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Last week, the Fed cut its federal funds target rate by 50 bps to 5.00% p.a. (upper limit) which could have strong implications for the crypto community, says Andre Dragosh, head of research Europe, CoinShares.

Today’s Fed interest rate announcement will set the table for a fresh uptick in crypto assets, says Philipp Pieper, co-founder of Swarm Markets.

A key metric by which officials set rates shows the potential to cut rates by 175 basis points over the next nine months. If so, that’s likely to drive the prices of bitcoin and ethereum higher, says Scott Garliss.

Employment contracts that stop free movement of labor conflict with an innovative industry’s open-source ethos, says Linda Jeng, CEO of Digital Self Labs, a Web3 advisory firm.

New rules from the SEC and FCC, and the former’s own SIM swap incident, are likely to raise scrutiny on crypto firms to clamp down on a scourge of identity-hacks, says Andrew Adams, partner at Steptoe.

With AI, centralization doesn’t work on any level: technical, philosophical, ethical, or market, says Alex Goh, founder and chairman of EMC.

Investors tend to focus on monetary policy from the major central banks and Canada, Sweden, and Switzerland have each cut rates three times this year. Lower borrowing costs going forward should boost the price outlook for crypto, says Scott Garliss.