The future of money will not belong to those systems with the most advanced technology or the strongest initial growth, but to those systems that are designed with a comprehensive understanding of how money actually works.

The dream of true decentralization still exists, but for most people, it is just a dream.

Far from being a cautionary tale, an Ethereum ETF could become a sacrificial pioneer, paving the way for a more successful second wave.

The U.S. stock market continues to crash as investors realize that Trump’s outrageous tariffs are not going to be reversed anytime soon.

Tether said it plans to create a new stablecoin for the U.S. market if Congress passes cryptocurrency legislation this year.

Until economic data shows modest growth and slowing inflation, your primary goal should be to preserve your capital.

While Bitcoin’s four-year cycle will continue to exist, its impact on price will be marginal at best. In that sense, the argument no longer holds. However, the case to continue buying Bitcoin is stronger than ever.

A few years ago, many in the crypto community described Bitcoin as a “safe haven” asset. Today, fewer and fewer people call it that.

Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETFs) may fundamentally change the concept of “altcoin season” in the crypto market.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the cryptocurrency space in the form of AI agents, trading bots, automated risk analysis, and more.

It is becoming increasingly clear that many coins will likely never return to their all-time highs.

Welcome to the official beginning of the cryptocurrency regulatory vacuum.

Many of Trump’s administration’s tech appointees and advisers were significant donors to his campaign, including Musk, Marc Andreessen, Jacob Helberg and David Sachs.

Some of the largest U.S. banks are moving aggressively into cryptocurrency services for large funds, investors and traders, taking advantage of a rapid deregulation under President Donald Trump to launch digital asset versions of businesses they have long dominated.

The emergence of Deepseek R1, a new open source AI model, promises to deliver powerful inference capabilities at a lower cost – paving the way for millions of new users and use cases.

Fast forward to today, and decentralized finance (DeFi) is on the verge of a major inflection point: the rise of the DeFAI agent. This fusion of AI-powered automation and secure, user-friendly custody heralds the era of crypto “super apps” — onboarding billions of new users through intuitive, fully abstracted experiences.

Artificial intelligence agents have been making waves in the crypto space lately, attracting a wide range of attention from early adopters to major investors. The excitement generated by these technologies is no less than the DeFi summer of 2020-2021.

In this article, I’ll dive deeper into this distinction and these opposing chain philosophies that will shape the blockchain development landscape in 2025.

I suspect that the cycle has peaked and this is a natural pullback as crypto markets try to release the pain — but that pain may last for a while.

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