Tag: Blockchain
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Digital Gold Rush: Tokenizing the Oldest Asset on Earth with Curt Hopkins
Recently, gold hit multiple all-time highs in its valuation. Gold prices have risen recently due to a combination of factors, including geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and strong demand from central banks and individual investors. But now…Gold has a new vehicle for people onboard it into their portfolios, Blockchain. Today I am very curious to hear…
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The Power of Choice: Rethinking Agency in the Age of AI
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: At the MIT Media Lab, few voices blend data science, social theory, and design for human agency as fluently as Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. His talk at EmTechMIT, titled “The Power of Choice,” was not about the power of technology itself, but about how to realign it around the individual. Pentland offered…
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Inside Tezos: The Mathematician Rewriting Blockchain’s Rules with Arthur Breitman
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a mathematician, robo-engineer, and blockchain pioneer walk into a room, today’s guest is the punchline. Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, brings a background spanning competitive coding, Wall Street, and even self-driving cars to the world of blockchain innovation. We’ll dig into how Arthur’s science chops helped architect Tezos, a…
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Cardano and the Evolution of Trust in Web3 Finance with Frederik Gregaard
Cardano is the 10th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, sitting around 22.5 Billion dollars. That’s quite a number given its ICO raised approximately $62 million from 2015-2017 at a price of $0.0024. Cardano is part of what I call the old guard of cryptocurrencies launched after Ethereum, by Charles Hoskinson, which launched the era of…
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The Speed of Trust: Jeff Feng and the Rise of Sei Labs
TOKEN2049, Singapore: It was fascinating to catch-up with Jeff Feng is the cofounder of Sei Labs. He is one of the most ambitious forces redefining the future of blockchain infrastructure. Before venturing into Web3, Feng built his career in high finance, first as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and later as a venture investor at…
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Building Worlds, Empowering Creators: Inside The Sandbox with Sebastien Borget
TOKEN2049, Singapore: I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Sebastien Borget cofounder of The Sandbox, a pioneering Web3 gaming and metaverse platform transforming how users create, own, and monetize virtual experiences. With over 6.3 million user accounts connected to crypto wallets, The Sandbox blends user-generated content, NFTs, and play-to-earn mechanics to offer an immersive…
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Seamless Crypto in Your Chat: Wallet in Telegram with Irina Chuchkina
TOKEN2049 – Singapore: I had a very interesting conversation with Irina Chuchkina, Chief Growth Officer of Wallet in Telegram, who leads one of the most innovative projects in crypto integration within mainstream apps today. Wallet in Telegram is a built-in cryptocurrency wallet seamlessly embedded into the Telegram messaging app, empowering users to send, receive, and manage…
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Beyond Cash: Stablecoins and the Future of Finance
With the GENIUS Act now passed into law, and everyone from Deutsche Bank, Apple, and Airbnb already paying attention, it’s clear that stablecoins are fast becoming core infrastructure for next-gen financial markets. We will get into why stablecoins matter and what it may mean for banks, companies and you. Will Beeson, former head of tokenized asset infrastructure at Standard…
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“Digital Content Authentication” – MIT EmTech Digital Conference
In today’s digital age, the authenticity of online content is more critical than ever. With the rise of deepfakes, manipulated media, and synthetic content, ensuring the transparency and trustworthiness of what we see and hear online has become a paramount concern. Mounir Ibrahim, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact at Truepic, addressed this…
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ILTACON 2022: BLOCKCHAIN – Are You Prepared for Defi, NFTs, & DAOs?
Guess what’s coming to ILTACON 2022…
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Lawyers & the Metaverse
In a new Q&A interview, Thomson Reuters’ technologist and futurist Joseph Raczynski offers his insight about the Metaverse and how it will impact the legal industry In February this year, ArentFox Schiff announced that it had become the first major US law firm to “join the Metaverse” by acquiring a land site in Decentraland, a fact…
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The Metaverse is coming: Is the legal market prepared?
Are you ready for the Metaverse? Probably not, but please bear with me, because the legal implications will be enormous. Open your creative mind first, and at the very end apply your critical thinking legal intellect. Here we go. Originally published on Thomson Reuters Institute. Imagine, if you will, a world resembling our physical one,…
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Bye-bye, banks! Hello DeFi… Our bankless society has officially begun
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a multi-billion-dollar movement that may end up changing the way we all bank Imagine a time where banks are not needed. Think about all the financial instruments we use today — currency, loans, insurance, bonds, credit cards, stocks, futures, options, interest bearing accounts — being converted to a new model, one…