What to expect at the Monaco Crypto Summit: Join the CUBE on July 29
What is the future of cryptocurrency? A crystal ball could have spared investors heavy losses over the past year, as the market fell $2 trillion from its peak in November 2021 to its current valuation. But while some crypto-lending platforms and hedge funds are filing for bankruptcy, others are celebrating new funding and acquisitions.
How can market analysts form a long-term vision for blockchain technology amid such contrasting fortunes?
The answer is that even the most educated crypto experts are projecting possibilities rather than laying out concrete paths. The industry is barely in its teens, and blockchain has yet to clearly define its function. However, most agree that the technology will be influential in shaping the future of business technology.
On July 29, a select consortium of cryptocurrency and blockchain experts will gather to discuss the future of cryptocurrency at the Monaco Crypto Summit event. TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, will be there bringing our community the latest insights from the world of high-stakes digital finance. (* Disclosure below.)
TheCUBE explores the diverse and differentiated world of decentralized currency
At one end of the crypto prediction scale are the staunch bitcoin maximalists who await the arrival of hyperbitcoinization. On the other are researchers such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb, renowned professor of risk engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and scientific advisor to Universa Investments LP. Taleb reversed his pro-crypto stance when he published an article saying that bitcoin “does not constitute, even remotely, a safe haven for one’s investments, a shield against government tyranny, or a tail protection vehicle for catastrophic episodes.”
Then there’s the middle ground: an understanding that while individual cryptocurrencies and other hyped technologies, such as non-fungible tokens, may be here today and gone tomorrow, the technology they exist on – blockchain – has a potential that’s yet to be fully realized . understood.
“Remember: Not all crypto products are purely financial; many are more consumer-oriented products, such as systems for coordinating group decisions or managing event tickets,” Scott Duke Kominers, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and research economist for the National Bureau of Economic Research, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette.
Kominers’ stated his long-term view that blockchain has “real fundamental technological value” … once the market has figured out how to realize it securely.
Cryptocurrency will be the “final piece of the puzzle” in a technological revolution that began with advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and the Internet of Things, according to Jake Ryan, founder and chief information officer of Tradecraft Capital LLC and author of “Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy.”
“[Cryptocurrency] allows us to process and transfer financial value without human intervention. This technology will fuel the need for businesses to build autonomous operations,” Ryan said in a LinkedIn post.
Financial Times’ market news editor Adam Samson sees a potential for blockchain-based products “that make business and financial processes more efficient and transparent.” In a question-and-answer session published in the Financial Times on July 20, Samson cites as examples the UK asset management industry’s proposal to tokenize coins to cut back-office costs and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s use of blockchain technology for intraday repurchase agreements.
Watch out for big news and big names at the Monaco Crypto Summit
The theme of the Monaco Crypto Summit, sponsored by the DigitalBits Foundation, is the future of cryptocurrency. The event is expected to create a lot of cryptobuzz for theCUBE’s industry analysts to dissect. Speakers include Al Burgio, founder of DigitalBits; Brittany Kaiser, co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation; Dustin Plantholt from Forbes Monaco; Kory Hoang, founder and CEO of Stably; Lauren Bissel, founder and CEO of Immutable Industries; Bryan Talebi, Founder and CEO of Ahura AI, and many others.
DigitalBits’ Burgio posted a recent community update, saying, “There are certain confidential items in development that will be made public on July 29th. … These items are integral to the future journey of DigitalBits.”
Other announcements CUBE will discuss with guests include how blockchain technology supports growing ecosystems around DevOps, computing and the global economy; Web3 development; new partnerships, products and future projects; and how the development of blockchain could revolutionize the underlying infrastructure of enterprise technology.
His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco will be one of the evening’s special guests and speakers, according to an announcement from Monaco’s Grimaldi Forum Centre, which is hosting the event. For those more interested in pop culture royalty, DigitalBits is home to digital banking platform and payment network Zytara Inc., which is represented by soccer legend David Beckham and lists music producer deadmau5, Italian sports team AS Roma and eSports organization Dignitas among its partners.
With so many big names associated with the cryptocurrency community, who knows who might appear on theCUBE’s live streaming set? What CUBE can guarantee for the Monaco Crypto Summit on July 29 is our signature in-depth analysis as we discuss the latest news and emerging trends in cryptocurrency and blockchain.
TheCUBE event live stream
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Guests
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(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner of The Monaco Crypto Summit event. Neither DigitalBits, the sponsor of CUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over the content of CUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
