Juan Manuel Sobral
Juan Manuel leads the technical vision at SpaceDev with deep expertise in smart contracts, decentralized protocols, and scalable backend systems. He's a frequent speaker on blockchain at conferences across the Americas.
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Blockchain Trends
How to Launch an RWA Protocol: A Founder's Guide to Tokenizing Real-World Assets in 2026
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Blockchain Trends
What Is a Layer 1 Blockchain? Architecture, Examples and What Builders Need to Know
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Blockchain Trends
Blockchain and AI Convergence in 2026: How Distributed Ledgers Make AI More Trustworthy
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Blockchain Trends
The Role of Smart Contracts in DeFi: How They Work, What They Power, and Why Security Is Non-Negotiable
Smart contracts are the engine behind every DeFi protocol. This guide covers how they work, the types that power lending, DEXs and governance and what the 2026 security landscape looks like.
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Blockchain Trends
How Real World Assets Are Reshaping Decentralized Finance
Decentralized finance has been evolving with striking speed. DeFi is starting to connect with real world, traditional economic activity through tokenized real-world assets.
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Blockchain Trends
What Are Memecoins in Crypto?
A clear-eyed look at memecoins: what they are, why they keep working, what risks they carry, and how they fit (or don't) into a serious Web3 portfolio.
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Blockchain Trends
Save Time With a Smart Contract Audit Checklist
A practical pre-audit checklist that we use at SpaceDev's BlockAudit to cut audit time by 30–50%. Use it before you ship your code to any auditor.
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Blockchain Trends
Zero-Knowledge Rollups for RWAs: Architecture, Costs, Pitfalls
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are no longer fringe crypto concepts. As of mid-2025, analytics show roughly $26.5B in RWAs live on public chains. Here's how ZK rollups fit into that infrastructure.
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AI
Meta Bets Big on Superintelligence: What It Means for the Future of AI
Mark Zuckerberg just erased any doubt that AI is the battleground of the future. Meta's commitment of hundreds of billions to superintelligence infrastructure fundamentally reshapes the competitive landscape.
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Blockchain Trends
Why MetaMask Embedded Wallets Are a Game-Changer for Web3 Onboarding
At SpaceDev, we spend our days helping teams bring ambitious Web3 ideas to life. And if there's one thing we've consistently seen, it's how crucial a smooth onboarding experience is for user retention.
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Blockchain Trends
Goldman Sachs Bets Big on AI and Blockchain
On June 23, 2025, Goldman Sachs launched its GS AI Assistant firmwide. Combined with a fifteenfold expansion in digital asset M&A, the bank is writing a new chapter in the future of finance.
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AI
Optimize Your Sales with a Multi-Agent AI System
Nowadays, the success of a business depends on immediacy and efficiency. An artificial intelligence system based on a multi-agent architecture is bound to have the highest impact in customer service and sales optimization.
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Upgrading Customer Service with a WhatsApp Bot
A very easy and effective tool to take your company's customer service to the next level is an AI-powered WhatsApp bot. Acting as the first point of contact, it can automatically respond to most customer inquiries, increasing service quality and providing support 24/7.
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AI
Vibe Coding: Hype, Help, or Hazard?
A new buzzword is spreading across engineering teams, hackathons, and overcrowded techy Discords: vibe coding. Depending on who you ask, it's either the most exciting thing to happen to software development since Git, or the beginning of the end for programming quality as we know it.
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Blockchain Trends
What Are Real-World Assets (RWAs)? Types, Benefits and Examples
Real World Assets are physical or traditional financial assets that are increasingly being represented on blockchain networks. This tokenization process improves liquidity, accessibility, transparency, and efficiency in asset trading.
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Blockchain Trends
Decentralizing the Music Industry
Blockchain technology has the potential to address the many issues affecting the current music industry by providing greater transparency and more equitable terms in royalty distribution.
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Blockchain Trends
Changing the Lens on the Future of Crypto: LATAM's Promising Future
Latin America is emerging as a key player in the crypto and blockchain space, driven by economic instability, limited banking access, and a vibrant community of developers and entrepreneurs.
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Blockchain Trends
Exploring Dencun, Ethereum's Latest Breakthrough
The cryptoverse is surfing the ripples of Ethereum's latest upgrade! Known as Dencun, it represents a significant milestone towards scalability and efficiency for users and developers alike.
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Blockchain Trends
Blockchain and the Film Industry: Decentralized Pictures
Decentralized Pictures is a nonprofit redefining film financing through blockchain, empowering a global community to decide which films get made, a revolutionary model backed by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope.
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Blockchain Trends
Wallet Connections
As web3 ecosystems continue to grow and evolve, digital wallets have become indispensable to interact with decentralized applications (dApps). This article explores wallet types, web3 libraries, and SDKs for seamless connection.
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Product Development
How We Built NDAX: The Biggest Cryptocurrency Exchange in Canada
Frowning upon the mention of 'blockchain' might be a thing of the past, but actually integrating it into a traditional economic system is far from easy. Here's how SpaceDev built Canada's most prominent crypto exchange.
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Blockchain Trends
From Web3 to Web5 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace True Decentralization
When Web3 started facing criticism for not being truly decentralized, Jack Dorsey proposed Web5. Here's a deep dive into what Web5 actually is and why it matters.
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Blockchain Trends
Simply Put: What is Blockchain?
Although people often associate it with bitcoin and cryptocurrency, blockchain is a flexible technology with a vast potential. Here's a clear-eyed introduction to what it is and why it matters.
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