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Arizona is breaking the mold again with an interesting approach, at least for XRP Ripple holders. While other states are tentatively exploring Bitcoin, a bold proposal in the Grand Canyon State aims to establish a digital asset reserve fund that specifically includes XRP and DigiByte.

Supported by several lawmakers, the proposal aims to broaden the state’s holdings beyond a single dominant asset. Rather than converting these assets into dollars right away, the state would retain them with the expectation that they may provide long-term value or practical use.

The move reflects a shift in how some state governments view digital assets, considering their potential functionality alongside their role as a store of value.

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Arizona Choses XRP and DigiByte As Approved Assets Most government crypto bills follow a simple script: buy Bitcoin, hold Bitcoin. The Arizona proposal takes a different approach by expanding the range of approved assets. The legislation allows the state to hold specific digital assets, explicitly naming assets like XRP and DigiByte, in a Strategic Digital Asset Reserve.

This builds on the momentum of Arizona’s push for a Bitcoin reserve, but adds a layer of complexity by validating altcoins. The focus is often on modernizing how the state handles unclaimed property and seized assets. Rather than converting everything to inflationary fiat currency, the state keeps the asset.

XRP added to Arizona digital reserve bill. After a 4–2 committee vote, the Arizona State Legislature advanced a bill that adds $XRP as an eligible asset in the proposed Digital Assets Strategic Reserve Fund 😁 pic.twitter.com/qcDUXPeyDP

— XRPcryptowolf (@XRPcryptowolf) February 22, 2026

Why these two? It likely comes down to utility. XRP’s strategy for institutional settlement makes it a logical fit for government finance, which relies heavily on cross-border efficiency. We are already seeing major financial players move in this direction, such as Société Générale launching stablecoins on the XRP Ledger.

And DigiByte? As a decentralized, secure blockchain known for speed, legislators are probably showing they aren’t just looking at market cap. They are looking at technical merit.

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How the Reserve Actually Works An interesting part of this legislation is the funding mechanism. The reserve is largely funded by assets the state already ends up with. This includes unclaimed digital property and potentially assets seized in criminal forfeitures. Under the proposal, the State Treasurer has the authority to hold these assets rather than liquidate them.

Is it risky? Sure. Crypto is volatile. But supporters argue that holding these assets is a fiduciary duty to protect against inflation. Essentially, diversifying the state’s portfolio so it isn’t 100% exposed to the declining dollar. With strict custody standards in place, it’s less like gambling and more like modernizing the state’s savings account.

We will be watching to see if Governor Hobbs signs off on expanding these definitions further in the coming session. If Arizona succeeds here, expect other states to start adding altcoins to their balance sheets soon.

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The ICON Foundation has marked an important milestone in the advancement of decentralized finance when it announced about the $50,000 grant from the Stellar Community Fund. The grant is expected to support the integration of Balanced, one of the ICON’s popular cross-chain decentralized exchange and stablecoin platform, with the Stellar blockchain. The integrated connection between the two blockchain networks is expected to create more synergies in the global DeFi ecosystem.

ICON’s Balanced Platform Enhances Global DeFi Efficiency Balanced is an established innovator in its cross-chain DeFi solutions, making it easy for participants to interact with native cross-chain DeFi primitives. From now on, the integration seeks to create a more interconnected and efficient global DeFi ecosystem.

At a high level, Balanced is a cross-chain DEX and CDP-style stablecoin platform where users can attach their native wallets, lock collateral in native assets, mint Balanced-native USD, and swap among various secure decentralized blockchains. However, using a significant percentage of the ICON network’s monthly ICX emissions to augment deep Network Owned Liquidity within cross-chain liquidity pools sets the platform apart in terms of delivering capital-efficient on-chain data-based solutions.

Therefore, ICON plans to first put the Balanced and ICON GMP smart contracts into Soroban, Stellar’s decentralized smart contracting environment, as part of the grant alternative strategy. Here, ICON can realize the future integration direction on a small scale. The full integration of Balanced with Stellar will increase the experience for Balanced’s current users and introduce Balanced’s advanced trading and stablecoin services to the Stellar ecosystem.

