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In today’s Crypto for Advisors newsletter, Ashton Chaffee, head of Securitize for Advisors, takes us through the evolution of crypto investing for advisors and the tools and models available. Then, Layne Nadeau from NVAL answers questions about liquidity and tax calculations for tokenized assets in Ask an Expert. #crypto #wealthmanagement #bitcoin

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Gensyn's Ben Fielding in conversation with Jeff Wilser, host of the AI Summit at Consensus 2025: "It started with a noisy desk. The desk was a wooden cubicle in a lab at Northumbria University, in northern England, where a young AI researcher began his PhD track. This was in 2015. The researcher was Ben Fielding, who had built a large machine stuffed with early GPUs to develop AI. The machine was so loud it annoyed Fielding’s lab-mates. Fielding crammed the machine beneath the desk, but it was so big he had to awkwardly stick his legs to the side. Fielding had some unorthodox ideas. He explored how “swarms” of AI — clusters of many different models — could talk to each other and learn from each other, which might improve the collective whole. There was just one problem: He was handcuffed by the realities of that noisy machine beneath his desk. And he knew he was outgunned. “Google was doing this research as well,” Fielding says now. “And they had thousands [of GPUs] in a data center. The things they were doing weren’t crazy. I knew the methods... I had lots of proposals, but I couldn’t run them.” So a decade ago, it dawned on Fielding: Compute constraints would always be an issue. In 2015, he knew that if compute was a hard constraint in academia, it would absolutely be a hard constraint when AI went mainstream. The solution? Decentralized AI. Fielding co-founded Gensyn (along with Harry Grieve) in 2020, or years before Decentralized AI became fashionable. The project was initially known for building decentralized compute – and I’ve spoken with Fielding about this for CoinDesk and on panel after panel at conferences – but the vision is actually something wider: “The network for machine intelligence.” They’re building solutions up and down the tech stack. And now, a decade after Fielding’s noisy desk annoyed his lab-mates, the early tools of Gensyn are out in the wild. Gensyn recently released its “RL Swarms” protocol (a descendant of Fielding’s PhD work) and just launched its Testnet — which brings blockchain into the fold. In this conversation leading up to the AI Summit, at Consensus in Toronto, Fielding gives a primer on AI Swarms, explains how blockchain snaps into the puzzle, and shares why all innovators -- not just tech giants — “should have the right to build machine learning technologies.” https://trib.al/SWZ1VOz

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Hi readers! Dive into this week's Crypto Long & Short Newsletter by CoinDesk, edited by me: --->  RDC's Ankit Mehta says that crypto-focused ADRs could drive institutional adoption, serving as the key to unlocking the next stage of growth for digital assets.   --->  Then, Saim Akif, CPA, CFA, CAMS, Author of AKIF CPA warns cryptocurrency holders to be wary of these five common accounting errors that can trigger an IRS audit. Thanks for joining us. https://lnkd.in/dMGEa3eX Kim Klemballa Henry Bond

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In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter: - Vana launches token standard - Hashgraph to debut private blockchain - ASICs will look more like servers - An interview with Gensyn’s Ben Fielding Compiled by Ben Schiller #technews #cryptotech #technology