Opinion
Your weekly dose of crypto news & opinion.
Onchain: Is it all gambling now?
March 11, 2026
All the major political events these days are but another reason to bet some money. Even AI agents are betting on crypto these days. Story One Alibaba's autonomous agent all...
Onchain: In bad taste
February 25, 2026
ICYMI, the tech bros have once again discovered taste, so get ready to be lectured by dudes who think it's acceptable to live with one ceiling light on what to wear and consume....
Onchain: The selling continues
February 11, 2026
Until morale improves, or so I hope. Story One L2s are pointless Tweets the guy who advocated for them as part of the Ethereum scaling roadmap. Perhaps to deflect from his...
Onchain: Lots of things on sale
January 28, 2026
Story One Crypto Social for Sale Been an interesting time to observe what happens to the still-standing crypto social networks. Aave, a leading DeFi protocol and creator of...
Onchain: New Year, Same old industry
January 15, 2026
2026 has been off to a strong start, with constant drama from the White House. But it’s not on Trump alone to keep our cholesterol levels high. Crypto is contributing its...
Onchain: Q4 is coming to an end
December 17, 2025
But the drama on crypto twitter is forever. Story One EoY reflections kicking in At least if you are to believe the one X article that has been all over my feed in the...
Onchain: Welcome to the last month of 2025
December 3, 2025
Just when you get used to writing 2025 in communications, it's about to end. You look back and wonder, Where did the time go? Meanwhile, VCs are busy publishing their 2026...
Onchain: One manifesto and two OGs doing things
November 19, 2025
Story One Wake up babe, new manifesto dropped Why ship app, when you can write manifestos instead, amirite? Or so the Ethereum Foundation & Co. must have thought as they sat...
Onchain: It's getting dark out there
November 5, 2025
Not just because of wintertime and crypto coins going down, but also because bad things keep happening in our industry. Before that, here's one positive sign. Story One x402...
Onchain: Uptober Cancelled
October 22, 2025
We're back to praying that the next airdrop will finally retire our bloodline.
Onchain: Uptober is here
October 8, 2025
Happy BTC all-time high last weekend to all those who celebrate. That's not the only thing that happened. Story One Adopting the best of TradFi? Have you ever had your...
Onchain: Fall is upon us*
September 24, 2025
*at least in my hemisphere. Whether it'll also be the fall of civilization remains to be seen. But if we learned anything from history books, decline tends to be a process, not...
Onchain: Wake me up, when September ends
September 11, 2025
Or don't, because then I could miss out on many more corporate blockchain launches. Story One Yet another corporate blockchain Tempo is a new Layer-1 purpose-built for...
Onchain: German fairytales
August 27, 2025
In their original form, they’re far darker than the harmony-washed Disney versions — and thus a far more fitting metaphor for the news this time around. Story One Story...
Onchain: Bullishness indicators
August 13, 2025
Wherever you look, as long as you avoid checking what's happening to privacy in the UK, and maybe soon in the US... Story One CT unites For once, people on Crypto Twitter...
Onchain: OOO all of summer
July 30, 2025
That's the joke about us Europeans. I'm living proof that not everyone is like that, so here's another dose of crypto stories instead of an OOO email. Story One BAM Or...
Onchain: No summer break in sight
July 16, 2025
Things in crypto just keep happening. Story One Pump.fun token sale On July 12th, Solana’s prime memecoin launchpad went through its public sale, raising $500 million in...
Onchain: A Midsummer Night's Crypto Happenings
July 2, 2025
If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be the perfect person to write a comedy about crypto. Story One One digital identity isn't enough Perhaps the question we should ask...
Onchain: What happened to the future of Finance?
June 18, 2025
I ask myself as I follow the crypto news. It seems we’re not really chasing the idea of providing an alternative to current systems, but rather embracing them, such as a certain...
Onchain: A new hack, new money, and a new threat
June 5, 2025
Story One A hack with a twist On May 22nd, the leading DEX on the SUI blockchain tweeted that it had detected an incident leading to the loss of $223 million in user funds....
Onchain: Coming back to life
May 21, 2025
Returning to life has been a theme for crypto recently in many ways. Story One New exit strategy just dropped Imagine you're the founder of an AI crypto project that...
Onchain: Everything is coin
April 24, 2025
That's, in essence, what a certain part of crypto identified as the next trend that'll finally bring mass adoption. Or at least a mass influx of wealth in select wallets (not...
