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Blockchain

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Bluesky’s Former CEO Jay Graber Unveils Her First Product in Innovation Chief Role

Jay Graber, now Bluesky’s chief innovation officer, introduces Attie, a social A.I. app designed to put personalization power back to users.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Why Finance’s Walled Gardens Are Finally Coming Down

WeFi’s Maksym Sakharov maps a series of developments that, taken together, signal the end of finance’s walled-garden model: Apollo Global acquiring a stake in lending protocol Morpho, BlackRock making its $2.5 billion BUIDL fund available as on-chain collateral and a CGI survey revealing that nearly 80 percent of companies are already diversifying their banking relationships to manage counterparty risk.
By Maksym Sakharov
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On-Chain Banking and the Next Phase of Financial Infrastructure

WeFi CEO Maksym Sakharov examines the rapid emergence of on-chain banking as decentralized finance evolves into real-world financial infrastructure. The future of global finance, he contends, will depend on scalable, transparent systems that can deliver banking functionality without traditional intermediaries.
By Maksym Sakharov
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What Happens When Your A.I. Chat Lives on the Blockchain?

By Jawad Ashraf
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The Future of Crypto Trading Is Hybrid: CeFi and DeFi Unite

By Ignacio Aguirre Franco
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RWA Platforms Keep Launching—Then Hitting the Same Regulatory Wall

By Corey Billington
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Decentralizing the Dollar: A Financial System Beyond Washington

By Anurag Arjun
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The Tokenization Boom Can’t Scale Without Cross-Chain Coordination

By Edwin Mata
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Artificial Intelligence Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Art Valuation

By Daniel Grant
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Big Tech Is Turning Blockchain Into a Corporate Toll Road

By Arthur Azizov
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Aleksandra Artamonovskaja On Technology’s Role in Art’s Evolution

By Elisa Carollo
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Asia’s Fintech Revolution: Mobile Banks Are Reshaping Finance

By Maksym Sakharov
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Hidden Liabilities: How Rare Manuscripts Threaten Institutional Reputations

By Brett Erickson
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Blockchain Comes to USAID. Will It Survive Washington?

By Arthur Azizov
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Blockchain’s Billion-Dollar Blunder: How Finance’s Tech Revolution Became an Awkward Evolution

By Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki
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Proving You’re Human Is Harder Than Ever (But It Doesn’t Have To Be)

By Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki
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The Crucial Role of Blockchain in Data Privacy

By Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki
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Louis Vuitton Is Selling Its Iconic Trunk as a $39k NFT

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Meet the Platform Selling Warhol’s ‘Marilyn’ to Investors for $53 a Share

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Diana Sinclair and IX Shells to Inaugurate Sotheby’s New Secondary NFT Marketplace

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Web3 Games Are Huge in Asia, So Why Haven’t They Taken Off in the US?

By Rachyl Jones
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Meta is Reportedly the Latest Social Media Company to Embrace ActivityPub Technology

By Rachyl Jones
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With Mantras, Energy Healers and Quantum Physics, Shara Senderoff Is the Guru of the Metaverse

By Rachyl Jones
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Christie’s Auction House Launches Blockchain NFT Sales With New Platform, Christie’s 3.0

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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