The HackerNoon Newsletter: Startups, Meet Your New Distribution Channel: AI (9/18/2025)

Phoenix Group published a report on the highest ranking RWA crypto projects on social activity, based on LunarCrush insights. Chainlink leads the rankings.

The post Charlie Kirk’s Murder, MAGA Fallout, And Crypto Industry’s Silence appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The crypto industry is facing criticism for insufficient support of free speech. After Charlie Kirk’s murder last week, the community has been silent on Trump’s new wave of McCarthyist mass firings. Many of the same personalities who spent President Biden’s term defending free speech are either silent or actively gloating about this situation. One thing is certain: crypto has changed in the last few years. Sponsored Sponsored Crypto, Free Speech, and Charlie Kirk Bitcoin was invented with libertarian principles to be trustless and borderless, and free speech has long been a crucial issue for the crypto community. Many prominent community figures strenuously pushed back against deplatforming under Biden’s Presidency, calling it a free speech violation. Now, however, a new crisis clearly shows how far the space has transformed. Since the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk last week, President Trump has stirred up a mass firing campaign, targeting teachers, government workers, and ordinary citizens for alleged social media comments. Last night, the FCC threatened ABC with the removal of its license, compelling the channel to cancel a popular talk show. This seems like a pretty open-and-shut free speech issue, but many crypto leaders apparently don’t see it that way. The main reaction has been silence, causing some industry veterans to criticize this apparent hypocrisy. It’s very telling that all of the advocacy groups in crypto who claimed “money is speech” when Roman Storm was tried in the Tornado Cash trial are silent now Crypto is about protecting freedoms in government overreach. Free speech is under attack and you’re afraid to stand up? — Zack Guzmán (@zGuz) September 18, 2025 Since the crypto community rallied in support of free speech earlier this year, even winning significant support, this silence is particularly noteworthy. Sponsored Sponsored These same leaders are often very close to…

The post DeSci Seoul 2025: Shaping the Future of AI, Data, and Decentralized Science appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. On September 22, 2025, the AI X Data Summit by DeSci Seoul 2025 will take place in Seoul, bringing together global leaders, innovators, and researchers at the forefront of next-generation scientific innovation. The summit will explore in depth how artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain-secured data infrastructures will transform research, collaboration, and innovation. The conference will feature keynote speeches and panel discussions by world-class speakers, structured around five core sessions. The first panel, “DeSci × AI”, will examine how AI can be applied across scientific domains such as protocol design, lab automation, real-time hypothesis generation, and open lab robotics. The second panel, “Biohacking & Longevity,” will focus on breakthroughs in life extension research, new collaborative models in the longevity field, and decentralized funding mechanisms that can support them. The third panel, “Healthcare, AI, Web3,” will address the pressing challenges of secure and privacy-preserving data sharing, interoperability, and finding the balance between openness and patient rights. The fourth panel, “Funding DeSci and DeAI Projects in Web3,” will contrast traditional funding structures with Web3-based models, exploring decentralized grants, IP-NFTs, and strategies for long-term revenue sustainability. Finally, the fifth panel, “Web3 Approach for AI Development and Infrastructure,” will look ahead to how foundational Web3 principles—Layer 1 blockchains, DAO governance, on-chain data verification, and censorship resistance—will shape the development of resilient and decentralized AI infrastructures. Beyond a traditional academic conference, DeSci Seoul 2025 aims to open a new scientific paradigm built on data sovereignty, AI integration, and community governance. The event is expected to provide researchers, innovators, and investors in fields such as healthcare, longevity, AI, blockchain development, and decentralized funding with practical solutions and opportunities for collaboration. As AI, data infrastructures, and decentralized science emerge as some of the most dynamic and influential sectors in the global blockchain industry, this summit is set to…