Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage Archives

Ethereum Backers Respond to Critics: ‘Markets Will Catch Up’

TORONTO — Ethereum just completed its most significant upgrade in more than a year, but the milestone comes after a turbulent stretch for the blockchain. The price of ether (ETH) has declined, devel...

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Could Wellness Be an Onramp to Web3? Moonwalk Fitness’ Caitlin Cook Thinks So

There’s no shortage of crypto projects that have been touted as the thing that will onboard the next billion users to Web3, but Moonwalk Fitness has a slightly different approach — wellness.

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Filmmaker David Goyer Bets on Blockchain for Next Sci-Fi Franchise

TORONTO — David Goyer, the filmmaker whose credits include the Blade trilogy, The Dark Knight, and Apple TV’s Foundation series, said Friday he is building a new blockchain-based science-fiction u...

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PayPal Crypto Head Says Banks Are Needed to Unlock Full Stablecoin Potential

Banks need to be part of crypto for stablecoins to succeed—that was the message from Jose Fernandez da Ponte, PayPal’s senior vice president of digital currencies, during a panel discussion at Con...

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‘Really Great Example’: Coinbase Praised for Hack Response Amid $400M Crisis

The global head of policy at TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics firm that helps law enforcement investigate crypto fraud, shared that he believes Coinbase’s handling of the latest hack is a “really ...

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Eric Trump Says He Got Into Crypto Amid Political Attack, Calls Bitcoin ‘Digital Gold’

TORONTO —Eric Trump, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, said he believes bitcoin is digital gold and called the largest digital currency a store of value, during a packed panel at Consensus 202...

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Ethereum Meant To Be Alternative, Not Rival to Bitcoin: ETH Co-Founder Anthony Di Iorio

Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio shared Thursday that he thinks the blockchain wasn’t necessarily meant to be a “competitor to Bitcoin,” but rather “it was meant to be an alternative.”

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Kevin O’Leary: ‘I Want More Regulation, And I Want It Now’

Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Ventures, said the crypto industry isn’t regulated enough — which is holding digital assets back from true institutional adoption.

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Smokey The Bera to Make Berachain More Resilient to Crypto Volatility

Berachain is focused on building “decorrelated populations” of users to guard against market reflexivity, said Smokey the Bera, theblockchain’s pseudonymous founder, onstage at CoinDesk’s Cons...

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Coinbase Canada CEO Urges Mark Carney Government to Move Fast on National Crypto Strategy

TORONTO — Lucas Matheson, CEO of Coinbase Canada, made a case for Canada's new government to create a national crypto strategy during his appearance at Consensus 2025 in Toronto.

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