Monthly Archives: May 2023

What happens when you blend a crypto-conference with Burning Man and summer camp at a popular Mediterranean yachting port?The first-of-a-kind event in Lustica Bay, Montenegro, taking place over the past two months, describes itself as a pop-up city, with an invite-only crowd of about 200 executives and developers focused on cryptography, technology and longevity. Another…

A woodsy, digital-native coliving project is trying to rethink the modern city – with just a touch of crypto governance.The project, Cabin, escalated that effort Tuesday with plans for the first “network city,” a global alliance of self-governing neighborhoods accessible to “citizens'' who hold NFTs. Project backers say living in these neighborhoods will be cheaper,…

At last month’s Consensus 2023, CoinDesk hosted two invitation-only Investor Manager Roundtables, one designed specifically for institutional investors (35 pensions, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments and foundations) and the other for asset allocators (50 fund of funds, asset managers, and pension consultants).With the help of AIMA’s Michelle Noyes (thank you, Michelle), I …

Polkadot, the blockchain created by legendary coder Gavin Wood after he split from Ethereum, is getting a new privacy feature. The tool uses zero-knowledge proofs and soulbound tokens (yes, the things dreamt up by Vitalik Buterin) to help limit the amount of information crypto users share when they transact on-chain.Meanwhile, a new interoperable NFT standard…

New York-based crypto mining facility Greenidge Generation has found itself at the center of state and national debates about the impact mining firms have on the environment and their local communities.In New York at least, this debate has led to legislation targeting companies like Greenidge.While the rhetoric used by all sides in the larger bitcoin…