Daniel McGlynn provides writing, content strategy, and brand positioning guidance for some of the internet's leading brands. Creating here to document what he learns along the way.
Stablecoins are no longer just payments tools. They collapse banking, settlement, yield, and compliance into a single object — turning regulation into a design problem. This issue explains why stablecoins keep breaking regulatory consensus.
This week’s crypto regulation blowup wasn’t a political failure. It was a design failure. When lawmakers try to define what crypto is, they shape what can be built. This issue looks past the noise to explain why regulation has become a core design constraint.
Polygon’s new vision bets on stablecoins, abstraction, and compliance as infrastructure. What that means for open money — and who they're really competing with.
Across Coinbase, Galaxy, a16z, Grayscale, and Bitwise, the consensus is clear: Crypto is getting institutional, allocatable, and quietly integrated into the pipes of the financial system. From stablecoins as internet-native money to tokenization, here are the seven trendlines that matter most.
Crypto is becoming global financial infrastructure — but which rails will define it? Permissioned systems offer efficiency and control while permissionless ones preserve innovation and open access. As tokenization scales, this choice will set the defaults for the next financial era.
The SEC quietly published a plain-language guide to crypto self-custody. This issue explores why that matters, how custody defines real ownership, and why understanding private keys is essential to open money, real choice, and financial control.