path to 1M TPS is taking shape.... Opinion 5 0

Written by David Hoffman • 6 months ago • 4 min read The Patagonian Frontier Musings on frontiers, those who explore them, and what's still left to uncover.... Opinion 8 1

Written by David Hoffman • 6 months ago • 4 min read x402 Is the Next Big Thing The internet’s missing payment layer is waking up with x402 linking AI and crypto.... Opinion 6 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 6 months ago • 5 min read The DraftKings Bull Case The company’s regulated path into event markets could outlast crypto-native rivals.... Opinion 4 0

Written by David Hoffman • 7 months ago • 5 min read The Bitcoin Knots vs. Core Civil War Why Bitcoin's community is warring over transaction type censorship and how Ethereum has already tak... Opinion 3 0

Written by Jonah Roberts • 7 months ago • 4 min read The EU Is Building a Digital Wallet That Ignores Crypto Europe's digital identity wallet excludes stablecoins and DeFi. A missed opportunity to bridge regul... Opinion 4 0

Written by David Hoffman • 7 months ago • 3 min read The Other Side of Prediction Markets David Hoffman: Prices surface truth. Power suppresses it. The case for censorship-resistant truth ma... Opinion 7 1

Written by David Hoffman • 8 months ago • 3 min read Why You Should Go to Devconnect in Buenos Aires Devconnect 2025 in Buenos Aires is Ethereum’s must-attend “World’s Fair."... Opinion 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 8 months ago • 6 min read The Bull Case for Plasma Plasma wants to become the operating system for stablecoins; can they beat out Stripe's Tempo?... Opinion 3 0

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