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‘Innovation Continues to Occur in Siloes’: DTCC Digital Head Nadine Chakar on Responsible Blockchain Building
23.5.2024
Audrey Tang: Learning From Taiwan’s Digital Civic Experimentation
22.5.2024
The island-country’s digital minister has radical ideas for using open-source technology to provide public goods. Her approach is called Plurality and it’s gaining attention across the world. Daniel Kuhn meets her
Dfinity Senior Scientist: Bitcoin’s Next Significant Wave of Innovation Will Revolve Around DAOs
22.5.2024
After the introduction of ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and more recently, Runes, the next significant wave of innovation on Bitcoin will revolve around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Aisling Connolly, the Senior Research Scientist at the Dfinity Foundation, has asserted this. He stated...
Zest Protocol Co-founder: Adding New Programming Capabilities Could Propel BTC’s Defi Ecosystem Beyond ETH’s
22.5.2024
According to Tycho Onnasch, co-founder of Zest Protocol, new programming capabilities which can be added to Bitcoin could help the leading crypto asset cancel out Ethereum’s early advantage of being able to deploy decentralized finance (defi) on Layer one (L1). Onnasch argued that once...
Early Crypto Adopter: Unmatched Privacy of ZK Proofs Outweighs the Technology’s Perceived Disadvantages
22.5.2024
Although zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs are often considered complex to set up, Iva Wisher, co-founder of the Layer two platform Prom, argues that the technology’s unparalleled privacy, faster transaction finality, and overall efficiency outweigh any developmental complexity. Wisher, an early adopter...
How a Liquidity Protocol Marketer Mines Web3’s ‘Most Sacred Data’
21.5.2024
Yakov Sychev is the CMO of cross-chain liquidity protocol Eywa. He is helping marketers understand user journeys between Web 2 and Web3
CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger on Overzealous Crypto Regulation and the Need for Legislative Action
21.5.2024
The commodities regulator has been clear about the dangers of regulating a burgeoning industry through enforcement actions
How to Power the Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Revolution – HyperCycle CEO Toufi Saliba
21.5.2024
HyperCycle was founded in October 2022 following discussions between CEO Toufi Saliba and Ben Goertzel, founder of SingularityNet, at the global AGI summit in 2021. The company focuses on developing a General Purpose Technology supporting a decentralized network for AI-to-AI communication, designed...
Filip Wielanier: 'Web3 Marketing Is a Win-Win'
21.5.2024
Cookie3’s co-founder and CEO explains how Web3 marketing can create a shared economy of users, creators and businesses
David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Inc., Reflects on His Company’s Transformational Pivot to Bitcoin and More
21.5.2024
David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Inc., took time out of running the Bitcoin Asia Conference in Hong Kong to sit down with Bitcoin.com’s COO, Jason Sheman. The conversation delved into the lessons learned from past mistakes, the strategic pivot to Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Conference, Bitcoin Layer twos,...
EOS Network Foundation Founder: Bitcoin Halving Spurs Development of Solutions Enhancing Network Efficiency
16.5.2024
With Bitcoin transaction fees recently becoming a more critical component of miner revenue, Yves La Rose, CEO of Exsat, believes there is “an increased incentive to adopt and develop solutions that enhance transaction throughput and network efficiency.” According to La Rose, this...
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?
Crypto Old-Head Otoh Talks Casascius Bitcoins, Tax Havens and Old Friends
15.5.2024
The pseudonymous investor – early to both Ethereum and Litecoin – has lived large. He is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival in Austin, Texas, May 29-31
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
DeFi Gigabrain Tarun Chitra on ETH Staking, Restaking and Why ‘Financial Nihilism' Is a Real Consumer Product
13.5.2024
The Gauntlet founder talks about the state of crypto ahead of Consensus 2024
Fatemeh Fannizadeh on Crypto Law, Switzerland and How KYC Is Failing
10.5.2024
Fannizadeh, a lawyer specializing in the crypto industry at Geneva Legal, is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival, May 29-31, in Austin, Texas
Bitcoin Advocate Says ASIC Devices’ Inflexibility Makes AI Involvement Unlikely for Bitcoin Miners
10.5.2024
According to Joe Downie, the chief marketing officer at Nicehash, bitcoin miners struggling to stay afloat after the halving are unlikely to support or become involved with artificial intelligence (AI). This is because their application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners now “only...
Robinhood Met With SEC 16 Times Before Wells Notice, CEO Vlad Tenev Says
9.5.2024
Robinhood and its CEO Vlad Tenev met with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 16 times before the commission sent the crypto company a Wells Notice, the CEO revealed in a Wednesday interview with CNBC. News of the meetings come as the crypto company's quarter 1 earning...
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