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StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said corporate blockchains will help with mainstream adoption, but long term, they will be abandoned if they try to retain control.
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Decentralization News
What is decentralization? A decentralization definition is that it is the process of distributing and dispersing power away from a central point. Most financial and governmental systems in the traditional mainstream world are centralized, meaning they are controlled and managed by a single authority.
There are several crucial disadvantages to this approach, stemming from the fact that any central authority also plays the role of a single point of failure in the system: Any malfunction at the top of the hierarchy, whether unintentional or deliberate, inevitably has a negative effect on the entire system.
Centralization can also be present on a technical level. Hacking one of a centralized entity’s main points of failure, such as a database, could affect the entire entity and its network.
Decentralization spreads power and information across multiple points. Decentralization advantages can include greater security and diversified control.
Bitcoin was designed as a decentralized alternative to government money and, therefore, doesn't have any single point of failure, making it more resilient, efficient and democratic. Its underlying blockchain technology allows for this decentralization, offering every user an opportunity to become one of the network's many payment processors. As a whole, the crypto industry values decentralization, with projects building on various blockchains and distributed ledger technologies, or DLT
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Brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink concentrate mental control in corporate hands. Decentralized science offers shared governance over neural data.
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Grok 4 generated a 500% gain on the first day after identifying the crypto market bottom and switching to leveraged long positions.
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This marks the second major Amazon AWS outage since April, when “connectivity issues” created usability problems for at least eight large crypto exchanges.
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Ethereum developer Federico Carrone warns venture capital firm Paradigm’s growing influence on the network could eventually lead to a misalignment in values.
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Ignore agentic finance and you miss how AI agents can solve crypto’s fragmented chaos by managing your assets smarter and faster than any dashboard ever could.
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Babylon unveils a proof-of-concept for using native Bitcoin in DeFi lending, as BNB Chain and Hyperliquid post major updates.
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Prediction markets are rapidly going mainstream, and one expert argues that their simplicity could make them the first DeFi tool to achieve mass adoption.
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DeFi protocols depend on a handful of oracle networks for critical pricing data, creating centralization risks that undermine decentralization promises.
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Analysts said most of the record $19 billion crypto liquidation was organic deleveraging, but other traders accused market makers of deepening the crash.
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Solana DEXs dominate volume through memecoins but lack liquidity depth for sustainable growth. Bitcoin and stablecoins offer resilience beyond speculation.
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An $11 billion Bitcoin whale returned to crypto markets this week, likely seeking trading opportunities tied to October’s historic crypto rallies and uncertainty in the US.
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The Venezuelan opposition leader has championed Bitcoin as a lifeline for individuals trying to protect their wealth or attempting to flee the country.
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ShapeShift reintroduced support for Zcash’s shielded transactions, marking its return to privacy-focused cryptocurrency after transitioning into a DEX aggregator.
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Afghanistan’s internet blackout highlighted the need for more decentralized internet infrastructure solutions to bolster blockchain’s resistance to censorship.
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