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‘Decentralised Digital Identity' isn't just a catchy phrase. It's all about applying it to media users or a pro publishing company! While we might not have all the answers just yet with @djtomchak, we've got a solid base of ideas to work our magic. 👇 commonplace.knowledgefutures…

Murió Sebastián Lelio. En 2018 lo entrevisté y me dijo algo que nunca olvidé: "La poesía fue mi puerta de entrada a este mundo. Para todo adolescente chileno es como dar el primer beso. Escribir poesía es parte del ritual de ser chileno." Gracias por tanto cine, Sebastián. La entrevista completa en El País: elpais.com/cultura/2018/03/0…

Ayer estuve en Santiago en una sala con 500 emprendedores, escuchando al biministro de Economía y Minería de Chile decirles que los problemas de la industria son suyos para resolver. Los costos no paran de subir. @DanielMasValdes nombró IA, sensores, robótica y drones. La frase que anoté fue de José Ignacio Silva, de @HotChiliLimited. La minería también puede ser una startup, solo que el producto mínimo viable está bajo tierra. Ganó @aisoncore, que sigue la reparación de piezas críticas fuera de faena. #MiningMASPitch de @DFMas y @MEElecmetal

Five global banks set up GL1 Org in Singapore today, a non-profit to write common standards for tokenised markets. HSBC, JPMorgan's Kinexys, MUFG, SG-Forge and Standard Chartered are the founders. It takes over work the Monetary Authority of Singapore started, including a toolkit that builds regulatory rules into the infrastructure itself. It is a standards body, not a live network. this is the harder half of tokenisation. Each bank has its own chain and each country its own rulebook, and the money has to cross both. businesstimes.com.sg/compani…

The SEC's staff spelled out yesterday what it takes for a crypto network to have no one in charge. Three new FAQ answers say a "central party" is anyone with unilateral power to let users in or keep them out, change how upgrades get voted, pick who validates, rewrite the code or reverse transactions. Token holders voting through a DAO or a foundation generally don't count, as long as they aren't affiliated and haven't agreed to act together. It's staff guidance with no legal force, and it arrives while market structure law is still stuck in Congress. I think it's the right test, because it looks at what someone can actually do on the network rather than at what the project's website says. sec.gov/about/divisions-offi…

Nine pages. 18 years ago today. Satoshi posted them to a cryptography mailing list and money has not been the same since. In 2012 I was going to bitcoin meetups in Phoenix. Today BlackRock's ETF alone holds 814,873 BTC. Wall Street came to bitcoin. Not the other way round.

Uber bought a tokenized Franklin Templeton money market fund on a Thursday, paid with HSBC tokenized deposits, and sold it on Sunday. Per Bloomberg that got it about a day and a half more yield than exiting on Friday like usual. Settled on Canton, delivery versus payment. HSBC says it's now open to other US clients. Small trade, but it's a big company using tokenized cash for something treasurers actually care about, the weekend! canton.network/canton-networ…

We keep looking for the smartest agent, when the real breakthrough might be getting thousands of them to work together. Finance figured this out a long time ago. The biggest value wasn’t always in the smartest trader, but in the infrastructure connecting everyone. AI might be heading in the same direction. 🤔 institute.deepmind.com/essay…

Same door as Bybit last year. A developer's machine, not the cryptography. Binance says no private key leaked. 🤔 finance.yahoo.com/markets/cr…

Twelve years ago I was going to bitcoin meetups in rooms with a dozen people and bad coffee. Yesterday I was at the Madrid Stock Exchange moderating a panel on the infrastructure institutions need to tokenize, settle and move money onchain. Francisco Maroto of @bbva, Mónica Ramírez de Arellano of @Anchorage and Carlos Arena of @Optimism all landed in the same place. In two to five years this will be part of the financial rails and most people won't even notice. Thank you @mmerge_io for having us.

BlackRock is coming to the yen stablecoin market. The world's largest asset manager signed an MOU with SBI and Startale to explore linking its tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, Japan's first trust bank issued yen stablecoin. Nothing is live yet, but this is how onchain finance gets built. Stablecoins move the cash, tokenized funds put it to work, and the big players want both pieces. theblock.co/news/business/20…

They moved the Ballon d'Or from Paris to London and so far it looks like the LaLiga awards. Wait, no. Se habla español, enhorabuena España! 🇪🇸

A full WSJ page this weekend told CEOs to keep their stock off tokenized venues. 22 companies have already objected at OKX and ICE, where each token carries the same dividends and votes. Here... the real question is who picks the ledger your shares live on, and the SEC gave that pen to the issuer. coindesk.com/business/2026/1…

Aviva just put its largest fund on the XRP Ledger. A £22bn sterling money market fund now has a tokenised share class, and the first big cheque in it is £50m of Aviva's own money. That's how new rails start. The real test is the first treasurer who moves cash in because it can settle at 3am on a Sunday. theblock.co/news/business/20…

CZ says AI agents won't use bank accounts. They'll use crypto. Hmm, on the rail he is likely right. The harder part is the mandate. Who sent the agent, what it may spend, who answers when it gets it wrong. happycoin.news/en/changpeng-…

At Network state the cloud comes first, land last. At digital state, land first, cloud next. Now, Kazakhstan has the energy to meet the network halfway.

The won is the second most traded currency in crypto after the dollar. Korea still has no legal basis to issue a won stablecoin. The demand came first, I saw that at KBW! theblock.co/news/business/20…

Every copper conference, every year. The world needs far more copper this decade. Agreed. So who finances the new mines? The juniors. And who finances the juniors? 🤔🤔🤔

Two years of panels on stablecoins vs tokenized deposits. Then EY asks 521 companies and banks. Nearly half say they want both. Treasurers never joined the debate. They just had suppliers to pay. Turns out the killer use case is getting paid on Tuesday. coindesk.com/coindesk-indice…

Volume is the easy part to count. Turning it into pesos is harder. Since 13 October people in Mexico can buy Western Union's dollar stablecoin, USDPT, with pesos on Bitso. Anchorage Digital Bank issues it, on Solana. Trillions move onchain. The last mile still runs through Western Union's agents. nitter.gq/solana/status/21131747…