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Highlights Of The Week

Main Takeaways Consensus 2026

Crypto adoption often gets measured through prices, regulation, or market size. Consensus 2026 in Miami offered a different perspective by showing how crypto functions in real environments, where culture, access and usability shape everyday activity.

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Cayman Islands Crypto Lifestyle Index

The Cayman Islands is where offshore finance meets institutional crypto infrastructure.

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Man Accuses Ex-Wife of $200M Bitcoin Theft

A London court case in which a man accuses his ex-wife of orchestrating the theft of more than $200 million in Bitcoin is spotlighting both the vulnerabilities of personal crypto storage and gaps in how English law treats digital assets.

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Latest Video Interviews

Aerodrome and Velodrome Foundations

Luis de la Cerda — Executive Director of the Aerodrome and Velodrome Foundations — explains why Aerodrome is expanding beyond Base into Ethereum Mainnet and how the protocol plans to compete directly with major decentralized exchanges like Uniswap.

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Stephen Richardson — Fireblocks

Stephen Richardson — Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Banking at Fireblocks — explains why regulated stablecoin conversion rails could become a major milestone for institutional finance, especially in the UAE and wider Middle East region.

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Sami Start — Co-Founder and CEO of Transak

Sami Start — Co-Founder and CEO of Transak — explains how crypto payment infrastructure is evolving from simple fiat on-ramps into mainstream financial rails for stablecoins, payroll, remittances, and global money movement.

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Jonathan Han — CEO of Euler Labs

Jonathan Han — CEO of Euler Labs — discusses how DeFi lending is evolving after recent market stress, why risk isolation is becoming essential, and how Euler is preparing for institutional and real-world asset adoption.

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Tether Co-Founder Reeve Collins

Reeve Collins, co-founder and former CEO of Tether, now co-founder and chairman of Wefi and STBL, to discuss the evolution of digital finance.

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Alex Svanevik — CEO of Nansen

Alex Svanevik — CEO of Nansen — explains how blockchain analytics is evolving from passive on-chain intelligence into executable trading infrastructure.

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Research Lead at Certora

Tomer Ganor — Research Lead at Certora — explains why crypto security must move beyond one-time audits and become a continuous part of protocol design.

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Head of Institutional at Morpho

Dennis Bree — Head of Institutional at Morpho — explains why institutional adoption of DeFi is no longer about experimentation, but about building programmable financial infrastructure that traditional institutions can actually use at scale.

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Tourism, and the Future of Bitcoin Adoption

Dr. Lorena Nessi speaks with Ben Berry, Managing Director of English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues, about why a traditional hospitality business in rural England decided to adopt Bitcoin payments.

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Sandro Knöpfel from Cardano Foundation

Sandro Knöpfel — Global Lead of Market Structure & Strategic Partnerships at the Cardano Foundation — explains why the future of tokenized finance will depend less on blockchain hype and more on integration, trust, and institutional-grade infrastructure.

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ChangeNOW's CSO Pauline Shangett

CCN's Chief Content Officer, Samuel Burke, sits down with ChangeNOW's Chief Strategy Officer, Pauline Shangett, to discuss her unique career trajectory and the platform’s next phase of product evolution.

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Daniela Barbosa On The Future Of Infrastructure

Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT), about the evolution of open source blockchain infrastructure and the growing role of decentralized trust systems across finance, identity, and enterprise technology.

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Gensyn’s Vision for Open Machine Intelligence

Ben Fielding — co-founder of Gensyn — explains why decentralized AI is not just about making GPU access cheaper, but about building open infrastructure for machine intelligence.

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Katana CEO Matt Fisher On The Future Of Real Yield

Matt Fisher, CEO of Katana, about the changing landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi) as yields fall below traditional benchmarks like U.S. Treasuries.

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Head of Private Clients at Henley & Partners

Dominic Volek — Group Head of Private Clients at Henley & Partners — explains how the rapid rise of crypto-native wealth is reshaping global mobility, citizenship planning, and the concept of diversification itself.

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Peter Anthony On Perceptron

Dr. Lorena Nessi speaks with Peter Anthony, co-founder of Perceptron Network, about the growing challenge of access to high-quality training data in artificial intelligence.

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Wael Rajab On DEXTools, Perps, And Crypto Adoption

Wael Rajab, CMO of PerpTools and co-founder of DEXTools and director of DEXT Ventures, about how DeFi platforms are reshaping crypto trading and market access.

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Security, Liquidity, And Market Structure

Dr. Lorena Nessi speaks with Toby Gilbert, co-founder of PactSwap, about the structural risks in cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) and the limitations of traditional bridge models.

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Life Insurance on the Blockchain?

Dr. Robert Murphy — Chief Economist at infineo — explains why life insurance could become one of the most important real-world assets to move onto the blockchain.

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Bohdan Opryshko On Geopolitics

Bohdan Opryshko, co-founder and COO of Everstake, about how crypto markets have changed since 2022 and why they now appear to recover faster from geopolitical shocks.

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Genius, Cross-Chain Trading, And Terminal Wars

Armaan Kalsi, CEO of Genius, discusses the rise of cross-chain trading terminals and their growing role in crypto market infrastructure.

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“I don’t believe in custody anymore.”

Tangem Pay CEO Marcos Nunes explains why he believes the future of finance is moving beyond traditional banking and custody models.

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CBDCs, Digital Identity, And Privacy

Dr. Lorena Nessi speaks with Evin McMullen, Co-Founder and CEO of Billions Network, about the debate around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), digital identity, and privacy in the age of AI.

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Quantum Is Closer Than You Think — Colton Dillion

In this exclusive interview with CCN’s Senior Reporter Giuseppe Fabio Ciccomascolo, Colton Dillion — Co-founder of Quip Network — explains why quantum computing is no longer a distant threat, but an urgent challenge for crypto and global security systems.

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Crypto ETPs And Institutional Demand

Dr. Lorena Nessi speaks with Matteo Greco, Senior Associate at Fineqia, about how crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) are reshaping institutional access to digital assets.

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Smartphones as Decentralized Cloud

Dr. Lorena Nessi speaks with Alessandro De Carli, founder of Acurast, about the idea of turning smartphones into decentralized cloud infrastructure and what that means for AI, privacy, and global compute access.

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Sota Watanabe — CEO of Startale Group

In this exclusive interview with CCN’s Senior Reporter Giuseppe Fabio Ciccomascolo, Sota Watanabe — CEO of Startale Group, backed by Sony, SBI, and Samsung — breaks down what the future of Web3 really looks like.

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