Opinion

German bank LBBW and Bitpanda partners to offer crypto custody services. (Bitpanda)
How a Conservative German Bank Offering Crypto Makes Sense
Germany is a relatively conservative financial market, and landesbank are among its most conservative institutions. So what is the country’s largest landesbank doing launching...
German bank LBBW and Bitpanda partners to offer crypto custody services. (Bitpanda)

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Institutional Digital Assets: The Future of Finance Is Here
Tokenization initiatives from BlackRock, JP Morgan and others presage a revolution in payments, wealth management and other key activities of Wall Street, says author Annelise...
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AI Safety for Smart Contracts Is AI Safety for the World
Web3 infrastructure can bring new safety and reliability tools to AI, a cycle that will make the intersection of AI and Web3 massively and mutually beneficial, Chainlink scien...
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How the Bitcoin Halving Will Drive Action to Layer 2s
Increasing on-chain use of the network are driving up fees.
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Bitcoin Will Power the Next DeFi Summer
The blockchain is emerging as a critical security-provider for decentralized apps and as an asset with newfound utility and interoperability.
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Google Searches for 'Bitcoin Halving' Get Higher Than 4/20
One of the closely watched indicators of retail interest is booming.
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Leaving Behind Bitcoin Sectarianism
After years of infighting over how to scale the blockchain, the community is again experimenting with ways to turn Bitcoin into a suitable platform to develop on.
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This Bitcoin Halving Is Different. But Is It 'Priced In'?
Institutions launching bitcoin ETFs this year have buoyed the bitcoin price to record levels. Does that mean the impact of the halving — the four-year slashing of the bitcoin...
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What Is Bitcoin Meant to Hedge?
The cryptocurrency underperformed this week as an economic safe haven. But bitcoiners are taking a longer term view.
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