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Paul Sztorc: Scaling Bitcoin With Sidechains
4.12.2023
The developer’s proposal (BIP 300) for “Drive Chains” (sidechains) on Bitcoin – meant to allow greater collaboration with other chains – was met with fierce opposition from some Bitcoiners this year. Sztorc says the community hasn’t been innovating fast enough
Balaji Put His Money Where His Mouth Was
4.12.2023
Srinivasan bet $1 million the U.S. dollar would collapse (and lost), and evangelized his ideas about startup societies, making him one of CoinDesk's Most Influential in 2023
Yat Siu: The Metaverse Man Gets Real
4.12.2023
Web3 gaming powerhouse Animoca Brands isn't playing around; it takes its work with governments and educating a skeptical audience seriously
Ria Bhutoria Is Researcher-in-Chief
4.12.2023
A partner at Castle Island Ventures, Bhutoria has produced some of the smartest analysis in crypto over the last several years
Mike Belshe, the Crypto Custody King at BitGo
4.12.2023
BitGo was one of the few crypto companies to raise capital in a depressed market, and even did so at an elevated valuation. That's one reason why CEO Belshe is one of CoinDesk's Most Influential of 2023
Jeremy Allaire's Stablecoin Is Building a Real Use Case for Crypto
4.12.2023
Circle Internet Financial continued to build out the USDC stablecoin network, spreading access and inclusion to new corners of the world
Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
4.12.2023
Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined
Lisa Neigut: Reinventing Lightning to Reinvent Bitcoin
4.12.2023
The Blockstream developer has been working on what she calls "Lightning v2" since 2019, and it's poised to launch by year's end
Karl Floersch's 'Optimism' Tech Paved the Way for Coinbase's 'Base' Blockchain
4.12.2023
The CEO of OP Labs helped create a set of tools that let developers build their own layer-2 chains
Avery Ching: Aptos Led a Year of 'VC Chains'
4.12.2023
With hundreds of millions at stake, Avery Ching, co-founder of one of the year's most-talked-about new projects, has much to prove
Jesse Pollak Is Putting the Base in Coinbase
4.12.2023
Coinbase's layer-2 blockchain, which launched this year, helps the exchange to scale and reduce transaction fees. Rivals, like Kraken, are now said to be launching their own layer 2s
Cuy Sheffield: The Reason Visa Is 'Everywhere’ in Crypto
4.12.2023
Perhaps more than at any other TradFi firm, Visa's crypto unit under Sheffield has been running experiment after experiment. That's why he's one of CoinDesk's Most Influential of 2023
Stefan Berger: The Man Who Made MiCA
4.12.2023
Stefan Berger steered through the European Union's world-leading Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) this year in the aftermath of FTX and other scandals. He's now working on a digital euro
Jordi Baylina: Finding Solutions in Zero-Knowledge
4.12.2023
One of Ethereum's biggest scalability layers, Polygon, is at the forefront of a new tech trend with the launch of its zkEVM
Paying for Use Slows Down Crypto's Search for a Use Case
30.11.2023
CoinDesk's Danny Nelson reported that Polygon paid DraftKings to be on the network, a furtive deal that only misrepresents consumer choice
The Benefits of Building Apps On-Chain
30.11.2023
Blockchain networks are information networks, which can be leveraged to build new types of tools and experiences, Variant's Alana Levin writes
Outrage ChatGPT won’t say slurs, Q* ‘breaks encryption’, 99% fake web: AI Eye
29.11.2023
Elon Musk claims ChatGPT has been infected with “woke mind virus”, 4chan thinks OpenAI broke all encryption, and the web seems 99% AI fakes
‘A Politician Masquerading as a Regulator’ – 3 Takeaways From Fortune's Gary Gensler Profile
29.11.2023
An in-depth magazine story about the SEC chair reveals the breadth of the man’s ambition and the limitations of his record
Real AI use cases in crypto, No. 3: Smart contract audits & cybersecurity
29.11.2023
Experts say AI has huge potential in smart contract audits and crypto security in future. Unfortunately, ChatGPT sucks at it right now
Big Tech Has Put Our Future at Risk. It’s Time to Fight Back
28.11.2023
The internet was supposed to make us more liberated and healthier. Instead, it stole our data, freedom and mental health, says Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt, who’s advancing a new digital infrastructure to support a better web and better world