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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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Stacks’ Muneeb Ali: Let the Bitcoin L2s Bloom

Fresh off completing significant technical upgrades, Ali is now laser focused on growing Stacks’ user base.

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Opinion

Why 2025 Will Be a Year of M&A in DeFi

Recent M&A activity suggests we’re entering an era where finance is finally a unified ecosystem combining traditional and decentralized finance, says Mona El Isa, co-founder of Enzyme Finance.

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Opinion

Crypto’s Compliance Conundrum

The U.S. is set for a regulatory shakeup. But balancing decentralization and compliance remains a fundamental challenge, say Ben Charoenwong and Jonathan Reiter.

Base team member refutes claims of selling ETH. (Pixabay)

Markets

Red-Hot DeFi Platform Usual Faces Backlash as Protocol Update Triggers Sell-Off

An unexpected change in the redemption mechanism of the protocol's yield-generating token caught investors off-guard, throwing the DeFi community into disarray.

FLASH: Balances on the Lightning Network can be revealed by relatively straightforward cyberattacks, researchers say. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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Policy

U.S. Enforcement Chief Behind CFTC Crypto Cases Exits Before Trump Arrives

Ian McGinley, the enforcement director at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is stepping down days before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Outgoing CFTC Enforcement Director Ian McGinley

Policy

Biden's Consumer Watchdog Pushes for Last-Minute Stablecoin Rule

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a crypto rule just days before Donald Trump takes the White House and can name a new agency head.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra

Opinion

Cybercrime Damages Highlight Need for Scalable Decentralized Infrastructure

Blockchain technology’s inherent data security is an underappreciated use case, says Jessie Dai, Cofounder of CESS Network.

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Opinion

The AI Revolution Will Spawn Millions of New Tokens

Tokenized AI agents will drive a new era of decentralized innovation, and their autonomy depends on the infrastructure we build today, says Georgios Vlachos, co-founder of Axelar protocol and director at Axelar Foundation.

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Tech

The Protocol: Hyperliquid Responds to Decentralization Criticism

Also: Ripple’s Chainlink deal; Pyth partners with Revolut

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Aethir's Mark Rydon: Decentralizing AI Computing

Aethir's co-founder, a speaker at Consensus Hong Kong, explains why the company pivoted its GPU network away from gaming to AI compute.

Headshot of Aethir CEO and co-founder Mark Rydon (Aethir)