Integrating Balanced with Stellar will provide users with advanced trading and stablecoin use within the Stellar ecosystem. It will grant opportunities for taking native stablecoin loans to lend simply by depositing XLM, increase liquidity, and make cross-chain interaction easier. Additionally, it will provide more smooth DeFi experiences for both Stellar and Balanced users.

Moreover, this partnership between the ICON Foundation and the Stellar Community Fund is just the first act of what we all can accomplish together. Therefore, the grant will be an important sign of the sophisticated infrastructure that the ICON Foundation aims to create in terms of DeFi interoperability.

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The halving has just commenced, and plenty of bargains abound. Cardano and ICON are among the altcoins being mentioned as potential candidates for a recovery in 2025, while the smart money is betting on low-cap gems with major moon potential in presale opportunities like DeeStream. DeeStream is widely expected to become one of the top performers out of newly launched cryptos in 2024 thanks to its unique decentralized live streaming platform that seeks to provide THE Web3 alternative to YouTube. Learn why DeeStream could be in line for parabolic profits in 2024, regardless of whether Bitcoin and Ethereum perform well.

Will ICON ever make a comeback?ICON is the native token of the Layer-1 ICX blockchain, founded at the height of the 2017 bull market. ICX is an interoperability-focused project featuring the ICON Cross-Chain Framework that enables cross-chain development. ICON last hit all-time highs in January 2018, when it peaked at $13.16 per ICON token. Since then, however, ICON token prices have plummeted to 98.2% below their previous all-time highs, changing hands at $0.24 as of press time. However, ICON holders and prospective investors looking for a retest of its all-time highs in 2024 and 2025 will be better off investing in low-cap gems without a chance to undergo a proper bull market yet—including DeeStream.

Cardano continues to lag behind other altcoinsCardano was a big-time performer in the previous bull cycle after breaching all-time highs of $3.09 back in September 2021. However, since then, Cardano has been among the worst performers of any of the top-20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. As of press time, Cardano was trading at $0.49, far below its September 2021 all-time highs. Cardano, in fact, isn’t any closer to hitting $1 ever since scaling heights of $0.77 in March.

DeeStream seeks to make waves as the “YouTube of Web3”DeeStream is among the hottest new presale investment opportunities of 2024, with the projects building the premier Web3 alternative to streaming platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Kick, and TikTok. As of stage 2 of its presale, DeeStream is putting up its DST token for sale at just $0.06, indicating what could be a perfect entry opportunity into a project with 100x potential. DeeStream has the talent, team, and tech to establish itself as the “YouTube of Web3” with its robust, full-featured live video streaming and distribution platform paired with blockchain technology and principles.

DeeStream will enable content creators to publish and distribute premium, studio-quality content without the exploitative and censorious practices associated with traditional platforms. Using its native token DST, both content creators and audiences will have access to diverse monetization and engagement opportunities. Content creators could earn more using the myriad of Web3-based earning opportunities, while early adopters will be entitled to passive income from a revenue share on platform fees. With industry insiders forecasting a potential 20x to 100x increase for DeeStream, there’s no better time to join the launch than right now.

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[PRESS RELEASE – Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 18th, 2026]

ICON Amsterdam today announced that it closed 2025 with its strongest financial performance to date, marking a milestone year following a period of internal restructuring and operational realignment. The company also confirmed that it is preparing to explore expansion into the United States in 2026.

According to the company, 2025 revenue reached record levels compared to prior years. Leadership attributes the performance to refined product focus, tighter inventory management, improved departmental accountability, and strengthened coordination between marketing, operations, and product teams.

The milestone follows a period earlier in the decade marked by rapid scaling, rising costs, and internal coordination challenges that affected cash flow and alignment. In response, the company initiated a structured operational review instead of continuing accelerated expansion.

As part of this process, ICON updated its performance tracking systems, clarified departmental responsibilities, and introduced standardized operating procedures to support more consistent execution. According to leadership, the company adjusted its growth strategy to prioritize operational stability and the development of repeatable processes over rapid expansion.

“Growth must be supported by structure,” said Samuel Onuha, Founder of ICON Amsterdam. “The focus over the past two years has been on strengthening the fundamentals of the business.”

In addition to reporting record performance for 2025, ICON confirmed it is evaluating phased entry into the U.S. market in 2026. The company indicated that any expansion would be incremental and aligned with existing operational capacity.

