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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
A lit path runs through a city

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
Metal Christies sign above entrance of auction house

Despite an NFT Downturn, Christie’s Just Launched a Venture Fund to Improve Technology in the Arts

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Zoop Avatars

New Platform Zoop Will Offer Tradable NFTs Without the Baggage of NFTs

By James Ledbetter
Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary

Shark Tank’s Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary is an NFT Believer

By James Ledbetter
Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk and VCs Are Arguing About Web3—What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

By Sissi Cao

Nifty Gateway Just Hosted a Stunning $91.8 Million NFT Sale

By Helen Holmes

Christie’s Is Now Accepting Ether in Exchange for Ethereum’s Earliest NFTs

By Helen Holmes

$897 Million in NFT Sales Took Place in July and August, New Report Finds

By Helen Holmes

Walmart, Amazon Seek Crypto Leads: Are Retail Giants Finally Embracing Bitcoin?

By Sissi Cao

Shares in a 1964 Picasso Painting Will Soon Be Available on the Blockchain

By Helen Holmes
Marvel Fox NFT

The Hidden Value Hollywood Hopes to Unlock With NFTs

By Brandon Katz

NFTs: The Center of Attention at Sotheby’s Virtual Decentraland Gallery

By Helen Holmes

ARTECHOUSE Founders Tati Pastukhova and Sandro Kereselidze Look Towards the Future

By Helen Holmes

Elon Musk Faces $700 Million Loss After Bitcoin’s Brutal Week

By Sissi Cao

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Has a Solution to Bitcoin’s Environmental Problem

By Sissi Cao

Five Things Artists Should Know (and Do) Before Getting Into NFTs

By Louise Carron

Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin as Payment, Continuing Elon Musk’s Crypto Hype

By Sissi Cao

The Tech Moguls and Celebrities Riding the NFT Hype and Cashing In

By Sissi Cao

Christie’s Will Become the First Auction House to Offer Non-Fungible Token Art

By Helen Holmes

Net Artist Beeple Just Set a Nifty Gateway Auction Record With Sales of $3.5 Million

By Helen Holmes

Investing In Diamonds Is a Bad Idea—Can a New Cryptocurrency Change That?

By Sissi Cao
A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

How This Viral Video App Uses Blockchain to Counter Deepfakes

By Harmon Leon
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