Dubai, April 17, 2024 - The 12th edition of the Blockchain Life Forum, known as the leading gathering for global cryptocurrency leaders, concluded with an impressive turnout of 10,162 attendees despite the unprecedented storm that happened in Dubai.

Renowned digital artist Trevor Jones, a visionary in the fusion of traditional art with blockchain technology, is set to transcend boundaries with his latest project, CryptoAngels. This ambitious initiative is not merely an art drop; it’s a comprehensive ecosystem encompassing physical and digital realms, games, and a vibrant community engagement, promising to be a cornerstone event in the NFT landscape of 2024.

The story of an anonymous developer who fixed a critical flaw in Bitcoin's code.

Roads, power plants, schools and hospitals are all essential infrastructure and facilities for a country. The government’s ability to continuously build and reconstruct such infrastructure directly impacts everyone's living standards.

This week I’ve just been having a lot of fun with DeFi again, so I decided to finally share this story

A candid interview with the inventors of the blockchain

If you’ve been chronically online this past week or two, you’ve more than likely seen a few dozen tweets discussing where we’re at in this current cycle and how much time there is until the music stops. Bitcoin is now sitting above $56,000 and has been climbing steadily since a handful of ETFs launched, with each day’s inflows displaying the wonderful situation you can get when insatiable demand meets a less than prepared supply side. Fidelity is recommending that individuals allocate between 1-3% of their portfolio towards crypto as a safe and responsible investment, showing the wider world that crypto is no longer something to fear after FTX, it’s something to accept and embrace.

It’s exceedingly rare to come across a founder with a vision and plan that has the potential to change everything. I have come to know EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan to be not only brilliant, but also fundamentally motivated by a vision of the future so crisp and compelling that it momentarily becomes real when you talk to him. Sreeram has what I like to call the Promethean flame; he is driven to bring a new technology to life first and foremost because of the future it will create.

The approval of Bitcoin ETFs can open the doors for further derivatives products and enhance BTC’s role in decentralized finance, but its long-term impact may go far beyond financial markets.

I had a friend tell me earlier this year that she thought my “cosmic timing might be off.” What she meant, I gathered, is that I have a tendency to push my will on the world rather than to pause patiently for its signals to act. A normal thing for those of us in tech, I guess: a belief that the world is our canvas to write rather than read, to inscribe our utopias rather than assess our direr realities.