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Daniel McGlynn

@danielmcglynn.bsky.social
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I write about crypto and the internet at danielmcglynn.com

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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Tokenized equities are no longer just about exposure. www.danielmcglynn.com/the-ownershi...
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Tokenized Equities Get Voting Rights and Native Issuance
Ondo and Broadridge launched wallet-native proxy voting for $700M in tokenized stocks. Computershare and Securitize enabled issuer-sponsored tokens recorded by the official transfer agent. NYSE filed ...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The latest signal is new wiring, not a new chain or a new product: Ethereum's EIL, the SEC's digital asset taxonomy, and NYSE's tokenized platform. Open Money's next phase is all about growing the connective tissue. www.danielmcglynn.com/the-wiring-p...
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Open Money's Wiring Phase: Interop, SEC Rules, Tokenization
This week, Ethereum's native interop proposal, the SEC's jurisdictional taxonomy, and the NYSE's tokenized securities build, all landed inside a few days of each other. Together they describe a differ...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Decentralized prediction markets are finally scaling. The dream: sharper foresight, priced into public markets. The fear: monetizing vibes, turning democracy into a betting pool. A look at the paradox at the heart of Open Money: www.danielmcglynn.com/future-of-pr...
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Prediction markets and a thin line between utility and chaos
Prediction markets promise sharper foresight about the future — but do they actually deliver truth, or just monetize vibes? As billions flow into these new kinds of markets, what are we actually betti...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Zero-knowledge proofs sound abstract — until you realize they can change how we trust software, data, and institutions. I talked with Samuel Judson, head of zkVM engineering at Nexus, about why zk tech is having a moment — and what’s coming next. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0PJX...
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Episode 4: The Nexus zkVM, Explained
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Every four years, crypto tuned itself to the #Bitcoin halving — a ritual scarcity event that signaled the start of a bull market. But 2025 feels different. What happens when myth meets macro?
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The SEC’s new “Project Crypto” is a blueprint for Open Money. With clear rules, self-custody support, DeFi integration & an innovation exemption, it lays the groundwork for a composable, onchain financial system. www.danielmcglynn.com/what-does-pr...
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SEC’s Project Crypto: A New Era for U.S. Crypto Markets
The SEC just unveiled Project Crypto — a sweeping initiative to modernize U.S. securities law and bring digital asset markets onchain. It promises clear token classification, support for DeFi and self...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Platforms extract. Protocols reinvest. Profits to the protocol = funding public goods.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Stablecoins are becoming crypto’s killer app—just like email was for the web. And this month, PayPal, Amazon, and Walmart made moves that could quietly remake how money flows online. 🧵
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Circle’s explosive IPO signals a turning point in crypto. ARK bets big, Gemini follows, and stablecoins step into Wall Street’s spotlight. From policy shifts to programmable dollars, this is how internet money finally goes mainstream. Don’t miss what's next. www.danielmcglynn.com/circles-ipo-...
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Circle’s IPO boom: ARK bets, Gemini follows, crypto shifts
Circle’s explosive IPO signals a turning point in crypto. ARK bets big, Gemini follows, and stablecoins step into Wall Street’s spotlight. From policy shifts to programmable dollars, this is how inter...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I write about the internet. However unpopular the opinion might be, I believe the open internet and open money are fundamental to holding the line on things like unchecked power and the growing divide between the ruling class and everyone else.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The 21 Capital launch is more than another institutional play. It introduces new performance metrics. Instead of EPS, it reports bitcoin per share (BPS) and bitcoin return rate (BRR). Investors aren’t buying dollar exposure — they’re buying a claim on a growing #bitcoin base.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#bitcoin blinks back www.danielmcglynn.com/when-markets...
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Can bitcoin shine in a global financial breakdown?
As global markets stumble under geopolitical weight, bitcoin holds steady. Is this the beginning of a long-awaited decoupling — or just a pause before the plunge?
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Stablecoins in today’s Money Stuff
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Feeling this from @metalabel.bsky.social
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
feels like decentralized infrastructure of all kinds is only going to become more important... a16zcrypto.com/posts/listic...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
very cool, but also zk feels like one of the fastest moving sectors in computing rn
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tornado Cash is off the U.S. sanctions list. The mixer, once accused of laundering billions, is at the center of a legal and philosophical debate about code, privacy, and the future of onchain finance. What happens when code isn't a crime? Read the latest from Open Money ↓
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Sunday Funday
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Tornado Cash and the onchain implications crypto privacy
Tornado Cash has been removed from the U.S. sanctions list, raising big questions about code, privacy, and crypto regulation.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
1/ Crypto has a paradox problem. The more the industry succeeds—the more infrastructure gets built, the more capital flows in, the more institutional attention it attracts—the harder it becomes to stay true to its founding principles. 🧵 On the paradox of success in crypto:
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What if what we call AI hallucinations now are really the beginnings of a new thing... artificial imagination?
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Opening Day
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#Bitcoin in the background www.danielmcglynn.com/bitcoin-as-i...
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Bitcoin as infrastructure | Open Money Grid
Unpacking the concept of an Open Money Grid and the idea of revolutionizing global finance by using Bitcoin as secure and seamless infrastructure.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If I had to guess, I think that decentralized oracles will only become more important and a bigger business during the rise of AI agents. Decision makers need data: www.danielmcglynn.com/decentralize...
