ZEC and NEAR Are Eating the Blue Chips' Bid
BTC:ETH::ZEC:NEAR! How Zcash and NEAR are drawing capital away from Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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This is Not Bitcoin’s Cycle
Last cycle mainstreamed Bitcoin. This one may belong to Zcash and alts with real revenue, buybacks, and newly opening U.S. markets.
ETH Is Lining Up for Trillions
The things that need to happen for ETH's market cap to reach trillions are, indeed, happening.
The Bull Case for Fake World Assets
Fake World Assets has real revenue, a growing ecosystem, and new NFT distribution possibilities.
ETH's Comeback Is Overdue
ETH just outgained virtually every top 100 coin in a single day. Ethereum's fundamentals suggest there's more room to run.
Solana’s Venice is Loading
The case for confidential compute on Solana amid the ANSEM frenzy has an interesting setup forming for Arcium's token.
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The Impending Gold Rush for The US Perp Market
Perpetuals are the most lucrative product in crypto. They've been offshore-only for U.S. traders until now.
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ETH Is Money Was Always a Longshot
Ethereum is a giver, not a taker. It's a great strength, but it's also the reason ETH hasn't reached its full potential.
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Venice AI is Applied Cypherpunk
The cypherpunks wrote that privacy has to be built, not granted. Venice is applying that logic to AI inference.
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Building the Zcash Thesis in 2026
ZEC's second major breakout has a lot going for it.
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Crypto’s First Feature-Complete Onchain Exchange
World Markets combines spot, perps, and lending with a fully onchain codebase, launching as MegaETH aims to unlock real-time DeFi.
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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 reckons with insider bets.
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The Day DeFi Changed Forever
The entire onchain industry is set on a completely different path after this week's consequential exploit.
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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 get swept up in the laws, too.
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Nouns Is Dead, Long Live Nouns
Nouns DAO has been captured. Here's why a V2 is worth rooting for.
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A Return to Golden Age Ethereum DeFi
Ethereum DeFi design principles forged in a past era point the way forward during a challenging moment.
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A Tale of Two DATs
Tom Lee and Michael Saylor are taking classic Etherean and Bitcoiner approaches to stacking their favorite assets.
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Does Crypto Still Like the Crypto President?
Opinion: World Liberty drama galore has the crypto community grappling with Trump fatigue.
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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.
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World Liberty's Sticky Situation
The Trump Family's DeFi platform is seeing a surge in scrutiny over its growth and governance tactics.
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The Gamer Uprising That Crypto Should Pay Attention To
AAA publishers are facing regulatory pressure to provide what indie onchain devs are already building by default.
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The Web Is About to Get Very Sick
Cryptography-breaking quantum computers and zero-day finding AI models are signaling the end of the human-secured internet.
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Programmable Chats: Previewing the Sup App
What should a social app actually feel like? Sup is one potential answer.
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The World's First Global Lottery
The lottery hasn't changed in 50 years. Megapot is fixing that and letting anyone be the house.
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Ethereum’s Incredible Position
This market isn't what we wanted. But looking forward, ETH is still in a great place.
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Open Gaming Achievements with Programmable Cryptography
What if there was a universal adapter that could translate your achievements across any data sources?
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Why I'm Still Bullish on Crypto Gaming
Crypto gaming is dead, or so they say. Here's why I disagree.
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Optimizing Trades with LlamaSwap
It’s a critical tool for anyone looking to confidently execute onchain trades across 24 popular, EVM-compatible blockchains.
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The Race to Build Agentic Commerce
How AI agents, stablecoins, and micropayments could rebuild the internet’s business model.
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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?
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The EF’s Endless Manifestos
The Ethereum Foundation's 'EF Mandate' feels like an out-of-touch return to vibes over pragmatic vision.
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My x402 Wishlist
Five theoretical x402 products worth building.
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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 worried the Foundation is repeating old mistakes.
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Jay Clayton’s Crypto War
The Trump-appointed attorney (and Gary Gensler predecessor) won't stop prosecuting crypto privacy developers.
