On January 19, 2025, TikTok briefly went dark for several hours, sparking panic among many of its 170 million U.S. users. The RESTRICT Act, passed by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, required a sale or ban due to national security concerns surrounding its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. The policy was designed to address security concerns […]
We’re excited about recent developments in federated social networks, sometimes referred to as the fediverse. Meta’s incorporation of ActivityPub into its Threads platform infused a lot of momentum into the concept of decentralized, federated apps allowing for a more user-centric social media experience. Recently Flipboard federated “11,000 magazines by 400 creators” on its Flipboard app. […]
How Blockchain’s Intersection with Sustainability is Giving Power Back to the People presented by Julia Benz at SBS Earth 2023
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When asked about decentralization Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, said smart contracts are “fascinating.” Watch below.
How policymakers can help create a more efficient, effective, and equitable renewable energy credit market
Climate change is looming large in the minds of policymakers, industry, and the public. As we adopt more decentralized technologies, there’s been a lot of talk about blockchain’s energy usage and its sustainability feasibility.Bitcoin, the most prominent use case of blockchain, is always at the forefront of those conversations, and for good reason. Bitcoin uses […]
A research report by Dr. Scott Babwah Brennen.
The third and final part of a privacy series written by Decentralized Future Council Fellow, Gabrielle Hibbert.
Understanding the web of privacy in the web3 space through transaction data and the unresolved permanence of our privacy landscape
The first part in a three part profile from Decentralized Future Council, Fellow, Gabrielle Hibbert Where is privacy in the web3 space? Since Bitcoin’s emergence in 2008, when the pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto published their research paper on a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash, a renewed discussion on the construction of online privacy resurfaced. However, […]
In this episode of Debugged, Medha Gupta sits down with Gabrielle Hibbert, security auditor and researcher at Least Authority, co-founder of Web3 native startup Future Proof Collective, and Fellow at the Decentralized Future Council, to discuss what Web3 is and how both governance and policy play a huge role in this space. Hibbert shares her […]
