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

The Node: Stablecoin Supremacy

There’s a really solid chance the House of Representatives will be passing the much-awaited GENIUS Act on Thursday, so it’s time for us to look at stablecoins.

Hyperliquid faces community pushback against Stripe-linked stablecoin proposal. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Opinion

Gated Communities Are Actually Great for Crypto—Marc Vanlerberghe

Most people don’t want or need to know they’re using a blockchain, says Marc Vanlerberghe, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the Algorand Foundation.

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Opinion

The GENIUS Act Killed Yield-Bearing Stablecoins. That Might Save DeFi

Congress may pass the most consequential crypto law of the century this week. That’s bad news for one of DeFi’s murkiest gray areas, yield-bearing stablecoins.

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Opinion

Decentralized Infrastructure Allows America to Compete on AI—Greg Osuri

AI workloads are testing traditional centralized systems beyond their limits. Incentivizing distributed energy and data is the answer, says Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network.

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Tech

Risc Zero’s 'Boundless' Incentivized Testnet Goes Live

The incentivized testnet, which the team is calling its Mainnet Beta, will let users participate in the network's decentralized marketplace for ZK computation.

RISC Zero is building a scalable blockchain using zk rollups (Andrew Haimerl/Unsplash)

Opinion

It's Crypto Week. Congress Can Future-Proof the U.S. Financial System: Summer Mersinger

The head of the Blockchain Association says lawmakers have an opportunity to renew American financial supremacy this week. But does Congress have the capacity for careful, technical legislation?

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Opinion

The Node: GENIUS, Clarity and a CBDC Ban

We’ve got a big week ahead of us in terms of U.S. crypto legislation, so I asked Katherine Dowling, general counsel at Bitwise, to give us a rundown.

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Opinion

Why Bittensor Is AI’s Best Next-Gen Incubator

With competing AI projects and performance-based rewards, Bittensor represents a shift from speculation-driven to utility-driven tokenomics, says Arrash Yasavolian, Founder and CEO, Taoshi (Subnet 8 on Bittensor).

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Opinion

Democrats Must Embrace Crypto: Terry McAuliffe

Too many Democrats “standing in the way” of crypto and “out of step with the very voters we need to win,” says former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.

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Policy

State of Crypto: Previewing Congress' 'Crypto Week'

On deck: Stablecoin, market structure and central bank digital currency bills.

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