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This year’s World Economic Forum marks the first in-person event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cointelegraph’s team is on the ground in Davos, Switzerland to bring in the latest updates from one of the most significant global events of the year. The topics of discussion among world leaders include blockchain technology, the role of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), Web3 and nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
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Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire was joined by Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse and BRAC’s Asif Saleh in a panel discussion titled “Remittances for Recovery: A New Era of Digital Money.” Allaire explained why “cash is king” and why blockchain protocols need to incorporate more qualities of physical money to attract new users.
Cointelegraph editor-in-chief Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr is on stage to moderate the panel “Programmable Money is Here — and It’s Changing the World as We Know It.”
Cointelegraph interviewed Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse at Filecoin Foundation’s Decentralized Web Gateway event at Davos.
“Regulation and clarity are the key things we are looking for from the regulators when it comes to the crypto industry,” Garlinghouse told Cointelegraph. He added:
“Crypto used to be a bad word in Davos. Now, it’s being talked about, and there are more and more cryptocurrency companies taking part.”
Hyperledger’s Karen Ottoni and the Digital Dollar Project’s Jennifer Lassiter sat down with Joe Hall to talk about CBDCs and cryptocurrencies. The video interview is coming soon to Cointelegraph’s YouTube channel.
The experts agree that CBDCs and cryptocurrencies will grow alongside each other and “even learn from one…
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