Xinyi Luo

Xinyi Luo, a financial reporter with a background in broadcast journalism, joined CoinDesk Layer 2's team as a features and opinion intern in June 2022. She is a graduate of Missouri School of Journalism. You can connect with her on Twitter @luo_trista. She does not currently hold any cryptocurrencies.

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Consensus Magazine

10 Predictions for the Future of Crypto in 2023

What does the next year hold for crypto? We’ve rounded up predictions from smart people in the space – from the bullish to the skeptical.

(Kanchanara/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Canada’s Largest Pension Fund No Longer Mulling Crypto Investment: Reuters

CPP Investment has nearly $400 billion in assets under management.

CPPI halts exploration of crypto investments (Kai Pilger/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Miners Offered Way to Cut Texas Electricity Usage to Help the Grid

The state's interim, voluntary program to lower power consumption during high demand periods, might go live as early as Jan. 1, 2023.

Bitcoin mining can soak up renewable energy that is hard to transmit or consume locally, giving a leg up to energy producers. (Yunha)

Finance

Aave Acquires NFT Mobile Game Sonar for Lens Social Media Integration

With the acquisition, Lens Protocol will be integrated into a game app which claims to have 20,000 active users per month.

Sonar "moji" NFTs on OpenSea. (OpenSea)

Consensus Magazine

The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits

How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui.

Will Ess and Adam Levine of 330AI (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Guiding the Chinese Central Bank Digital Currency the World Admires and Fears

Many nations, especially the economic superpowers, began the year in fear of being left behind by China’s relentless progress with its digital yuan. For leading the development of the most advanced major CBDC, Mu Changchun is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

Mu Changchun (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Blending the World’s Most Successful Loyalty Program With Web3

The brains behind Starbucks Rewards, which has 60 million members, is back to design Starbucks Odyssey, a Web3 loyalty program. That's why Adam Brotman is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

Adam Brotman (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

A Rookie Knocks Reddit’s NFT Marketplace Out of the Park

In the first three months of Reddit's r/NFTsMarketplace, more users opened wallets than all the users on top NFT marketplace OpenSea. That’s why Pali Bhat is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

Pali Bhat (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

Who Is Alameda's Former co-CEO Sam Trabucco?

The former co-CEO of Alameda Research took steps to distance himself from the firm before and after announcing his departure.

Former Alameda Research co-CEO, Sam Trabucco (Alameda Research)

Layer 2

Who Is Gary Wang, the Mysterious Co-Founder of FTX and Alameda?

Not much is known about Bankman-Fried’s close confidant – the co-founder of both FTX and Alameda Research.

FTX CTO Gary Wang (Crunchbase)

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