For India and the United States, the choice is clear: innovate, cooperate, or fall behind in a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape.

The GENIUS Act reshapes stablecoin regulation by creating a clear, federally regulated environment that balances innovation and risk management, unlocking broader crypto use in the corporate sector, and exposing risks investors must understand.

Whether state-backed or de-centralized, digital currencies are increasingly a fixture of global geopolitics. Here are some trends to watch out for in the year ahead.

Examining the hypothetical potential of Bitcoin as a tool of geoeconomic conflict, and the nascent examples that are already emerging.

For states, Bitcoin is a double-edged sword representing the simultaneous potential for advance or retreat in the field of national power.

The race is on to bring cash into the modern era via digital currency instruments, and finance may never be the same.

Mexican cartels are taking a page from Silicon Valley in their efforts to disrupt conventional law enforcement techniques using emerging tech like ransomware and cryptocurrencies.

The Russian government continues to walk a fine line between acceptance and rejection of cryptocurrencies.

The advances of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution won’t usher in a techno-utopia. Instead, they will alter – and perhaps even intensify – the geopolitical competition the world is all too familiar with.

What will the global financial system of 2060 look like?

Distributed ledger technology is being used in efforts to remove conflict minerals from supply chains – but it doesn’t have all the answers.

Beijing is warming to the use of cryptocurrencies – but only on its own terms.

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency won’t necessarily succeed in overhauling the global status quo. But odds are that something like it will.

Does the rise of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency portend the demise of the nation-state’s currency monopoly?