Ed3 Weekly Issue #125: It's a Web3 World

Global applications of blockchain is increasing adoption

Hello Ed3 Community,

We live in a global society. Our work, travel, and socialization happen across boundaries, both national and geographical.

The web3 space is no different.

With each passing issue of Ed3 Weekly, this has become more evident as more and more of the resources I share come from innovations in new corners of this global network.

Some recent highlights have been crypto education in Argentina, web3 growth in Japan, and metaverse platforms in Africa. If you look back across the one-hundred and twenty-four issues of Ed3 Weekly, there are numerous other examples of web3’s global presence.

The global theme continues in this week’s issue with news from outside the United States. We hear about a study in Australia that provides evidence of the limits of AI adoption to support work efficiency, a movement to increase crypto literacy in Indonesia, and a web3 gaming company from the Marshall Islands.

Finally, in this week’s deep dive, I share a little about the blockchain scene in my home, Hawaiʻi.

Blockchain is going global. As educators, we are responsible for engaging our students in emerging changes across our globe and helping them best understand how to participate in these changes.

There’s no better way than to educate ourselves on new technology trends outside our borders.

Enjoy the articles for this week, see the links and summaries of the resources below. And don’t forget to check out my summary of this week’s resources on the Ed3 Weekly Podcast.

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🤖 AI News

Australian government trial finds AI is much worse than humans at summarizing

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🔗 Australia's Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found that the summaries it was able to get from the Llama2-70B model were judged as significantly worse than those provided by humans. Read

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💰 Crypto News

Tether Collaborates with Reku to Strengthen Crypto Literacy in Indonesia

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🔗 Tether Operations Limited, the largest company in the digital asset industry, and Reku, a crypto exchange platform, are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration to broaden Indonesians’ understanding of crypto assets and blockchain technology. Read

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🌐 Web 3 News

Revolutionizing Web3 Education Through Gaming: Inside the Astro Armadillos Experience

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🔗 Astro Armadillos focuses on making learning engaging through its Stargating game. Players encounter challenges that help them learn about Web3 concepts like blockchain networks, smart contracts, and decentralized finance (DeFi). Read

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🤿 Weekly Deep Dive

The first-ever Hawaii Blockchain Summit

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Hawaiʻi has had a windy road with crypto adoption. Back in 2014, the state’s Division of Financial Institutions implemented some pretty strict policies related to crypto accessibility. I remember trying to buy Bitcoin back then and running into hurdle after hurdle. Oh, I wish I could have figured it out! Note that Bitcoin was fluctuating between $500-1000 per coin back then! But I digress.

Since then Hawaiʻi has gone from being open to adoption to shutting its doors again. Thankfully earlier this year Hawaiʻi finally welcomed crypto into the financial space. According to a news article from KITV.com earlier this year, “The State Division of Financial Institutions decided that cryptocurrency exchanges in Hawaii do not have to comply with the state’s money transmitter law, which had required the exchanges to hold cash reserves equal to their digital assets.”

This aligns well with the first-ever Blockchain conference happening in Honolulu next week. Organized by Ellen Ng from Inoa.ai the purpose of Hawaiʻi Blockchain Summit 2024 is, “Bringing together Web3 founders, investors and builders.”

Hawaii Now Daily describes the event as “20+ speakers from Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, bringing with them a vast array of industry know-how and representing different roles within the Web3 industry including developers, remote workers from large blockchain companies headquartered outside of Hawaii, investors and founders.” You can watch this video with Ellen as one of the main sponsors here.

I’ll be reporting back with some more info on this event as I am honored to be one of the session facilitators on “Blockchain for Community & Social Impact.”

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