Insights
Reference notes on digital money
Concise summaries of concepts that appear across the site, such as ledgers, custody and stablecoins. Each note ends with a reminder of what to verify. Nothing here is a forecast or a recommendation.
Governance tokens: a vote is not a promise
What holding a governance token lets a person decide in a DAO, where voting power can concentrate, and why a vote on a project is a separate matter from any promise of income or value.
Following a transaction from wallet to final record
What happens between pressing send and the point where a blockchain transaction can no longer be changed, and what the word pending means along the way.
Who oversees crypto in Canada: provinces and Ottawa
A map of the split between provincial securities regulators and federal bodies, and why Canada has no single national crypto regulator.