Author: Shane Neagle

Governments are not merely regulating digital assets. A more precise understanding is that they are redefining what forms of money are politically permissible. With stablecoins increasingly absorbed into state-aligned frameworks to reinforce U.S. Treasury demand, and crypto markets reshaped under regimes like the EU’s MiCA, the space for financial anonymity is shrinking fast…

As September goes, this one appears to be ending with an 8% drawback for the altcoin market. That is, if we judge it by Ethereum’s pullback, which represents the altcoin market as the second largest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin. Historically, quarter three is the period with most months in the red…

Bitcoin started the blockchain revolution as a store-of-value asset nearly 16 years ago. Since then, the revolution has branched off into altcoins, as general purpose smart contract networks aimed to displace legacy services. One of those services included gaming. However, unlike decentralized finance (DeFI), which is now seeing resurgence to its peak in late 2021…

A primary driver of the crypto sector is the escape from the central banking system. By electronically creating money ex nihilo to finance government spending, central banking consistently devalues fiat currencies through inflation.  In turn, it becomes more difficult to save money. Rather, such a system incentivises yield chasing via equities and other assets…

The following is a guest post and analysis from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief fromThe Tokenist. On June 13th, Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH) and founder of Cardano (ADA), made a bold proposition. In order to put Cardano on the decentralized finance (DeFi) map…