Ryan Gladwin

In countries around the world, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are poised to change the way average citizens use money. In the coming decade, billions of people are likely to use CBDCs—a new type of currency run on a centralized ledger—to do everything from pay taxes to buy groceries to receive welfare checks.

The crypto world was sent reeling in May when the Terra stablecoin and sister coin Luna collapsed to near zero, wiping out $50 billion in value and spreading contagion through the industry. Investors were left angry and looking to blame something—or someone—but the forces behind the crash were hard to discern.

If you were passing through Art Basel Miami in December, you might have heard about a Pudgy Penguins club night. The founder Cole Thereum was there, surrounded by penguin artwork on the wall and even etched into ice. The artist behind it all, Antoine Mingo, was there too, sipping a gin and tonic in the back of the venue, but he kept a lower profile.

Pokémon is one of the largest and most recognizable franchises in the world. Spanning fandom across video games, TV shows, manga series, and now ENS clubs. For years, fans of the franchise are trying to catch them all and in the form of ENS domains, they’ve succeeded.

The concept of the metaverse has grown in popularity over the past few years, with virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, and The Sandbox garnering hundreds of millions of monthly users.

The LA-based artist and producer opens up about his growing Web3 empire.

It's an interesting concept — traveling to see a physical representation of something that is, by nature, digital.

Derrick Kachisa and Samuel Moyi, full-stack developers from Kericho in Kenya, noticed that locals didn't have access to the information about traditional finance they needed to invest wisely. So they founded Clixpesa, a payments app that wants to simplify finance.

Staking is a process where token holders deposit – or lock away – a number of tokens to become active participants in running the network.

Rick Schwartz, who calls himself "The Domain King," started registering domain names in the 1990s. His sales include porno.com, for $8.9 million, and ireport.com, which CNN bought for $750,000. Here's how he got into it and how he still finds unregistered domains, as told to Ryan S. Gladwin

Su Zhu branded himself as a normal guy. He wakes up, goes to work, goes to the gym, comes home to his wife and kids, and then goes to sleep — the eternal cycle. It just happens that he is the co-founder and CEO of one of the biggest crypto hedge funds… and he owns a $50 million yacht … other than that, a completely normal guy!

You may have seen some of your favorite ENS Twitter accounts suddenly speaking in Arabic over the past month. Maybe you've seen them adding keffiyehs to their profile pictures. Possibly even a few Arabic memes popped up in your feed.

The SuperRare NFT marketplace was launched in April 2018, focusing on selling single-edition digital artworks. As one of the first artists on SuperRare, Mattia Cuttini asked to be whitelisted that summer. By November, he was allowed onto the platform to sell his digital artwork. In this article, we sat down with him to understand if SuperRare can truly be a competitor to the NFT mammoth, OpenSea.

Terra fell from the sky. A spaceship with over 40 billion capacity crashed to the ground as passengers attempted to flee before it was too late. Soon, it hit its lowest point.