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Alex Tapscott

Alex Tapscott is the editor and co-author of the new book, Digital Asset Revolution: How Blockchain Is Decentralizing Finance and Disrupting Wall Street, published this month. Alex also runs the Digital Assets Group at Ninepoint Partners, an investment firm with US$8 billion in assets under management and institutional contracts. Previously, Alex co-authored with Don Tapscott the best-selling book, Blockchain Revolution, which has been translated into more than 15 languages and has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Alex is also the editor and a co-author of Financial Services Revolution. In 2017, Alex co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute, a think tank based in Toronto. He is a graduate of Amherst College and a CFA Charterholder.

July 2022

Opinion

How the crypto winter is laying groundwork for Web3 to reach its potential

Digital assets are powering new industries, and DeFi will be the financial system of the future internet economy, writes Alex Tapscott in his new book, ‘Digital Asset Revolution.’
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March 2022

Opinion

Crypto is playing a prominent role in the Ukraine War — on both sides of the conflict

Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two divergent narratives about crypto are being told, writes Alex Tapscott. Which version is correct?
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November 2021

Opinion

What are the digital assets powering the DeFi revolution?

Digital assets are disrupting financial services in ways not seen since the Middle Ages, writes Alex Tapscott of Ninepoint Partners. Here is the taxonomy for the future of finance.
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July 2020

Opinion

5 ways blockchain can help the world better survive Covid-19 and the next crisis

Management guru Don Tapscott and his son Alex Tapscott — co-authors of the best seller, “Blockchain Revolution” — explain how blockchain’s “internet of value” can transform healthcare, the economy and more.
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