Onchain: Red sea
April 9, 2025
Finally we have something to bond over with normal people: we're all in the same boat sailing the red seas that are our portfolios. Story One There's things still going up...
Onchain: Rise and Shine
March 27, 2025
It's official now. Sparkling water isn't just part of assimilating to German culture anymore but has become an integral part of the alpha male morning routine, alongside dipping...
Onchain: Is Nature healing?
March 12, 2025
Prices are down, X was down (and for a little moment I had hope of being free), and people in crypto are realizing that they might have to re-think their priorities. Story...
Onchain: Another week in the trenches
February 27, 2025
We're all down bad, but some, not just in financial terms but also morally. Story One Another presidential meme disaster You'll be relieved that this is not about Trump....
Onchain: Laughing matters
February 12, 2025
The best you can do in these crazy times is to learn to take it all with humor. Story One Market crashing - again Epictetus once said: "He who laughs at himself never runs...
Onchain: Rough Seas
January 29, 2025
These days, navigating crypto without significant loss of morals or wealth is like trying to get by on a ship navigating rough waters without feeding the fish (a euphemism for...
Onchain: New Year, new me
January 16, 2025
Who am I kidding? I just saved myself the ritual of making resolutions. If you’re still sticking with the gym, I applaud you. I, for one, am busy enough trying to maintain moral...
Onchain: Comeback season
December 19, 2024
"Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of [memes]" - Nietzsche, slightly adjusted. As the German philosopher knew, things come back more often than...
Onchain: Stranger
December 4, 2024
That's the path crypto seems to be going down. It's also the name of a novel by Camus, published in 1942. In it, he wrote, “After a while, you could get used to anything.” I am...
Onchain: A dissonant symphony
November 20, 2024
Or maybe it's just me feeling the cognitive dissonance in crypto is becoming too much to handle. We hype stuff up that isn't worth hyping, we put our chains' keys in other...
Onchain: Greed is good
November 6, 2024
This is how many would characterize Adam Smith's theory about why the invisible hand of the market makes us all better off. Those who break Smith down like that forget he wrote...
Onchain: Is this accelerationism?
October 23, 2024
I ask myself, being in crypto these days - where presidential candidates advertise tokens with ludicrous claims, a bot gets rich shilling memes, and blockchains launch...
Onchain: Crypto Realism
October 9, 2024
In his essay Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher establishes that we've canceled the future and are just recycling the old instead. And what's old in crypto? Discussing who Satoshi...
Onchain: Back to Basics
September 25, 2024
In 2006, I, a teenage girl, was really into Christina Aguilera. So much so, I listened to her latest album on repeat, to the detriment of my family's sanity. Anyway, it was...
Onchain: Delulu
September 11, 2024
Even outside of crypto, Gen Z has adopted being delusional as a coping mechanism, delulu denoting someone who, despite evidence to the contrary, holds on to idealistic...
Onchain: All PR is not good
August 28, 2024
Another whistleblower wrote a book about how corrupted crypto is, and Pavel Durov, the CEO of everyone's darling messaging app Telegram, got arrested in France—where he went to...
Onchain: Power and Progress
August 14, 2024
Also the title of a great book I took the liberty to borrow. It tries to answer the question of why tech often benefits the elites and what can be done about that. More people...
Onchain: Penguins, Politics, and Pickups
August 1, 2024
Warning: this may contain traces of sarcasm and cynicism. Story One Penguins There's a clear hierarchy in NFTs. The squiggles are for edgy art appreciators, while Bored Ape...
Onchain: Blinking Red
July 17, 2024
Red has always been used as a warning sign, as we're wired to pay attention to it. The colour is also a theme for what's happened in crypto in the past few days. Story...
Onchain: Another Moon Landing, Unethical Auditors, and Blinks
July 3, 2024
Dive into our latest newsletter covering groundbreaking space ventures, blockchain security scandals, and Solana's innovative tech strides. Plus, discover a fascinating...
Onchain: ZK Airdrop, Tap-to-Earn, and Crypto's first Emmy?
June 19, 2024
Story One ZK Airdrop Is this the start of ZK summer or just a Midsummer Night's Dream where we're all manipulated by the magic airdrop fairy? It remains to be seen, but with...
