France passes Batman-like surveillance law granting police access to your phone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You want to keep things private. So do the criminals. The government needs to catch the crims, so now French Police can extend their eyes and ears into your phones. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
OMA3 offers users a way to easily travel between Metaverse worlds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Until now travelling between different Metaverse platforms and taking your digital stuff and assets with you has been hard, now it’s less hard … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
The Russian Central Bank says digital currencies could spell the end of the SWIFT network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Governments are increasingly using the SWIFT network to enforce sanctions on countries, so it’s no surprise that Russia wants to put an end to SWIFT – and they have a plan. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
UK banks are clamouring for a national platform for tokenised securities
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tokenisation is an odd technology, but it will open the door to new asset classes and markets worth over $100 Trillion. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Researchers smash 1.7 Petabits a second through novel 19 core fiber optic cable
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the world demands more data our networks need to be able to handle it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Researchers in Japan and...
T-Mobile teams with crypto carrier Helium to help people make money on the side
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating crypto-mining routers that lets T-Mobile offload their cellular data to a mesh network based backhaul operator T-Mobile’s customers can now make money by helping transfer other people’s data. Weird but cool. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself...
HeatBit is a crypto mining space heater that could help out with UBI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Can we harness everything that has computing power to mine crypto and make real money? Some people think so … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
TurboToad Memecoin created by ChatGPT hit $250 Million valuation in two weeks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are in a new world of business where the old rules of creating value largely no longer apply and where future entrepreneurs could be AI. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
NASA smashes speed records with new space to ground communications system
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As satellite systems are increasingly used to blanket the Earth in connectivity fast connections will be crucial. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A group...
New breakthrough sees researchers send a quantum radio signal over tens of kilometers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum communication networks are seen as the future gold standard of unhackable communications networks and now they’re functioning over greater distances. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
India’s RuPay introduces CVV-less payments for tokenised cards
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all hate CVV codes but they’re a necessary evil, now though using Web 3.0 and tokenisation technologies RuPay has found a way to keep you safe while eliminating the need to ever use them again. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
Move to Earn Solana app is crypto’s latest gaming craze
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to the future of money we could be talking about moves, reading articles, or any kind of “value” – not just the US Dollar or Sterling. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Zimbabwe launches a gold backed cryptocurrency to diminish the Dollar
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many countries that are trying to reduce their reliance on the US Dollar, and they’re using all kinds of means to achieve it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
The popular MiamiCoin experiment is crashing hard
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The experiment to see if the city could use cryptocurrency to eliminate taxes on its citizens has been a success but it’s crashing hard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Mastercard launch their first quantum computer proof contactless card
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers could hack 70% of the world’s encryption faster than you can read this article, so our payment cards need to be ready. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Tokenised gold surpasses $1 Billion in market cap for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tokenised gold is a new form of Web 3.0 digital asset that’s backed by gold, and it shows just how much technology is changing assets and money. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Chinese government announces more workers will be paid using its new CBDC
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CBDC’s let governments cut fraud, track transactions, and increases financial surveillance, and China is at the forefront of deploying the technology. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
EU mulls offline CBDC transactions to help users maintain privacy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CBDC’s would let the government see every transaction you make, which could be used to stimulate the economy, cut fraud, and “spy” on people, so the EU is thinking hard about how to please privacy critics. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
DAO’s could soon get legal standing under new California law
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DAO’s are a “newish” form of decentralised or “headless” organisation and California wants to profit and benefit from them so is introducing new legislation to approve and regulate them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Golden shares let China’s government take control of big tech
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China and many others think big tech companies are far too influential and powerful, so by taking Golden Shares in them China’s government can now control them and veto decisions. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
