Facebook’s Diem is closer but it’s still a boring stablecoin

Diem will work similarly to payments services like PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App. Except, those support Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Harvard professor’s genome NFT hints at our dystopian crypto-future

If tokenizing genomes and selling them as NFTs becomes a real thing — some DNA sequences would inevitably be more valuable than others.

CBDC critics suggest governments find the tech interesting because it allows economic surveillance unattainable with regular digital cash.

There’s five Dogecoin whales sitting on more than 1 billion DOGE. Only two look like they’ve been selling on the way up.

The most interesting reads, podcasts, charts, and opinions from the internet this weekend — curated for you by the Protos newsroom.