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By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Crypto skeptic David Gerard has been warning for years about how excesses in the industry could wreck investors. Some of these excesses were apparent this week when DeFi lending platform Celsius Network — which promised yields as high as 18.63% in return for deposits — froze withdrawals for its 1.7 million […]

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Will Pemble made his mark in the early days of the Internet by building Web.com, one of the first domain name registrars in the world. Now he hopes to make his mark in the crypto world through his CoasterPunks project. During a June 9 interview on TruthDAO\’s \”Crypto DeFined,\”available on Fireside,

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO The unsolicited invitation slid into my What\’sApp messages in March. I was intrigued. I’d only recently joined TruthDAO as a crypto reporter, but I had more than 20 years of experience as a business and personal finance writer for globally recognized media platforms. I followed the instructions and signed up for

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO When Bitwise Asset Management published research in 2019 showing that 95% of bitcoin trades were fake, the finding rocked the industry and led crypto exchanges to change how they verified trading activity. Fast forward three years. The bitcoin industry has matured — many analysts say fake trades still happen but much

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO As general manager of RippleNet, Asheesh Birla oversees the technology platform for Ripple that allows funds to be transferred within seconds around the world. The business — which enables transfers using its affiliated XRP digital asset — is growing rapidly, with payment volume reaching a $15 billion annualized run rate in

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO It took web3 pioneer Yat Siu less than a decade to grow Animoca Brands from a struggling mobile game company into a nearly $6 billion powerhouse, and now it is shaping the digital asset space. Animoca, co-founded by Siu, also is an investor, and today claims stakes in more than 200

Are we in for more turbulence in the stablecoin industry? A week after the meltdown of USDTerra and Luna rocked the crypto world, experts say investors should pay attention to the quality of assets underlying stablecoins and the health of the ecosystem. “It’s a completely unregulated space and people are doing all kinds of crazy

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Kathy Kraninger, former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under President Trump, spends her days grappling with one of the crypto industry’s thorniest issues: Market manipulation. By many estimates, it\’s a sizable problem. A 2019 study by Bitwise Asset Management found that 95% of all reported bitcoin trades were