Cryptocurrency
America’s Triple Play on Oil, Digital Dollars, and Kilowatts
America’s strikes on Iranian oil exports are a sharp setback for China’s electricity infrastructure—helping the United States to outpace it in future AI development.
Asia’s Multicurrency Stablecoin Zone Could Challenge Dollar Dominance
Many Asian nations, including Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, are developing stablecoin systems to streamline cross-border payments and settlements. For decades, the United States has embraced its place as the world’s...
Crypto Faces an AI Bubble Reckoning: Collateral Damage or Opportunity?
Warnings of an AI market bubble are growing louder. If valuations collapse, crypto could face amplified losses—though decentralized AI may emerge stronger in the aftermath. Fund managers, experts, and institutions...
Government Shutdown Intensifies Great Power Competition for Crypto
Great power competition is mushrooming beyond the old domains of land and warfare; it’s in the world of cryptocurrencies as well. The government shutdown has an unlikely casualty: cryptocurrency policy....
How Stablecoins Can Transform the $900 Billion Global Remittance Market
Stablecoin-powered blockchain solutions are transforming global remittances, lowering fees, increasing financial inclusion, and providing secure, transparent payment options for communities worldwide. Every year, 800 million people depend on money sent across continents...
Backward Thinking on Artificial Intelligence and Human Trafficking
With AI assistance, law enforcement could examine blockchain transactions from cryptocurrency wallets tied to digital trafficking. Editor’s Note: The Red Cell series is published in collaboration with the Stimson Center....
AI’s Hidden Secret—Data Centers
As the public sphere brims with buzzwords like “AI” and “Crypto,” the national security community is still grappling with the implications of how the United States wields them as tools...
Montenegro’s Chance for Change
Earlier this year, on March 19, the Montenegrin electorate went to the polls to elect a new president. The people delivered a seismic political upset by finally dislodging long-time President...
The Need for the Digital Dollar
“Every ten years, it is decline time in the United States,” wrote journalist Josef Joffe in 2009. Yet the story of U.S. decline has constantly turned out to be the...
What Comes After Crypto Winter?
America’s founders redefined the relationship between man and state with the First Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” By...
Will Crypto Replace National Currencies?
The infamous three letters FTX will be removed from the arena that serves as home to the Miami Heat basketball team and as a popular venue for musical events. The...
Why Isn’t the Dark Web Economy Experiencing Inflation?
While the Western world struggles with rising grocery bills and gas prices, the economy of the dark web—the digital black market—is chugging along as usual. Inflation doesn’t seem to have...