Opinion
Your weekly dose of crypto news & opinion.
Onchain: Welcome to the last month of 2025
December 3, 2025Just 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...Read more
Onchain: One manifesto and two OGs doing things
November 19, 2025Story 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...Read more
Onchain: It's getting dark out there
November 5, 2025Not 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...Read more
Onchain: Uptober Cancelled
October 22, 2025We're back to praying that the next airdrop will finally retire our bloodline. Read more
Onchain: Uptober is here
October 8, 2025Happy 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...Read more
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...Read more
Onchain: Wake me up, when September ends
September 11, 2025Or 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...Read more
Onchain: German fairytales
August 27, 2025In 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...Read more
Onchain: Bullishness indicators
August 13, 2025Wherever 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...Read more
Onchain: OOO all of summer
July 30, 2025That'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...Read more
Onchain: No summer break in sight
July 16, 2025Things 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...Read more
Onchain: A Midsummer Night's Crypto Happenings
July 2, 2025If 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...Read more
Onchain: What happened to the future of Finance?
June 18, 2025I 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...Read more
Onchain: A new hack, new money, and a new threat
June 5, 2025Story 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....Read more
Onchain: Coming back to life
May 21, 2025Returning 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...Read more
Onchain: Lots of drama and a launch
May 8, 2025Story One Movement is down only from here Remember how Facebook (now Meta) once had an idea for building their own cryptocurrency, and to do that, they even invented a whole...Read more
Onchain: Everything is coin
April 24, 2025That'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...Read more
Onchain: Red sea
April 9, 2025Finally 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...Read more
Onchain: Rise and Shine
March 27, 2025It'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...Read more
Onchain: Is Nature healing?
March 12, 2025Prices 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...Read more
Onchain: Another week in the trenches
February 27, 2025We'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....Read more
Onchain: Laughing matters
February 12, 2025The 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...Read more
Onchain: Rough Seas
January 29, 2025These 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...Read more
Onchain: New Year, new me
January 16, 2025Who 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...Read more
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...Read more
Onchain: Stranger
December 4, 2024That'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...Read more
Onchain: A dissonant symphony
November 20, 2024Or 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...Read more
Onchain: Greed is good
November 6, 2024This 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...Read more
Onchain: Is this accelerationism?
October 23, 2024I ask myself, being in crypto these days - where presidential candidates advertise tokens with ludicrous claims, a bot gets rich shilling memes, and blockchains launch...Read more
Onchain: Crypto Realism
October 9, 2024In 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...Read more
Onchain: Back to Basics
September 25, 2024In 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...Read more
Onchain: Delulu
September 11, 2024Even 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...Read more
Onchain: All PR is not good
August 28, 2024Another 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...Read more
Onchain: Power and Progress
August 14, 2024Also 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...Read more
Onchain: Penguins, Politics, and Pickups
August 1, 2024Warning: 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...Read more
Onchain: Blinking Red
July 17, 2024Red 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...Read more
Onchain: Another Moon Landing, Unethical Auditors, and Blinks
July 3, 2024Dive into our latest newsletter covering groundbreaking space ventures, blockchain security scandals, and Solana's innovative tech strides. Plus, discover a fascinating...Read more
Onchain: ZK Airdrop, Tap-to-Earn, and Crypto's first Emmy?
June 19, 2024Story 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...Read more
Onchain: Just another normal week in crypto
May 23, 2024Dare 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...Read more
Onchain: Requiem for a Dream
May 9, 2024These 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...Read more
Onchain: The Future of France
April 24, 2024Whenever 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...Read more
Offchain: A Half of the Whole
April 18, 2024So, 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...Read more
Onchain: Solana eclipse, another fee switch, and PTSD
April 10, 2024Story 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...Read more
Offchain: An Exchange of Value
April 4, 2024SBF 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...Read more
Onchain: Things are going just great
March 27, 2024That'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...Read more
Offchain: You Say Meme, I Say Community
March 21, 2024Crypto 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...Read more
Onchain: A W, an L, and something in between
March 13, 2024But 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...Read more
Onchain: It's giving Bull
February 28, 2024This 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...Read more
Offchain: Four Big Trends For 2024
February 22, 2024A 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...Read more
Onchain: Laser eyes, Sysiphus, and Pandora's box
February 14, 2024Story 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...Read more
Offchain: The No Expectations Bull Run
February 8, 2024The 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...Read more
Onchain: Diversity crisis, frames, and a vampire/atacc
January 31, 2024Story 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...Read more
Offchain: 4 Things I Want Less Of Next Bull Market
January 24, 2024The 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.Read more
Onchain: Sell the news, Happy Bears, and RPGF going brrr
January 17, 2024Story 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...Read more
Offchain: In The Big Leagues
January 10, 2024The 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...Read more
Onchain: The future is Cypherpunk, maybe
January 3, 2024Story 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...Read more
Offchain: 5 Big Crypto Themes For 2024
December 28, 2023I think it’s safe to say that 2023 was not as bad as expected. Will 2024 continue crypto’s winning form?Read more
Onchain: Inscriptions claim a new victim, points everywhere, and a dog coin
December 19, 2023Story 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,...Read more
Offchain: It’s Ecosystem Season!
