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View More NewsThis year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is there a ticking clock to protect every artist, researcher, engineer, and hobbyist in the state, but there is a real risk of other states thoughtlessly following suit—prior to the New York rules even taking effect. We, along with many other experts, already warned about this bill buried in the state’s crowded budget process. Hundreds of our supporters and 3D printing enthusiasts in New York reached…
Tokenized products already exist, though mainly for investing. The most popular category is tokenized money market funds, primarily backed by U.S. Treasuries. The largest, BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), debuted in March 2024. This category now has more than $15 billion of assets under management (AUM), with the broader onchain real-world asset market (excluding stablecoins) surpassing $31 billion in value. Casting a wider net to include assets such as alternative investments and tokenized financial infrastructures, the global asset tokenization market is valued at roughly $2.1 trillion.According to forecasts by Grand View Research, the sector is projected to hit…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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South Korea plans to conduct a 2027 pilot linking tokenized government bonds to its institutional central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure, moving sovereign debt…
The U.S. government just staged its seized crypto for an exchange, and it took an extra hop to get there.Wallets tied to the government…
Bitcoin traded near $62,600 on Tuesday, down 0.3% over 24 hours and roughly flat on the week, per CoinDesk data. The market is steady…
The 54 firm-strong group, which is backed by the City of London Corporation, will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases…
In brief A whitehat helped return $2 million worth of ETH frozen since HongCoin’s 2016 ICO. HongCoin’s team used the developer’s fix to unlock…
Federal officials can’t get their story straight on whether there is a hunger strike going on at an immigration detention center in New Jersey.…
Bitcoin BTC$70,838.39 and software stocks moved almost in lockstep for much of the past five years, with BTC treated as a high-beta technology asset.…
European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said stablecoins could bring old financial-market vulnerabilities into tokenized finance, while strengthening the case for…
In brief Strategy’s stock price dropped to a 45-day low after disclosing a $2.5 million Bitcoin sale. The liquidation “amplified an already compelling dislocation,”…
from the into-the-fire dept The whole conversation around AI is about to get much, much worse. We’ve been talking a lot about AI, generative…
To its credit, upon order that the information be provided to the Court, the United States Attorney’s Office filed an unredacted version of the…
Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in Strategy (MSTR).Strategy, the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin BTC$70,465.11, has maintained the…