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At TOKEN2049, Kenneth Shek talks to Blockster about AI’s usability problem, who controls customer data, Europe’s digital identity push and the permissions agents need to act.

AIR and Minds are partnering with Reap and Pivota to let agents use verified customer benefits and complete purchases within approved spending limits. The collaboration will begin with a single-merchant demonstration.
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Lisbon, Portugal — The Crypto Content Creator Campus (CCCC) returned to Lisbon earlier this month with its 2025 Calling event, bringing together a global roster of creators for three days of hands-on learning, collaboration, and creative experimentation. Supported by title sponsor Bybit, this year’s program centered on a timely theme: “Monetization in the Web3 Era.”
Singapore — The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance has officially launched the ASI:Chain public DevNet, opening the doors for developers to experiment with a new Layer-1 blockDAG built specifically for autonomous, AI-native decentralized systems
Imagine a world where every device, every endpoint, every piece of data becomes both the battleground and the guard. That’s exactly the terrain Naoris Protocol is staking its claim on. Rather than building yet another blockchain, Naoris flips the script: it turns every connected device into a validator, a watch‑dog, a part of what they call a “cyber‑trusted security mesh." (Cover left: Youssef El Maddarsi, CBO at Naoris)
Orbs — the Layer-3 infrastructure powering advanced onchain execution — has confirmed that THENA is the first DEX to integrate its newly released dSLTP protocol, enabling fully onchain stop-loss and take-profit orders for AMM traders. The feature landed less than a week after Orbs launched the protocol, underscoring immediate demand for CEX-grade controls in DeFi.
Falcon Finance just unlocked one of the biggest leaps for onchain credit: Centrifuge’s JAAA — a diversified, AAA-rated, short-duration corporate credit portfolio — is now accepted as collateral to mint USDf. Falcon is also adding JTRSY, a tokenized short-duration Treasury product, expanding the protocol’s growing suite of high-quality collateral.
DevConnect Buenos Aires marked one of Ethereum’s most forward-looking gatherings to date — a week filled with clarity, conviction, and unusually unified themes. And yet, despite the breakthroughs, ETH’s price moved in the opposite direction. (Cover photo: Marcin Kaźmierczak, RedStone)
GoMining CEO Mark Zalan talks Bitcoin mining, AI infrastructure and GoBTC Pay as the company expands into a broader Bitcoin ecosystem.
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