One of the peculiar aspects of crypto stablecoins is the reverence with which they treat the US Dollar. The two leading stablecoins, USDC and USDT, hold billions of dollars in reserves.

Vitalik Buterin dreamed up the blockchain technology for uses beyond currency. Now he's fighting to fix the industry

The current conflict is about much more than Ukraine; it’s also about the future of the dollar and the US role in the global order.

Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors. It was one of the two cheat code phrases that you could use in 2021 to bypass the critical thinking of LPs when raising your first ever fund, with the other being “metaverse”. Congrats, you now have one billion dollars to deploy because you learned the trendy words and you went to a good school, glhf.

The 21st century doesn’t belong to China, the United States, or Silicon Valley. It belongs to the internet.