Onchain: Just another normal week in crypto
May 23, 2024
Dare I say, such a thing does not exist. While another exploit and another outage aren't big news to us anymore, the first story at least led to some hated arguments. And what...
Onchain: Requiem for a Dream
May 9, 2024
These past few days, the crypto news suggests it might be time to play a requiem and lay our long-held dream of life-changing airdrop wealth to rest. Story One Kyrie (Lord...
Offchain: Follow the Users
May 2, 2024
Crypto has always claimed it’s about more than just speculation. Could this be the cycle where we find out what crypto is actually for? A look back at crypto’s history can...
Onchain: The Future of France
April 24, 2024
Whenever prices go up, we're seeing a renaissance of everything that makes crypto such an aspirational, deeply respected industry. From new token standards no one asked for...
Offchain: A Half of the Whole
April 18, 2024
So, here we are again. The Bitcoin block reward is about to halve, reducing the amount of new BTC entering the system each block from 6.25 to 3.125. Let me say upfront that the...
Onchain: Solana eclipse, another fee switch, and PTSD
April 10, 2024
Story One Solana Eclipse Millions gathered across the US, Mexico, and Canada to watch the Solar eclipse. Meanwhile, all the manlets transacting on Solana experienced their...
Offchain: An Exchange of Value
April 4, 2024
SBF has been sentenced, bringing to an end one of crypto’s most shameful story arcs. What can we take from it for the future? The end, when it came, felt like an anticlimax. 25...
Onchain: Things are going just great
March 27, 2024
That's if all you care about are numbers and cheap engagement. Story One EU banning anonymous wallets?! At least, that was the tenor from Crypto Twitter over the weekend...
Offchain: You Say Meme, I Say Community
March 21, 2024
Crypto is having its memecoin moment. Is it a tribute to crypto’s fundamental emptiness or a celebration of its enduring community? Yo brah, don’t know if you’ve noticed but...
Onchain: A W, an L, and something in between
March 13, 2024
But as they say, one should always deliver the bad news first, so here we go. Story One Wormhole's W airdrop more of an L? If there were an Oscar for giving free money to...
Offchain: Can We Get Much Higher?
March 7, 2024
A new Bitcoin ATH has arrived, way ahead of schedule. So, what’s going on? Normally, in these newsletters, when I’m admonishing you to remember that “history doesn’t repeat”...
Onchain: It's giving Bull
February 28, 2024
This week, it's all about number go up, which hints at a bigger trend: the bull market making a comeback. Story One MetaMask nears record users While Bitcoin has already...
Offchain: Four Big Trends For 2024
February 22, 2024
A quick tour through four areas that could really give this bull run something to holler about. Last issue I was writing about the arch-cynic’s take on the coming bull run. The...
Onchain: Laser eyes, Sysiphus, and Pandora's box
February 14, 2024
Story One Laser eyes Laser eye's making a comeback wasn't exactly on my 2024 bingo card. Life is full of surprises, and so is Joe Biden. On February 11th, he posted a...
Offchain: The No Expectations Bull Run
February 8, 2024
The next bull run is taking shape. All it’s missing is a reason to actually happen. Last week crypto fund manager Travis Kling kicked off a furious conversation with his...
Onchain: Diversity crisis, frames, and a vampire/atacc
January 31, 2024
Story One Diversity Crisis Ethereum has a diversity crisis. You, dear reader, probably also fall under the "bro" category (crypto, VC, trader, finance bro... there are...
Offchain: 4 Things I Want Less Of Next Bull Market
January 24, 2024
The Bitcoin ETF has arrived and we’re working out what comes next. While we wait, I’m gonna yell at the clouds for a bit.
Onchain: Sell the news, Happy Bears, and RPGF going brrr
January 17, 2024
Story One Sell the news Now that 11 ETFs are approved, issuers have started engaging in a fee war, slashing their usual costs, with Blackrock charging 0.25% and Bitwise...
Offchain: In The Big Leagues
January 10, 2024
The Bitcoin ETF is a watershed moment – and one that brings with it a whole host of new opportunities and risks. For the last few weeks, the question of whether the SEC is...
Onchain: The future is Cypherpunk, maybe
January 3, 2024
Story One Vitalik advocates a return to OG values Wake up babe, new Vitalik blog post dropped. The Ethereum founder is trying to kick off a mindset shift with his blog that...
