Opinion

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A Laughing Matter

Memecoins reign and in-jokes are the currency of the realm. Is crypto fundamentally dumb? Is that the whole point? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the past 12 months have been a Bad Time for crypto. It’s as if the Book of Revelation turned out to

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Onchain: Ledger Drama, Tethers' Bitcoin purchase, and Ben's coins

Story One Ledger Drama The hardware wallet producer has never been one to shy away from funny ideas. After producing a wallet with a necklace so you can keep your crypto close, their latest announcement triggered a significant outrage. Last week Ledger announced a new service to make seed phrase

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Offchain: Trading your magic Internet money: Brokers & Exchanges

Learn about the key differences in these trading venues and which one might suit your needs. Chances are that you didn't get into crypto because someone magically appeared in front of you and sold you Bitcoin - even though the magic internet money meme would suggest so. Instead you probably

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Onchain: Bitcoin's luxury problems, Sui taking an L, and memecoin mania meets reality

Story One Bitcoin's luxury problems Recently, Bitcoin has run into a luxury problem: too much use. The Bitcoin network has seen its transactions and fees hit near all-time highs. And it wasn’t because Michael Saylor suddenly found a reason to move his Bitcoin. Up until this year, there wasn’

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Offchain: Into the Cosmos of appchains

Is the future full of appchains, or is this just a phase? As for another week, a frog meme coin called Pepe continues outperforming all the real builders in crypto; one can't help but feel like Logan Roy in Succession when looking at the crypto space. Fortunately, unlike the integrity

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Onchain: 5000 ETH hack, Memecoins slaying, and error 404 on clarity

Story One Mysterious 5000 ETH hack As so often in crypto, alpha isn't televised but comes straight to your timeline - delivered by e-girl accounts on Twitter. This time around, it was Taylor Monahan, CEO and Founder of MyCrypto, who found that over 5000 ETH had been drained from wallets

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Offchain: Stop being a Degen; become a Regen

What ReFi is all about, and how regens want to make the world a better place. Maybe you spent the Easter holidays talking to your non-web3 friends about crypto. Chances are they: * told you to stop talking about it * asked why it was that their acquaintance lost a lot of

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Onchain: Arbitrum Governance on fire, the Euler hacker returns nearly $200 million, and NFTs ready for take-off

Story One Arbitrum Governance on fire 🔥 But when we say fire, it's not the good kind. Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer-2, recently airdropped over 1 billion of its native token to nearly 300,000 wallets to kickstart the Arbitrum DAO. In addition to the DAO, they set up the Arbitrum Foundation

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Offchain: Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to-earn in 2023

Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to-earn in 2023. Not all earn programs are created equally - here's what you need to know. For a while, all crypto founders had to do to attract an audience looking for quick money was to create (any activity)-to earn projects. Now that we've

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Onchain: Crypto punk burns, Banking rugs, and Euler hacker returns some funds

Story One Crypto punk burns Losing money -- NFT investors are great at it. One of them has set a new record for self-goxxing by accidentally destroying an asset worth $153,000. Self-goxxing is the term the Japanese use to describe someone losing crypto assets because they acted stupidly or

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Offchain: Drop it like it's hot

What crypto airdrops are all about, and why it's not just free money While Crypto Twitter is still waiting for a MetaMask airdrop, this month brought us an Arbitrum airdrop. Good enough reason to talk about airdrops, because what else should we do when there is a looming threat of

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Onchain: Unstable coins, Wallet-as-a-Service, and Ether a security?

