Latest News in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
Crypto Markets Shift Toward Onchain Infrastructure as Bitcoin Outpaces Stocks and M&A Volumes Surge
Midweek trading brought a clear demonstration of relative strength from leading digital assets, with Bitcoin outperforming traditional equities as broader…
Crypto and Risk Assets Face End-of-Year Weakness as Markets Search for a Fundamental Floor
As the year winds down, traditional risk assets and the cryptocurrency market alike are showing persistent signs of fatigue, offering…
Gold Climbs to Historic Highs as Precious Metals Outpace Crypto in 2025 Lull
As the global financial markets wind down for the Christmas holiday, traditional asset classes and digital assets alike are experiencing…
Lighter’s LIT Token Launch Highlights Heating Competition in the Perpetual Futures Market
The cryptocurrency market kicked off the final week of the year with a softer tone, underperforming broader traditional financial indices…
How a Cambridge Coffee Pot Accidentally Launched the Webcam and Foreshadowed the Internet Age
As computer scientist Danny Hillis once famously observed, "Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet." Nowhere is that sentiment more…
Bitcoin Outperforms Stocks and Gold as Markets Kick Off the Year with Measured Risk Reset
Cryptocurrency markets have opened the year with subtle yet important structural shifts, led by Bitcoin demonstrating a rare and timely…
Could AI’s Productivity Boom Be the Silver Bullet for US Government Debt?
As economists often remind us, productivity is not everything, but in the long run, it is almost everything. That sentiment,…
The Myth of the Petrodollar: Why the US Dollar’s Reserve Status Was Never About Coercion
This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “The dollar is always going to be…
The Golden Age of Crypto Trading Is Fading as Markets Mature, Industry Experts Warn
The era of effortless profits in cryptocurrency trading is rapidly drawing to a close, mirroring a historical trajectory seen in…
The Castle, the Gate, and the Code: How the Crypto Industry Is Grappling with the True Meaning of Privacy
In 1604, the Court of King’s Bench delivered a landmark judgment in what is now historically recorded as Semayne’s Case.…
