Anna Fedorova

Opinion by Nic Puckrin, founder of CoinBureau: Crypto’s transparency reveals market manipulation that traditional finance hides. Century-old laws riddled with loopholes enable unpunished manipulation.

Since last year, banks have been falling over themselves to get involved in the stablecoin gold rush. Standard Chartered already made its first foray in February, while Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan said the bank can't wait to issue a stablecoin as soon as it's "legal." When the STABLE and GENIUS stablecoin bills pass in the U.S., we will likely see a huge flurry of competing stablecoins launched by some of the biggest banks.This will be a huge mistake.

Opinion by Chris Chung, CEO of Titan: When Solana launched in 2020, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko had the grand vision of becoming the Nasdaq on the blockchain — the home for onchain financial markets. Five years later, the memecoin trading activity we’re seeing on Solana is more akin to penny stocks than the tech giants that make up the Nasdaq index, like Apple or Nvidia.

Banning digital assets makes about as much sense as regulating against gravity. How many times did the market dip, back in 2017, on the news that China was banning Bitcoin (BTC), only to promptly recover at the realization of the notion’s absurdity?

A month ago, no one could have predicted this. Yet today, we are seriously discussing the U.S. Treasury moving all of its transactions onto a blockchain. As we know, this technology underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and the proposal is largely thanks to the increasing involvement of crypto advocate Elon Musk in the U.S. government’s affairs.

Looking at crypto news headlines, it would seem initially that Solana has firmly established itself as the home of DePIN. From Hivemapper to Helium, some of the most well-known DePIN projects are built on this blockchain. But when we explored Solana as a blockchain on which to build our project, something didn’t quite add up. So, after getting our analytical hats on and running the requisite due diligence checks, we decided to go with Sui over Solana.

The first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of 2024 is behind us and the markets no longer seem convinced that we will see an interest rate cut the next time the 12 committee members meet in March. Some 34% of the market expect a rate cut at the next meeting, down from 73% just one month ago. Indeed, I do not expect the Federal Reserve to start cutting rates until the end of the second quarter–at the earliest.

Over recent months, several countries have made moves to bring cryptocurrencies into the fold of their regulatory frameworks, citing the need to protect consumers from volatility and losses. Some have touted this warmer attitude towards digital assets as the catalyst needed to propel cryptocurrencies into the next bull run, yet concerns remain as tougher regulation could stifle innovation in the sector.