Lula’s announcement of plans for SUR, a new Latin American currency for bilateral trade, has excited proponents of regional integration, and it has clear implications for the 2022 election. Less than six months ahead of […]

In its newly launched State of Crypto report, a16z is bullish about the future of crypto despite its ongoing decline in markets globally. There are few firms as central to financing crypto as venture capital […]

The psychedelic industry is arriving at Davos amid a renaissance of popular interest in the drugs. Most are still considered illegal, although a number of cities and states have decriminalized some. Stock values for companies […]

Each company in the crypto ecosystem has its own explanation for why it’s faltering. One shiny premise of DeFi, or decentralized finance—a catch-all term for cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects related to the exchange of value—is […]

Musk doubts Twitter’s numbers and ponders if over 90% of service’s daily active users are fake. Elon Musk continued to sound off about the actual number of automated bots and fake accounts on Twitter Inc. […]

Although the use of mobile money has become a global phenomenon, African users remain a significant driver. Transaction values grew fastest in the Middle East and North Africa (49%), sub-Saharan Africa (40%) and Latin America […]

Everyone is talking about the $UST attack right now, including Janet Yellen. But no one is talking about how much money the attacker made. Lets dig in. Our story starts in late March, when the […]

The past 24 hours were among of the biggest crypto market drops in recent months. Ether futures led liquidation losses in the past 24 hours as crypto markets lost over 16% of their overall capitalization, […]

Just months after a corporate rebrand, Meta seems to be downplaying the promise of its metaverse. The company formerly known as Facebook is already signaling investors not to hope for much actual revenue from its […]

Donald MacKenzie on digital advertising and the economics of online news. Click​ on a link to an article on a news website. If you have a fast internet connection, you’ll see the article almost immediately, […]

Yuga Labs apologized on Twitter for “turning off the light on Ethereum,” and suggested the possibility of establishing an ApeCoin blockchain. Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of NFTs, […]

In the last week or so, the online payment platform PayPal without explanation suspended the accounts of a series of individual journalists and media outlets. This episode ups the ante again on the content moderation […]

Sam Altman claims AI companies could become so wealthy that they’re able to provide a universal basic income to every man, woman and child on Earth. In as little as 10 years, AI could generate […]

Tesla just reported first-quarter earnings for 2022 and beat analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom lines. Automotive revenue reached $16.86 billion, up 87% from the same period last year. Automotive gross margins jumped to […]

The simple fact is that dealing with human nature and human communication is much, much, much more complex than teaching a car how to drive by itself. Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made […]

Otherside Metaverse Sees $320 Million Raised, Ether Fees Spike, Etherscan Crashes. The Otherside metaverse virtual land sale took place on Saturday, and a great deal of people purchased Ethereum-based NFTs dubbed “Otherdeeds.” Demand for the […]

The SpaceX/Tesla founder and billionaire has articulated lofty free speech ideals. Can he make them reality? Musk has panned the site’s existing content moderation policies, saying they are too restrictive and encroach on people’s ability […]

LimeWire has raised $10.4 million in a private token sale led by Kraken Ventures, Arrington Capital and GSR as it builds its platform for music-focused NFTs. News of the fundraise, unveiled on Thursday, comes a […]

Current NFT owners are encouraged to exhibit and sell their NFTs in the space, but only “blue-chip” projects will be accepted. British luxury department store Harvey Nichols launched an NFT space called “HN NFT Vault” […]

“Wall Street has gotten so dull, It is essentially a tech job. It is totally silent. For better or worse, it’s lost a lot of its color.” In Margin Call, the CEO asks Sam, his […]

As an investor don’t just vote with your money. Invest in platforms that can be weighed, measured, and found to be lasting organizations. As everyone with a brokerage account braces for emotional trauma they’ve rarely […]

Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying the company has extraordinary potential and he is the person to unlock it. The world’s richest person will offer $54.20 per […]

Who committed the largest theft of ether (Ethereum’s native token) ever, by hacking The DAO? Ethereum, the second biggest crypto network, is worth $360 billion. Its creator, Vitalik Buterin, has more than 3 million Twitter […]

Crypto startup Worldcoin is raising $100 million with investors valuing the company’s total stockpile of tokens at $3 billion. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which previously invested in Berlin-based Worldcoin, and Khosla Ventures. The investment […]

Based on the statement that appeared on the official MetaMask Twitter account, iPhone users will finally be able to start buying cryptocurrency almost directly. That is, gadget holders will be able to purchase digital assets […]

Questions about the future of the dollar-based financial order in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have spawned a genre of future-orientated Finance-Fiction all of its own. There is a huge asymmetry in the world […]

If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail. A bill introduced in Congress on Monday seeks to re-create the virtues of cash, privacy and all, in digital […]

Several Russian banks are planning to use China’s bank card service UnionPay as US services Visa and Mastercard suspend services in Russia. Russia-issued credit cards using the Visa and Mastercard systems will stop functioning after […]

How will the confrontation in Ukraine affect the global balance? Specifically, how might it shift the balance between the US and China. Hegemony isn’t a fixed, structural feature of the world. Hegemony is what you […]

Disconnecting Russia from world finance could thus create an unwanted side effect for the west, the birth of a new global economic system based upon the Chinese yuan. One rouble now buys less than one […]