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An Ethereum Killer's Muted Kickoff
Opinion: Three months after Monad's much-hyped ICO, the vibes are feeling less euphoric.
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A First-Principles Defense of Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are markets. Markets should be regulated at the federal level.
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Getting Started with ETH Strategy's ESPN Vault
ESPN tokenizes the ETH volatility trade into one asset, with auto-accruing yield for holders.
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The 3 Fights Over Prediction Markets
As prediction markets boom, three battles will shape what they become.
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The Aue Era: Ethereum Foundation's Next Chapter Begins
Inside the Ethereum Foundation’s latest leadership shift and its new co-executive director Bastian Aue.
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Why Some Traders Are Rethinking Perpetuals
The 10/10 liquidations have prompted some crypto investors to take a harder look at perpetual future risks — and their alternatives.
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The zkEVM Is the New 'Merge'
Ecosystem morale, narrative control, and ETH price all do well when we have a collective rallying cry. The zkEVM needs to become our new banner.
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Trustless Stablecoins Are Back in the Spotlight
New trustless stablecoin protocols are taking shape amid TradFi's embrace of the hot sector.
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What's Next for Crypto Twitter & Onchain Social
Crypto Twitter feels broken – can X fix it? And where does onchain social fit in?
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PSA: Don’t Keep Crypto at Home
Going bankless in the age of wrench attacks.
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The Best Ways to Stop Crypto From Hitting $10 Trillion
Guest Op-Ed: A reverse playbook for keeping crypto small, divided, and insular.
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Ethereum in the New World Order
What Ethereum represents in a world where global coordination is fragmenting rather than consolidating.
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Iranian Builders & Freedom Tech
Iranians building freedom technology across the globe are watching freedoms disappear at home.
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Why Ethereum is Built Different
Crypto is closer than ever to mass adoption, but its founding values aren’t embedded in every blockchain.
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The Prediction Market Insider Trading Problem
As Polymarket and Kalshi go mainstream, highly visible insider trading episodes create risks for early adopters.
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The Crypto Industry After Crypto-Natives
Crypto is entering a new era in 2026, and its builders are chasing a new cohort of users.
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Why 2026 Will Get Weird
Frontier tech is accelerating, and Ethereum is in the critical path.
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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-declaration as 'America's First Crypto President.'
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Crypto's Yearly Candles
David Hoffman: 2025 was slightly red for ETH and BTC, and we should prep for another transitional year in 2026.
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David Hoffman's 2026 Crypto Predictions
Tokenization wins, ICOs return, and crypto’s next narratives take shape.
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This Crypto Cycle Skipped ETH
With this cycle firmly in its twilight, it feels like ETH never had its moment.
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2025's Five Hottest DeFi Protocols
In a year with no shortage of crypto headlines, these protocols made an outsized impact.
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Trump’s DOJ Is Fumbling Crypto Privacy
OPINION: Trump-appointed prosecutors are waging a war on crypto privacy and using Biden era tactics to score convictions.
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Bitcoin's Quantum Threat Isn't ETH's Problem
A quantum attack wouldn’t kill crypto — just Bitcoin.
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Searching for Safer Crypto Yield
Where can yield farmers find juicy rates of return without maxing out risk?
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Uniswap Restores the Faith
Ryan Sean Adams: Uniswap's long-awaited fee-switch proposal sends a message.
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Ethereum Is Scaling
From zk appchain breakthroughs to PeerDAS’s blob boost, Ethereum's path to 1M TPS is taking shape.
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The Patagonian Frontier
Musings on frontiers, those who explore them, and what's still left to uncover.
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x402 Is the Next Big Thing
The internet’s missing payment layer is waking up with x402 linking AI and crypto.
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The DraftKings Bull Case
The company’s regulated path into event markets could outlast crypto-native rivals.
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The Bitcoin Knots vs. Core Civil War
Why Bitcoin's community is warring over transaction type censorship and how Ethereum has already taken action.
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The EU Is Building a Digital Wallet That Ignores Crypto
Europe's digital identity wallet excludes stablecoins and DeFi. A missed opportunity to bridge regulated infrastructure with open finance.
