• Ben Goertzel AI into DeFi
    SingularityNET founder Ben Goertzel is known for robotics, AI, DeFi, and his floppy-brimmed hats (Photo: SingularityNet)
    Ethereum,  Innovators,  Technology

    Ben Goertzel is putting artificial intelligence into decentralized finance

    SingularityNET’s founder discusses his new DAO, sci-fi level AI coming to crypto finance, his frustration with Ethereum, and embrace of Cardano

    November 13, 2020 /

    Decentralized AI marketplace SingularityNET has announced a new DeFi project called SingularityDAO. Modern Consensus caught up with founder and CEO Ben Goertzel via Google Hangouts to learn more about this new project, his company’s recently announced Cardano partnership, and when he thinks we’ll have superintelligent artificial intelligence.

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  • Russian finance minister digital ruble
    A digital ruble is gaining support (Photo: Pixabay/SergeiEgorov)
    Politics,  Regulation

    Digital ruble will cut transaction costs and increase transparency: Russian finance minister

    Anton Siluanov admitted that he does not know whether a central bank digital currency will be rolled out, but said pursuing one is the best course of action

    October 30, 2020 /

    Russia’s finance minister Anton Siluanov claimed the digital version of Russia’s fiat currency will reduce transaction costs and improve the transparency of settlements

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  • OKEx Jay Hao DeFi viable alternative
    OKEx CEO Jay Hao tells Modern Consensus that DeFi has "limitless potential" (Photo: OKEx)
    Alt coins

    EXCLUSIVE: OKEx CEO Jay Hao calls DeFi “viable alternative” to traditional finance

    As it lists Uniswap’s super hot UNI governance token, the CEO of the leading crypto derivatives exchange says decentralized finance has “limitless potential”

    September 18, 2020 /

    In an email interview on the same day OKEx listed Uniswap’s super hot UNI governance token, Hao told Modern Consensus that he has high hopes for the DeFi ecosystem as a whole.

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  • OKEx bets on DeFi
    Yield.finance's YFI token is leading DeFi Summer's boom (Photo: CoinMarketCap)
    Alt coins

    As yearn.finance skyrockets, OKEx bets on DeFi

    The cryptocurrency exchange listed eight tokens from the decentralized finance space in one day, including Yearn’s YFI

    August 31, 2020 /

    While many DeFi tokens have been spiking over what is being called DeFi summer, none has matched YFI. It is the governance token of the yearn.finance ecosystem, which began as an automation tool for finding and moving funds to the DeFi lending platform offering the best interest rate, or yield aggregation. automated marketing making.

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