Latest from Benjamin Schiller
It’s Time to Reform the Accredited Investor Rule
The shift to private-market fundraising shuts 80% of American households out of startup investing. That has to change, argue Aaron Brogan and Matt Homer.
What Banks Should Consider Before Diving Back Into Digital Assets
What we are seeing now is renewed interest in digital assets from banks across the board — from credit unions and community banks to midsize and regional players to Wall Street giants.
Crypto for Humans: Lessons from the Bybit Hack
The exploit showed that human failings, not technical glitches, are the most important factors in such incidents, says INSEAD's Ben Charoenwong.
How Funding Fragmentation Holds Ethereum Back
Blockchain-powered mechanisms like retroactive funding would incentivize building for impact and the long-term, says Meg Lister, General Manager at Gitcoin’s Grants Labs.
The U.S. Deserves Better Crypto ETFs. Let's Start With Solana
Limiting access to the chain that launched Trump’s memecoin is like shutting investors out from Amazon or Google during their initial offerings, says Hadley Stern, at Marinade Labs.
Developer Consensus May Be Converging on a Bitcoin Soft Fork Proposal: Blockspace
For the first time in more than four years, Bitcoiners are moving forward with changes to the project's underlying software, Blockspace writes.
Who Is Satoshi? Benjamin Wallace Goes Down the Rabbit Hole in New Book
“The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto” is a thoughtful new investigation into Bitcoin’s origins.
Weekly Recap: Regulatory Wins, Market Doldrums
PLUS: World Liberty Financial’s token sale, Coinbase in India, Ripple in Dubai
How Bitdeer Is Transforming Bitcoin Mining Machines
The Singapore-based miner has big plans to shake up ASICs with a new design and a greater commitment to transparency.
The State of DAO M&A
M&A could be critical for building resilient and scalable decentralized organizations. But, after 65 deals and counting, we’re not there yet, say Joshua Tan, Jillian Grennan and Bernard Schmid.
