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In this Edge of Weekly, The Edge Of Co. team had an unforgettable experience at TOKEN2049 Dubai, one of the most important Web3 events of the year. Institutions x Blockchain: How Leaders are Powering the Next Phase of Web3. MagicBlog’s new AI Answer Hub gets your content featured in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and beyond.

✨Edge Of Co. at TOKEN2049 Dubai:
Where Crypto Meets the Future

📰 TOKEN2049 Dubai 2025: A Landmark Week in Web3
April 30 – May 1 | Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

The Edge Of Co. team had an incredible time at TOKEN2049 Dubai 2025, one of the year’s most influential Web3 gatherings. With 15,000+ attendees, the event showcased the future of crypto, AI, and decentralized tech.

🔹 Event Highlights:

• 🌍 Global turnout from 150+ countries

• 🎤 Speakers included Binance CEO Richard Teng, Arthur Hayes, Jeremy Allaire (Circle), Paolo Ardoino (Tether), Eric Trump, Raoul Pal, and Balaji Srinivasan

• 🧠 Topics: DeFi, institutional crypto, Web3 x AI, and digital assets

• 🏙️ Dubai confirmed its role as a rising crypto capital

• 🎉 Wrapped up with the epic AFTER 2049 party at Be Beach DXB

We left inspired, energized, and ready to keep building.

We’re deeply grateful to the organizers, speakers, partners, and everyone who made this event so special. It was a privilege to learn, connect, and share space with the brightest minds in the industry.

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Institutions x Blockchain: How Leaders Are Powering the Next Phase of Web3

FEATURING:
⚫Olivia Vande Woude & Amy Zhao (Ava Labs)
⚫John Motzel (Kaiko)
⚫Shyam Nagarajan (CEO, Hedera)

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Live from the Digital Asset Summit 2025 in NYC, The Edge Of Show sat down with trailblazers from Ava Labs, Kaiko, and Hedera to unpack the future of institutional blockchain adoption, on-chain finance, data integrity, and AI x crypto convergence.

🧠 Key Themes in This Episode:

• Why enterprises are choosing Avalanche for tokenized money markets

• AvaCloud’s game-changing blockchain-as-a-service model (L1 in 15 minutes!)

• How Kaiko powers institutional-grade DeFi data for BlackRock & Bloomberg

• Why Hedera is positioning itself as the trust layer for AI

• What tokenization really means in 2025 — and who’s leading it

👤 Guest Spotlights:

Olivia Vande Woude, Business Development, Ava Labs
– Ex–T. Rowe Price investor
– Focused on institutional & capital markets blockchain use cases

Amy Zhao, Solutions Architect, Ava Labs
– Led AvaCloud product for L1 deployment
– Former blockchain consultant at Deloitte

John Motzel, U.S. Head, Kaiko
– TradFi veteran
– Helping institutions navigate DeFi with normalized, compliant data

Shyam Nagarajan, CEO, Hedera
– 22-year IBM leader turned Web3 visionary
– Driving Hedera’s push into AI, tokenization, and DeFi

Ava Labs, Kaiko, and Hedera are media partners. Edge of Company exchanged media services for this content.

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