Benjamin Schiller

Ben Schiller is a senior adviser at Miden, a privacy-focused blockchain. He was a CoinDesk managing editor from 2019 to 2025, and, before that, a staff writer at Fast Company.

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

Will Canada Lead on Digital Assets?

Canadian voters, who go to the polls April 28, have shown that they want their government to act on crypto, says Dean Skurka, CEO & President of WonderFi. The question is whether politicians will follow the U.S. and Europe in creating a more favourable environment for blockchain development.

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

The Mediator: NEAR CTO Eric Winer on our AI-Agent Future

The Consensus 2025 speaker says AI can drive blockchain and crypto adoption. Afra Wang meets him.

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Policy

Previewing the Canadian Election's Crypto Angle

Canada's leading Prime Minister candidates aren't campaigning on crypto policies, but both have discussed the issue in the past.

Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre (Cole Burston/Getty Images, Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

Canada’s Blockchain Advantage: Small Enough to Move Fast, Big Enough to Matter

Whoever wins the election April 28, Canada has the talent, history, and agility to become the first G7 nation to fully embrace a blockchain-forward future.

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

Dave Portnoy: Memecoins are ‘Legalized Ponzi Schemes’

The founder of Barstool Sports will speak at Consensus 2025 on May 15.

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell on Building the DeFi-Bond Bridge

Powell, a speaker at Consensus 2025, sat down with CoinDesk to chat about his work on the blockchain capital platform, its expansion in Asia and Latin America, focus on bitcoin yield products, and more.

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance (Maple Finance)

Opinion

The AI Monetary Hegemony: Why Dollars, Crypto, and Autonomous AIs Will Soon Clash

When AI agents have the ability to create and promote their own cryptos, will humans still control monetary systems? It’s a question we should be thinking about, says Zoltan Istvan, a leading transhumanist thinker.

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Opinion

Beyond Incentives: How to Build Durable DeFi

Jesus Rodriguez outlines eight ways DeFi projects can attract and retain users that don’t revolve around yield farming.

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

MoonPay's Ivan Soto-Wright Bets on a Non-Custodial, API-First Future for Crypto

“Cryptocurrency wallets will eventually replace bank accounts," the Consensus 2025 speaker told CoinDesk.

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

The GPT Gold Rush Is Failing Crypto Traders

Crypto traders don’t need another ChatGPT wrapper. They need battle-tested copilots built for the thrill of the trade.

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