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The GENIUS Act: Are we headed back to the Wild West?
On Tuesday evening (June 17th, 2025), the US Senate passed the GENIUS Act. This bill sets out legislation for the issuance and management of stablecoins in the United States. As a participant in the stablecoin payments industry, I have watched as this legislation has slowly made its way to the Senate floor over the last Continue reading
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The ERC-20 Standard and the role of WETH for recurring crypto payments in Ether
You’ve likely heard of the ERC-20 token standard. The standard is essentially a set of rules that lay out how to create a fungible token on the Ethereum blockchain. These rules define the set of functions and events a that the token needs to support in order to be used on Ethereum. The purpose of Continue reading
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Be interesting
When I was 19 years old, I saw a random flyer on campus advertising an upcoming talk. It was out of the ordinary and caught my eye. I was at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service (SFS), so most talks and events revolved around policy wonks, economists, and the occasional head of state. There was Continue reading
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USDT has 400M users
For anyone in the crypto industry interested in stablecoins, this podcast from Nic Carter and the crew at Castle Island Ventures (CIV) is a must listen. Regardless of what you like or dislike about Tether, it was a really interesting conversation about the increasingly prominent place Tether is playing in global commerce. On March 26th, Continue reading
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How Circle addressed USDC’s underlying bank solvency risk
With all the euphoria around stablecoins as of late, I would like to see more conversations about the risk frameworks that emerging stablecoins are employing. In the US, we of course need stablecoin legislation that will formerly define what a stablecoin is and set the rules of the road. The underlying assets that provide stablecoins Continue reading
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Filling the church
How do you measure a life? A grand philosophical question with a plethora of potential answers, but this last weekend had me thinking about this as I attended my grandmother’s funeral. My grandmother Theresa DiFranco passed away at the age of 96. Born in 1929, she was a product of the Great Depression. She lived Continue reading
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Spring in the Northeast
We actually had a winter this year. For those living in the Northeast, this was an oft spoken phrase over the last few months. After a very mild Fall, we had 3 months of relatively cold weather in the Northeast, especially when you compare it to the last couple of years After a cold first Continue reading
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My AI conference assistant
Last week, I was faced with the tedious task of trying to sift through conference attendee lists to figure out if a handful of conferences were worth attending and determine who we should meet there. If I was at a large financial institution or consulting firm, this would be a great task for a junior Continue reading
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Back from the mountains: reflections on ETHDenver 2025
My first time attending ETHDenver was March 2023. This was post Terra-Luna and a couple months after the FTX bombshell. Crypto was a sad, dark place. As a third-timer at ETHDenver, I am far from a veteran, but I at least have the hang of this conference now and can more easily pick out the Continue reading
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Who are we even writing for?
For the last two weeks, I have been down the rabbit hole of trying to understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and figure out the potential ROI for our business at Loop Crypto. In doing this research, what has struck me is just how odd the world of digital content has become. We are now at Continue reading
Jeff Cangialosi 