Galen Moore

Galen Moore

Galen Moore is the content lead at Axelar, which is building interoperable Web3 infrastructure. He previously served as director of professional content at CoinDesk. In 2017, Galen started Token Report, a cryptocurrency investor newsletter and data service, covering the ICO market. Token Report was acquired in 2018. Prior to that, he was editor in chief at AmericanInno, a subsidiary of American City Business Journals. He has a masters in business studies from Northeastern University and a bachelors in English from Boston University.

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Gaming Gift Cards Are Like Crypto – and Not in a Good Way
In-game tokens, like V-Bucks on Fortnite, face UX problems like many Web3 platforms. Is there a role an open, shared “trust layer” for gaming payments?
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dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Examining dYdX’s Path to Profitable DeFi
Axelar's Galen Moore provides a front-row seat to changes afoot at dYdX as the popular decentralized trading platform builds on Cosmos.
dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
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Bitcoin Taught Me a Valuable Lesson at Austin’s Airport
Crypto enables people to transact with minimal information. If only we could go through life determining exactly what to share or not, Axelar's Galen Moore writes.
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The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
A ‘Super App’ May Be Web3’s Super Power
Elon Musk has a vision to turn Twitter into an all-in-one app, like WeChat. Turns out, permissionless and composable crypto platforms together form something better than the s...
The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Top Crypto Assets by Volume Ranked in the CoinDesk 20
CoinDesk 20: AVAX, LUNA, MANA, SHIB Are In; Bitcoin Cash, EOS, ETH Classic, Filecoin Are Out
Old guard bows out as layer 1s, metaverse and memes surge in.
Top Crypto Assets by Volume Ranked in the CoinDesk 20
The Solana conference's closing gala in Lisbon's main square. (Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)
CoinDesk 20 Update: ATOM, ICP and SOL Are In; AAVE, GRT and UNI Are Out
Web 3 is replacing DeFi among the most traded currencies in crypto.
The Solana conference's closing gala in Lisbon's main square. (Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)
Tether Crypto Long & Short Aug 1
Crypto Long & Short: What's Going On With Tether?
Since the end of May, tether's growth has gone completely flat.
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Bull vs. Bear
Crypto Long & Short: This Bear Market May Not Last Long
Cryptocurrency markets will likely stay under sell pressure for the next few weeks, but data points indicate this bear market may be short-lived.
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Crypto Long & Short: The Market Says Bitcoin Is for Speculation, Not Dollarization
Data from services on Bitcoin and Ethereum shows what's real in crypto adoption stories.
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Crypto Long & Short: The Market Gets Smarter
This week, the cryptocurrency markets displayed a more sophisticated understanding of regulatory and technology risk.
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