Shuyao Kong

One of the most successful Chinese crypto venture firms—perhaps the most successful—is Continue Capital. Intentionally, the name of the company, 肯定牛, is a homonym...

For the longest time, your correspondent was of the view that China would only crack down on speculative crypto trading, and leave the mining...

For hundreds of years preceding the early 20th century, China’s emperors banned international trade and cloistered the country from the rest of the world....

The pronunciation of "DAO" is the same as 道 in Chinese, which means “path” (as in the Dao De Jing).  In the Western crypto world,...

When mentions of LOWB first appeared in your correspondent’s crypto WeChat, I casually dismissed it as yet another yield-farm coin on Binance Smart Chain...

Two weeks ago, Peter Thiel accused China of using Bitcoin as a financial weapon. This week, Xiaochuan Zhou and Bo Li, ex-governor and current...

A $2.8 billion fine would blow any firm out of the water. But it was just a drop in the ocean to Jack Ma’s...

Xi Jinping probably sneezed twice when Peter Thiel made the comment that China could use Bitcoin, in addition to the Euro, as a “financial...

A March 18 meeting between top government officials from the US and China—the first since President Biden took office—was a pretty good chance to...

Growing up in Beijing, your correspondent was a regular at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Situated in the 798 Art District, the gallery...