Crypto markets have shown explosive growth, far outpacing traditional asset classes in terms of returns. For example, bitcoin has delivered an annualized return of 230% over the past decade, compared to the S&P 500’s annualized return of around 11%. Ether, another dominant cryptocurrency, has also offered triple-digit annual growth rates in its early years. Even with their volatility, these digital assets provide investors with the potential for significantly higher returns, particularly during periods of market expansion.

The cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems currently lack access to stable, high-quality collateral besides stablecoin. Crypto and DeFi traders typically rely on volatile assets like bitcoin or ether as collateral for loans, staking, and liquidity pools. While effective, this system introduces significant risks, as the value of these assets can fluctuate wildly within short time frames, leading to over collateralization to mitigate risks. The alternative is to post stable coins that only earn a yield to the stablecoin issuers or selected market participants through opaque yield-sharing agreements.

The new DEX’s aim is to eliminate the practice of mempool sniping, which is when users exploit the time lag in which a transaction is waiting to be added to a Bitcoin block. Under the blockchain’s design, the “mempool” is the queue where transactions sit waiting to be added to new blocks by Bitcoin miners.

During his time in prison Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen, developed malaria, pneumonia and tonsillitis.But he was also suffering from complications tied to a herniated disc in his back which left him in need of a wheelchair – though in a video from his last court appearance, Gambaryan did not have a wheelchair and instead had to struggle on a single crutch, CoinDesk reported earlier.

“There is no place like the U.S.,” he said via video link at DC Fintech Week in Washington. “I think it’s very, very important that sensible crypto regulations and stablecoin regulations will come to fruition in a way that will protect the end users,” he said, predicting that would happen in the U.S.

“Privacy is a critical requirement for most institutional transactions,” said Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink co-founder, in a prepared statement. “So far the blockchain industry has not provided the level of privacy necessary for these institutional transactions to move forward successfully, limiting the entire industry’s growth.

“By leveraging AI and Chainlink oracles to interpret, standardize, and deliver high-value unstructured data, we can dramatically reduce the manual processes required, enabling significant potential operational efficiency and cost reduction,” said Mark Garabedian, Wellington Management’s director of digital assets and tokenization strategy.

And so, somehow, Crypto.com has reached the precipice. If it wins the first “ripeness” issue and is allowed to bring its case, little stands in its way. Its arguments on the merits are strong, and there are few courts more sympathetic to those arguments than E.D.Tex. From there it would go to the Fifth Circuit, the court the SEC fears the most. And then, just maybe, the Supreme Court, where it would have a sympathetic panel and one of the most experienced appellate attorneys in the country to make its case.