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USA, AI and developers: what does 2025 have in store for Web3?
Our predictions for this year and our review of last year’s forecasts
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Our 10X recap of Web3 in 2024
GM, Happy New Year! We enjoyed a restful festive period here at SO WHAT and we are excited to be back. How excited you ask? Excited enough to 10X our annual recap, which includes 30 must-note topics from the year that was 2024. Stand by for our predictions, which will
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How Bitcoin looks at $100K compared to $1K
GM, The world of Web3 is crazy at the best of times, but it’s been a particularly wild ride over the last few weeks since Donald Trump won the US Presidential election. The President-elect has said a number of positive things about crypto and Bitcoin generally—his win saw
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Meet Pump.fun, the memecoin factory making $1M a day
GM, One of the most lucrative companies in Web3 today may also be one of the most controversial. This is not a company aiming to build a new internet, democratize financial services, or pursue other lofty goals. In fact, critics accuse it of enabling gambling, although some have praised it
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We will never know who created Bitcoin—and that’s a good thing
GM, This past week has been dominated by Satoshi Nakamoto, after HBO released its long-anticipated documentary aiming to answer the question of who created Bitcoin. No spoilers just yet, if you haven’t seen the show, but the truth is that we don’t need to know Satoshi’s true
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Token2049: a Web3 carnival with 20K people and Ethereum-Solana showdown
This is probably the most important Web3 event in the world GM, It’s been a busy couple of weeks and we apologize for our absence. But we are back and recovered after a major week in Singapore. We returned to Token 2049 in the country known as Little Red
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Prediction markets have blown up around the US election—are they here to stay?
GM, More than $1 billion has been wagered on the 2024 US election using a Web3 service that could break out into the mainstream. That figure is impressive, but it is even more notable considering the platform in question, Polymarket, is banned from offering bets on US soil. Welcome to
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Telegram is essentially a Web3 company now
GM, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest on August 24 in France has sparked major discussions across the Web3 space. Governments across the world have raised their focus on Telegram and Durov, predominantly on the impact of its lack of content moderation, and the debate between privacy and anonymity. While
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Why crypto’s most polarizing figure is worrying Bitcoiners
GM, Bitcoin is the front door to Web3, but this month it has been a major talking point after one of the industry’s most controversial figures became involved in a key asset that bridges Bitcoin to the rest of Web3: that’s wrapped BTC, aka WBTC. This week we
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North Korea has made over $3B from Web3 hacks—here’s how
GM, $3 billion. That’s an estimation of just how much money North Korea has made from cryptocurrency hacks between 2017 and 2023. There’s no sign that the regime is slowly down, however. Last month, North Korea was thought to be the attacker that stole $235 million from India-based
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Tokenized funds are on the rise—no wonder JPMorgan wants a piece of the action
GM, Earlier this month, 150-year-old bank Goldman Sachs said it plans to launch its first tokenized funds. The news generated plenty of attention—but why? The premise is that tokenized funds will knock down the walls and allow anyone to enjoy access to financial instruments that are currently only for
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Anonymous and accountable: how blockchain can change the game for polls
GM, Speaking your mind online can come at a price in some countries—even just indicating your preference can be costly in some, too. This week we are looking at how blockchain technology can have a tangible impact on free speech and opinion online. We’ve written about zero-knowledge proofs