Jeremy Allaire's Stablecoin Is Building a Real Use Case for Crypto
Circle continued to build out the USDC stablecoin network, spreading access and inclusion to new corners of the world.
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Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined.
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Dec 4, 2023 at 1:02 p.m. UTC
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Lisa Neigut: Reinventing Lightning to Reinvent Bitcoin
The Blockstream developer has been working on what she calls “Lightning v2” since 2019, and it’s poised to launch by year’s end.
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Dec 4, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
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Karl Floersch's 'Optimism' Tech Paved the Way for Coinbase's 'Base' Blockchain
The CEO of OP Labs helped create a set of tools that let developers build their own layer-2 chains.
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Dec 4, 2023 at 12:57 p.m. UTC
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Avery Ching: Aptos Led a Year of 'VC Chains'
With hundreds of millions at stake, Avery Ching, co-founder of one of the year's most-talked-about new projects, has much to prove.
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Dec 4, 2023 at 12:56 p.m. UTC
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Jesse Pollak Is Putting the Base in Coinbase
Coinbase's layer-2 blockchain, which launched this year, helps the exchange to scale and reduce transaction fees. Rivals, like Kraken, are now said to be launching their own l...
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Cuy Sheffield: The Reason Visa Is 'Everywhere’ in Crypto
Perhaps more than at any other TradFi firm, Visa’s crypto unit under Sheffield has been running experiment after experiment. That's why he's one of CoinDesk's Most Influential...
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Dec 4, 2023 at 12:54 p.m. UTC
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Stefan Berger: The Man Who Made MiCA
He steered through the European Union's world-leading Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) this year in the aftermath of FTX and other scandals. He's now working on a di...
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Jordi Baylina: Finding Solutions in Zero-Knowledge
One of Ethereum's biggest scalability layers, Polygon, is at the forefront of a new tech trend with the launch of its zkEVM.
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Larry Fink: Wall Street's Biggest Bitcoin Believer
BlackRock reignited interest in bitcoin ETFs this year, in part driven by CEO Fink’s strong statements on the role of bitcoin as an international currency.
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Dec 4, 2023 at 12:50 p.m. UTC
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