Historically, blockchain validators have been rewarded for their work with native tokens of the blockchain in question. But the ongoing revolution in smart contracts has created opportunities for blockchain validators to generate revenue outside of the protocol - which as Kunal Goel and Peter Horton explain has prompted a large-scale discssion on how to measure a chain's security, and what role economic security plays in that measurement.

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When the crypto world turns its hype machine on one particular topic, like modularity, it can be rare to come across a truly unique approach. But as Seth Bloomberg explains, AO and Arweave have done just that, laying out an architecture that may inform the modular crypto infrastructure economy for many cycles to come.

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Prediction markets always see an increase in activity in an election year - and this year is no different. But as Kunal Goel explains, for crypto-based prediction markets like Polymarket this increase in growth is an opportunity to explore what other uses besides betting these markets can serve.

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In this Special Episode, Ryan Selkis and Marvin Ammori of Uniswap Labs debate the best approach to advance crypto in today's political climate. This debate happened at Consensus 2024, and was moderated by Zack Seward of Coindesk.

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OpenAI's spring product updates may have underwhelmed those who were hoping for a GPT-5. But as Seth Bloomberg explains, the updates show OpenAI's commitment to the rapidly growing Consumer AI sector - and give a potential preview into how open-source projects in the crypto x AI space may respond.

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Industry fundraising data isn't a guarantee of future innovation - but as Patryk Krasnicki explains, an examination of the data can give some indication of what founders and investors think is most critical to build in the volatile crypto industry.

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Many "innovations" in social media turn out to be short-term fads. But as Toe Bautista explains, builders in the "SocialFi" industry are coming forward with products that change how apps are built and creators make money - changes to the underlying economics of the industry which historically, tend to be much more reliable indicators of long-term adoption.

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Real World Assets, or putting the core pieces of the world's existing financial system like cash, treasuries, and real estate on-chain, have long been touted as a use case that would make these assets significantly more useful. But so far, stablecoins and cash substitutes have been the only RWA with any mass adoption. But as Kinji Steimetz explains, the category has seen rapid growth in the last 18 months - growth that might point towards an unlock in a few key subsectors.

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Four years ago, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out his vision for the network's scalability driven by rollups, and that vision has largely come to fruition. But as Seth Bloomberg explains, those rollups are now running into scalability problems of their own - and the Ethereum ecosystem once again finds itself at an inflection point.

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Decentralized lending protocols like Aave and Compound drove explosive growth in DeFi. But as Kinji Steimetz explains, new entrants are ready to take the next step.

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Nischal clears up misconceptions about India's regulatory landscape and shares what he's seeing that has him excited about the future of crypto in India.

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