Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin discussed the future of the smart contract network at the Digital Asset Summit and said layer-2 (L2) scaling networks would continue to be central to the Ethereum ecosystem. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright, Lubin said applications will require next-generation databases powered by high-throughput blockchain technologies. The Ethereum co-founder…

The Dubai government has started the pilot phase of a project that will convert real estate assets into digital tokens on the blockchain. The Dubai Land Department (DLD), a government entity responsible for registering, organizing and promoting Dubai real estate, announced that it started the pilot phase of its real-estate tokenization project. The project was launched in…

White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks was among a number of Trump administration officials who recently met with United Arab Emirates officials to discuss emerging technologies and UAE’s potential plans to increase its investment in the United States. Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Gulf nation’s national security adviser and brother of…