Every Crypto Project Must Reckon With the SEC’s Howey Test
Nearly five years ago, SEC official Bill Himan stood on stage at a Yahoo Finance crypto summit in…
When Brigitte Macron Came to NFT Paris
I was one of the 18,000 people to enter the Grand Palais Éphémère, a huge domed exhibition hall…
Crypto Market Rallies on FDIC Banking Intervention, USDC Regains Dollar Peg
The market cap of all cryptocurrencies is back above the $1 trillion mark. After a joint statement from…
USDC Stablecoin Falls to 87 Cents After Circle Discloses Exposure to Silicon Valley Bank
US Dollar Coin, the No. 2 stablecoin by market cap, designed to remain always priced at $1, is…
‘Snow Crash’ Author Neal Stephenson Says Future of the Metaverse Won’t Require Goggles
Neal Stephenson coined the word “metaverse” in his seminal 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash. 30 years later, Sotheby’s…
The US Government Wants You To Know It’s Cracking Down on Crypto
The jokes wrote themselves. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice declared ominously that it would hold a…
2022 Wasn’t All Bad for Crypto (Just Mostly)
Crypto had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year in 2022. Coins began tanking at the start…
Bitcoin and Ethereum Flat in Final Week of 2022, Solana and Dogecoin Down Bad
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. The top two cryptocurrencies remain practically unchanged since…
What Would Crypto Look Like Without Centralized Exchanges Like FTX?
Whether the politicians currently talking tough about the latest crypto crisis agree or not on the matter, crypto isn’t dead…
5 Lessons From the Stunning Implosion of SBF and FTX
It turns out Sam Bankman-Fried wasn’t “the next Warren Buffett.” Just six months ago I was in The…