Sei’s recent integration with crypto compliance firm Elliptic isn’t another typical blockchain partnership announcement. As we’ve discussed, it’s a monumental change, quietly but aggressively redefining the parameters of the crypto compliance landscape and helping to welcome the institutional money that means business. Put aside all the hoopla about DeFi and...
Imagine this: A small village in sub-Saharan Africa desperately needs a new schoolhouse. The money is committed, the contracts are expected to be in place. Months wear on, the rainy season arrives, and work ceases to a halt. Why? This cumbersome, opaque system of promissory notes—the foundation for most of...
Central banks that continue holding on to these legacy systems will be left in the dust. The future of finance is decentralized, it’s distributed, and it’s blockchain-based. Project Promissa isn’t just a fun experiment – it’s a warning sign in giant, flashing neon that the future is already here. The...
Okay, let's talk Ethereum. With green across the entire board, Bitcoin hitting all-time highs again this summer, and altcoins like Ethereum are really catching a serious bid. Before you take out a second mortgage on your house to purchase some ETH, let’s pump the brakes for just a moment. Are...
In the real world, crypto is having its own party as Bitcoin pushes toward $94,500 and $100K predictions become bolder and louder. Well, that’s exactly what I’m here to tell you—not so fast. Hard. This isn't a coronation. It's a mirage shimmering in the desert heat, fueled by unsustainable forces...
The scientific method, the foundation of our modern world, is in a crisis of confidence. Biased, flawed and irreproducible research studies are drastically losing their ability to be reproduced, leading to troubling implications about the credibility of published research. We're talking about huge chunks of research that can't be repeated....
The Ivory Tower is crumbling. We've all known it, haven't we? Years of questionable studies, retracted papers, and a peer-review system that seems more like a club handshake than rigorous scrutiny. The federal bureaucracy, once the stalwart implementers of Solomonic wisdom, are seen as a self-enriching dark web of corrupt...
Europe is at it again. This time, it’s not just about regulating cookie banners or punishing tech titans. It's a full-blown assault on the very foundation of crypto: freedom. These new European Data Protection Board (EDPB) guidelines, masquerading as data protection, are nothing short of a digital land grab, attempting...
The heady ascent of crypto heralded in a revolution, a world free from the constraints of old finance. Yet revolutions, like double-edged swords, have the potential to cut both ways. We applaud this innovation and this potential for greater financial inclusion. Though perhaps we are focusing too much on the...
The EDPB’s opinion was released last week, and it is a privacy bombshell for the blockchain universe. Their draft guidelines, intended to fit blockchain technology into the GDPR framework, are sending waves of concern throughout the industry. So the question is not whether this will affect Asia, but how it...
