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The new Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act lays the groundwork for a new era of American exceptionalism, says Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York.

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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.

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A new report from Security Token Market forecasts $30 trillion in asset tokenization by 2030, led by stocks, real estate, bonds and gold.

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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 crosschain actions easier.

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Holding bitcoin on corporate balance sheets represents more than a trend — it's a transformation in how companies can create and preserve shareholder value, says Next Layer Capital’s Brandon Turp.

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In the short-term, the crypto market will be negatively impacted by increased volatility in global trade, says ML Tech’s Leo Mindyuk. But over time, crypto will be less impacted than traditional finance.

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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."

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Unlike most advancements in generative AI, the release of DeepSeek-R1 carries real implications and intriguing opportunities for Web3-AI.

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China's DeepSeek shocked the AI industry with a low-cost model built within tight constraints. Here's how U.S. builders can avoid the next competitive shock via decentralization.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If the new administration is serious about fostering fair and effective crypto policy, it must include everyday Americans, says John Deaton, who was Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts in 2024 and represented XRP holders in Ripple’s landmark securities against the SEC.

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The financial and other advantages of decentralized network physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) like Helium are impossible for telecom firms to ignore.

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2024: Bitcoin and ether spot ETFs launch, becoming history's fastest-growing. 2025: The lines between spot crypto ETFs and direct ownership will blur.

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s proposal for tokenized equity sales offers a sensible third way between exempt securities and public offerings, deepening the capital available to businesses of all sizes, says Aaron Brogan, managing attorney of Brogan Law

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Memecoins are a dynamic capital formation technology with implications for policy making and politics, says Youbi Capital’s Ivo Entchev.

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How regulatory sandboxes can foster innovation, clarify regulations and balance accountability in the crypto industry.

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Despite potential near-term volatility and choppy price action, there is a strong bullish outlook for bitcoin in 2025, with projected highs reaching $150,000 or more, says Nathan Batchelor of Biyond Global.

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Tools and better user experience are key if we want Web3 to see the fast growth we saw at the inception of the internet, says K3 Labs’s William Herkelrath.

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The synergy between AI and decentralized protocols will be central to the transformation of commerce, argues the founder of infrastructure firm Boson Protocol.

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We can say with some optimism: those three famous words—we’re so back, as the winds of change appear to be shifting in a favorable direction.

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The following is a guest post from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist. Not all narratives are created equal. In the age of digital financial platforms, investing in all kinds of assets has never been easier. This is happening at a time when the stakes are both clear and high. In order to […]
The post Crypto narratives: How the absence of earnings fuels investor fervor appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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The following article is an op-ed by João Victor Alves Souza from Boletim Bitcoin. Stablecoins have exploded in popularity in recent years along with the wider digital asset market. Notably, the stablecoin market is gaining prominence in emerging economies, such as Brazil and other Latin American countries. Notably, Dollar Tether, USD Coin and other stablecoins are […]
The post How stablecoins are dollarizing Brazil’s economy appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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The following is a guest post from Rostyslav Bortman, Founder at Ethereum Ukraine. Let’s face it: although 2024 was a year of technological success for Ethereum, it was also a year of financial disappointment. On the one hand, Dencun was finally deployed, and activity on Layer 2 networks in the ecosystem skyrocketed 4 times. On […]
The post What awaits the Ethereum ecosystem in 2025? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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The combination of AI and Web3 could turn us all into developers, says Bailey Reutzel, after attending a recent boot camp sponsored by Coinbase.

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A string of everyday franchise businesses are forming part of a DePIN network for decentralized air quality on Solana, showing how mainstream DePIN is becoming.

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6 immediate steps the SEC can take to regulate crypto.