Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi

By CD Read more: CoinDesk The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequential upgrade in blockchain history.Publish at: December 05, 2022 at 02:58PM

The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits

By CD Read more: CoinDesk How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Will Ess and Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui.Publish at: December 05, 2022 at 02:28PM

BIS warns of $80T in hidden off-balance sheet debt held by pension funds

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a warning that pension funds and other non-bank financial firms now hold more than $80 trillion of hidden, off-balance sheet dollar debt in the form of foreign exchange (FX) swaps. This is a staggering amount of money, and it has raised concerns about the potential risks to the global financial system. According […]