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Why stablecoins are Silicon Valley's Pandora's box

Despite piggybacking on the dollar and often sharing the same blockchain, out of the box their smart contracts remain stubbornly non-interoperable and therefore non-fungible.

Each coin is a brand—and combined with the network effects inherent in money itself, winner-takes-all dynamics emerge. Already, two giants rule: Tether commands a $159 billion market capitalisation - 61% of the market - while Circle's USD Coin holds $62 billion or 24%.

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Wessel Janse van Rensburg Wessel Janse van Rensburg

The political economy of AI

Size matters in AI. The importance of scale and its cost has implications as to who will benefit most from AI, and it will be felt from geopolitics to competitiveness to the structure of our economies.

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