Crypto Projects to Watch 2023

How 19 crypto, blockchain and Web3 projects are applying cutting-edge ideas to tackle global problems.

Crypto Projects to Watch 2023

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Opinion

Unleashing the Green Economy: How Blockchain Can Transform Climate-Friendly Investment Opportunities

By unlocking the immense potential of blockchain, we stand at the precipice of a transformative era in the global movement towards a greener economy, Osho Jha writes.

A digital tree. (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Imagining the Future AI and Web3 Can Build

While the full range of innovations driven by AI, Web3 and the metaverse remains uncertain, the potential is undeniably vast, Sandy Carter writes.

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Opinion

Blockchain Meets Bonds: How Crypto Can Solve Long-Standing Issues in Capital Markets

It's a new era for debt instruments and smart money, Arca’s Anthony Bufinsky writes.

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Opinion

A Technologist’s Approach to Explaining What Crypto Fixes

Co:Create co-founder Ankush Agarwal presents a user-centric guide to development, balancing Web3 technology’s potential with the needs of customers.

Cover art for Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash." (Sotheby's)

Opinion

What DeFi Must Sacrifice to Appease Regulators

The “internet financial system” is a pro-compliance, but pro-privacy framework to build crypto protocols which satisfy regulators and consumers.

International standards setters have set global guidelines for stablecoin regulations (Tingey Injury Law Firm/ Unsplash)

Opinion

Centralized Stablecoins Are Problematic. Is a Decentralized Alternative on the Way?

USDC and USDT both have issues that truly decentralized, blockchain-based protocols are designed to solve.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Reclaiming Purpose in Crypto: CoinDesk's Projects to Watch 2023

The original cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was invented to solve a problem. We returned to that inspiration to spotlight 19 blockchain, crypto and Web3 projects and the big problems they seek to solve.

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Consensus Magazine

Much Ado About =Nil;

The mysterious company that calls itself nothing is helping zero-knowledge firms to scale blockchain quickly and cheaply. That’s something. And that’s why =nil; Foundation is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Sempo Delivers Cash Aid for the Unbanked in Crisis

Digital money is becoming the go-to vehicle for serving people recovering from disaster. But when those in need have no smartphones or bank accounts, aid organizations have to distribute cash more creatively. That’s why Sempo is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

BTQ Prepares Today to Defend Against Tomorrow’s Quantum-Computing Threat

Blockchains face existential peril from super-fast computers that can break the encryption protocols on which crypto depends. Quantum computers aren’t here yet, but if developers wait to devise defenses the fight will be over before it’s begun. That’s why BTQ is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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