William Mougayar

William Mougayar, a CoinDesk columnist, is the author of “The Business Blockchain,” founder of the Ethereum Market Research Center, producer of the Token Summit and a venture investor.

William Mougayar

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Opinion

Why Blockchain Valuation Models Are Still Up for Debate

How do you appraise the value of a decentralized network? William Mougayar says every new era of the internet requires a new way of thinking about value.

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Opinion

Don’t Let the Cult of Price Hold Crypto Back

Focusing solely on prices masks the real progress taking place on blockchains like Ethereum, says William Mougayar, founder of the Ethereum Market Research Centre.

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Canada’s Blockchain Advantage: Small Enough to Move Fast, Big Enough to Matter

Whoever wins the election April 28, Canada has the talent, history, and agility to become the first G7 nation to fully embrace a blockchain-forward future.

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Opinion

The Crypto Industry Needs to Fix Itself Before It Can Progress

It's fair to blame regulatory agencies and Congress for failure to properly oversee crypto. But the industry also needs to look to its own failings, says William Mougayar.

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Policy

The US Needs a Dedicated Crypto Regulator

The current hodgepodge of regulators isn’t cutting it.

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Finance

4 Ways Blockchain Could Catapult Into the Mainstream

Blockchain technology adoption has largely been a top-down story. Here are some ideas that could get more bottom-up traction.

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Markets

We Still Lack a Rational Way to Value Tokens

Tokens continue to show little correlation between usage and value, confounding efforts to build better valuation methods.

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Finance

For DeFi to Grow, CeFi Must Embrace It

Despite the buzz, DeFi is not on a good trajectory. It's too technical, too volatile and too "geeky" to be adopted by "the mainstream," William Mougayar writes.

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Policy

Defining Cryptocurrency Is the Best Way to Kill It

We should stop trying to classify cryptocurrency as a beast from another planet. Rather, we just need to accept it as the future of money.

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Finance

Cut the Consensus: You Can't Run a Business Like a Blockchain

What works for the technical realm of blockchains does not automatically translate to the running of businesses or social organizations.

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