Everyone agrees that money laundering laws apply to DeFi. The question is: how to apply them? DeFi, or decentralized finance , is an emergin...

Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, because I find it to be a f...

(This isn't a piece of financial advice. It's more of a fun parable about interest rates.) So here's an interesting financial ri...

The global rise in interest rates is finally beginning to percolate into the stablecoin sector. One of the effects of this rise is that cent...

Here's an interesting bit of stablecoin trivia. Half of all Paxos stablecoins are currently lying inert in MakerDAO, a decentralized fin...

[Below is my contribution to CoinDesk's Privacy Week ]  The Privacy That DeFi Needs to Succeed The transparency of blockchains is often...

As crypto continues to move into the public's consciousness, curious people who aren't familiar with it often ask me if central bank...

All Ethereum transactions can be tracked. But there is a neat little tool that lets you remove this traceability: Tornado.cash . Alice submi...

  These days I see many do-it-yourself investors comparing the huge yields they can earn on stablecoin lending to the tiny yields on bank a...

 Government's can't regulate DeFi, can they? It's too wild and uncontrollable. DeFi, or decentralized finance, is the set of ana...

My recent article on Tether, a stablecoin, was just published at Coindesk. In the article I commented on Tether's recent settlement wi...

Vitalik Buterin had a thought-provoking tweet a few days back about interest rates. Lending DAI to Compound offers 11.5% annual interest....