🏹 Robinhood Crypto Launch; Cellarius Vision; Usability in crypto; Walmart, Blockchain, & Food; Coconut Cryptography Paper

The first set of Robinhood customers can buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum with Robinhood Crypto, starting today.

The Cellarius Universe (CX) is an original, transmedia cyberpunk franchise that leverages blockchain technology and user-generated assets to create a collaborative, fan-curated story.

Things like empathy, usability and user experience design have to become priorities of those early creators in this space.

One of Walmart’s grandest projects is an attempt to graft a blockchain onto the world’s complex food supply chains. Walmart has roped in some of the industry’s biggest players, among them fruit producer Dole, consumer goods giant Unilever, and Swiss water and food conglomerate Nestle, to form a consortium of 10 food producers and retailers to make it a reality. They’re building the technology with IBM.

Coconut can be used by modern blockchains to ensure confidentiality, authenticity and availability even when a subset of credential issuing authorities are malicious or offline.