Consensus 2022

Get Started with DESK: How to Set Up Your Wallet and Claim Your Airdrop
Get Started with DESK: How to Set Up Your Wallet and Claim Your Airdrop
From setting up your MetaMask wallet to claiming your first DESK airdrop, Link Green walks you through the first steps toward using CoinDesk’s relaunched social token.
Get Started with DESK: How to Set Up Your Wallet and Claim Your Airdrop

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The Meme Economy
Those who grasp the memetic nature of not only crypto, but all value, can gain immense power from understanding natural flows of meaning. This piece is a preview of a talk to...
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The Intelligent Crypto Thesis
AI and machine learning will usher in new forms of digital assets from intelligent NFTs to self-determining DeFi protocols. This essay is part of CoinDesk's "Big Ideas" series...
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CoinDesk Confidential: Ambre Soubiran
Kaiko's CEO takes our version of the Proust Questionnaire ahead of Consensus 2022.
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CoinDesk Confidential: Bradley Miles
The CEO of social token startup Roll is a New Yorker through and through.
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The Coming InDAOstrial Revolution
DAOs give humans a chance to build bigger, weirder things on totally radical timelines, just like the advent of the corporation paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.
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Prediction markets generate more accurate forecasts than other methods. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
Forecasting, Prediction Markets and the Age of Better Information
Quantified forecasting is an invaluable and yet underused tool, and prediction markets appear a vital tool for its adoption.
Prediction markets generate more accurate forecasts than other methods. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Metagood Uses NFTs for Social Good
The for-profit, philanthropic company is in the running for "Web 3 Pitch Fest," with winners to be announced at Consensus.
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CoinDesk Confidential: Loretta Joseph
The veteran fintech consultant at Financial Services Commission (FSA) Mauritius answers our questionnaire ahead of Consensus 2022.
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Trustless Evidence: Web 3 Is Helping Document War Crimes in Ukraine
In an era of misinformation, blockchain technology can renew our faith in evidential truth, not least during the current conflict in Ukraine, says Jonathan Dotan, the founding...
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