Thought Leaders
Thought Leaders
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May 29, 2026
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR
AI Visibility Is the New Licence to Be Considered.
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPRA direct read for crypto communications teams — and the moves the brands surviving the regulatory consolidation are already making.The 5W Crypto Regulation Brief documents three...
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May 27, 2026 By Dmitri Laush, CEO & Co-Founder, Perfect.Live
Personal Assistance as a Service: Why Financial Firms Are the First to Deploy It at Scale
By Dmitri Laush, CEO & Co-Founder, Perfect.LiveFinancial institutions have been debating the role of artificial intelligence in customer service for over two years now. Will it replace a human manager? At what...
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May 22, 2026
By Jeff Scott, VP of Product, Fraud Intelligence, Q2 Holdings
Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust
By Jeff Scott, VP of Product, Fraud Intelligence, Q2 HoldingsHow Modern Fraud Teams Win on Speed and SafetyThe speed paradox in fraud preventionWhether it’s paying bills just before the overdue penalties start, getting checking account...
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May 20, 2026 By Anndy Lian
The Calm Before the Storm: Why Crypto’s Liquidity Is Signaling a Structural Break, Not a Healthy Pullback
By Anndy LianAcross trading desks, social media channels, and mainstream financial commentary, a comforting narrative has firmly taken root. Bitcoin’s recent volatility is merely a healthy correction, a...
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May 13, 2026
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR
Why BlackRock Won the Bitcoin ETF Citation War in 24 Months — and What It Means for Every Other Issuer
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPRWhen BlackRock listed the iShares Bitcoin Trust on January 11, 2024, the working assumption across the spot Bitcoin ETF cohort was that competition would settle out...
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May 6, 2026
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR
The Self-Custody Narrative Is Losing Inside ChatGPT — and Hardware Wallet Brands Need to Notice
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPRIn November 2022, in the weeks after FTX collapsed, a single phrase rewrote how the crypto industry talked about storage. “Not your keys, not your coins”...
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April 23, 2026
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR
Stablecoin Brands Just Got Their First Real Marketing Playbook
By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPRWhen 5W opened our specialty cryptocurrency and NFT division in 2021, the conversation with every crypto founder started the same way. Do we need PR yet?...
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April 16, 2026 By Fatmire Bekiri, Head of Tokenization, Sygnum Bank
The Foundations Are In: What Nasdaq, DTC and Moody’s Just Did for Tokenization
By Fatmire Bekiri, Head of Tokenization, Sygnum BankIn 2021, a Fillet au beret by Pablo Picasso became the first artwork to have its ownership rights broadcast onto a public blockchain by a regulated...
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April 13, 2026 By Dave Krauthamer, Field CTO & Board Member, QuSecure
Utilize Policy-Driven Network Security to Protect Data in the Age Of AI
By Dave Krauthamer, Field CTO & Board Member, QuSecureTraditionally, enterprises have embedded cryptographic choices deep within applications and hardware appliances. When vulnerabilities arrive, whether due to newly discovered flaws in an algorithm or accelerated...
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March 24, 2026 By Julia Maslennikova, Founder and CEO of 25/8 PR
AI Crises Rewrite Reality in Real Time — Most Companies Lose Before They Respond
By Julia Maslennikova, Founder and CEO of 25/8 PRIn today’s era of rapid AI development, cutting-edge startups are emerging literally every week – just as quickly as new types of crises arise. Autonomous AI...
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March 18, 2026 By Vugar Usi Zade Chief Operating Officer at MEXC
Vulnerability to Vigilance: AI Must Become Crypto’s Risk Engine
By Vugar Usi Zade Chief Operating Officer at MEXCThe recent Anthropic episode matters to crypto because it showed how dependent modern markets have become on shared intelligence layers. Anthropic said more than 24,000 fake accounts...
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March 11, 2026 By Maksym Sakharov, Co-Founder and Group CEO of WeFi
Finance Should Be a Network, Not an Institution
By Maksym Sakharov, Co-Founder and Group CEO of WeFiThe modern banking system presents itself as a marvel of accessibility, which only needs a swipe of a phone or a tap on a screen, and...
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March 10, 2026 By Anndy Lian
Why the ‘All Tokens Are Securities’ Doctrine Is Wrong And What the CLARITY Act Gets Right
By Anndy LianThe question of whether all digital tokens are securities by default has become the defining regulatory battleground of the modern financial era. For years, the United...




