Latest from Benjamin Schiller
What’s Next for Stablecoins? Clearinghouses
As banks like Citi and Bank and America enter the stablecoin market, they’re likely to bring their own tech stack and clearing expertise with them. If crypto consortiums do not step in with alternatives, TradFi-style clearinghouses will dominate the landscape, says John deVadoss.
DeFi in Q2 Review: The New Gold Rush Is… Stablecoins?
Q2 was the quarter that DeFi stopped acting like a series of isolated experiments and started acting like mainstream-ready financial infrastructure, says Ryan Rodenbaugh, CEO of Wallfacer Labs, the team behind vaults.fyi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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).
