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

Crypto Agents and Verifiable Systems Are the Future of Safe, User-Centric Tech

Rather than “giving power to the machines,” AI agents give users autonomy to handle complex processes, acting as reliable allies in an increasingly complicated and opaque digital landscape, says David Sneider, Co-founder of Lit Protocol.

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Opinion

AI Agents Can Help Crypto Become the Currency of AI

But there’s a lot of work to do, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO, IntoTheBlock

Art installation reminiscent of digital ecosystems

Opinion

Beyond the Ballot: How DeFi Is Preparing for DC’s Next Chapter

Innovation, consumer protection, and financial inclusion are neither Republican nor Democratic values — they're American ones, says Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal & Policy Officer at Polygon Labs.

U.S. Capitol building

Policy

An Interview With El Salvador’s Top Crypto Regulator: ‘Developing Countries Can Lead the Financial Revolution’

The National Commission of Digital Assets is the agency in charge of regulating crypto in El Salvador, the first nation to accept bitcoin as legal tender.

Juan Carlos Reyes of the National Commission of Digital Assets in El Salvador (CNAD)

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Opinion

The Many Ways Crypto Won in This Election

The dust is starting to clear on the election and no one won bigger than crypto. Aubrey Strobel looks at how the new Trump Administration could help the industry moving forward.

Trump sending bitcoin transaction at PubKey bar in NYC (Fox News/Modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

How Tokenized Money Market Funds Dulled the Stablecoin Star

Regulatory uncertainty around yield-bearing stablecoins has allowed regulated tokenized yield-bearing instruments like money market funds to steal thunder, says Aaron Kaplan, co-CEO of Prometheum.

CDCROP: Money Growth Graph on a chalk board (Getty Images)

Opinion

Your Idea of a Memecoin Community Is Wrong

Web3Auth co-founder and CEO Zhen Yu Yong believes that memecoins are more than community-building machines and sources of speculation. They’re a new type of liquidity vehicle applicable across modern finance.

Memeland token sale bagged $10 million within minutes. (Memeland)

Opinion

Hard Way to Make An Easy Living: Profiting in A New Altcoin World

Altcoin trading is following a similar path to online poker as the game is getting considerably tougher. But there will continue to be windows of “easy money”, says David Zimmerman, a research analyst at K33 Research.

Pump Fun homepage. (Pump.Fun)

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Opinion

How Escape Hatches Can Boost Crypto’s Reputation

Liquidation, hacks and thefts have plagued the industry. It’s time for a hard-wired cheat-proof feature that pays on-chain creditors in an orderly way, says StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson.

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Opinion

How We Can Make the Agentic Internet Work for Everyone

We’ll soon have an internet where trillions of AI agents work on behalf but how do we make sure it’s fair? Bangdao Chen and Ramesh Ramadoss propose a secure, robust, verification-based approach paving the path to democratization of AI.

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