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Tokenization is just mirroring TradFi — until regulation goes on-chain 🪞 RWAs don't win on yield; they win on instant settlement, split ownership, and access. The main bottleneck? Legacy off-chain KYC. The real shift happens when compliance moves on-chain: ▫️ Native on-chain compliance 🆔 ▫️ Legal validity by default ⚖️ ▫️ Full exit from legacy rails 🔗 Anatolii Manko (EPAM) on why RWA is the new financial oil. 📺 Full session: https://youtu.be/W5jx8a_eC34

Federated learning has a major trust problem — here’s how zero-knowledge fixes it 🛡️ Decentralized AI training breaks down when malicious actors compromise the network: ▫️ Corrupted local training — Rogue clients push malicious models to disrupt learning 🦠 ▫️ Malicious aggregation — Central aggregators manipulate global updates instead of combining honest data 🚨 Without verification, federated learning remains vulnerable at every stage. Hayk breaks down why ZK proofs and verification layers are essential to securing decentralized AI. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/6VvSunDFMTI?si=dEyq6MTXiuw5kABA

Cheap AI security audits will cost you millions 💀 A 10-minute, $5 AI scan on a 10,000-line protocol doesn't deliver security – it delivers a false sense of safety. Cheap AI tools fail because security depth can't be bootstrapped on zero budget: ▫️ Surface-level analysis – Basic tools miss complex, multi-contract logic vulnerabilities ⚠️ ▫️ Illusion of safety – A cheap scan isn't an audit; it's a Swiss cheese slice 🧀 ▫️ High risk, zero return – You get what you pay for: $5 effort yields $0 protection 📉 Alexandra breaks down why trusting budget AI tools for protocol security is one of the biggest mistakes Web3 projects make. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/ZrZ4AwwzMtY?si=ZCxmXBcmHV8excSK

85% of your lead generation data is pure waste 🗑️ Plugging into Apollo, Clay, or Web3-native tools gives massive volume – but raw data quality is dangerously low. Out of 1,000 pulled contacts, only 150 to 200 are actually relevant, current, and usable. Why volume-first B2B outreach fails: ▫️ The 15-20% usable reality – 80%+ of scraped leads are outdated or irrelevant 📉 ▫️ The volume trap – Thousands of contacts mean nothing without data hygiene 📊 ▫️ The AI solution – Leveraging AI agents to filter and enrich lead databases before outreach 🤖 Roman Shtih (GetBlock) breaks down what happens when AI agents take over daily workflows to boost data accuracy. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/gGI20unZkyw?si=uNkDixrwLmbKDqJO

AI agents are now the largest consumers of on-chain data – and you can't even track them 🤖 The fastest-growing user reading blockchain data isn't a human behind a screen. It's autonomous software querying, deciding, and acting on its own. Why tracking AI traffic on-chain is nearly impossible: ▫️ Stealth operation – AI agents don't declare themselves; they look like standard developer requests 🕵️‍♂️ ▫️ Invisible in the logs – They show up as plain cURL commands, blending in with regular traffic 💻 ▫️ The quiet shift – Data infrastructure must adapt to software consumers, not human interfaces 📈 Karel Balogh (SQD.ai) breaks down the uncomfortable truth about agentic traffic and making blockchain data AI-native. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/hJB7WvOb8lg

How Stablecoins Are Rewiring Payments and Challenging Traditional Banking Stablecoins are moving $28T annually and holding more US debt than entire countries. They aren't just crypto plumbing anymore — they are actively rewriting the rules of global money, and traditional banking is scrambling to keep up. Are stablecoins about to make legacy current accounts obsolete? Or will megabanks fight back with tokenised deposits and regulatory walls? Join Murtuza J Merchant (Blockchain Expert at Yellow Media) as we unpack the $320B stablecoin threat and what it means for the future of finance. 📅 Date: August 12 ⏰ Time: 1 PM UTC / 5PM GST / 9PM SGT 👉 Register / Save the link: https://wearecommunity.io/events/murtuzajmerchant

AI deepfake detection is dead – cryptographically signed proof is the only way forward 🔏 In an era where AI can fake any image, video, screenshot, or comment in seconds, AI detectors will always lose the race. Why detection-only models fail: ▫️ Fast generative AI evolution – Generative models outpace classifiers faster than detectors can adapt 🚀 ▫️ Zero trust by default – Without a cryptographic signature, online content cannot be verified 🛑 ▫️ Cryptographic proof – Verifiable on-chain signatures are the only way to prove authenticity 🔐 Sasha Baksht (LEARN NEAR CLUB) breaks down why on-chain verifiable proofs are essential in the age of AI. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/YcRGdzyEOK0

