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Tech

Crypto Exchange Kraken Is Considering Going Nuclear

Massive demand for energy from high performance computing and artificial intelligence firms is changing the landscape in terms of power stability, the company’s CTO said in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.

Schematic of a small modular nuclear reactor (Department of Energy via Wikipedia, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

Finance

DeFi’s Path to Mass Adoption Goes Through Fintech Firms, Centralized Exchanges, Morpho Labs Chief Says

Paul Frambot, CEO of DeFi lending firm Morpho Labs, says fintechs, having relied on traditional finance rails until now, are all optimizing for layer-2 infrastructure.

Paul Frambot, CEO Morpho Labs (Morpho)

Finance

Bitcoin ETF Listings Will Be Quick but Money Flows Could Take Months: 21Shares Co-Founder

Ophelia Snyder says it is impossible to conceptualize the changes in bitcoin trading volumes likely through ETF inflows.

Ophelia Snyder (right) with 21Shares co-founder Hany Rashwan

Tech

EigenLayer’s Sreeram Kannan on the Hot (and Risky) Ethereum Trend of ‘Restaking’

In an exclusive interview, Sreeram Kannan, the founder of EigenLayer and a pioneer behind restaking, discusses his project's goals as a new landscape for restaking emerges.

EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan. (Bradley Keoun)

Finance

Tether Co-Founder Sizes Up PayPal’s Stablecoin Ambitions

Tether pioneer William Quigley, who was also an early investor in PayPal, said he doubts the payments giant will bring much innovation to the stablecoin space.

Tether co-founder William Quigley (Magnetic)

Policy

Meet the Hong Kong Lawmaker Who Invited Coinbase to Town

Legislative Council member Johnny Ng is courting crypto exchanges to get licensed in the city as the U.S. drives digital asset firms offshore.

“Traditionally successful entrepreneurs may not be interested in this industry,” says lawmaker Johnny Ng. “Even if they are, they might not know how to play it.” (Johnny Ng)

Tech

Solana Founder Brushes Off FTX Woes, Remains Confident in Crowded Blockchain Landscape

Prominent projects are porting to the Solana network and developer activity remains strong, Anatoly Yakovenko told CoinDesk TV.

The suit accuses Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko of securities violations. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

DeFi Needs More Than ‘Synthetic High-Yield Products’: Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi

The venture capitalist discusses non-ZIRP monetary policy, rebooting crypto’s market structure and why Ponzi bubbles always burst.

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, and Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR protocol (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Crypto Exchange Binance's Head of Product Discusses AI, Supercycles and What Gets Him Excited Nowadays

Mayur Kamat, a tech industry veteran, discusses how the world's largest crypto exchange is using artificial intelligence and the future of the tech industry.

Mayur Kamat (Binance)

Consensus Magazine

Veteran Crypto Reporter Brady Dale Discusses New FTX Book

The former CoinDesker has written an account of Sam Bankman-Fried's downfall, and longevity of decentralized finance.

Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court on Feb. 16, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

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