ICON is also preparing for the opening of its first physical retail presence in Amsterdam. While details remain under review, the initiative would represent a transition from a primarily direct-to-consumer model toward a blended retail approach.

Leadership emphasised that the company intends to maintain a measured growth strategy moving forward, prioritising operational discipline and financial sustainability.

Further updates regarding retail development and international expansion are expected to be shared in 2026.

About ICON Amsterdam

Founded in 2018, ICON Amsterdam is a Netherlands-based direct-to-consumer menswear company focused on modern tailoring and stretch-engineered apparel. The company operates primarily online and serves customers across Europe and international markets. ICON emphasises structured operations, product consistency, and disciplined growth strategy.

PANews reported on May 25th that the public blockchain project ICON Network will officially shut down and permanently cease operations on December 31, 2026, retaining only read-only historical query functionality. The deadline for migrating tokens from ICX to SODA is the same day; transactions after this date will no longer be possible. From September 30, 2026, the migration channel will be adjusted to only support one-way exchanges from ICX to SODA. The official statement indicates that this marks the project's full transition to the cross-chain execution and liquidity infrastructure SODAX. Currently, it has connected to 18 networks and migrated all of ICON's protocol-owned liquidity to SODAX for cross-chain exchanges, lending, and other businesses. Users holding ICX must complete the migration through SODA Exchange before the deadline; centralized exchanges will gradually support automatic conversion in the future.

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Ishan Garg Posted On July 2, 2019

[Beijing, Jul 1] Leading public blockchain Aurora Chain (token: AOA) publish new feature – Upgradable Block, bring more flexibility and utility to the public chain landscape. Developers using Aurora chain will be able to enjoy the lasted feature that Aurora brings. This upgrade can also reduce cases of hard forking.

Cases of hard forking are rather abundant during the industry’s short history. Take Bitcoin for an example, it now has more than 6 hard forks including Bitcoin Classic and Bitcoin cash. Furthermore, the already forked Bitcoin Cash forked again last year by it’s two major mining pools, creating BCHABC and BCHSV.

Hard forks can be a good way to gain attention in twitter wars, it ultimate lowered the utility of bitcoins and undermines its mining capability. For more up-to-date and advanced blockchains, this could potentially be catastrophic. Hence, the Aurora tech team came up with a solution that can lower this risk.

Basically, the solution requires mining agents or agent candidates to vote for upgrading the blockchain within a 14 days limit. When votes for an upgrade exceeds the total number of voting agents and agent candidates, this upgrade passes and a block height will be chosen for implementing the new upgrade.

An upgrade should include URL of the version released on Github, the version code, description of the update and md5 information of the new upgrade.

When the upgrading program on the network received upgrading request, it will automatically retrieve the new release and proceed to verify this version. Once the verification is successful, the test network will be activated.

Users can try this new version on the test. If any problems or glitches happened before the implementation of the release, the agent that requested the upgrade can put the upgrade to a halt. Until the halt is revoked, the upgrade will not be carried out even if the network reaches the agreed block height.

The solution has two smart contracts and an upgrade control:

Smart contract A manages the upgrade smart contract, which is smart contract B. It can substitute the old version of the blockchain code with the new one

Smart contract B regulates the process of voting and retrieving of an upgrade. It supervises 5 major parts of the solution:

Agents and Agent node candidate votingsOther mining agents or agent candidates participating in the voting processThe upgrade is passed when “Yes” votes exceed 2/3 of the total number of the mining agents and agent candidatesThe agent that requests the upgrade can halt the upgrading process in case of emergencyThe agent that requests the upgrade can resume the upgrading processUpgrading control has three purposes:

oversee the who network, supervise the initiation, processing, and pausing/abanding the upgrade.Monitor the communication between contract A and contract b,Optimize the concurrence of Testnet and Mainnet.Upgradable chain markes a major step for the Aurora team. It could be the antidote to the scalability issues that the industry is facing. Aurora network is faster than most public chains. “Upgradable Blockchain” further boosts versatility and utility of Aurora chain based decentralized apps.

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Aurora makes a breakthrough in the Blockchain world. By applying DPOS+BFT consensus mechanisms, we create lightning-fast contracts to link industries such as gaming, big data, artificial intelligence and IoT. Aurora offers unique intelligent application isolation, enabling multi-chain parallel expansion and an unlimited increase of TPS with guaranteed security.

