Crypto Long & Short

Crypto Long & Short

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Crypto Long & Short: In quiet crypto markets, yield is the trade

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Maxime Seiler notes that weak crypto prices mask adoption, making yield strategies the main trade. Then, Kavita Maharaj‑Alexander writes on crypto’s next phase being driven by proving compliance in practice, elevating the infrastructure providers that enable it.

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Crypto Long & Short: Guide, deliver, repeat: the hidden driver of token performance

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jordan Brewer writes on the missing piece in token markets: institutional-grade investor relations. Then, Martin Burgherr breaks down how crypto markets are maturing, becoming more efficient and lower risk for institutions.

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Crypto Long & Short: Protecting the people building DeFi infrastructure

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jennifer Rosenthal writes on the need to protect the people actually building DeFi infrastructure. Then, Alexis Sirkia comments on how Ethereum's L2 strategy is failing due to a fundamental design flaw.

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Crypto Long & Short: Fighting fraud in the digital age: why state-led identity is the future

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Tricia Gallagher writes how the fix for broken digital identity systems will need to be state-led and user-controlled.

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Crypto Long & Short: Asia’s digital asset crackdown: accountability gets personal

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Bob Williams covers how stricter crypto regulations in Asia are putting more personal responsibility on senior leaders, making strong governance and D&O insurance essential. Then, the TBI’s Haidy Grigsby writes on how crypto scams are increasingly targeting experienced investors by building trust and tricking them into making larger deposits until their money is gone.

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Crypto Long & Short: Governance is the real Layer 1

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Nilmini Rubin writes on the challenge facing crypto and traditional markets to create a hybrid, shared governance structure. Then, Meredith Fitzpatrick covers how financial institutions must fundamentally rethink AML risk as crypto and TradFi converge.

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Crypto Long & Short: Prediction Markets Don’t Just Forecast Power - They Reshape It

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Ryan Kirkley writes on how crypto prediction markets can risk incentivizing manipulation and amplify misinformation at scale.

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Crypto Long & Short: the stealth denationalization of money

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Sylvia To on AI agents choosing denationalized money.

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Crypto Long & Short: Why bitcoin's quantum fears will pass just like the climate panic

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Martin Gaspar on how bitcoin looks to overcome quantum fears, echoing past climate backlash.

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Crypto Long & Short: When ETF options start driving bitcoin

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Gregory Mall of Lionsoul Global on how ETFs have shifted a growing share of bitcoin volatility into U.S. equity options markets.

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