Decentralization

In a major step toward revitalizing grassroots governance, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and all 15 county superintendents have adopted a comprehensive resolution to deepen decentralization, improve operational effectiveness, and crack down on payroll fraud across the country’s local government structures. The resolution was reached at the conclusion of a high-level Local Government Retreat […]

Shashank Sripada merges institutional rigor with systemic change. After managing $7B+ in assets and advising the White House, he co-founded Gaia to prove decentralized models can scale equitably. Gaia aims to empower anyone—from individual knowledge workers to domain experts—to build, launch, scale, and monetize their own AI agents. The link will open a new window.

This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Decentralized cloud computing provider io.net, which has its own IO token, is working with the Walrus team to let startups train, run and store their own custom AI models. IO offers a network of GPUs for AI training and fine-tuning, while Walrus

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism is set to update its governance system for the second time this year — this time, with the intent of becoming more decentralized. In a blog post on Friday, the Optimism team said the changes taking effect Aug. 1 as part of the “Season 8” revamp will introduce stakeholder voting,

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism is set to update its governance system for the second time this year — this time, with the intent of becoming more decentralized. In a blog post on Friday, the Optimism team said the changes taking effect Aug. 1 as part of the “Season 8” revamp will introduce stakeholder voting,

In the past two decades, we have witnessed the digitization of commerce, communication, and even culture. Now, we are standing at the frontier of a more profound shift—one that challenges the very foundations of how finance is organized. Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, is more than just another technological trend. It is a fundamentally new way

🚀 A New Player Joins the Stablecoin Arena In a major move for decentralized finance, USD1, a fully-collateralized stablecoin, has officially begun minting on the TRON blockchain. The launch signals growing momentum around TRON’s infrastructure as a go-to network for high-speed, low-fee digital assets, especially in emerging markets and cross-border settlements. According to its developers,

Bybit, one of the world’s leading centralized crypto exchanges, is preparing to enter the decentralized finance (DeFi) space with the launch of Byreal, its first on-chain trading platform. The platform will go live on the Solana network, with its testnet debut set for June 30 and the mainnet launch expected in the third quarter of