Offchain: 5 Big Crypto Themes For 2024
December 28, 2023
I think it’s safe to say that 2023 was not as bad as expected. Will 2024 continue crypto’s winning form?
Onchain: Inscriptions claim a new victim, points everywhere, and a dog coin
December 19, 2023
Story One Inscriptions claim a new victim Remember Ordinals, also called inscriptions, an NFT standard that arose on Bitcoin, allowing users to attach data to tokens? Well,...
Offchain: It’s Ecosystem Season!
December 13, 2023
The idea of an ETH killer has always been faintly ridiculous. But as SOL and AVAX surge and surge, this could be the cycle where the balance finally shifts. When SBF’s criminal...
Onchain: Drama in Cosmos, an unhinged hacker, and a controversial L2
December 6, 2023
Story One Drama in Cosmos My theory is that some people are just in crypto because their friends would make fun of them if they watched the Kardashians or Selling Sunset for...
Offchain: The Last Domino
November 30, 2023
CZ is gone and with him the last remnants of crypto’s gluttonous age. Now we can finally build again. I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t surprised by the sudden fall of CZ, the...
Onchain: Another highly profitable trading strategy, Plasma comeback, and Disney doing NFTs again
November 22, 2023
Story One Another highly profitable trading strategy Chances are you spent last weekend monitoring the situation around Sam Altman, the AI Sam who was fired as CEO of OpenAI...
Offchain: Half a Chance
November 16, 2023
The Halving is less than six months away. It’s all uphill from here, right? Alright, cards on the table. I legitimately thought there was a 50/50 chance that we would never see...
Onchain: SBF guilty, Aragon DAOn, and an L2 boom and bust
November 8, 2023
Story One SBF guilty Sam Bankman Fried, also known as the guy who ruined the reputation of Effective Altruism for the foreseeable future, has been found guilty on seven...
Offchain: Return of the king
November 1, 2023
Crypto is surging and Bitcoin is leading the charge. It’s a reminder not to forget who the boss really is. Do you hear that, friends? That faint popping noise, echoing over the...
Onchain: Reddit Rug, Interface Rent, and a media-induced Pump and Dump
October 26, 2023
Story One Reddit Rug Bad times for the people who were bullish on Big web2 social platforms integrating web3 elements. After Meta shut down its NFTs on Instagram initiative a...
Offchain: The King Is Dead
October 18, 2023
The Sam Bankman-Fried trial sounds the long overdue death rattle of crypto 1.0 Perception is a magical thing. Little more than a year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was crypto’s wonder...
Onchain: In the arena, Bitcoin Mining gone volcano, and Optimism Fraud Proofs
October 11, 2023
Story One In the arena When people on crypto Twitter are not thinking about the Roman Empire or tokenizing Uranium, they spend their time on SocialFi these days. The...
Offchain: Meta? I Hardly Knew Her!
October 5, 2023
Meta’s photorealistic avatars reminded the world that the metaverse still exists. But will it ever actually come to fruition? One thing crypto could never be accused of lacking...
Onchain: A DAO forking around, a new wallet, and yet another attack
September 27, 2023
Story One A DAO forking around Nouns is a DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with a simple business model: make their IP great. Nouns IP is based around a set of...
Offchain: Dance Dance Binance
September 21, 2023
Despite a horror year, Binance remains the undisputed champ of the crypto space. But how long can they defy gravity? Looking back, it’s still hard to believe exactly how fast...
Onchain: CFTC chooses violence, Visa lands on Solana and Vitalik gets hacked
September 13, 2023
Story One CFTC chooses violence Someone at the CFTC must have had a bad flight home from vacation. Why else would they end the holiday season by bringing enforcement against...
Offchain: East v West
September 6, 2023
As regulators around the world scramble to work crypto out, some familiar divides are re-emerging. CoinJar UK customers this week received an email informing them that...
Onchain: Pepe members go rogue, Farcaster goes Optimism, and Balancer finds vulnerability
August 30, 2023
Story One Pepe members go rogue Pepecoin, a memecoin that surged to fame earlier this year when everything was trading flat, now faces allegations of being a rug. Or at least...
Offchain: With Friends Like These
August 23, 2023
Crypto’s latest hype train lets you buy and sell shares in, well, people. Here’s a few ways of thinking about Friend.tech. So, it’s come to this. Some enterprising crypto...
