Block Earner Co-Founder: Lack of Regulation Limits Australian Crypto Market to Token Sales Only

Regulation through enforcement often yields suboptimal outcomes for all stakeholders, including consumers, as it creates a negative stigma around industry companies,” asserted the co-founder of an Australian crypto startup. The co-founder expressed optimism that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s recent court setback would encourage Parliament to establish a regulatory framework for the Aussie crypto … Read more

Tech Entrepreneur Suggests Mainstream Companies May Have Adopted NFT Loyalty Programs Prematurely

According to Juan Otero, CEO of the crypto-native travel booking platform Travala, many mainstream companies that attempted to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for customer or user loyalty programs may have seized the opportunity prematurely. Otero argued that at the time, Web3 companies had not “even figured out the best ways to use NFTs in loyalty … Read more

How UpRock Is Using AI, DePIN and Crypto Rewards to Attract New Users to Web3 in an Age Where Data Is the New Oil

UpRock is a groundbreaking platform that merges blockchain and AI, allowing users to monetize their unused internet bandwidth. With a focus on democratizing data access and fostering an open AI ecosystem, UpRock is at the forefront of the digital revolution. The co-founders of UpRock, Jesse Adams (CEO) and Chris O’Connell (CTO), recently joined the Bitcoin.com … Read more

Software Engineer: Anchoring AI on Public Blockchains Aids in Establishing a ‘Permanent Provenance Trail’

With artificial intelligence (AI) seemingly destined to become central to everyday digital applications and services, anchoring AI models on public blockchains potentially helps to “establish a permanent provenance trail,” asserted Michael Heinrich, CEO of 0G Labs. According to Heinrich, such a provenance trail enables “ex-post or real-time monitoring analysis” to detect any tampering, injection of … Read more

Xapo CEO Seamus Rocca Describes Xapos’ Proposition, Talks US Regulation, Emerging Markets, and Stablecoins

Seamus Rocca, CEO of Xapo, had a candid conversation with Bitcoin.com’s COO Jason Sheman, where he shared his accumulated experience and knowledge describing what makes Xapo different from a traditional neobank, talked about U.S. markets and regulations, how emerging markets see crypto, and the necessity of implementing stablecoins in Xapo after Silvergate Banks’ downfall. Xapo … Read more

Dfinity Senior Scientist: Bitcoin’s Next Significant Wave of Innovation Will Revolve Around DAOs

After the introduction of ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and more recently, Runes, the next significant wave of innovation on Bitcoin will revolve around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Aisling Connolly, the Senior Research Scientist at the Dfinity Foundation, has asserted this. He stated that the technology, which is now well-suited to support DAOs and the more mature … Read more

Zest Protocol Co-founder: Adding New Programming Capabilities Could Propel BTC’s Defi Ecosystem Beyond ETH’s

According to Tycho Onnasch, co-founder of Zest Protocol, new programming capabilities which can be added to Bitcoin could help the leading crypto asset cancel out Ethereum’s early advantage of being able to deploy decentralized finance (defi) on Layer one (L1). Onnasch argued that once enough Bitcoin Layer two solutions (L2s) are deployed and trusted by … Read more

Early Crypto Adopter: Unmatched Privacy of ZK Proofs Outweighs the Technology’s Perceived Disadvantages

Although zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs are often considered complex to set up, Iva Wisher, co-founder of the Layer two platform Prom, argues that the technology’s unparalleled privacy, faster transaction finality, and overall efficiency outweigh any developmental complexity. Wisher, an early adopter of cryptocurrency, acknowledges that the industry is currently working to address usability concerns associated with … Read more

How to Power the Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Revolution – HyperCycle CEO Toufi Saliba

HyperCycle was founded in October 2022 following discussions between CEO Toufi Saliba and Ben Goertzel, founder of SingularityNet, at the global AGI summit in 2021. The company focuses on developing a General Purpose Technology supporting a decentralized network for AI-to-AI communication, designed to scale with the worldwide demand for AI consumption. Leveraging technologies such as … Read more