Opinion

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Centralized Exchanges Are Here to Stay
While the collapse of FTX shook confidence in centralized crypto services, regulated exchanges are arguably more secure and offer users "peace of mind," DBS Digital Exchange CEO Lionel Lim writes.
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If Crypto Is the Future, Advisors Need to Embrace It Now
Amazon stock was a risky proposition in the 2000s. Crypto is arguably at a similar point.
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DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin
CoinDesk’s story this week about a fight over a bitcoin mining facility in Upstate New York reveals how cryptocurrency issues are quickly becoming politicized in familiar ways.
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How Crypto Can Help Secure AI
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence create unique safety challenges. Can skills and approaches honed by the crypto community help make AI safe for humanity?
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Cathie Wood Thinks the U.S. Crypto Exodus Is Here. Is It?
Strike, Coinbase and others have intimated they may leave the United States due to regulatory pressure. But those might be empty threats.
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Crypto’s Quirky Automated Market Makers and How They Differ From TradFi Exchanges
Crypto exchanges have order books just like the NYSE, but the digital asset realm also offers something very different known as automated market makers (AMMs).
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AI Can Generate a Trading Edge in Crypto Markets
Large language models like ChatGPT could supercharge sentiment analysis, a key aspect of trading.
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Consensus Survey: TradFi Investors Remain Bullish on Crypto’s Long-Term Prospects
Despite the market turmoil of the last six months, investment managers say they largely plan to keep putting capital into digital assets, our survey finds.
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Crypto's Open Source Ethos Yields Results
It’s crypto winter and a time for building, as innovative new open-source projects on Polkadot and Cosmos can attest.
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U.S. Lawmakers Can Get Crypto Regulations Right if They Act Now
Crypto companies are being hamstrung by legislative inaction as much as an ill-advised policy of regulating by enforcement, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe said.
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