WEF 2022, May 23: Latest updates from the Cointelegraph Davos team
The second day of the global event would see the likes of central bank governors from Thailand and France along with IMF managing director discuss various aspects of the nascent tech.
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This year’s World Economic Forum marks the first in-person event since the start of the pandemic. Cointelegraph team is on the ground in Davos, Switzerland to bring in the latest updates from one of the most significant global events of the year. The topics of discussion among world leaders include blockchain technology, the role of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), Web3 and nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
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- 9:30 am UTC
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse shared his views on the recent collapse of the Terra ecosystem and its subsequent impact on the rest of the crypto market. He noted that while the LUNA crash is not a good thing, that’s not a clear indication of failure for algorithmic stablecoins:
“Who’s to say algorithmic stablecoins don’t succeed in 5-10 years. The industry is here to stay and will find more and more interesting real-world use cases.”
- 9:00 am UTC
Filecoin’s green project lead Alan Ransil explained the key difference between fiat money and cryptocurrencies. He said:
“Fiat money only has the ability to add and subtract. Programmable money, in comparison, offers real-time solutions and fast response mechanisms.”
- 8:30 am UTC
Ripple senior vice president Brooks Entwistle shared his views on the current debate around crypto winter. He told Cointelegraph:
“Crypto winter has happened before and it will happen again, but we are focused on building into it. I think it’s an opportunity for projects to build more. A lot of this is noise, and we’ve got to reduce the noise and focus on the signal.”
- 8:00 am UTC
Cointelegraph editor-in-chief Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr got in touch with PayPal vice president Richard Nash to get an insight into the leading payment processor’s blockchain and crypto plans.
Nash told Cointelegraph:
“We are already doing a lot in the blockchain space and just working slowly in the crypto space and looking to work with others to embrace everything we can, be it digital wallets or CBDCs in the future.”
