Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He has covered crypto since 2013 and lives in New York.

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Opinion

Next Stop for DePIN: Taco Bell

A string of everyday franchise businesses are forming part of a DePIN network for decentralized air quality on Solana, showing how mainstream DePIN is becoming.

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

EasyA Wants to Attract More Than Just ‘Bounty Hunters’ to Its Hackathons

The start-up is hosting hackathons at the upcoming Consensus conferences in Hong Kong and Toronto that are expected to attract hundreds of developers.

Easy A co-founders Phil (left) and Dominic Kwok

Policy

Ledger Co-Founder's Kidnapping Highlights Threat of Crypto Robberies

David Balland and his wife were rescued in a police operation involving elite units, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.

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Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum Foundation Fracas

Also: New grants for DePIN; DAO governance merger

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Finance

DOGE and TRUMP ETFs May be Coming But Should Institutional Investor Trade Them?

With memecoins dominating the headlines, issuers are filing fresh ETF applications. But is a memecoin ETF a good investment?

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Finance

Anvil Launches DeFi Protocol for Letters of Credit

Founder Tyler Spalding sees the Ethereum-based smart contract project as a step towards creating a new form of money for payments, loans and counterparty credit in DeFi.

Tyler Spalding

Opinion

A New (Digital) Age at the SEC

6 immediate steps the SEC can take to regulate crypto.

Mark Toshiro Uyeda, acting chair of the SEC  (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Trade Volume Wednesday Was One of the Largest Ever

Across ETFs, spot and futures trade, bitcoin combined for $130 billion volume yesterday.

BTC: Futures vs Spot vs ETF Trade Volume (Checkonchain)

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Opinion

Ross Is Free. Now Let’s Free the Internet-of-Money

Following Ross Ulbricht's pardon, the Trump Administration must follow through on crypto’s potential to spread privacy and financial innovation.

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Tech

TRUMP Coin's Biggest Critics Are Crypto Industry Insiders

Trump-supporting crypto professionals have been particularly scathing about the family's recent meme coin projects.

Donald J. Trump at a 2016 rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)