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Steven Boykey Sidley is a professor of practice at the Johannesburg Business School and a partner at Bridge Capital. His latest book, It’s Mine: How the Crypto Industry is Redefining Ownership, is published by Maverick451 (South Africa) and Legend Times Group (UK/EU). Read more at stevenboykeysidley.substack.com.
Why decentralised governance makes compromise so elusive
The industry will soon earn less than a third of its living from bitcoin. Which is great for the miners; less so for the original cryptocurrency
Perpetual futures were born in crypto’s permissionless fringe. Now regulators are bringing them onshore, and Wall Street is paying attention
A six-month North Korean con drained $285m from Drift in 12 minutes, exposing DeFi’s central myth: that technology can eliminate trust
Anthropic’s Mythos can find thousands of software vulnerabilities. For crypto exchanges, wallets and smart contracts, that changes everything
An Alibaba AI agent used company servers to mine crypto. The problem is, no-one told it to. AI spending is now live, and nobody’s quite in charge
AI and crypto have been solving different problems. Now they’re solving each other’s – and the internet will never be the same
Pump.fun allows anyone to launch their own cryptotoken; 98% of those collapse to zero
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout and Coinbase’s x402 point to a new web: frictionless micropayments replacing surveillance, subscriptions and ad-driven models
In prediction markets, bets fly on anything from Taylor Swift’s engagement to the end of the world. Now big money wants in – and, with it, regulation
Ethereum hosts most tokenised assets and is set to surge as Nasdaq seeks to put $63-trillion on blockchain. Its time in the spotlight may have arrived
Banks are embracing stablecoins, but not crypto’s ethos. They’ve taken the tech, dropped anonymity and built a faster, centralised system
NFTs have grown up. Real-world asset tokenisation is booming – and set to hit $30-trillion by 2030. Here’s why it matters, and who’s ahead (and behind)
MicroStrategy turned crypto into its core business. Now more than 150 firms are copying the play. Welcome to the rise of the bitcoin treasury company
Bitcoin and stablecoins have gone legit. One stores value, the other moves it. Together, they’re reshaping global finance at breakneck speed
