Crypto Mortgages and the American Dream: A Policy Opening With Structural Limits
I’ve read a lot of breathless takes about “crypto buying houses.” Most of them miss the point. This isn’t about paying for a home with Bitcoin. It never was. What’s…
Crypto’s Bridge Crisis: How Wrapped Assets Turned Decentralization Into a Single Point of Failure
Crypto didn’t get kneecapped by regulators. It didn’t get sabotaged by banks. And it definitely wasn’t some outside conspiracy. The worst damage last cycle was self-inflicted. In the scramble to…
One Year After Gary Gensler: How the SEC’s Crypto Reset Reshaped Power, Policy, and Markets
One year after Gary Gensler walked out of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the impact isn’t theoretical anymore. You can see it. In the court docket. In the cases…
Bitcoin as Portfolio Infrastructure, Not a Trade
For more than a decade, Bitcoin’s place in institutional portfolios has been argued like a culture war. One camp sold it as digital gold. An inflation hedge. A moral statement…
Mia Ko Memecoin Slides Toward $2.5M as pump.fun Post-Hype Phase Deepens
Mia Ko (MIA), a Solana memecoin listed on pump.fun, is trading near a $2.5 million market cap after a sharp drawdown from its earlier peak around $7.3 million. The pump.fun…
PsyopAnime Memecoin Slides to $10.7M as pump.fun Traders Rotate Post-ATH
Token Snapshot Token: PsyopAnime Platform: pump.fun Chain: Solana Market Cap: ~$10.7M ATH: ~$28.0M 24h Change: −10.9% 24h Volume: ~$11.3M Bonding Curve Progress: 100% (Graduated) Status: Actively traded, post-hype phase Interpretation:…
TikTok Supercycle Memecoin Launches on pump.fun as Early Trading Begins
Token Snapshot Token: TikTok supercycle Platform: pump.fun (Solana) Market Cap: ~$6.4K (ATH ~$7.0K) Age: Minutes Bonding Curve Progress: ~23% Volume (initial): ~$580 Creator Rewards Distribution: 100% to creator Admin Wallet…
Stablecoins, Banks, and the Fight Over the Future of Money
Stablecoins have long been framed as crypto’s most pragmatic innovation: less volatile than cryptocurrencies, more efficient than traditional payments, and increasingly embedded in global settlement flows. Yet as their scale…
Vitalik Buterin’s Stablecoin Dilemma: Why Decentralization Still Hasn’t Solved Money
When Vitalik Buterin speaks about stablecoins, he is not critiquing a peripheral product category. He is interrogating one of crypto’s most fundamental promises: the ability to create neutral, censorship-resistant money…
Big Banks Move From Crypto Skepticism to Strategic Integration
For much of the past decade, large banks approached cryptocurrency as a problem to be managed rather than an opportunity to be pursued. Compliance teams framed it as a source…