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CoinDesk Live
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Crypto’s Most Influential in 2020
CoinDesk marks its seventh Most Influential list with two CoinDesk Live events Dec. 7-8.

My Data, My Money: Data Dividends and the Digital Economy
On Nov. 18, CoinDesk’s Ben Powers explores the data dividend: Is it an opportunity to restructure the digital economy on more equitable terms or merely a redesign of the current data ecosystem?

Inside the Hype Machine: Behind the Scenes of the ICO Boom
Smart-contract auditors, PR pros, YouTube “influencers”: Meet the service class that was caught up in 2017’s ICO gold rush, selling metaphorical shovels to prospectors seeking billions in instant riches. Christie Harkin, Brad Laurie, Hartej Sawhney and David Wachsman relive the good, bad and ugly of that era.

CoinDesk Joins IMF, CFTC, Swiss FINMA at DC Fintech Week
The virtual event, which runs Oct. 19-22, brings together marquee names from Switzerland’s FINMA, Sweden’s Riksbank, Bank for International Settlements, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the International Monetary Fund to discuss stablecoin regulation, central bank digital currencies, the future of money and more.

DeGeneration: How Ethereum Is Making Finance Weird
CoinDesk senior business reporter Brady Dale hosts Priyanka Desai of Open Law, Mason Nystrom of Messari and Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX to assess the newest crazes sweeping the DeFi landscape. Yield farming used “cute” methods to find the right audience in the summer of Weird DeFi, but is the era of food tokens dead? In the crypto-era Web 3 world amid COVID, the idea to transfer property from one world to another is disruptive and will help bring non-crypto natives on board, says Desai, predicting NFTs to be the next big craze.

The Top Blockchain Universities in 2020
CoinDesk U reveals the top 20 universities making the biggest impact in the blockchain space this year. Stanford University researcher Reuben Youngblom explains how that list was created.

TODAY: Bitcoin's $1 Billion Crop: Why Hodlers Are Harvesting Yield on Ethereum
Why all the hype behind yield farming and food-inspired tokens? Should investors take them seriously or are they a fading trend?
