Tagged: perspective

August 9, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enterprise blockchain firm Ripple has recently indicated that its long-running push into the European cryptocurrency sector is poised to advance significantly now that it has cleared a major regulatory hurdle under the Markets in Crypto-Assets framework. In early August 2026, the company outlined how securing… Read More

August 7, 2026 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Hope springs eternal. Yesterday, Senate leadership decided they did not have sufficient support to hold a floor vote on the CLARITY Act, key crypto market infrastructure legislation that aims to protect consumers while enabling digital asset innovation. The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) expressed their… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 12:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Senate is scheduled to go into recess at the end of business this Friday, leaving only a couple of days for the CLARITY Act to reach a floor vote. While a growing number of Americans hold crypto and there is an obvious need to… Read More

August 4, 2026 @ 9:24 pm By Stephanie Vaughan  |  

Everyone in DeFi is talking about the “Earn” Wars. Robinhood, Coinbase, Revolut, and Kraken are competing for retail balances. Protocols like Aave, Morpho, and Ethena are competing to be the borrowing strategy. Vault providers are competing to package it, and strategists like Steakhouse, Gauntlet, Sentora,… Read More

August 3, 2026 @ 7:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

The California Confiscation tax, which is slated to be on the ballot this coming November, has gained the support of the California Democrat party. This past June, the “billionaire tax” earned sufficient signatures to move the issue to a ballot vote, evading the state legislature…. Read More

August 3, 2026 @ 11:22 am By JD Alois  |  

The US Senate is scheduled to convene at 3 PM today. The upper house of Congress will be in session this week, but the summer recess will kick in at the end of the week, with Senators not scheduled to return until September 14th. As… Read More

July 31, 2026 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) recently alluded to the potential for digital asset innovators to move operations offshore if the CLARITY Act does not become law. This has been an issue for years and more welcoming jurisdictions have benefited from the inability of Congress to approve crypto legislation… Read More

July 30, 2026 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The banking industry continues to pound away at the CLARITY Act, the crypto infrastructure legislation that will set the path for the US to dominate the global digital asset industry. The banking industry’s opposition to the bill is based on FUD. There is a simple… Read More

July 22, 2026 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) entered a dark period during the tenure of former Chairman Gary Gensler. Ambitious and smart, Gensler sought to appease his political allies to earn a higher position in the Biden/Harris administration by pursuing radical policy goals, ignoring the SEC’s… Read More

July 16, 2026 @ 6:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shares of PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) took a nice bounce this week following the news that Stripe and Advent are working on a deal to acquire the global payments firm. In the past week, PayPal shares moved up by over 25%, suggesting that markets see a deal… Read More

July 16, 2026 @ 5:21 pm By James Simcox  |  

The digital euro is a promising step forward for Europe, with the potential to transform how money moves across the continent. So far, much of the debate has centred on payments sovereignty and consumer wallets, and both certainly matter. A trusted form of central bank… Read More

July 16, 2026 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with legislators today to discuss the CLARITY Act, the stalled crypto market infrastructure legislation. The legislation was approved by the Senate Banking Committee, but a floor vote on the bill has yet to arrive. While the CLARITY Act… Read More

July 13, 2026 @ 10:54 am By Robert Bueninck  |  

Volatile energy prices, disrupted trade routes, new sanctions regimes: today’s geopolitical tensions are making it painfully clear to Europe that sovereignty is not an abstract idea, but a matter of concrete control. If you do not control critical infrastructure yourself, you are vulnerable when it… Read More

July 10, 2026 @ 1:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has published its Regulatory Agenda for the coming year, marking a significant shift from the previous administration. During the Biden presidency, former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler placed much of the focus on political ambitions like ESG, such as climate disclosure…. Read More

July 10, 2026 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset manager Bitwise has underscored a notable resilience in Bitcoin’s market structure, pointing to an incrementally higher price floor even amid intense competition for investment dollars from the artificial intelligence sector and slow progress on comprehensive crypto rules in Washington. Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon… Read More

July 4, 2026 @ 1:51 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

If you could build a time machine and drop in on Benjamin Franklin, what would he make of modern markets and regulations that grant some investors broad access to risk, diversification, and upside while restricting others from participating? That was essentially the premise of a… Read More

June 19, 2026 @ 1:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

This week the State of California revealed that it had validated sufficient signatures to place the proposed confiscation tax on the ballot this coming November. This means the likelihood the abusive  tax will become law. The tax was created by several economists seeking to  generate… Read More

June 14, 2026 @ 8:26 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

Everything You Own Was Built by Someone Who Dared: A conversation with John Tillman on the Capital Ideas podcast is a love letter to the entrepreneur and a wake-up call for America. Look around you right now. The phone in your hand. The electricity running… Read More

June 10, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The number of publicly traded companies in the US has been in decline for many years – to the detriment of all. This is largely due to overly aggressive regulations that boost compliance demands and affiliated cost. At the same time, there is an ocean… Read More

June 8, 2026 @ 1:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) price has crashed to below $1,600 (at the time of writing) and crypto industry professionals are now offering some perspective on where they think the digital assets market will go from here, and how it may perform in the foreseeable future. Bankless co-founder… Read More