Opinion by: Yanal M. Hammouda, head of market expansion at Wingbit The decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) sector saw $150 million of capital flow during Q1 2025, with a projected market size of $3.5 trillion by 2028. Yet the most significant development isn’t the capital raised but where these networks operate. Emerging markets like the … Read more
Opinion by: Yanal M. Hammouda, head of market expansion at Wingbit The decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) sector saw $150 million of capital flow during Q1 2025, with a projected market size of $3.5 trillion by 2028. Yet the most significant development isn’t the capital raised but where these networks operate. Emerging markets like the … Read more
Opinion by: Yanal M. Hammouda, head of market expansion at Wingbit The decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) sector saw $150 million of capital flow during Q1 2025, with a projected market size of $3.5 trillion by 2028. Yet the most significant development isn’t the capital raised but where these networks operate. Emerging markets like the … Read more
Much ado has been made about U.S. President Donald Trump’s open-armed embrace of crypto. One theory is that the White House’s friendliness toward digital assets is a favor to Silicon Valley donors, a gesture to innovation-friendly constituencies. Another is that it reflects an administrative belief in the efficiency gains that blockchain can bring to payments. … Read more
Longevity research is intersecting with crypto through Aubrai, a decentralized science (DeSci) and AI agent launched this week on Base as part of the Bio Protocol. Decentralized science, or DeSci, uses blockchain and DAOs to fund experiments directly, attribute credit transparently, and turn research outputs into tokenized assets that let labs sustain themselves beyond philanthropy … Read more
Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals. Experimental systems that run on GPT-4 or similar models are attracting billions of dollars of … Read more