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The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, July 19, 2023.

Revolutionizing Finance & Climate Action: Inside EllaVest's Women-Centric Approach and How Provocative Science is Using Bitcoin Mining to Tackle Carbon Emissions.

Alex Blania on collaborating with OpenAI's Sam Altman on a universal basic income for eight billion people.

We explain the difference and connections between Ripple and XRP and the history and the state of the SEC's case against Ripple.

Long one of crypto’s big ideas, tokenization may finally be ready for prime-time. Wall Street is diving in, creating tokens for everything from buildings to gold bars. One advantage: relatively little regulatory scrutiny. Jeff Wilser reports.

The Art Blocks CEO isn’t selling a single one of his new NFTs. Instead, he’s giving them to individuals and communities that supported him and the platform’s genesis collection.

The chairman asked U.S. lawmakers for $72 million in extra funding to, among other things, protect investors from crypto markets “rife with noncompliance.”

The Financial Conduct Authority has turned down some of the largest crypto firms in the world in the last two years, its CEO Nikhil Rathi told lawmakers at a hearing.

Gary Gensler once taught a class on crypto. Is he contradicting himself now in his powerful Washington role?

DeFi protocols would need to impose strict controls on their users.

The stock market operator had said in March that it was putting together infrastructure and regulatory approval for the custodian service.

The Democratic presidential hopeful also reiterated a May stance defending the right to self-custody bitcoin, run blockchain nodes at home and promising industry-neutral energy regulation.