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Crypto vs. Banks? It’s Not Either-Or for Chainlink, Ripple

Rather than attempting to disrupt banks and other traditional payments systems, these high-profile blockchain developers are looking to court their business.

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Consensus Magazine

Does Lido Control Too Much Liquid Staking?

The staking powerhouse dominates the market for liquid tokens. Is this a problem? Marin Tvrdić, a protocol relations contributor at Lido, responds.

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Consensus Magazine

How to Stake: 7 Strategies When Starting Out

It’s easy to get carried away with staking on PoS networks like Ethereum. But in the long-term, it pays to be cautious. Pick underlying projects with good prospects, don’t over-leverage, and, above all, embrace boredom over quick thrills, says Jeff Wilser.

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Consensus Magazine

The State of Staking: 5 Takeaways a Year After Ethereum's Merge

Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake fixed some problems, like environmental damage linked to PoW mining. But it raised new issues, including worries about centralization, MEV and censorship, say Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler.

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Finance

A $27M Crypto Loss Reveals a Toxic Mix of Money-Hungry Traders and DAO Idealists

It wasn't only the $90,000 spent on naming rights for a rare Ecuadorian frog species that turned off members of this decentralized blockchain-powered community project; some savvy arbitrageurs just wanted their share of the project's treasury.

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Consensus Magazine

Is Crypto-AI Really a Match Made in Heaven?

There’s lots of talk these days about how blockchains can make AI safe for human consumption. But is the idea, widely touted in the crypto community, workable in practice? Jeff Wilser takes a critical look.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: the 'Next Trillion'

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Resource Extraction, Social Media Monetization and Real World Connections

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Consolidation Coming

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters

In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston Consulting Group predicted last year. Inevitably, criticism intrudes, and this week there is sober opinion, caution and skepticism in the zeitgeist.

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