Let me share something about DeFi. Most of the jargon exists, whether by accident or design, to make you feel like you’re not clever enough to be in the room. I refuse to let it do that to you. So here’s my promise: understanding decentralised finance really comes down to just three ideas, stacked neatly […]
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Let me be honest with you about the mood in the room, because I can feel it too. There’s a weariness that has crept into everyone watching this bill, a jaded sigh. People have stopped asking when the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act will pass and started muttering ‘if ‘ and honestly, who could blame
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November 2025 · MARKETS Let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard, expensive way: every crypto bull market ends in more or less the same fashion. Not with a gentle, dignified fade, but suddenly — the floor simply vanishing beneath everyone’s feet at once. And the trapdoor is always built from the same material.
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Throughout 2025 · INSTITUTIONAL FINANCE I want to tell you about the most important thing happening in crypto right now, and I’ll warn you up front: it is gloriously, almost defiantly boring. No meme dogs. No overnight millionaires. No laser eyes. Just the quiet, unglamorous business of the world’s biggest financial institutions moving the actual
Real-World Assets on the Blockchain Reach $8 Billion Read More »
March–April 2025 · POLICY & REGULATION Every so often, a piece of lawmaking comes along that accidentally exposes just how little the rule-makers understood the thing they were trying to rule. The IRS’s “DeFi broker rule” was one of those, and its unwinding in 2025 tells you something rather important about where crypto regulation is
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Here’s a little test for you. Next time you’re in a room full of people, find the one who looks unmistakably, effortlessly expensive — and then try to spot a single logo on them. You won’t. No monogram. No swoosh. No giant name shouting across their chest like a sandwich board. Just a beautifully cut
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Let me sell you something. It has no factory, no product, no profits, no assets, and no plans to acquire any of the above. It doesn’t pay you a penny, it doesn’t own a thing, and it answers to no one. It is, in the most literal sense, a picture of a name. So —
The Official Trump Token: A $15 Billion Memecoin and a Political Storm Read More »
Here’s a sentence that would have sounded like pure nonsense a few years ago: you can now buy Dogecoin — the cryptocurrency invented in 2013 as a literal joke about a dog — inside a tidy, regulated fund, right alongside your pension and your index trackers. In 2025, that stopped being a punchline and became
The Altcoin ETF Flood: XRP, Solana, Dogecoin Get Their Moment Read More »
Let me talk to you about the least sexy, most important force acting on your investments: regulation. I know, I know — stay with me — because in early 2025 the weather over the entire crypto world changed almost overnight, and understanding why is far more useful to you than any price chart. Think of
Gary Gensler Exits. The SEC’s War on Crypto Ends. Read More »
For years, the most used money in crypto lived in a legal grey zone — trusted by millions, governed by almost no one. In July 2025, that quietly ended. Let me tell you why this one landed with me. In my twenties, I lost real money on early, silly bets — on things nobody was
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