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Consensus 2025
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Decentralization


Tech

New York Lawyers Propose Toolkit for Keeping 'Decentralized' Blockchains Honest

Ketsal's "Open Standards" rubric is the latest push to demystify network decentralization in the blockchain space.

Figuring out whether a blockchain network is sufficiently decentralized could have broad ramifications.

Markets

Uniswap Users Say Uniting Can Strengthen UNI

Anonymous Uniswap users are trying to unite the many small holders of the UNI governance token to deal with potential problems in the automated market maker’s (AMM) governance.

Worker protest poster with the slogan "United We Bargain, Divided We Beg"

Policy

A WeChat Ban Should Be the Moment for Decentralized Tech. But It’s Not.

President Trump’s threat to ban WeChat could disrupt the communication of millions of people. Decentralized technology is one solution, but will people really use it? Not necessarily, industry watchers say.

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Tech

Climbing off Twitter on Scaffolds of Truth: Where Srinivasan and Benet Diverge

Vitalik Buterin, Balaji Srinivasan and Juan Benet discussed the future, pitfalls and promise of decentralized social media.

Filecoin founder Juan Benet and Coinbase alum Balaji Srinivasan (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

With Chat Privacy Under Threat in US, Firm Develops '100% User-Controlled' Messaging

Unstoppable Domains is working to give users full control over their chat data with a new decentralized protocol.

U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. (lazyllama/Shutterstock)

Tech

Jack Dorsey Has Floated Decentralized Fact-Checking at Twitter. Here's What That Could Look Like

Twitter's CEO has endorsed the idea of decentralized fact-checking. We looked at some prototypes to see what that might look like.

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Policy

European Contact Tracing Consortium Faces Wave of Defections Over Centralization Concerns

Contact tracing researchers fear Europe could choose a centralized system that puts personal privacy at risk.

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Tech

MakerDAO Foundation Plots Its Own Demise

The MakerDAO Foundation is getting serious about its planned obsolescence. A governance call Thursday laid out founder Rune Christensen's three pillars of full decentralization.

DISSOLUTION: MakerDAO's builders are beginning to chart out the two-year process of winding down. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finance

Remote Working Proves Unexpected Hero as Half of US Economy Shifts to Home Offices

To those who believe in a digital future in which decentralization makes systems more resilient, the coronavirus crisis has expedited the inevitable.

(Photo by Brad Keoun for CoinDesk)

Markets

'Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized' 6 Years Later

After one of the most challenging weeks in recent memory we're talking about a new consensus-driven approach to DeFi oracles and revisiting Johnston's Law (anything that can be decentralized will be decentralized) with the man who coined the phrase so many years ago.

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