At the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Neha Narula, the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative under the MIT Media Lab. 

Neha previously studied at MIT, completing her PhD in 2015. Her research and work has tended to focus on distributed systems and databases, with many contributions involving analysis of the potential shortcomings and risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). 

She previously worked on relaunching the news aggregation platform Digg, and worked at Google as a senior software engineer, where she designed Blobstore, a scheme for redundant replication and delivery of massive amounts of data. 

We…

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Bitcoin financial services company Unchained has announced the launch of the Bitcoin Legacy Project, a multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative to support the long-term development, education, and advocacy of the bitcoin ecosystem.

The project begins with an initial $1 million commitment, with additional funding planned in the years ahead. The initiative will financially support bitcoin developers, educators, core infrastructure projects, and advocacy organizations. Key components of the program include funding for bitcoin community hubs, a think tank, a university endowment, and direct support for bitcoin core development.

As part of the initiative, Unchained is introducing what it…

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The next evolution of corporate finance isn’t diversification—it’s financial refinement

In the oil industry, reserves are only the beginning. What powers the world isn’t raw crude—it’s the refined outputs: jet fuel, diesel, gasoline, heating oil. Each serves a different market, use case, and risk profile.

Public companies that hold Bitcoin are now discovering something similar.

Bitcoin, held on the balance sheet, is not just a passive reserve. It is a raw monetary resource—one that can be refined into multiple financial instruments designed to meet the specific needs of different market participants. From structured debt to yield-bearing assets to equity tied to Bitcoin…

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Canada is set to revolutionize the cryptocurrency investment landscape this week by launching Solana spot ETFs. These ETFs not only offer direct exposure to Solana but also feature enhanced staking options that promise greater returns for investors. Approved by the Ontario Securities Commission these ETFs are spearheaded by industry giants such as Purpose Investments Evolve ETFs and CI Global Asset Management

The move signals a significant shift in how altcoins are perceived in regulated markets and aims to draw institutional interest by integrating staking rewards into traditional investment vehicles. Eric Balchunas of Bloomberg notes this launch as a milestone offering both direct exposure to SOL and a lucrative way to offset ETF costs through staking rewards. This innovative approach could set a new standard for crypto investments globally.

In the United States, the twentieth century began with a centralization of power that replaced key elements of the tradition of American liberty with a new interpretation of federal authority. Participants in the 1910 Jekyll Island Conference wrote the Federal Reserve Act, passed into law in 1913, which established the Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank. The Fed was given the dual mandate of keeping inflation low and employment high, and the main tools it had at its disposal were control over the money supply and control over the price of money via the federal funds rate. Before long, the Fed was put to the test when an unprecedented financial crisis in 1929 metastasized into…

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