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If you accept doubts about the approaching of crypto, attending no added than Las Vegas.
The Customer Technology Association’s CES is the better barter appearance in the apple and the better accident hosted in Las Vegas every year. Over 2.7 actor net aboveboard feet of display attic amplitude is set abreast for over 182,000 tech industry professionals to apprentice the latest trends in customer technology.
I collection to Las Vegas with a baby assembly aggregation to bolt up with the blockchain and cryptocurrency developments at CES 2024. As the winter formed on (registration was aftermost fall), it became bright through the programming and exhibitors that crypto is a force to be reckoned with this year.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the crypto and blockchain highlights from CES 2024 in Las Vegas.
1. Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets Are Legit Tech
Wallets and exchanges shined throughout CES, with Ledger and Trezor both assuming off their offerings. Both are accessible at above retailers and could be accretion their attendance in the bazaar in 2024.
Ledger alien the Nano X, which is a Bluetooth-enabled accouterments wallet and a footfall up from its accepted Nano S, which awash over 1.5 actor units as of the end of 2024. The Nano X can authority up to 100 crypto assets, six times added than the antecedent version. Ledger is additionally ablution the Ledger Live adaptable app that supports Nano S and Nano X users.
Meanwhile, I got a authority of a Trezor Model T and bought some Bitcoin to get started in cryptocurrency advance myself. My 2024 resolution is to advance $100 in a new altcoin every ages this year. I’ll assignment on comparing wallets added already I do.
Kevin Love from Bundil, the Shark Tank-funded crypto advance app, was additionally on duke discussing the allowances of crypto investing.
2. Retailers Are Crypto-Curious
Retail’s better pushback adjoin accepting crypto as payment is airy pricing, but they’re not necessarily adjoin blockchain technology. CES 2019 had a ambit of advisory sessions throughout the anniversary to deflate crypto for merchants.
During “The Great Crypto Debate”, MakerDAO (MKR) President Steven Becker and Bitcoin Foundation’s Brock Pierce alternate in a roundtable altercation about the activity of crypto as both bill and technology.
And Pundi X(NPXS) hit CES in a big way, assuming off its new blockchain-based buzz at CES Unveiled. Called “Function X, ” the buzz runs on Android 7.0 and the aggregation affairs to appear 5000 phones to affidavit the abstraction afore licensing their tech to added manufacturers.
If you don’t already apperceive Pundi X, it has point-of-sale accessories and a crypto wallet, which, back accumulated with this phone, creates an end-to-end, blockchain-based affiliation amid retailers and customers.
3. Esports, Media, and Marketing Are Decentralizing
Advertising, video games, and media in general are amid the arch use-cases of blockchain technology. Tracking artistic abstracts from sounds and images to added complicated assignment can be frustrating, and it’s adamantine to apperceive what’s finer extensive who at the appropriate times.
“Blockchain and Advertising: The Possibilities and Realities” commutual CTA’s Jack Cutts with Sara Bruno at Arent Fox, MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey, and Brian Wong from Kiip to altercate how blockchain technology relieves the better affliction credibility for ad agencies, including nearly $20 actor absent to ad fraud.
Casey abutting added speakers from Nexus, BTC Inc, and Ball AI in addition allocution on how blockchain is remaking the media and ball business.
And gaming (especially esports) could be begin all over the CES floor, from conferences account how developers like Blizzard are adapting to avant-garde agenda economies to accouterments companies like Nvidia, Razer, and Intel featuring pro gamers at their booths.
4. The Future Is Mobile-First
Blockchain is a axiological technology in the approaching IoT environment, and CES 2024 fabricated this actual clear. IBM’s Jason Kelley and EY’s Louise Keely were amid the participants CBS’s Teena Maddox batten with about cities about the apple dipping their toes in blockchain technology.
From acute cities to accumulation alternation and operations, blockchain technology is alive with IoT to actualize a mobile-first world.
Autonomous cars, aerial drones, home entertainment, apprentice and voice-activated assistants, acute homes, and so abundant added technology was on display. It’s added bright than anytime that we’ll be affiliated to technology wherever we go.
5. ICOs Are Complicated
We cannot possibly say abundant about the about-face from ICOs to STOs in 2024 and beyond. If you don’t apperceive why, CES 2024 had a decidedly agitating 90-minute affair called “True Confessions: ICOs, Crypto, Tokens and VCs” with Yahoo Finance/USA Today’s Rob Pegoraro discussing the pitfalls of ICOs with bodies who lived through them.
Tim Draper (Tezos), Matthew Roszak (Bloq), and Sam Trautwin (Carbon) were amid the bodies discussing their experiences. Draper has by far the best absorbing story, and if you’re not accustomed with the Tezos soap opera already, bang the articulation above. What’s alike added absorbing is the acquaint learned. None of the speakers are affairs aback from crypto – they’re aloof applying the acquaint abstruse and affective forward.
And that’s what gives me achievement for blockchain and cryptocurrency affective against 2024. Everyone has their duke in it, and the projects accept gotten as adult as any added technology at CES this year.
We’re in the appropriate business.
The columnist is (finally!) invested in agenda assets, including Bitcoin, which is mentioned in this article.
