Apr 23, 2026

The market repriced DeFi in just 48 hours

Di Bartolomeo argues that last weekend the market achieved – in real time – a notable feat that no regulator, auditor or commentat...

Apr 23, 2026

Morning Minute: Bitcoin Clears $79,000, Then Reverses

Justin Sun is suing Trump’s World Liberty Financial, and the U.S. government is now openly running a Bitcoin node.

Apr 22, 2026

The question isn't whether privacy. It's what sort of privacy

Blockchains are going private. The only question left is what kind of privacy the industry will build, argues Schiller.

Apr 22, 2026

Morning Minute: Bitcoin Passes $78k as Trump Extends Ceasefire Indefinitely

Bitcoin is ripping past $78K. Kevin Warsh faced off against the Senate. And Kalshi and Polymarket are now both coming for perpetua...

Apr 21, 2026

AI slop has created a search problem crypto companies can’t ignore

Rechler argues that if these companies don’t adopt better content strategies and overly misuse AI-generated tools, their platforms...

Apr 21, 2026

Morning Minute: Saylor's $2.54B Buy Buoys Bitcoin

Michael Saylor and Tom Lee continued to buy BTC and ETH in big size, while Aave published its incident report from the KelpDAO exp...

Apr 20, 2026

Morning Minute: DeFi's Future in Question After $292M KelpDAO Exploit

DeFi TVL fell by $13B after the KelpDAO exploit, and now the Vercel CEO is saying "highly sophisticated" actors used AI for its ex...

Apr 19, 2026

Web3 VCs have a differentiation problem

When every fund claims the same great networks and strong relationships, nobody wins. Bauer, Co-Founder of TBV, offers a more rigo...

Apr 18, 2026

The Lightning Network isn’t ‘helplessly broken’

Shell argues the network is fixable and proposes a different framing to the recent quantum debate.

Apr 17, 2026

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