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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.

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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.

Ether.fi is adding access to income from Figure-originated home-equity lending through Plume and Hastra, connecting its financial app to the capital behind household loans.
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AEREDIUM joins the Lava Tokenization Sandbox to explore payment infrastructure for tokenized real estate using the $5.4B Alba Bay development.
After going public, Securitize is looking beyond tokenization, using its $400 million balance sheet to expand its institutional platform through strategic acquisitions.
UpsideOnly has surpassed 100,000 users within weeks of launch, using AI and crowd intelligence to reward accurate market predictions without requiring users to risk their own capital.
Nearly 90 startups reached unicorn status in the first half of 2026 as venture capital poured record funding into AI infrastructure, robotics, enterprise software and the technology powering the next wave of innovation.
Vitalik Buterin has unveiled Ethereum's most ambitious roadmap since The Merge as Bitmine expands its holdings to nearly 5% of the ETH supply, highlighting Ethereum's growing institutional momentum.
Strategy sold 3,588 BTC worth $216 million to fund dividends and strengthen its cash reserve, signaling a shift in how the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder manages its treasury.
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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