Consensus Magazine

Rediscovering the joy of creation and the passion for using crypto to solve society’s problems is the antidote to the calamitous past year.

Consensus Magazine

We have elaborated the circuitry of DeFi, and must now realize its potential to replace the oil lamps, hand cranks and steam engines of the present financial landscapes.

Consensus Magazine

Decentralization was proven to be DeFi’s saving grace this year. Shouldn’t protocol governance also be as decentralized as possible?

Consensus Magazine

Because current loyalty programs operate within closed systems, many of them don’t create loyalty as much as captivity. Blockchains make alternative systems possible, where both brands and consumers can share bigger pieces of a larger pie.

Consensus Magazine

This coming year will be a tipping point for crypto projects that are looking to position themselves well for the next wave of crypto growth.

Consensus Magazine

It's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore how green bitcoin mining can combat climate change.

Consensus Magazine

Decentralized autonomous organizations should make the necessary handshake with the existing legal system in order to mature and integrate with the rest of the global economy.

Consensus Magazine

OpenZeppelin’s Stephen Lloyd Webber writes about the plague of exploits that drained billions from crypto protocols – and how Web3 can better secure itself.

Consensus Magazine

If we learn to read the markets, make smart use of the data at our disposal and overcome a few speed bumps along the way, options will certainly drive the next era of DeFi to higher highs than ever before.

Consensus Magazine

The greatest areas for decentralized application (dapp) development will be across gaming, identity and the evolution of Web2 apps.

Consensus Magazine

A look at open-source and corporate point-of-sale systems from BTCPay to Confirmo, so any merchant can start accepting BTC in 2023.

Consensus Magazine

NFTs will bring about a profound structural shift in how art is created, enjoyed and sold.

Consensus Magazine

Rather than centralizing the digital dollar, lawmakers should focus on exploring a decentralized identification program and develop financial literacy programs for the general public.

Consensus Magazine

“ReFi,” coined by economist John Fullerton, is the process of using markets to fix the issues markets have created. Crypto, the freest market system yet, can help bootstrap efforts to regenerate the world economy.

Consensus Magazine

You got into crypto for the money. We got in for the system design. We are not the same, says Jenna Pilgrim.

Consensus Magazine

2022 was a year of upheaval in crypto. It also marked a turning point for advertisers.

Consensus Magazine

As a global financial hub, Hong Kong has a vested interest in shaping the development of CBDCs and especially the systems in which they will transact across borders. But the U.S. should be concerned by its lack of full independence from mainland China.

Consensus Magazine

Algorithms are being unleashed on the crypto markets.

Consensus Magazine

A modern-day “War of the Currents” is silently unfolding across blockchain, broadband, existing power lines and even outer space.

Consensus Magazine

“Blockchain not bitcoin” emerged in 2018 as an attempt by enterprise projects to capitalize on the market’s performance woes – the new version does the same but swaps in “crypto” to reflect the ecosystem’s spread.

Consensus Magazine

By making sure users have self-custodial options easily available within their own services, Web3 projects can help the industry rise to safer standards.

Consensus Magazine

As regulators look to regulate exchanges in light of the FTX's collapse, they would do well to look to Japan, which has some of the most mature rules in the world.

Consensus Magazine

Web3 is a bunch of bull hockey, Matt Stoller, author of "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy," writes.

Consensus Magazine

Centralized interest-bearing accounts stayed artificially high after DeFi yields programmatically went dry. Crypto can be competitive with TradFi, but it needs to remain transparent and composable.

Consensus Magazine

In the aftermath of the FTX fiasco, the world’s largest crypto exchange is rushing to backstop failing firms and protocols. Should it?

Consensus Magazine

Trust in the industry is at an all-time low, but key stakeholders can still rebuild relationships with regulators and politicians by focusing on what makes crypto unique: trustlessness.

Consensus Magazine

Blockchain's role in helping the environment can go far beyond energy footprints and carbon credits.

Consensus Magazine

Blockchain technology and cryptographic standards like ZK-proofs can help crypto companies and protocols prove they are solvent – even in times of crisis.