Author: Leslie Stewart

This year, the emergence of new internet people empowered by AI coding tools has empowered them to build software for Vibe Coder, the long-tailed internet. Vibe Coder tells the age of software development in the Internet economy, democratized, simple and instantly driven by builders rather than influencers.Vibe coders require a viral, organic way to sell their products. Crypto can provide it. New generation token launchers such as Believe and L() Ng are trying to unlock atmosphere launches using tokenized ideas markets that allow users to launch and trade product ideas. Once these tokenized ideas attract sufficient support, these platforms allocate…

The following open letter was written by Dan Bourne (Stanford), Joseph Bonneau (NYU), Julia Fanty (Carnegie Mellon), Ben Fish (Yare), Ali Jewels (Cornell), Farinas Cousanfer (UC San Diego), Andrew Miller (Arbna Champaign), and CIAM CHAMPANIE. (Stanford), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton).This is a multi-select question.Algorand, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Axelar, Babylon, Cardano, Cosmos, Eigenlayer, Espresso, Flashbots, Oasis, Starkware, Sui.Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocol, digital signature, formal verification, maximum extractable value (MEV), public key encryption, proof of work, rollup, trusted execution environment (TEE) used in blockchain systems, verifiable random functions (VRF), proof of zero knowledge.Which of the following applies to the above companies, projects, and…

The latest cryptography and congress news is everything Senate Democrats get Cold feet About Stablecoin Bill (The Genius Act). The same bill they voted for Just two months ago. Why flip-flops? Because they don’t like Trump They believe the bill will help him benefit.. Why are the Democrats putting a “replay” on this message of loss? Hate Trump won’t win the election. See Blood Bath of the 2024 Election.But here’s the kicker. Cryptocurrencies are not threats, they are opportunities. If Democrats drop a losing soundbite long enough to actually learn code, they will not only write better policies, but will…

It is often said that codes are some technology and some religions. It is therefore little surprising, therefore, that the unfolding regulatory overhaul involves both a search for active souls related to the state of cryptographic (often anti-establishment) core values, and palpable excitement for potential new use cases.Following Coindesk’s blessing, I asked panelists for the Regulatory Roundtable for Future People at Consensus 2025. Kayvan Sadeghi, Connor Spelliscy, Lewis Cohen, Michelle Ann Gitlitz and David Adlerstein can speak on the Spotlight Stage at 10am on May 14th at People’s Regulatory Roundtable. The round table is moderated by IVO Entchev. If you…

Customs duties, duties, duties.Trump’s repeated, repeated import division controlled the week. Initially, tariffs significantly lowered stocks and codes. Finally, the market rose again as all new non-Chinese tariffs suspend for 90 days.Bitcoin returned to the level that was at this point last week ($82,000). Analysts discussed whether the panic the previous day showed the qualities of a “safe shelter” (such as money), or whether it was a risk asset, just like many others. The consensus was that Bitcoin did something resilient rather than being completely at ease.Our Asian reporting team led the way in our market coverage. Omkar Godbole has…

The recent security breaches of roughly $1.5 billion in BYBIT, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, have ripped down the digital asset community by trading volumes. With $20 billion in customer assets in custody, Bybit faced major challenges when it misused security management during its routine transfer from offline “cold” wallets to “warm” wallets used for daily transactions.The first report suggests that the vulnerability includes a homemade Web3 implementation using GNOSIS SAFE. This is a multi-signature wallet that uses off-chain scaling technology, includes a centrally upgradeable architecture, and a user interface for signatures. Malicious code deployed using an upgradeable architecture…

It’s now the open season for US digital assets regulation, and it’s not just because the president-elect released Solana Memocoin on the eve of the inauguration. Currently, IT and other memokine are proposed as new, new multi-term assets in cryptocurrency ETFs. In just a month, the US crypto market has become an absurd amount of absurdity since faced with an absurd amount of obstruction.While it is hard to imagine a financial advisor saying, “You’re a little short on $Trump Coin,” the reality is that these new currencies could become effective assets for ETFs. Another view is that they are completely…

One of the most important emerging trends in 2024 is the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and the crypto ecosystem. Historically, this has been primarily on the infrastructure side, impacting various layers of the stack such as distributed compute, storage, and model training and inference. But in recent months, the crossover between cryptocurrencies and AI has taken center stage, with agents emerging and their numbers growing into the thousands. The story of AI agents has been grabbing a lot of mindshare lately, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s to come in 2025.What is an AI agent?AI agents are…

The saying that “the market is never wrong” implies that the market accurately reflects all available information. If you find yourself at odds with market sentiment, you can place your own bets and potentially benefit from your convictions. In the U.S., there exists an alternative to Polymarket, which is currently prohibited from offering its services due to regulatory issues. If you suspect that a major investor on Polymarket has significantly raised the price of the Trump contract, and you think their position is misguided, you can choose to back Harris instead and strategically bet against that investor. This approach carries…

Many individuals believe that these assets symbolize the future of finance. Bitcoin, in particular, holds a distinctive role as the most prominent, longest-standing, and arguably the most straightforward cryptocurrency. Its main function is to facilitate transactions between different addresses. With a capped supply, over 15 years of security reliability, and a robust network behind it, Bitcoin serves as a solid store of value. Though still relatively young and not widely adopted, it has proven its resilience amidst various challenges from the global financial landscape. This makes it an excellent starting point for educating investors and thinking about investment portfolios. Impressively,…