Onchain: PayPal enters the stablecoin game, Base goes live and buy your friends
August 16, 2023
Story One PayPal enters the stablecoin game On August 6th, the payments giant PayPal announced the launch of its own stablecoin with the creative name PUSD. It's the first...
Offchain: Show Me The Money
August 10, 2023
Crypto is doing its best to bore the true believers into bailing out. The equation is simple: we need more cash. Nothing like taking a month away from newsletter duties to...
Onchain: The new Samcoin, $50 million for real stuff, and yet another exploit
August 2, 2023
Story One The new Samcoin On July 24th, Worldcoin, the iris-scanning startup, launched its token with the ticker $WLD. Sam Altman's side project has already faced a lot of...
Offchain: RWAs, or how crypto is coming full circle
July 26, 2023
Real-World-Assets are the latest and greatest in crypto, as they promise to usher in the age of financial institutions adopting crypto for real. It's ironic to think back to...
Onchain: XRP not a security, Rolex as collateral and Snitch-to-Earn
July 19, 2023
Story One XRP, not a security For a while, the most consistent thing in crypto wasn't the value of stablecoins nor the laser eyes on Bitcoin Maxis profile pics (both didn't...
Offchain: NFTs All The Way Down
July 13, 2023
The much-derided NFT market has taken yet another nosedive. Is the end of the suffering in sight? It’s been almost two years since someone paid US$1.3 million (400 ETH at the...
Onchain July: Still no Bitcoin ETF, Azuki enraging its holders, and Poly Network hacked again
July 6, 2023
Story One Still no Bitcoin ETF Even though major banks now offer digital asset solutions, what's missing so far in the US is a Bitcoin Spot ETF. Exchange Traded Funds are a...
Offchain: Attack of the Titans
June 29, 2023
While crypto smoulders, some of the world’s biggest asset managers make their move. You have to hand it to the bear market: it has a perverse sense of humour. Here we are,...
Onchain: 3AC's NFT collection sold, Tether de-peg, and Polygon 2.0
June 22, 2023
Three Arrows Capital, who previously managed an estimated $10 billion collapsed, triggered by the Luna crash, and left behind $3.5 billion in unpaid claims and a collection of...
Offchain: The Tower Trembles
June 15, 2023
The SEC has launched definitive action against Binance and Coinbase. Welcome to the endgame of Crypto 1.0. You’d be hard-pressed to find a crypto watcher who was necessarily...
Onchain: Nike & EA bringing NFTs to games, Asia rising, and an eye-watering Series C
June 8, 2023
Story One Nike and EA bringing NFTs to games While things are rather dire in NFT land, companies outside of the space seem to lead the way regarding retail adoption. EA, the...
A Laughing Matter
June 1, 2023
Memecoins reign and in-jokes are the currency of the realm. Is crypto fundamentally dumb? Is that the whole point? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the past 12 months have...
Onchain: Ledger Drama, Tethers' Bitcoin purchase, and Ben's coins
May 25, 2023
Story One Ledger Drama The hardware wallet producer has never been one to shy away from funny ideas. After producing a wallet with a necklace so you can keep your crypto...
Offchain: Trading your magic Internet money: Brokers & Exchanges
May 18, 2023
Learn about the key differences in these trading venues and which one might suit your needs. Chances are that you didn't get into crypto because someone magically appeared in...
Onchain: Bitcoin's luxury problems, Sui taking an L, and memecoin mania meets reality
May 10, 2023
Story One Bitcoin's luxury problems Recently, Bitcoin has run into a luxury problem: too much use. The Bitcoin network has seen its transactions and fees hit near all-time...
Offchain: Into the Cosmos of appchains
May 3, 2023
Is the future full of appchains, or is this just a phase? As for another week, a frog meme coin called Pepe continues outperforming all the real builders in crypto; one can't...
Onchain: 5000 ETH hack, Memecoins slaying, and error 404 on clarity
April 27, 2023
Story One Mysterious 5000 ETH hack As so often in crypto, alpha isn't televised but comes straight to your timeline - delivered by e-girl accounts on Twitter. This time...
Offchain: Stop being a Degen; become a Regen
April 19, 2023
What ReFi is all about, and how regens want to make the world a better place. Maybe you spent the Easter holidays talking to your non-web3 friends about crypto. Chances are...
