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A 2024 soundbite — that the SEC chair could 'cost Biden the election' over crypto — hid a genuinely important, non-partisan question: rules vs regulation-by-lawsuit. The substance behind the drama, and how it actually resolved.
Sam Okafor · 1d ago · 8 min
Ethena's USDe looks like a stablecoin but works nothing like one — it's a synthetic dollar held to its peg by hedging, not cash. How it works, why it's riskier, and what ENA's vesting drama is about.
Sam Okafor · 1d ago · 8 min
Arthur Hayes argues you should buy Bitcoin dips and hold to protect against currency debasement. A neutral, no-hype explainer of what he actually argues — and why to treat it as one strong opinion, not a green light.
Sam Okafor · 1d ago · 8 min
Runes ate 90% of Bitcoin's fees at launch, then crashed. Could Asian institutional money revive it? What Runes are, the boom-bust, and the honest scorecard on the revival thesis.
Sam Okafor · 1d ago · 8 min
'The dollar is finished' makes a great headline and a shaky fact. What's actually being built — China's mBridge and SWIFT's own blockchain ledger — and why the de-dollarization story is real as tech, overstated as prophecy.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 8 min
US government debt as blockchain tokens went from curiosity to a ~$15B market led by BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Ondo. What tokenized Treasuries are, why institutions want them, and the honest caveats.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 8 min
Stablecoins are the boring, useful backbone of crypto — a ~$300B market of private digital dollars, now regulated by the GENIUS Act. What they are, USDT vs USDC, the new rules, and how they differ from a CBDC.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 8 min
Money and assets are going on-chain in four lanes at once — private stablecoins, state CBDCs, tokenized Treasuries, and rebuilt settlement rails. The honest umbrella guide, minus the moon-talk.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 9 min
China built the world's most advanced central bank digital currency and a cross-border rail that could route around the dollar. A hype-free explainer on the e-CNY, mBridge, and why the 'BRICS beats SWIFT' headline needs an asterisk.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 8 min
Putting bonds, property and funds on a blockchain stopped being a pitch and became infrastructure. A plain-English map of what RWA tokenization is, why Congress is studying it, and the legal risks that actually matter.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 8 min
BTC crossed $80,000 for the first time since May on a Treasury bond-buyback surprise and a Trump-Coinbase meeting — but the rally hasn't undone a brutal year.
Sam Okafor · Aug 25 · 6 min
A five-year-old firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets let attackers drain $116 million in Bitcoin this summer — and if you generated a seed on one between 2021 and July 2026, your coins might still be exposed.
Sam Okafor · Aug 16 · 7 min
DeadLock skips throwaway domains entirely. Its victim chat and leak blog run on Polygon smart contracts, and Microsoft says that's exactly why takedown notices don't work on it anymore.
Sam Okafor · Aug 15 · 7 min