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[BRI @blockchainRI]

Great episode and another example of how AI and blockchain are related and deeply intertwined. The future of AI will be decentralized.

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

New @defidecodedpod is out!

I sit down with @gregosuri of @akashnet to discuss why decentralized compute networks could power the next wave of AI.

Infrastructure bottlenecks, data centre backlash, and power shortages means we must tap into GPU capacity wherever it exists—even in our own homes.

Always a blast chatting with Greg.

Check it out!

[BRI @blockchainRI]

NEW @BlockchainRI whitepaper: "Quantum Risk and the Blockchain Stack" by @DHeintzman and @dtapscott explores the threat to signatures, consensus, and smart contracts, and why “harvest now, exploit later” makes this urgent. Read the full report here: https://t.co/7JeCg9zS8w

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

JP Morgan will make $107 BILLION on net interest income (NII) next year.

NII, simply put, is the difference between what the bank pays for deposits and what it earns on its loans.

Rates are rising. Your savings rate isn’t.

That’s why banks fought to ban stablecoin yield in GENIUS and even modest rewards in CLARITY.

They’re protecting the spread, not you.

[BRI @blockchainRI]

This is a great article. @alextapscott asks an important question: is regulatory rule-making enough to kickstart investment in a new technology or will enterprises continue to take a "wait-and-see" approach?

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

The CLARITY Act failed—but crypto got some clarity anyway.

The SEC and CFTC stepped in where Congress did not.

Will rulemaking be enough to unlock the next wave of crypto adoption—or will the momentum prove fleeting?

My take for @CoinDesk in this week’s Crypto for Advisors 👇

[Don Tapscott @dtapscott]

As AI systems become more autonomous and powerful, we need to move beyond “pacing the frontier” and build the rules, institutions and accountability needed to govern them.

In my latest article for the @financialpost, I outline seven foundations for governing AI before it governs us.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/x5ncvFEgzB

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

New @defidecodedpod is out!

I sit down with past guest and industry leader @luigidemeo who is now heading up BD at @aave

His ambition is to build the infrastructure for global credit markets.

Can Aave eat Wall Street, and remake finance for the better?

Find out! 👇

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

Every 20-odd years, the boundary between humans and technology gets redrawn.

The first era of the internet was PC-based: static, read-only content.

The second was smartphone-based: rich media and user-generated content.

Now, roughly 20 years after the iPhone, the internet is entering a new era.

In my book, Web3, I argued that this next era would be defined by the convergence of three technologies:

1. Blockchain and digital assets
2. AI
3. Wearables, including VR and AR

Wearables—and VR in particular—have always felt like the technology of the future. And perhaps always would be.

But this $META announcement feels like a watershed.

All three technologies have now reached their tipping point.

The next era of the internet has begun.

[Don Tapscott @dtapscott]

What if we are creating an artificial intelligence with powers once belonging only to the gods, living not in the heavens, but in corporate data centers?

Recent experiments have shown AI agents escaping contained environments, communicating through unauthorized channels, and finding ways around constraints their creators never intended them to bypass.

In my latest article, I explore how we can govern increasingly autonomous AI before it begins to govern us. We need neither a global freeze nor blind faith in corporate self-regulation. We need a new governance architecture that keeps humanity (not machines or tech executives) in control.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/OHL4JDYj3u

[BRI @blockchainRI]

This is 100 percent correct. Canada can be the world's most prosperous and dynamic economy by embracing innovation industries. @dtapscott and @alextapscott laid out exactly how in our major report:

https://t.co/Fov73FlRt5

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

The world’s biggest investors are descending on Toronto for the first-ever Canada Investment Summit.

They’ll be pitched shovel-ready projects in oil and gas, mining, power generation, infrastructure and more.

I hope we see some major deals announced.

But I also hope our guests learn that Canadians are not only “hewers of wood and drawers of water.”

We are also some of the world’s boldest innovators in AI, next-gen compute, space, blockchain and more.

Invest in Canada, yes! Help us build the physical infrastructure to become a global energy and industrial powerhouse.

But also help us build the digital infrastructure needed for Canada—and the world—to thrive in this new technology order.

Our startups are shovel-ready.

Venture capital is shovel-ready.

Builders are shovel-ready.

I will be at the Canadian Global Growth Forum today, hosted by @cvca making this case to global investors

If you want to invest in Canada while pushing the frontier forward, consider Canada’s builder community.