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The cryptocurrency market doesn’t appear to be in the best of shape. Most cryptocurrencies are losing large chunks of value in the last 24 hours, and the total market capitalization has dropped with $6 billion in a few days to the current level of $187 B.

The second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, is among the worst-performing altcoins. ETH lost over 7% during the last day, and it’s currently trading at $132. Its latest hard fork, called Istanbul, was released a week ago, but it doesn’t seem to have a positive effect on the price as of yet.

Ripple’s price has been struggling for months, and now it went as low as $0,19 on Bitfinex, before bouncing back to the current level of $0,196. It broke below the strong support level at $0,215 earlier this week, and if it closes below $0,20, the next one will be at $0,185. Last time XRP was under $0,20 was back in 2017 before it skyrocketed to its all-time high of $3,80.

The situation with other major altcoins is not any different. Litecoin is below $40, EOS has lost almost 8%, and it’s at $2,34, and Binance Coin has decreased to $13,08, which is a 10% decline since yesterday. Somewhat unsurprisingly, only one digital asset is green in the top 10, and that’s Tezos. XTZ continues its positive trend as of late surging with 4.5% against BTC and 2% against the dollar.

CryptoMarket. Source: Coin360 As far Bitcoin goes, it’s down with 2.7% to $6,870 on Bitstamp but also tested the $6,800 support level, which managed to keep its stance. If it keeps going down, $6,500 is the next level, and if it reverses, the first resistance is $7,000. With so much blood in the altcoin market, BTC’s dominance is actually increasing, and it has reached 67.2%, after being at 66.4% three days ago.

Total Market Capitalization: $187 B | Bitcoin Market Capitalization: $125 B | Bitcoin Dominance: 67.2%

Major Crypto Headlines The Next Crypto Trend for Exchanges? Coinbase Is Now The Largest Tezos Validator. Tezos is quickly rising as a favorite within the community, and the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange, Coinbase, has become the largest validator for XTZ. People began wondering if this could be the newest trend and if users will be able to choose a specific baker.

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Significant Daily Gainers and Losers Waves (26%) WAVES rises above all other cryptocurrencies in the top 100 with its increase with 26% against the dollar, and it’s currently trading at $0.89. Moreover, it skyrockets with almost 30% against Bitcoin to 12840 SAT. The company recently published an updated explaining how Waves staking works, and it also conducted a Twitter giveaway.

Fetch.ai (12.9%) FET is next on the list, with almost 13% gain against USD. The rise to $0.05 also means that the market cap has reached $34,5 M, and with so many altcoins losing value, FET has broken into the top 100. It surges with 16% against Bitcoin to 765 SAT. The company is set to launch its mainnet today and apparently has attracted severe attention to itself.

Aurora (-27.40%) While red is the predominant color, AOA has taken the lead with its loss of over 27% in the last 24 hours. The current price is $0,0048, and the market cap has plunged to $31,7 M, which actually threatens Aurora’s place in the top 100. Oddly enough, the drop comes a day after the popular crypto exchange, Bithumb, announced a 40,000,000 AOA airdrop event to take place this week.

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Internet penetration has reached so far that, currently, more than half of the world’s population has an Internet connection. Today, everything is migrating toward the Internet, including businesses, education, communication, and, of course, jobs. For example, the segment of global e-retail sales amounted to $2.8 trillion last year. You don’t need to drive to the office every day or follow corporate rules anymore; everyone is free to work online and follow their own schedule. That's why the number of freelancers increases every year; there are currently 53 million freelancers in the US alone. 

Finding a freelance job online is becoming easier, and this trend is likely to increase in the coming years. Thus it’s very important that freelancers and their employers could have a reliable platform where they could communicate, make deals, and accept payments for the work they do, minimizing the risk of fraud. 

There will always be the problem of trust. On one hand, there are a lot of malevolent people who would leave a freelancer without payment after receiving the results of his/her work. On the other hand, many people would take money with great pleasure and disappear without moving a finger to do the job they were tasked with. That's why it's necessary to have an arbitrary third party, a freelancing platform that keeps the funds in its custody when two parties agree on a task only to release it upon completion (or solve the dispute).