If your job is just turning Jira tickets into GitHub PRs, AI is coming for you 🤖 Mid-level developers fear AI replacing them-and for good reason. Anyone doing purely mechanical code translation is at high risk. Why AI automation is causing internal resistance in tech teams: ▫️ High replacement risk – Translating tickets to pull requests is easily automated 📉 ▫️ Resistance to adoption – Engineers push back on integrating AI tools to protect their roles 🛡️ ▫️ Management ripple effect – Fewer devs means less need for team leads and project managers 🌊 Igor Gulamov from SavantChat breaks down the reality of AI replacing mid-level developers and management roles. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/HVsMUK1s8y8

🚨 $25,000,000 disappeared after one Zoom call. The person on screen wasn't real At Blockchain Community Day, Sasha Pitkevich (Blockchain Lead, EPAM) broke down how much deepfakes are already costing the world: ▫️ a cloned CEO voice cost a bank in the UAE $35,000,000 – the largest confirmed deepfake loss in the world ▫️ a fake Joe Biden audio clip racked up millions of listens ▫️ a fake "explosion" photo near the Pentagon knocked down stock indices 💰 Total for 2025 alone – about $200,000,000 in damage worldwide. If video and voice are no longer proof – then what is? Sasha answers that in her talk "Permanent Evidence in a Mutable World." 👉 Full talk: https://youtu.be/g4SCSRkPJ_Y

Linear complexity will kill your Web3 protocol 💀 Blockchains will never allow you to loop over a million users in a single transaction – it is simply too expensive and won't execute. If you are building for mass participation, linear execution breaks. The protocols that scale successfully in DeFi rely on O(1) constant-cost algorithms: ▫️ The linear scalability trap – Processing users one-by-one destroys transaction execution 📉 ▫️ Constant-cost efficiency – Execution fees stay identical whether serving 10, 1,000, or 1,000,000 users ⚡ ▫️ Architectural necessity – O(1) algorithms are the foundation of scalable Web3 payment models 🛠️ Sergey Kravtsov (Papaya Finance) breaks down the hidden architectural secret behind high-scale DeFi protocols. 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/Zc_f5mNQziQ

Packing our bags for Belgrade 🇷🇸 The plan: listen to Dima Burov explain EVM privacy architecture, then debate the trade-offs over ćevapi and rakija 🥩🥃 Drop by Dima’s session on production-ready privacy for capital markets, and let’s connect on-site 🤝 📆 Date: August 26-27, 2026 🎫 Free tickets: https://ethbelgrade.rs/

Privacy in Web3 used to be a niche flex for cipherpunks. In 2026, regulators accidentally made it the hottest trend in crypto 🤫 Andrej Kirkkonen from NEAR Intents breaks down why institutional money is suddenly obsessed with confidential Web3 (and where the catch is). Quick watch before someone deepfakes this clip 🕵️‍♀️ 📺 Full video: https://youtu.be/rWAoYcky0Y0

Any app without AI will be completely dead in a year. No pressure 💀 Mitja Goroshevsky breaks down why standard UI interfaces are becoming obsolete and how autonomous AI agents will soon use blockchain to pay each other. Quick watch before your favorite app gets replaced by a prompt 🍿 📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/6iMl0xDknow

Job Alert 🚨 Building enterprise stablecoins and crypto acquiring is a team sport ⚡ We’re expanding our blockchain team in Serbia (Remote option available) 🇷🇸 and looking for two key leads: ▫️ Lead Backend Developer – Java, Web3j, EVM, and custodial wallet architecture. ▫️ Lead Business Analyst / PO – Stablecoin lifecycle, MPC wallets, and bridging corporate banking with Web3. Apply before your favorite AI agent writes the backend and product requirements for you ☕ Apply here: 👉 Lead Backend Developer 👉 Lead Business Analyst

ETH Belgrade mode: fully unlocked 🇷🇸🔐 Our team is on the ground, Dima Burov’s talk on production EVM privacy is officially in the books, and the networking is in full swing. If you're around, catch our team on-site before we completely disappear into the local kafanas ☕ 📸 Quick photo dump from the event 👇

Astana just became the new home of Network School ns.com ⚡ This used to be a campus in Malaysia. Then the state said no. Another state said yes. Today that “yes” looks like this: Network School opening night in Astana 🇰🇿

Standard setup, networking routines, but always good to check the local web3 crowd. Web3 keeps moving regardless ⚡ 📍Astana, KZ

Launching a new weekly series: Ecosystem Bubble Most builders live in a tunnel. Heads-down on one chain, one protocol, one hackathon – and the rest of the ecosystem moves on without them. So we decided to launch a new weekly series to fix that. Every Thursday, live – the grants, hackathons, and conferences worth knowing about, pulled from Base, Solana, Sui, Arbitrum, and beyond. The stuff happening one chain over that never makes it into your feed. 📅 First stream: September 24th, 1PM UTC 📺 Live on YouTube, X, and LinkedIn. If you're building and don't have time to track five ecosystems at once, this is for you. 🔗 More details: visit website