CC: @EvanLSolomon @FP_Champagne @buildcanada @lucyhargreaves4 @Ben_Bergen @cvca

[BRI @blockchainRI]

It's time to build, Canada!

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

Data centres can and should be an unambiguous net positive for communities across the country.

Setting common standards with buy in from Canadians and industry leaders should lead to more development - not less.

This is great news.

Now let's build!

[BRI @blockchainRI]

The folks at BRI are excited about this drop!

Check out the new episode of @defidecodedpod in the post below 👇

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

New DeFi Decoded is out!

I sit down with @ericrichy, CEO of Coinbase Canada.

If Amazon was the “everything store,” @coinbase wants to be the “everything exchange”—a trusted global platform where anyone can trade any financial asset, anywhere, instantly.

Can they pull it off?

Eric and I discuss. Enjoy!

[BRI @blockchainRI]

Report: https://t.co/wME42N0wrx

Press release: https://t.co/Rez3yVuan1

[BRI @blockchainRI]

This is absolutely correct. We identified the funding gap as a critical reason why Canadian ingenuity in AI and other technologies rarely translates into global champions.

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

This is a great initiative, but Canada’s historical issue hasn’t been attracting brilliant minds — we’ve done that (see @geoffreyhinton, @Yoshua_Bengio et al.).

The bigger challenge is retaining those who want to build global champions. Too often, they end up in SF.

That’s the priority.

[BRI @blockchainRI]

In his latest piece for @ServiceNow Workflow, @dtapscott explores how personal AI agents trained on our own knowledge and judgment could reshape not just how we work, but how organizations are built. https://t.co/wdJPwYePI8

[Don Tapscott @dtapscott]

My latest piece for @ServiceNow Workflow is live: "Identic AI: The Next Stage of the Agentic Enterprise." Thank you to @dianawudavid, Sasha Lal, and the ServiceNow Futures team for the invitation to dig into these ideas! https://t.co/1hhaKoH79y

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

Stablecoins increasingly looks like the only solution for to keep the U.S. treasury market stable, absent massive QE.

For example, if the stablecoin market grew to $3 trillion (10x today), it would soak up more treasury issuance than China, Japan, the U.K. combined.

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

Trump waiting until after the midterms to impose escalatory tariffs.

Pretty clear acknowledgment of how politically disastrous they’d be.

Imagine the price of America’s best-selling vehicle, the F-150, increasing 50% amid an energy crisis...and right before an election.

Ouch!

[BRI @blockchainRI]

Didier Lavallée of @TetraDigitalGrp is one of Canada's foremost leaders in the space, and was an influential voice in our report, "Rebuilding Canada for the New Technology Order" https://t.co/Fov73FlRt5

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

New @defidecodedpod is out!

Canada was once a global crypto leader. After all, Ethereum was built in Toronto by (mostly) Canadians.

Then builders fled.

Can Canada reclaim its lead?

I talk with @TetraDigitalGrp’s Didier Lavallée about why it can - and must.

Check it out!

[BRI @blockchainRI]

In his latest piece for @ServiceNow, @dtapscott argues that AI-native enterprises will be built around four capabilities: data, workflow, orchestration, and governance. The real opportunity isn’t automating yesterday’s enterprise; it’s designing tomorrow’s. Read the article here: https://t.co/XqRk1qaQ1q

[Don Tapscott @dtapscott]

My latest piece for @ServiceNow Workflow describes how the future of management in the age of #AgenticAI is not about controlling work; it’s about orchestrating intelligence. The real gap is institutional readiness, not spend. Thanks @dianawudavid, Sasha Lal, and the Futures team for the invitation to contribute and for sparking such a thoughtful conversation around it! Read the article here: https://t.co/15xlzEYq2G

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

The SEC just took a huge step toward bringing crypto into a clear regulatory framework.

This can fill the void left by congressional inaction - for now.

But America needs to give entrepreneurs, investors and markets certainty for the long term.

In other words, it needs CLARITY.

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

New @defidecodedpod is out!

Why did Chicago trading firms embrace crypto years before Wall Street banks?

Was it the entrepreneurial culture of the rough and tumble trading pits or something else?

I sat down with @Aryonchain and @mcasto_ of @CMT_Digital to explore how CMT evolved from a trading firm into a leader across venture, DeFi, stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, onchain lending, vaults, and more.

A wide-ranging conversation. Check it out!