Decentralized chatbots, gov’t bonds onchain — a16z’s 2025 crypto trends

The United Arab Emirates is approaching its 2021 deadline for migrating at least 50% of all government transactions onto distributed ledger technology-based platforms.Cointelegraph spoke to Leon Smith, the CEO of Dex — an Abu Dhabi-based crypto firm that has been issued with an in-principle approval ahead of the country’s forthcoming regulatory framework for crypto asset…

California revokes BlockFi’s license amid bankruptcy, Caroline Ellison is sentenced, Crypto.com faces scrutiny in Poland, and Senator Cynthia Lummis supports Trump’s Bitcoin reserve proposal. United States Senator Cynthia Lummis expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal for a Bitcoin (BTC) reserve after Trump won the 2024 US presidential elections on Nov. 5.  Lummis, a Wyoming

The Iota Foundation and Imperial College London recently announced the launch of a four-year distributed ledger technology, or DLT, initiative designed to research and develop solutions to foster socially conscious, circular economic models and businesses around servitization.The Imperial-Iota-Infrastructures Lab, known as the I3-Lab, will operate within the Dyson School of Design Engineering and has adopted the…

The interview has been edited and condensed.Nouriel Roubini is a New York-based economist that famously predicted the 2008 financial crisis when only a few considered there might be a threat to the existing course of events at the time.A Harvard alumnus and now a professor at NYU Stern School of Business, Mr. Roubini has always…

"Companies dealing in cryptocurrencies are not immune from oversight,” said New Jersey’s acting attorney general Andrew Bruck. 226 Total views 1 Total shares The Texas State Securities Board has filed for a hearing with the potential to impose a cease and desist order against crypto lending firm Celsius Network for not offering a security licensed…

On Sept. 26, the British pound hit a record low against the U.S. dollar following the announcement of tax cuts and further debt increases to curb the impact of a possible economic recession. The volatility simply reflects investors' doubts about the government's capacity to withstand the growing costs of living across the region.The U.S. dollar…

Mt. Gox’s claims website is currently down for maintenance, while Mt. Gox creditors are still looking for an explanation behind the recent flood of login attempts.

The team’s results, once reviewed, could represent a significant milestone in quantum computing research. 325 Total views 3 Total shares When industry insiders talk about a future where quantum computers are capable of solving problems that classical, binary computers can’t, they’re referring to something called “quantum advantage.”In order to achieve this advantage, quantum computers need