Egorov built something amazing. Let's be clear. Curve is a cornerstone of DeFi, a testament to the power of mathematical modeling applied to finance. He’s a genuine science-physics Olympian who swapped blackboards for blockchains. As with any timely technology, one brilliant person or team couldn’t possibly be expected to actually...
Michael Egorov. The name already evokes the wonderful dream of rug pulls created by a quantum physicist moonlighting as a DeFi architect, but it gets even better. Yet the legacy of Egorov and Curve Finance is much more complicated than a tale of success turned tragic. Was his heavy hand...
It's still a thing in 2025, surprisingly. Though many had called it dead, it has changed, transformed, adapted and arguably grown more menacing. Why? The reason being, the stakes are much higher, the regulators are monitoring more closely, and the audience isn’t buying into the same snake oil sales. And...
These Wild West days of crypto are (thankfully) starting to recede. Remember 2021? Every celebrity with a pulse was shilling some newly minted coin. The result? Many of these once-thriving pump and dump operations and many more disappointed investors. By 2025, that model is dead. Or at least, it should...
We’re in a crypto bull run, it’s real, I’m telling you man, 1999 is back baby. Remember the dot-com bubble? Pets.com? All hype, no substance. Fortunes were made and lost overnight. While the potential for blockchain technology truly could be revolutionary, the current meme coin mania seems eerily familiar. SHIB,...
Take the example of Sarah, a single mother with two jobs. She covers about her dreams to leave the rat race behind and give her children the life that she knows they deserve. Crypto, with its glamorous stories of overnight millionaires, appears to the world as a lottery ticket away...
As I continue to follow the Web3 space, something truly alarming is underway in Europe. We’re continually told that MiCA is all about protecting consumers and honestly, when you hear this at first it may seem valid. What if protection becomes suffocation? What if the rules that are intended to...
In rapidly developing industries such as Web3, regulation is frequently hailed as necessary to protect consumers and strengthen the market’s foundation. The European experience says otherwise. Notably, Web3 media engagement dropped during that first quarter of 2025 by a staggering 82% — despite growing public interest in crypto! It reveals...
WLFI’s move to unlock its token transferability has created a huge wave of speculation through the DeFi movement. The promise of more liquidity and more vibrant governance is hard not to be seduced by. Is it truly the golden ticket we hope for, or a carefully disguised Pandora’s Box? It’s...
Take for example Sarah, a single mom who juggles two jobs. She hopes one day to be in a house of her own. Mainstream banks reject her credit score, unacceptable due to years of predatory payday loans and a system in which she couldn’t get a leg up to the...