A special New Year's edition of The Node |
The biggest crypto news and ideas of the day |
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Welcome to a special edition of The Node! I'm Daniel Kuhn here to take you through some of the biggest trends forecasted for 2024. Holiday notice: The Node will publish next on Monday, Jan. 8. Hope you all had a happy start to the new year.! |
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Tokenization is likely to be one of the major trends of the coming year, with everyone from DeFi degens to bankers interested. Moody’s digital assets analyst Cristiano Ventricelli digging into the meat and potatoes of why large institutions such as the European Investment Bank and Société Générale are issuing traditional assets on blockchains. In short: “in Moody’s view, as regulators progress in developing frameworks to support new digital assets … regions including the EU, Singapore and the UAE could all attract new investors as a result of new customer and investor protections and new licensing regimes for digital assets.” |
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Bitcoin had a happy holiday season, climbing to a recent high around $44,900 the day after New Year’s. There’s wind behind bitcoin’s sails with a strengthening economy, rising stock prices and several analysts predicting that a spot bitcoin ETF could be approved by the end of January. Frank Corva, a writer and analyst at Finder, considers whether it is “up only” for bitcoin from here, diving into the micro and macro economic factors behind the recent crypto rally. Bear in mind, crypto investing is risky business — only invest what you don’t mind losing. And as Corva says, it’s not a bad idea to keep cash on the side (maybe to invest with later). |
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Artificial intelligence was clearly the big tech story of 2023, notwithstanding the weekend of drama that befell OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November. In the new year, with crypto prices rising, many are likely wonderiing how blockchain fits into the picture. Co-founder of the Decentraland Foundation, Yemel Jardi, has a few ideas. His picture of the “technological convergence” includes decentralized systems acting as “trust layers” for AI, which many experts predict will exacerbate misinformation as well as political and social strife. Jardi also considers the synergetic relationship between crypto, AI and the metaverse. |
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Phemex: Blaze Crypto’s Future Via Community-Building Trust and security pose persistent challenges for crypto communities, with issues ranging from scams to asset security concerns. The decentralized nature of these communities makes it difficult to establish robust security measures and enforce the overall ecosystem’s trustworthiness. Even so, a principal tenet of cryptocurrencies has always been to provide users with greater autonomy. Continue reading. |
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| The New Word Is 'Tokenization' |
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