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Alex Johnson

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Creator of Fintech Takes; writes sharp analysis on consumer finance, lending/credit, and digital banking strategy.

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Coinbase Rejects Clarity Act Draft over Tokenized Equity Ban
Social•Jan 16, 2026

Coinbase Rejects Clarity Act Draft over Tokenized Equity Ban

This is interesting. One of the reasons that Brian Armstrong said that Coinbase can't support the current draft of the Clarity Act is because it includes a "de facto ban” of tokenized equities. Apparently, from Coinbase's POV, a de facto ban means subjecting tokenized equities to the same securities regulations as normal equities. Tells you something about why the company is interested in tokenized equities in the first place. https://t.co/AAtfKaAvvT

By Alex Johnson
Ethics Guardrails on Crypto Profits Threaten Market Legislation
Social•Jan 13, 2026

Ethics Guardrails on Crypto Profits Threaten Market Legislation

Worth taking a step back and remembering how absolutely insane it is that ethics guardrails prohibiting public officials from profiting off of crypto business ties is a controversial point that could sink market structure legislation.

By Alex Johnson
White House Leverages Crypto Threat to Pressure Banks
Social•Jan 13, 2026

White House Leverages Crypto Threat to Pressure Banks

This strikes me as a little too advanced for this White House to have come up with it on its own, but it would be smart strategy by the crypto lobby. However, I would imagine banks are smart enough to not...

By Alex Johnson
Google's AI Kills Clicks, Threatens Loan Ad Revenue
Social•Jan 12, 2026

Google's AI Kills Clicks, Threatens Loan Ad Revenue

Google didn't just add AI to search; it changed how borrowers find lenders in the first place. But if no one is clicking on search results anymore, what happens to the ad model that funded your funnel? On a new episode of...

By Alex Johnson
Institutions Enable Cartoonish Fintech Villains, Exposing Market Weakness
Social•Jan 12, 2026

Institutions Enable Cartoonish Fintech Villains, Exposing Market Weakness

When there’s a structural weakness in a market that allows companies to grow by violating the law or taking excessive risks, there’s always at least one cartoonishly-bad example that highlights that weakness in a maximally absurd way. In BaaS, that was...

By Alex Johnson
Prediction Markets: Socially Valuable but Impractical; Sports Betting: Fun, Useless
Social•Jan 6, 2026

Prediction Markets: Socially Valuable but Impractical; Sports Betting: Fun, Useless

The irony of prediction markets is that the most socially beneficial use cases (elections, foreign affairs, etc.) are infrequent, not that fun to casually gamble on, difficult to split into binary outcomes, and easy for insiders to manipulate. Sporting events, by...

By Alex Johnson
Coinbase Shifts to Traditional Stocks, Chasing Robinhood
Social•Jan 5, 2026

Coinbase Shifts to Traditional Stocks, Chasing Robinhood

Coinbase launching stock trading ... not tokenized stock trading, just regular old stock trading ... is really surprising to me given how laser focused the company has historically been on crypto. Feels a little desperate, like the company is chasing Robinhood.

By Alex Johnson

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