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Beyond Smart Contracts: How Incentive Design Is Driving The Next Wave of Crypto Protocols

Over 30,000 investors, founders, and crypto enthusiasts attended Token2049 last month in Singapore. The week featured over 400 side events! Cosimo co-sponsored one of these summits, Zuzapura: Exploring ZuVillages, where we co-hosted talks with luminaries like Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum, Sam Dare (blockchain lead at OpenTensor), and Emad Mostaque (CEO of StabilityAI and Schelling AI). Zuzapura Summit in SingaporeDecentralized AI is grabbing increasing mindshare at conferences like...

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Cosimo Codex : FEBRUARY 2025 This month in Crypto

Significant developments in AI integration, regulatory clarity, and Layer-2 innovations, further solidify the industry's growth and mainstream adoption.

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JANUARY 2025 - This month in crypto

Volatility is back. $TRUMP launched, Solana surged, and the Fed gave crypto banks the nod. Stay informed—subscribe to Cosimo Codex.

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Back to Basics: Understanding Layer 1 Tokens as Currencies

Introduction In the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrencies, narratives often shift, leading to confusion about the true nature and purpose of blockchain tokens. Amid the noise, it's crucial to return to the fundamentals, particularly when it comes to layer 1 tokens—the native cryptocurrencies of blockchain platforms like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana. These tokens are, at their core, currencies, and we should analyze and value them through this lens. Drawing inspiration from Tascha’s insight...

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Cosimo Capital's 2024: A Year in Crypto and AI Innovation

Cosimo Capital's 2024: A Year of Crypto and AI Innovation – Key Articles from the Crypto Sphere in 2024, groundbreaking advancements, setting the stage for an even more dynamic future. Happy New Year!

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The Cosimo Codex [03] - The Ticker is AI-Driven

Cosimo Codex [03] is here! Explore the critical role of validators in DeAI networks, the future of crypto + AI agents, and celebrating BTC ATH 100k.

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Intelligent Capital Formation and Allocation in DeAI

In the history of blockchain consensus mechanisms, miners and validators have traditionally served as independent actors, performing the primary function of producing tamper-proof blocks on Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake networks, respectively. Bittensor has creatively repurposed these roles within its Yuma Consensus mechanism to introduce a novel class of decentralized network architecture, which I refer to as Proof of Useful Work.Capital formation innovations in crypto over the last decad...

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Crypto + AI Agents

Experiments at the edge of AI and crypto are driving attention in unexpected ways. We are seeing a number of experiments at the very bleeding edge where people are building distributed AI systems and giving them access to crypto wallets and infrastructure. TO BE CLEAR many of these projects have associated coins and nearly all of them are completely uninvestable. There are a few projects pursuing economically productive use cases in this area which are still extremely risky and experimental at t

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The Cosimo Codex [02] - New Frontiers in Decentralized Innovation

Welcome to the Cosimo Codex! Thank you for joining us—let’s dive into the latest updates and opportunities together.

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Beyond Smart Contracts: How Incentive Design Is Driving The Next Wave of Crypto Protocols

Over 30,000 investors, founders, and crypto enthusiasts attended Token2049 last month in Singapore. The week featured over 400 side events! Cosimo co-sponsored one of these summits, Zuzapura: Exploring ZuVillages, where we co-hosted talks with luminaries like Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum, Sam Dare (blockchain lead at OpenTensor), and Emad Mostaque (CEO of StabilityAI and Schelling AI). Zuzapura Summit in SingaporeDecentralized AI is grabbing increasing mindshare at conferences like...

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Bittensor vs Eigenlayer

While both Eigenlayer and Bittensor aim to provide decentralized services with strong incentives for participants, the two networks are evolving along slightly different paths, even though they are converging on similar underlying principles: economic security, scalability, and token-driven ecosystems. At its core, Bittensor focuses on decentralized artificial intelligence, where TAO is the key to securing the network, rewarding contributors, and serving as the primary economic engine of the ...

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