Chain Reaction - 19th May 2025
Covering Consensus and some changes at Ethereum
Welcome back to another week in the web3 space, here’s the news you may have missed.
The DFCRC and RBA released some updates on Project Acacia including the shortlisting of Aussie blockchain, Redbelly Network, for a few proposals. We’ll find out more soon no doubt. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/digital-finance-crc_an-update-on-our-joint-research-initiative-activity-7327822397552627713-xRV0/?rcm=ACoAAELdAtwBRCjbdhx31ik5P7Yld0l2Yj4MkfQ
Also congrats to Redbelly as their partners at Ferrox/Raze launched their new products enabling the trading of titanium in $100 parcels thanks to tokenisation. All this means more access. https://x.com/razefinance/status/1922375563542507676
Check out the end of this newsletter for their latest Insights podcat too.
A good reason to use Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) right here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lisa-wade-she-her_ai-made-fake-documents-perfect-googles-activity-7327584459317268480-9Y9M?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAV7RT0Bf0fJj7zr6JDyM7Fh2-KhNgJf4dk
Interesting article from the community here regarding decentralisation with federated learning and AI by Jacek Korneluk, M.Sc. of Spektrumlab Pty Ltd (see more at https://spektrumlab.io/ and below for the full article) https://spektrumlab.io/decentralised-ai-federated-learning-the-future-of-intelligent-systems/
Amy Rose of DECA highlighting the new crypto friendly government appointees https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-rose_over-the-past-few-weeks-a-number-of-signals-activity-7327955421002891264-zxJT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAV7RT0Bf0fJj7zr6JDyM7Fh2-KhNgJf4dk
And more more here from Coin Telegraph https://cointelegraph.com/news/industry-positive-australia-names-new-assistant-minister-crypto-ai
We saw Joni Pirovich pitch her way over to Consensus with a Crypto Co Counsel her AI services tool https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipirovich_no-less-than-4-coffees-to-kick-off-the-morning-activity-7327803959350382592-EKD-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAV7RT0Bf0fJj7zr6JDyM7Fh2-KhNgJf4dk
We also saw the wind up of Finders Wallet app during the week https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasontitman_crypto-walletventures-swyftx-activity-7327936825484890113--g2X?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAV7RT0Bf0fJj7zr6JDyM7Fh2-KhNgJf4dk
It was Consensus in Toronto last week and you can watch day 1 festivities from CoinDesk here:
Day 2 coverage here too
And Day 3
As mentioned, we saw Redbelly share their latest Insights podcast and this featured Blubird, a tokenisation platform built on Redbelly Network. Check it out on Twitter https://x.com/RedbellyNetwork/status/1922804209138765865
and on YouTube too
Looking at Ethereum and the changes going on there we see this interesting episode from Bankless on how they can succeed
And on the flipside we see the arguments against them here
That’s it for this week folks, see you next time.
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