December 13, 2023The 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...Read more
Onchain: Drama in Cosmos, an unhinged hacker, and a controversial L2
December 6, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: The Last Domino
November 30, 2023CZ 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...Read more
Onchain: Another highly profitable trading strategy, Plasma comeback, and Disney doing NFTs again
November 22, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Half a Chance
November 16, 2023The 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...Read more
Onchain: SBF guilty, Aragon DAOn, and an L2 boom and bust
November 8, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Return of the king
November 1, 2023Crypto 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...Read more
Onchain: Reddit Rug, Interface Rent, and a media-induced Pump and Dump
October 26, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: The King Is Dead
October 18, 2023The 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...Read more
Onchain: In the arena, Bitcoin Mining gone volcano, and Optimism Fraud Proofs
October 11, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Meta? I Hardly Knew Her!
October 5, 2023Meta’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...Read more
Onchain: A DAO forking around, a new wallet, and yet another attack
September 27, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Dance Dance Binance
September 21, 2023Despite 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...Read more
Onchain: CFTC chooses violence, Visa lands on Solana and Vitalik gets hacked
September 13, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: East v West
September 6, 2023As 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...Read more
Onchain: Pepe members go rogue, Farcaster goes Optimism, and Balancer finds vulnerability
August 30, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: With Friends Like These
August 23, 2023Crypto’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...Read more
Onchain: PayPal enters the stablecoin game, Base goes live and buy your friends
August 16, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Show Me The Money
August 10, 2023Crypto 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...Read more
Onchain: The new Samcoin, $50 million for real stuff, and yet another exploit
August 2, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: RWAs, or how crypto is coming full circle
July 26, 2023Real-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...Read more
Onchain: XRP not a security, Rolex as collateral and Snitch-to-Earn
July 19, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: NFTs All The Way Down
July 13, 2023The 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...Read more
Onchain July: Still no Bitcoin ETF, Azuki enraging its holders, and Poly Network hacked again
July 6, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Attack of the Titans
June 29, 2023While 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,...Read more
Onchain: 3AC's NFT collection sold, Tether de-peg, and Polygon 2.0
June 22, 2023Three 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...Read more
Offchain: The Tower Trembles
June 15, 2023The 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...Read more
Onchain: Nike & EA bringing NFTs to games, Asia rising, and an eye-watering Series C
June 8, 2023Story 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...Read more
A Laughing Matter
June 1, 2023Memecoins 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...Read more
Onchain: Ledger Drama, Tethers' Bitcoin purchase, and Ben's coins
May 25, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Trading your magic Internet money: Brokers & Exchanges
May 18, 2023Learn 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...Read more
Onchain: Bitcoin's luxury problems, Sui taking an L, and memecoin mania meets reality
May 10, 2023Story 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...Read more
Offchain: Into the Cosmos of appchains
May 3, 2023Is 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...Read more
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...Read more
Offchain: Stop being a Degen; become a Regen
April 19, 2023What 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...Read more
Onchain: Arbitrum Governance on fire, the Euler hacker returns nearly $200 million, and NFTs ready for take-off
April 13, 2023Story One Arbitrum Governance on fire 🔥 But when we say fire, it's not the good kind. Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer-2, recently airdropped over 1 billion of its native token to...Read more
Offchain: Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to earn in 2023
April 5, 2023Move-to-Earn is so 2022, how to earn in 2023. Not all earn programs are created equally - here's what you need to know. For a while, all crypto founders had to do to attract...Read more
Onchain: Crypto punk burns, Banking rugs, and Euler hacker returns some funds
March 29, 2023 Story One Crypto punk burns Losing money – NFT investors are great at it. One of them has set a new record for self-goxxing by accidentally destroying an asset worth...Read more
Offchain: Drop it like it's hot
March 23, 2023What crypto airdrops are all about, and why it's not just free money While Crypto Twitter is still waiting for a MetaMask airdrop, this month brought us an Arbitrum airdrop....Read more
Offchain: Account abstraction or making crypto user-friendly
March 8, 2023 How the latest hyped concept could make crypto accessible to everyone and their mum Once again, an acronym is all the rage in the crypto world. Don't be misled. AA does not...Read more
Onchain: Exploiting the exploiter, new L2 in town, and token-gating on Spotify
March 1, 2023 Story One Exploiting the exploiter Remember last year when Solana DeFi flourished despite the chain being down sometimes? Back then, a savvy hacker exploited Wormhole, a...Read more