When Congress stalls: The fallout of U.S. regulatory gridlock on crypto markets For years, the worldwide cryptocurrency industry has sought one thing from Washington: transparency. Instead, it has encountered a deadlock. With the U.S. Congress stuck between conflicting perspectives on digital asset... Rita Dfouni — 1 week ago
Algorithmic tokenomics: How AI is rewriting inflation and deflation in crypto economies From fixed supply to adaptive economies For more than ten years, tokenomics adhered to established patterns: constant supply, halving intervals, or unchanging inflation trajectories. Bitcoin is limited to 21 million,... Rita Dfouni — 1 week ago
Insurance without Insurers: The age of parametric crypto-coverage From trust to verifiable logic Parametric insurance exemplifies the core function of blockchains: transforming subjective assessments into logic that machines can verify. While traditional insurance depends on adjusters, claims departments,... Rita Dfouni — 1 week ago
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The DeFi refugees: Why Gen Z in crisis economies trust smart contracts over banks From collapse to code In a Beirut café, a young developer browses his MetaMask wallet rather than reviewing his local bank account. A student in Buenos Aires exchanges pesos for... Rita Dfouni — 2 weeks ago
Banking in the crosshairs: The structural risk of stablecoin adoption in emerging economies Developing nations have frequently served as the testing ground for financial innovations. From mobile money in Kenya to dollarization in certain regions of Latin America, communities with volatile currencies often... Rita Dfouni — 2 weeks ago
AI meets DeFi: How neural networks are eating risk management The worlds of artificial intelligence and decentralized finance are colliding in ways that could redefine the very foundation of risk management. For years, DeFi has been synonymous with opportunity and... Rita Dfouni — 2 weeks ago
Gold soars, Bitcoin booms: What’s behind this Uptober madness? October is known in cryptocurrency communities as "Uptober." This year, the mythology encounters macro reality. Bitcoin has skyrocketed back to peak levels as worldwide crypto ETFs recorded a historic weekly... Rita Dfouni — 2 weeks ago
From VARA to volatility: How BitGo’s dubai entry signals a new institutional surge in MENA crypto Dubai not only included another logo in its virtual-asset registry this quarter; it reinforced the framework for a regional bridge for institutional capital. BitGo’s Dubai branch has progressed from a... Rita Dfouni — 2 weeks ago
Tokenized secrets: How illiquid assets could crash Crypto’s next bull run The narrative of cryptocurrency has consistently been characterized by extreme liquidity. From the initial stages of Bitcoin trading on hidden forums to the 2021 DeFi surge where yield farming transformed... Rita Dfouni — 2 weeks ago
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