Source: websiteplanet.com

Undoubtedly, freelancing platforms are priceless for those who don't have regular employers and have to deal with new, unknown customers everyday. But they also have a handful of hidden problems. 

Global freelance platforms: pros and consCurrently, any freelancer can find a job that would suit his/her skills on many sites:

Upwork is a platform targeted to IT professionals  Fiverr has many different categories, but it's famous for its cheap, creative freelancers from around the world Freelancer is the oldest platform and includes many categories Peopleperhour is a lesser known platform, which can be an alternative to the previously listed ones  Guru.com has some rare categories, including legal  If you have any skills that could be sold online, there's a chance that you'll be able to find a task on any of these platforms. But there’s also a chance that you'll face problems with employers who may try to persuade you to accept other forms of payment outside of the safety of the platform, and after doing the work they will refuse to pay. Not only are the employers are abusing the system, but freelancers can often deliver low-quality work and still demand payment, as the platform only counts the fact that the task has been delivered, not that it is quality work. And to top it off, both parties face fees up to 20-30%, taken by the platforms for its middleman services.

So, the problem of trust isn’t fully solved by existing solutions. They’re good, but they have flaws. Perhaps blockchain technology could be a better alternative? 

Smart contracts improving the freelance experienceWhat is a smart contract? It’s basically a program that contains the condition of its execution. 

Person A places a reward in the form of cryptocurrency and a condition. If Person B fulfills the condition the contract is executed automatically and Person B gets the reward. 

It doesn’t require trust, so the smart contract can be created between total strangers and can involve any amount of money - both parties can be assured that the deal is safe.

Source: slideshare.net/SergeiTikhomirov

For the freelance field, it's the exact thing that everyone needs. Smart contracts can bring:

Trust - Since you know for sure that the other party can’t be malicious, it locks up money in the contract in the moment of creating the contract, and if you deliver the work, you get the money released. Confidence - Freelancers can concentrate on their tasks instead of worrying about payment.  Transparency - Any smart contract can be checked. It’s publicly visible that at the certain address there’s a certain amount reserved.  So if a freelancer doesn’t believe his customer, he can take a look by himself.  Also, there are more benefits compared to centralized platforms - such as increased security. A smart contract is protected by the principle of blockchain technologies. In a brute-force attack it would take more time than our universe exists to find the correct private key containing funds. Also it’s said that the chances of hacking a wallet is equal to winning a Powerball nine times in a row. 

Decentralized freelance platformsAs blockchain technology continues to improve, more and more solutions are being introduced. We’ve picked three interesting platforms for freelancers that may serve the mission of connecting the freelance workforce with employers in the future.

The first one is Freelanex. It has the ambitious goal of creating a global, decentralized platform for all kinds of freelancers and to fight unemployment among young people. The project is integrated with Hyperledger, which is used by half of the biggest companies implementing blockchain today. Also, it uses ERC20 tokens, a universally accepted standard, as the means of payment within the platform. 

Another platform is StormX. It’s a bit different from the previous platform, because it’s designed for microtasks; participating in surveys, watching videos, trying new products, and all similar things that can be done in 5 minutes. The payments are released instantly upon task completion, from the pool reserved for a task by a person/company who creates it. The platform has its own Storm Tokens working on Ethereum network, but it also supports payouts Bitcoin and Ethereum. 

CryptoTask is a more traditional freelance platform, supporting all standard categories you may find on a centralized freelance site, such as freelancer.com. It works on the Aeternity blockchain and it targets the eastern European and African countries such as Kenya and Croatia. The platform works as a decentralized app containing a system of smart contracts, which defines how all participants interact.

For those people who want to be able to work at the legal and global platform, the most convenient solution may be the Freelanex platform, since its competitor, CryptoTask, is oriented toward non-Westernized countries. So, what advantages does Freelanex have over all the centralized platforms? 

Nobody controls your work and your earningsFreelanex aims to provide the most user-friendly experience for all participants. That’s why it doesn’t restrict payments only to cryptocurrencies like many other blockchain services do; it supports both crypto and fiat. Those users that adopt FLXC get discounts if they create tasks, or they receive more tokens if they complete tasks. Freelancers pay an 8% fee, clients pay a 10% fee, but initially after the launch the platform will be operating without any fees. So, it might be a good idea to try it as an early adopter. 

