What Ark Makes Possible | Bitcoin Asia 2026

🎬 What Ark Makes Possible | Bitcoin Asia 2026
Scaling Bitcoin without sacrificing self-custody has long been one of the biggest challenges in open finance. In this panel from Bitcoin Asia, Marius Off-Chain hosts Neil Woodfine, Roland Bewick, and Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark, an innovative layer-2 protocol. They explore how Ark simplifies user onboarding by replacing channel management with a trust-minimized client-server architecture. Discover how Ark complements the Lightning Network while enabling instant payments and advanced off-chain f...

➤ A panel discussion at Bitcoin Asia explores 'Arc', a Layer-2 protocol aiming to simplify Bitcoin payments and enable advanced off-chain financial tools by offering a trust-minimized client-server architecture.
➤ Speakers from various implementations (Second, Arc Labs, Alby) highlight Arc's potential to improve user onboarding, developer experience, and overcome Lightning Network's liquidity challenges, while maintaining self-custody principles.
➤ Potential use cases discussed include instant atomic swaps, escrow contracts, and enabling financial services like Bitcoin-backed lending, positioning Arc as a complementary technology to the existing Bitcoin ecosystem.

#Arc #Bitcoin #Layer 2 #Lightning Network #Selfcustody #Payments #Financial Tools #Programmability

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The Art of Building Binance: What CZ Would Do Differently Today, and the Future With AI

🎬 The Art of Building Binance: What CZ Would Do Differently Today, and the Future With AI
*How did Binance scale so fast—and what would CZ build if he started again today?* In this special Binance 9-year anniversary session hosted by Jacquelyn Melinek, Founder Strata Media, Binance Founder and former CEO CZ (Changpeng Zhao) reflects on the early days of building Binance, the user problems he wanted to solve in 2017, and the decisions that helped Binance grow into a leading global crypto platform.
CZ shares what he would tell his younger self about compliance, politics, and shipping f...

➤ Binance founder CZ reflects on the exchange's rapid growth, emphasizing the importance of user protection, technological improvement, and community building.
➤ CZ discusses the convergence of traditional and on-chain finance, highlighting AI-powered payments, stablecoins, and RWAs as key future developments.
➤ He advises focusing on crypto as foundational infrastructure rather than just a speculative asset, and sees AI significantly enhancing security, efficiency, and digital transformation in finance.

#Binance #CZ #Changpeng Zhao #RWA #AI #Tokenization #Finance #Crypto #Blockchain #Regulation #Compliance #Payments #Stablecoins #Future of Finance

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All new Coinbase Developer Platform | Alec Lovett, Head of Infrastructure Products

🎬 All new Coinbase Developer Platform | Alec Lovett, Head of Infrastructure Products
Updating the financial system just got simpler. In this video, Alec Lovett, Head of Infrastructure Products, introduces the all-new Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP)—a unified, single access point for businesses to build in the onchain economy. From wallet infrastructure and stablecoin payments to powerful new tools for AI agents, discover how we're helping the world's most innovative companies move money faster and more efficiently.
0:00 - Introduction: Increasing Economic Freedom

➤ Coinbase has launched the all-new Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP), a unified access point for businesses to build within the on-chain economy, offering tools for wallet infrastructure, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.
➤ The platform aims to simplify financial system updates by leveraging Coinbase's existing crypto infrastructure, enabling faster and more efficient money movement for companies and AI agents.
➤ Key components include USDC stablecoin, the Base blockchain, institutional-grade wallets, and a new custodial infrastructure solution to handle regulatory compliance, with early partnerships announced with major companies like BlackRock, AWS, and Intuit.

#Coinbase #Developer Platform #CDP #Stablecoins #USDC #Base blockchain #AI Agents #Payments #BlackRock #PNC #Shopify #AWS #Intuit #Checkout.com #Deel #Klarna #Webull #Open Router #X402

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