Story One Unstable coins Once again, stablecoins have proven unstable over the past few days. Designed to retain a stable value, often pegged to fiat currencies like the US-Dollar, stablecoins are an excellent way for crypto traders to lock in gains or keep funds to "buy the dip." What few

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Offchain: Account abstraction or making crypto user-friendly

How the latest hyped concept could make crypto accessible to everyone and their mum Once again, an acronym is all the rage in the crypto world. Don't be misled. AA does not stand for anonymous alcoholics, even though crypto has a solid anon culture. It's short for account abstraction and

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Onchain: Exploiting the exploiter, new L2 in town, and token-gating on Spotify

Story One Exploiting the exploiter Remember last year when Solana DeFi flourished despite the chain being down sometimes? Back then, a savvy hacker exploited Wormhole, a bridge between Ethereum and Solana, getting away with $120,000 ETH worth $325 million at the time. Despite being offered a $10 million bounty,

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Offchain: ZK-this, ZK-that, ZK-everything

Zero-knowledge, zero problem: all you need to know about this crypto narrative. It's been a tough week for anyone following crypto regulations closely. But instead of focusing on the attempts of the SEC's Gary Gensler trying to explain to us that staking has nothing to do with steak (watch at

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Onchain: SEC Krak-down, 3AC founders back at it, and NFT Super Bowl ad confusion

Story One SEC is forcing Kraken to shut down its staking service The SEC's new year resolution must have been going down hard on crypto. The latest company being called out is the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. This time it's all about their staking service. Staking, the process of securing a

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Offchain: Bitcoin's never-anticipated utility is JPEGs - the maxis are not amused

The Ordinals protocol brought good old community fights back to Bitcoin. Are you on team meme? If you've been on crypto Twitter recently, chances are that you have come across some angry Bitcoin maxi not condoning JPEGs while others are having fun exploring what Bitcoin can do outside of being

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Onchain: Highly profitable trading strategy, Tezos cars, and Aptos' insane valuation

Story One Avi's highly profitable trading strategy might end him in jail Avraham Eisenberg's "highly profitable trading strategy" might come with some unexpected losses, namely his freedom. Avi had found a vulnerability in the DeFi lending protocol Mango market and exploited it to borrow $116 million in other currencies against

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Offchain: Ethereum's LSD trip

Liquid staking derivatives are all the rage on Crypto Twitter, but how high can they really go? The dominant narrative going into 2023 in the world of crypto has been LSDs. And you're forgiven if your first association are those colourful tabs party animals probably pop in Berlin Berghain. LSDs

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Onchain: OMFGTX, Fed's Poker face, and a found fortune?

Story One After F comes G...TX What comes next after months of laying low in a country which offers no extradition to the US? You make a comeback. An investment deck outlining "cross-asset trading on a public marketplace" which was widely distributed earlier this week caused quite a stir.

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Offchain: Crypto's Biggest Moments of 2022

Last year saw few positive cryptocurrency headlines. Was there even a glimmer of hope? The end of 2021 felt like a hangover after all time highs. We soberly asked ourselves back in January last year: everyone’s lining up to dunk on crypto. Are we the bad guys?  As early

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Onchain: FTX collapse mega-edition

Story One How Sam Bankman-Fried killed the world’s greatest money printer Hands up if you had “amphetamine addicted sex nerd rug pulls the international crypto market” on your 2022 bingo card. Anyone? Anyone? Hell, where do you even start? Over the past week the Twitter hive mind has done

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Offchain: Welcome to Hades

I regret to inform you that crypto has been cancelled. There are savage falls from grace. And then there is whatever the %#&@ just happened to FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. My god. I mean, my GOD. A few months ago SBF was being hailed as the saviour of crypto

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Onchain: Binance backs Musk, Twitter & Insta’s NFT push, Arbitrum takes over

Story One Elon buys Twitter, Binance tosses in half-a-billion Unless you’ve been clinically dead for the past week, you’re probably aware that Elon Musk now owns Twitter. An interesting footnote to the whole saga is that Binance, indisputably the world’s biggest crypto exchange, contributed US$500 million

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Offchain: In web3 We Trust

The decentralised web is crypto’s latest and greatest crusade. Could a web 2.0 giant show us the way forward? When web3 roared into the crypto vernacular last year it felt like a direct response to Facebook’s hamfisted attempts to co-opt and privatise the metaverse. A technology that