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How Crypto Can Power the Future of Work for People of Color

This post is part of CoinDesk's Black History Month series.

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India's Tough Crypto Stance Has a Silver Lining

How a central bank digital currency meant to stifle crypto could end up benefitting it.

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A Bridge Too Far: Does the Wormhole Hack Mean the Multi-Blockchain Dream Is Dead?

Bridges and other connections between blockchains present inherent security challenges. Whether those can be solved will determine the future of the entire ecosystem.

A collapsed bridge along Forbes Avenue near Frick Park in Pittsburgh on Jan. 28, 2022. Just a few days later, a Solana-Ethereum cryptocurrency bridge called Wormhole met a similar fate. (Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Calling a Hack an Exploit Minimizes Human Error

After the Wormhole event, it's worth asking about crypto's reliance on and trust in code.

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Kanye West, NFTs and 'Building Real Products in the Real World'

The rapper's resistance to celebrity NFT drops is refreshing, says our columnist.

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This Super Bowl, Don’t Trust Celebrity Crypto Endorsements (Don’t Trust Yourself, Either)

Sure, you can “do your own research." But first make sure you understand what that actually means.

Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat, who will reportedly appear in a commercial for crypto exchange Binance during Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images)

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What ‘Line Goes Up’ Gets Wrong (and Right) About NFTs

A new documentary makes the case that NFTs are the top of the funnel for this whole crypto-pyramid-scheme-thing.

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Crypto Twitter’s Misdirected Furor Didn’t Fix the Travel Rule

Following a community uproar, Trezor nixed plans to integrate AOPP, an open-source protocol for proving wallet ownership. The rollback changed nothing and FATF’s travel rule still bedevils users.

An angry mob holding torches in a still from the film, 'Frankenstein,' directed by James Whale, 1931.

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NFTs, Celebrities and Perverse Deal-Making

As crypto company MoonPay continues its marketing push, it's unclear whether celebrity enthusiasm for NFTs is real.

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The Financialization of Fandom

Social tokens can give fans some upside in the discovery of new talent.

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