Why The SEC Needs to Allow Staking in Exchange-Traded Products
A bipartisan challenge to the SEC’s exclusion of staking from ETPs is an essential step to maintaining America’s competitiveness in the digital asset markets.
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Democratized, Depoliticized and Decentralized AI, by the People, for the People
Access to AI intelligence should be equal to all. That means building collaborative systems of learning, like the Thames Network, a new decentralized AI network launching at Oxford today.
How To Fix Ethereum’s Fragmentation Problem
With over 50 L2s and more in development, Ethereum has become a maze of isolated chains. Hart Lambur, Co-Founder of Risk Labs explains how a new standard, known as ERC-7683, could help make cross-chain actions easier.
It’s Time to End the Bureaucrat’s Secret Weapon: Debanking
Nathan McCauley is CEO Anchorage Digital, an institutional crypto platform. He testifies as a witness before the Senate Banking Committee in today’s hearing: “Investigating the Real Impacts of Debanking in America.”
The DeepSeek-R1 Effect and Web3-AI
Unlike most advancements in generative AI, the release of DeepSeek-R1 carries real implications and intriguing opportunities for Web3-AI.
10 Commandments for Federal Securities Laws
Too often regulators get bogged down in the minutiae of prescriptive laws and miss their core intent, says Teresa Goody Guillén, a partner at BakerHostetler. Crypto regulation should be guided by principles for an effective market.
The AI Agents Are Coming
And blockchain tech is poised to become the fundamental infrastructure for an agentic economy, functioning as an API layer that enables seamless interaction and transactions among AI agents, says Marc Baumann.
AI Shows Why Data Portability Matters
AI provides a rationale for personal data portability, in the form of a better product experience rather than ideology alone, says Anna Kazlauskas, the creator of Vana and the CEO of Open Data Labs.
Wyoming’s Future as a Blockchain Leader Hangs in the Balance Without Fair Procurement Processes
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says closed-door policy-making around the state’s recent stablecoin initiative raises doubts about the state’s commitment to becoming a crypto hub.
A Blueprint for Crypto Market Structure
Kristin Smith, CEO of the Blockchain Association, outlines principles to guide legislation and regulation on issues like self-custody, staking, voting, and peer-to-peer transactions on permissionless networks.