Tag: Crypto 2.0
-
Cancel Culture Comes to Crypto as Offensive Tweets Trigger Flurry of Ousters
A spate of offensive tweets form DeFi managers has led to ousters and signalled a new, more scrutinous era for crypto.
-
Hedge Fund Giant Steven Cohen Dives into Crypto with $21M Funding Round in Messari
In the latest sign that Wall Street big shots love crypto, Point72 Ventures, the early-stage investment firm founded by hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen, has led a $21M funding round in Messari, the crypto market intelligence provider. It is Point72’s first foray into crypto. Founded in 2018, Messari compiles and analyzes metrics on the ups […]
-
Crypto Tax Debate On Capitol Hill Signals Big Changes for DeFi
Taxing cryptocurrencies just picked up serious momentum, with potentially serious ramifications for DeFi. The U.S. Senate’s $1 trillion infrastructure package now under consideration includes a provision that would tax transactions involving Bitcoin and its ilk to raise around $28 billion in funding. That means swapping Ethereum and other DeFi tokens may have to be recorded […]
-
The End Of The Beginning for DeFi: 2.0 is Coming
In his famous 2018 talk, The End of The Beginning, Benedict Evans laid out his view on the large-scale phases of the internet. See if you can spot some analogues with crypto: “If we think about the first 20 years of the internet, we really did, kind of, the easy things. It didn’t feel terribly […]