Crypto · Reference
Crypto Explained
The assets, the rails and the rules of the onchain economy, decoded topic by topic.
20 topics · continually updated
Bitcoin
the asset, the cycle and the current drawdown
Spot Bitcoin ETFs
the demand engine in reverse
The CLARITY Act
the bill the whole market is waiting on
Ethereum
the settlement layer under pressure
Fusaka and PeerDAS
what shipped in December 2025
Glamsterdam
the next hard fork and the parallel execution bet
Stablecoins and the GENIUS Act
the part of crypto that works
Tether and USDC
the duopoly and its divergence
Stablecoin payments
Stripe, PayPal, SWIFT and the wallet layer
XRP
the asset with the most direct legislative exposure
Solana
throughput, ETFs and the institutional case
Layer 2 rollups
the fee-siphoning debate
Tokenised real-world assets
the quiet compounding chart
DeFi in 2026 and the Uniswap fee switch
Bitcoin treasury companies
Strategy, Metaplanet and the reflexivity problem
Crypto security in 2026
losses, phishing and the human layer
SEC Regulation Crypto and the $75m exemption
MiCA and the non-US regulatory map
Crypto and macro
the Fed, rates and the correlation trade
Quantum risk to Bitcoin
the ten-year problem