Coinbax wins $20,000 PitchFest prize at Consensus Miami for stablecoin compliance

MIAMI – Coinbax won a $20,000 grand prize at Consensus Miami’s PitchFest after launching a system designed to help banks and financial companies manage compliance for stablecoin payments. Founded by former Jack Henry executive Peter Glyman, the company is building programmable custody infrastructure to add control to wallet-to-wallet crypto transactions. The software is designed to…

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs solved access, but custody, advisors and plumbing still lag, panelists say

Spot Bitcoin ETFs remove cryptocurrency’s long-standing barrier to entry by putting Bitcoin into brokerage and advisory accounts that are already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years later, panelists at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus Conference agreed that this part has worked. However, they said custody concentration, limited advisor numbers and back-office pipeline issues…

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Reid Hoffman says NFTs may make a comeback as AI agents strain online identity

Reid Hoffman told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday that NFTs are about to be “reborn” as artificial intelligence agents force the Internet to solve new identity and trust issues. The Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said agents transacting with other agents will require trustworthy digital identity systems, similar to the problem NFTs were originally…

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