All operations get regulated by smart contracts and operate independently in a decentralized manner, which excludes the possibility of fraud from any one party. Also, there is a KYC procedure which isn’t obligatory for freelancers, but they get a FLXC bonus for completing it. 

Also, Freelanex has a very noble incentive. They say that currently there are 73 million young men and women who don’t have a job. The platform plans to establish courses and laboratories to provide free online training for those who are unemployed for free in order to promote the freelance economy and create more jobs.

The only issue we can see with the platform is the possibility of the smart contract to be hacked, as it’s often prone to human error. Smart contracts rely on blockchain security, but if they contain any security holes due to poorly written code, it can be exploited to withdraw funds from the contract. Last year, EOS users lost more than $500,000 in EOS smart contracts because of such an exploit. That’s why it’s crucial to choose a reliable and safe platform if you want to use a decentralized solution.

ConclusionThe freelance economy, or “the gig economy” as it’s often called, is growing fast. 50 years ago, people would work at one job their whole life, but now everything has changed. The job market, thanks to the Internet, has become global, and now professionals with good skills can work and earn from any place on the planet. The more people connected to the Internet, the more jobs will be created. According to Intuit, by 2020 the number of people participating in the gig economy will grow to 43%.

Source: upwork.com

People use freelance earnings as a secondary income; some people freelance to increase their savings, in some poor countries it allows people to earn more than they would get working a normal day job. The gig economy even creates new jobs for those with disabilities. It’s highly probable that in the future everyone will be employed in a freelance activity. Forty-seven percent of Millennials are already calling themselves freelancers, more than any other generation, and there will be more and more young people accustomed to online work. All this workforce will need reliable platforms to communicate and interact, and blockchain will play a huge role in this future economy.

Bangalore, November 11, 2019: Genesis DevCon, India’s largest Blockchain Developer Conference will be held on Nov 24- 25, 2019 at NSSC, IISc, Bangalore, to commemorate the concluding chapter of the Genesis developer program. Hosted by IBC Media – growth and advisory firm for emerging technology companies, Genesis DevCon aims to create a learning environment for budding blockchain developers, by bringing the best speakers from industry, community and academia under one roof. The event will also see the launch of the Aeternity Global Starfleet programme, a corporate blockchain accelerator program as well as the announcement of the winners of the Genesis developer program.

Identifying the lack of a rich pool of blockchain developers in India, the Genesis Developers program has been working aggressively for the last 8 months to create a vibrant blockchain developer community in India. Concluding the program, Genesis DevCon will host some of the biggest leaders in the blockchain space including Yanislav Malahov, founder of Aeternity, also known as the Godfather of Etherereum, Dilip Krishnaswamy, Vice President – New Technology Initiatives, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, Loi Luu, CEO/Co-founder, KyberNetwork, Manish Bhatia, CTO, Amazon India, Avinash Pitti, CTO, Nucleus Vision, Sanjeev Narsipur, Managing Director-Blockchain, Accenture among many others.

“India is an ever-growing technology hub in the world with the second-largest pool of blockchain developers. The Genesis Developer’s program has constantly strived to build this pool of innovators in India and we, at IBC Media, are happy to be a part of this movement and to provide a platform that fosters an ecosystem of growth for blockchain in India. Genesis DevCon will be a testament to India’s potential in blockchain,” says Raghu Mohan, CEO of IBC Media

The two-day conference is being organized with the objective of bringing leaders, innovators and developers together under one roof, to share their expertise and innovations, and create a collaborative environment as well as build a strong community. It also gives attendees an opportunity to gain expertise, learn and understand the tools, new challenges and solutions for creative ideas and strategies through multiple interactive sessions, panel discussions and B2B engagement opportunities

With over 5 panel discussions, 30+ speakers, and attendees expected to attend, the event will witness a proactive interaction between developers, researchers, industry leaders and startup innovators.

For more information, visit https://theibc.events/

About IBC Media:

IBC Media is a marketing solutions company that works with emerging technology companies. Co-founded by Raghu Mohan, CEO and Kaavya Prasad, COO, IBC Media in 2018, the company offerings include Accelerator activation, Public Relations, Marketing Growth and Corporate Events.

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