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

To Survive the New Era of Robot Spam, Look to Crypto’s History

Human communication systems are under threat from linguistic robots (AI). But the same spammy problem helped lead to the creation of Bitcoin.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Real-World Assets Come to Blockchains

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Opinion

If DeFi Wants to Grow, It Has to Embrace Real-World Assets

To scale, DeFi platforms need to attract institutions keen to trade tokenized bonds, equities, and debt, and physical assets such as gold, real estate and art, says Enrico Rubboli of Mintlayer.

Buildings are some the assets ready to be tokenized, say advocates for tokenization.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenize Everything: Institutions Bet That Crypto’s Future Lies in the Real World

Long one of crypto’s big ideas, tokenization may finally be ready for prime-time. Wall Street is diving in, creating tokens for everything from buildings to gold bars. One advantage: relatively little regulatory scrutiny. Jeff Wilser reports.

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Consensus Magazine

Despite BlackRock, Don’t Expect a Flood of Spot-Bitcoin ETFs Soon: Experts

BlackRock’s recent application to start a Bitcoin ETF has raised hopes that the SEC would soon approve an instrument seen as key to crypto’s growth. But a range of market watchers contacted by CoinDesk said several roadblocks still lie ahead.

Larry Fink on Fox News (Fox Business)

Opinion

Hollywood’s Angry Creators Show Why Web3 Is Needed

Web2 economics don’t work for artists and writers, says CoinDesk's Michael Casey.

Members of the Writers Guild of America East and SAG-AFTRA in New York City (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Opinion

Ripple Labs Ruling Throws U.S. Crypto-Token Regulation into Disarray

The only thing this ruling guarantees is continued uncertainty in the cryptocurrency markets – uncertainty only Congress can correct.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Getty Images)

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Consensus Magazine

Nexo in Court With a Co-Founder Over $12M in Missing Assets

Nexo says its former managing partner left with a hardware wallet full of the company’s crypto.

Antoni Trenchev Co-Founder Nexo (Shutterstock/Coindesk)