Category: Opinion & Editorial
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Emerging economies have sparked crypto’s most important retail revolution yet
Emerging economies are driving crypto adoption as a hedge against dollar devaluation, reshaping financial platforms and prioritizing mobile-first design for accessibility and usability.
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Crypto Identity Alert: Vitalik’s Pluralistic ID Model Could Rewrite On-Chain Privacy News ETHNews
Vitalik Buterin proposes a pluralistic identity model for blockchain, balancing privacy and inclusion by distributing power across multiple providers to prevent control by single entities.
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Crypto needs to return to first principles
The article argues that cryptocurrency must return to its original principles of decentralization and fairness, moving away from insider profiteering and short-term gains to achieve long-term value creation.
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Bitcoin FOMO: Billionaire Admits Mistake For ‘Not Being Involved’
Billionaire Philippe Laffont adds Bitcoin to his ‘Fantastic 40’ investment list, predicting a $5 trillion market cap by 2030 amid reduced volatility and de-dollarization trends, despite some hedge fund skepticism.
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BitMEX Founder Arthur Hayes Outlines Catalysts for a Bitcoin Bull Market, Says New All-Time Highs Are Coming – The Daily Hodl
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes predicts Bitcoin will reach new all-time highs due to US monetary policy, stablecoin regulation, and Middle East tensions, citing these as key bull market catalysts.
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The multichain future might kill DeFi before it saves it
The article discusses how DeFi’s multichain future risks fragmenting liquidity, weakening composability and undermining its core strengths. It highlights infrastructure challenges over UX issues as the critical barrier to scalable cross-chain DeFi.
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Robinhood CEO Claims ‘Crypto Will Replace Traditional Finance’ – “The Defiant”
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev predicts crypto will replace traditional finance, viewing it as an infrastructure evolution. Robinhood expands crypto services, including a 1% deposit match and plans for 24/7 tokenized stock trading in Europe.
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Designing for the Real World: Reflections on building with the Finternet
Anurag Arjun discusses the Finternet, a vision for interoperable financial infrastructure that connects value, identity, and rights across fragmented systems, inspired by Nandan Nilekani and Agustín Carstens.
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Billionaire Ray Dalio Gives the US Three Years ‘Give or Take’ Before Serious ‘Economic Heart Attack’ – The Daily Hodl
Ray Dalio warns of a potential US economic crisis within three years due to rising national debt, urging immediate deficit reduction measures to avoid catastrophe.
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Gold Backs It, War Masks It, XRP Ends It: Why One Analyst Believes XRP Will Anchor the Next Financial Era News ETHNews
Financial analyst Versan predicts a global financial reset backed by gold and powered by XRP, shifting trust from fiat systems to blockchain-based infrastructure for global liquidity.