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Oracles: Connecting blockchain and real-world data
Oracles are an important part of Open Money. They securely connect blockchains to external data sources and enhance smart contract functionality
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Request for product: A wallet-connected media platform that would allow me to publish longform work, host AMAs or live-interview kinds of formats (almost like an irregular podcast), and host a community where the main focus is a curated news/info feed. Does something like this exist?
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A starter pack of starter packs...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
To be considered a black swan event, this is all suppose to sound explainable in hindsight.
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Louis Marx @abluedot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Thanks again Mr @danielmcglynn.bsky.social For your amazing prose, I think anyone and everyone can and should be reading your newsletter. So good. www.danielmcglynn.com/money-is-sti...
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Money is still evolving
The move towards Open Money makes sense when viewed as an evolutionary process
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Good idea, wrong implementation? What's the value of a Bitcoin reserve in name only? www.danielmcglynn.com/reserve-in-n...
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Why a bitcoin reserve makes strategic sense—and why the US plan falls short
Notes on the bitcoin reserve and the digital asset stockpile
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
In terms of content distribution: If all roads lead back to a dominant and engaged social presence because of changes in reach with organic, paid, earned, etc... What does it mean that social is fragmenting? It feels like social is becoming like cable news. You plug into what you want to watch.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Not sure if there is a #zk crowd on here, but big news on the zero knowledge open science front: blog.nexus.xyz/nexus-zkvm-3/
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The Nexus zkVM 3.0
The Nexus zkVM 3.0 is our next-generation zero-knowledge virtual machine. This release is accompanied by a rigorous formal specification.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Since the beginning of January I've been posting every day (almost) to my website. I set a goal of building a book, one post at a time, over the course of several months. The hardest part about posting every day is posting every day. The second hardest part is constantly sharing progress.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Seems like right about now would be a good time to bring this up again. www.danielmcglynn.com/web3-and-ubi/
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The case for web3 and universal basic income
Emerging web3 technologies such as digital wallets are good fit to solve the inefficiencies of how public financial assistance is managed.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Balancing privacy, transparency, and security in open digital currency systems
How can privacy can be achieved in open digital currency systems through technical designs like zero-knowledge proofs, privacy-focused protocols like Zcash, and practical user-level tactics? Learn how...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This week I'm writing about how Open Money was born from the ethos of privacy and security, but how it's also transparent and completely auditable. When you really study these systems, that juxtaposition or the dynamics between privacy and openness is probably the most interesting aspects.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Owning your own data and identity is a core component of Open Money www.danielmcglynn.com/data-ownersh...
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Data ownership
Owning your own data and identity is a core component of Open Money
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
In today's issue we cover Ethereum staking ETFs. A marketing recommendation for fund managers: Hold bags. Earn yield. I
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Then there's the dissonance... On one hand the dominant narrative is that crypto bros helped accelerate the current situation in the name of "number go up." On the other hand, one way to insulate from the current situation are technologies like encryption, self-custody of assets, etc.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Durable stores of value are about stories we tell ourselves. One big component in the comparison between BTC and gold is custody. Imagine trying to self-custody a nest egg in gold. What does that even look like? Now imagine the same scenario with BTC.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Maybe this is the moment for a popular economics movement.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I mean, it's Valentine's Day and I just wrote today's post about interoperability in the first principles section of Open Money...
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Better for builders: www.danielmcglynn.com/composable-m...
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Composable money is like financial building blocks
Composability is a major value prop for Open Money systems
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
WRT writing for social media. Maybe it's fatigue from all of the templates and the hook writing. Maybe it's the fact that people don't like to read and just want reels. Or maybe it's because of new platforms like this one. But, it feels like post are trending back toward being more compact.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'm still working on my daily posts in the hopes of building a book. The work is coming along. Some of the posts are rehashing stuff I've written previously and making it fit in the current format. Other posts are new ideas that are needed to fill out the structure.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
It's interesting that when you are living through big historic moments you know it's a big deal, but you don't have enough context to understand how big of a deal yet.
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
There was a time when the need for censorship-resistant networks felt a little fringe. Unfortunately, the feature and the ability to build durable information feels more important by the day. www.danielmcglynn.com/disappearing...
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Disappearing data and need for censorship resistant networks
We have technologies to make publicly funded data more durable
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It's important to know who you are writing for. In the case of the Open Money project, I'm writing for my neighbor who stops me in the driveway to ask about NFTs. Or my friend who sends texts asking things like "is dogecoin real?"
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
When you think about it, universal money would be better money. A planetary system of easily exchanging value without the slowness or cost required now to move money from place to place. Sounds cool. What's the holdup?
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Late on this one, but here's today's post: www.danielmcglynn.com/scaling-trad...
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The traditional money system and limits to scale
Open Money can help build functionally that are currently not possible
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Daniel McGlynn @danielmcglynn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Once I realized that most of the music I like doesn't get played on the radio, I felt a lot better about hitting publish every day. www.danielmcglynn.com/adding-to-th...
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Adding open networks to the current money system
Creating financial innovation with the Open Money principles doesn't have to be all or nothing.
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