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The UK should begin taxing crypto purchases in a bid to sway Britons to invest in local stocks, which could boost the country’s economy, says the chair of investment bank Cavendish, Lisa Gordon. “It should terrify all of us that over half of under-45s own crypto and no equities,” Gordon told The Times in a…

Gold-backed stablecoins will outcompete US dollar-pegged alternatives worldwide due to gold’s inflation-hedging properties and minimum volatility, according to Bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser. Keiser argued that gold is more trusted than the US dollar globally, and said governments of foreign nations with an adversarial relationship to the United States would not accept dollar-pegged stablecoins. The BTC maximalist added:…

Opinion by: Abdul Rafay Gadit, co-founder of ZIGChain America’s tariff regime has apparently fueled a global trade war, forcing investors to explore stable, yield-generating alternatives. A closer look reveals that illiquidity, opacity and scalability challenges have plagued global financial markets for long. They weren’t in great shape anyway, trade war or no trade war. Tokenized real-world…

Opinion by: Casey Ford, PhD, researcher at Nym Technologies Web3 rolled in on the wave of decentralization. Decentralized applications (DApps) grew by 74% in 2024 and individual wallets by 485%, with total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) closing at a near-record high of $214 billion. The industry is also, however, heading straight for…

Opinion by: Irina Heaver, crypto lawyer Any crypto entrepreneur trying to navigate the United Arab Emirates’ crypto ecosystem inevitably encounters the myriad acronyms used in the country’s legal landscape. From the SCA and VARA to the DMCC, ADGM and DFSA, what do these mysterious combinations of letters stand for, and how does one navigate this…

When Solana launched in 2020, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko had the grand vision of becoming the Nasdaq on the blockchain — the home for onchain financial markets. Five years later, the memecoin trading activity we’re seeing on Solana is more akin to penny stocks than the tech giants that make up the Nasdaq index, like Apple…