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Infrastructure Companies Dominate List of Finalists for Consensus 2024 Pitchfest
20.5.2024
Forty Web3 startups from 12 different countries and territories are heading to Consensus to pitch
Hamster Wheel: Telegram’s Social Gaming Brings Millions to Crypto
20.5.2024
Telegram’s Hamster Kombat game has amassed 8 million users in four weeks. It shows how gaming could be a potent tool for Web3 projects looking for audiences
How Web3 Marketing Changes the Game
20.5.2024
Web3 promises a new relationship between brands and consumers. Fewer cookies and less tracking. More participation and ownership. This feature is part of CoinDesk's Web3 Marketing Week
Miners Eye Middle East as Next Region for Growth
17.5.2024
The halving and a possible U.S. mining tax have miners considering new locations for basing their cost-sensitive operations
Rafael Cordón: Safeguarding Elections With Bitcoin
15.5.2024
Software engineer Rafael Cordón’s Simple Proof system helped prevent fraud in Guatemala’s most recent presidential election. Can this technology be used to insure against election interference in other jurisdictions?
Irthu Suresh: Using Blockchain Tech to Reduce Water Shortages
14.5.2024
The founder of the Atlantis water exchange is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival in Austin, Texas, May 29-31
‘We're Doing it, We Believe in it’: The Sandbox’s Nicola Sebastiani on Bringing Gaming to the Metaverse
13.5.2024
The Chief Content Officer, who is speaking at Consensus this month, says 280,000 Sandbox users are now generating creating games and experiences on the platform
Reimagining Female Empowerment in the Age of Digital Influence and Crypto
9.5.2024
Kgothatso Ngako: How I Brought the Machankura Bitcoin App to Africa
8.5.2024
Ngako is speaker at this year's Consensus festival, in Austin, Texas, May 29-31
The FCC’s Net Neutrality Ruling Is Good News for Web3 Startups
8.5.2024
The principle of an open internet underpinned the growth of the early Web and is just as necessary now. If only the SEC could back innovation in a similar way, says Sarah Aberg, General Counsel at Nova Labs, the company behind Helium Mobile
Crypto Is an Election Issue This Year. Is That a Good Thing?
8.5.2024
A new DCG-funded survey found one-in-five voters think crypto is a key issue in U.S. elections this November
Restaking Is Hot in Ethereum and Entering Solana. Should We Worry?
8.5.2024
The Lehman Brothers-driven global financial crisis of 2008 showed the danger of spreading money around too much
BlackRock, Ondo, Superstate: The Biggest Movers in the RWA Sector in Q1
7.5.2024
Catching up on the biggest news from the real-world asset space
MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont: NFTs Are Already a Part of Art History
7.5.2024
What Visa’s ‘Organic’ Stablecoin Report Misses
7.5.2024
The U.S. Government’s Hypocritical Case Against Tornado Cash
7.5.2024
You would think the government would be against an online privacy service facilitating money laundering. But it actually created one of the best, says attorney Alexandra Damsker
The SEC Can’t Stop Suing Crypto Companies
6.5.2024
Robinhood apparently made strenuous efforts to comply with the agency, even applying to become a special purpose crypto broker-dealer. The SEC is likely to sue for alleged securities violations in any case
Allison Duettmann: How Blockchains Can Make AI Safer
6.5.2024
The CEO of the Foresight Institute, a speaker at Consensus 2024, says there are three key areas where cryptographic technologies can improve artificial intelligence systems
‘AI-Agents Will Do Crypto Transactions’: Arif Khan on the Future of Crypto-AI
6.5.2024
Alethea CEO Arif Khan, a speaker on the AI Stage at Consensus 2024, says we’ll soon be automating daily tasks like paying bills and responding to emails
The Dollar Won, but Might the U.S. Lose Control of the Dollar?
3.5.2024
We have a world currency already: it's the dollar. Do we want to keep it that way?