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  • December 7, 2022
  • Article

Why Decentralized Crypto Platforms Are Weathering the Crash

By: Shai Bernstein and Scott Duke Kominers
In the past year, crypto markets dropped from $2.9 trillion in value to around $800 billion. In the wake of the collapse, crypto lenders and exchanges have been accused of fraud and other wrongdoing. What went wrong? One factor is competition. In theory, competition... View Details
Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Financial Complexity; Financial Crisis; Decentralization; Decentralized Markets; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Finance; Market Design; Financial Services Industry
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  • February 9, 2024
  • Article

The Rise of Consumer Crypto

By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
Although non-fungible tokens are often misunderstood and even derided, they remain a general and flexible solution for establishing and tracking ownership in the digital domain. As a superior solution to existing technology in many areas of the consumer economy, their... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crypto Economy; NFTs; Non-fungible Tokens; Internet Of Everything; Market Design; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Web Services Industry
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Bitcoin & Crypto Club

  • April 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Ripple: The Business of Crypto

By: David B. Yoffie and George Gonzalez
The case explores Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s mission to disrupt the global payments industry by leveraging the cryptocurrency XRP. Students will learn about Bitcoin and the blockchain industry, as well as Ripple’s unique crypto business model. The case provides an... View Details
Keywords: Payment Systems; Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Blockchain; Fintech; Business Startups; Business Model; Disruption; Strategy; Banking Industry; Technology Industry
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  • May 2024
  • Teaching Note

Uniswap: Decentralized Crypto Trading

By: Marco Di Maggio
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  • October 2022 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

On Ramp to Crypto

By: Iavor Bojinov, Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
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  • 2018
  • Case

Getting Rich on Crypto

By: C. Goelz, D. Willingham, S. Le and Y. Grushka-Cockayne
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  • May 2024
  • Case

Uniswap: Decentralized Crypto Trading

By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
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  • December 2019 (Revised February 2024)
  • Teaching Note

Ripple: The Business of Crypto and Ripple 2023

By: David B. Yoffie
The case explores Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s mission to disrupt the global payments industry by leveraging the cryptocurrency XRP. Students will learn about Bitcoin and the blockchain industry, as well as Ripple’s unique crypto business model. The case provides an... View Details
Keywords: Payment Systems; Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Blockchain; Fintech; Business Startups; Business Model; Disruption; Strategy
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  • 09 Feb 2024
  • News

The Rise of Consumer Crypto

  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Trading Volume Manipulation and Competition Among Centralized Crypto Exchanges

By: Dan Amiran, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
How competition affects manipulation by firms of information about important attributes of their products and how such information manipulation impacts firms’ short-term and long-term performance are open empirical questions. We use a setting that is especially... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Financial Markets; Performance; Competition
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  • 16 May 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Take a Crypto Break with Ancient Traders

  • 16 Jul 2021
  • News

Crypto ‘Yield Farmers’ Chase High Returns, But Risk Losing It All

  • October 2021
  • Case

Coinbase: The Exchange of the Cryptos

By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
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  • March 2021
  • Supplement

modum.io (B): Bidding Farewell to Crypto

By: Laura Huang, Maximilian Enthoven, Alex Murray and Erik Hofmann
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Bitcoin & Crypto Club | MBA

Bitcoin & Crypto Club The Bitcoin & Crypto Club’s mission is to: i) provide an educational foundation for people interested in learning about bitcoin and crypto technologies,... View Details

    Trading Volume Manipulation and Competition Among Centralized Crypto Exchanges

    How competition affects manipulation by firms of information about important attributes of their products and how such information manipulation impacts firms’ short-term and long-term performance are open empirical questions. We use a setting that is especially... View Details
    • March 2021
    • Teaching Note

    modum.io (B): Bidding Farewell to Crypto

    By: Laura Huang, Maximilian Enthoven, Alex Murray and Erik Hofmann
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-068. View Details
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    • 17 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

    large-scale adoption.” Yet while crypto investors might have a higher risk tolerance than more typical investors, in many ways they’re more mainstream than some might imagine, Di Maggio says. Crypto... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

    losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance