CoinDesk Podcast Network Yorke Rhodes on Why Credible Neutrality is the Safety Net
Dec 15, 2025
Yorke Rhodes III, Co-founder of Blockchain at Microsoft, dives into the evolution of technology through credible neutrality. He discusses how AI agents and stablecoins are reshaping decentralized innovation and driving instant liquidity. Emphasizing the importance of digital provenance, he warns against the centralization that plagued Web2. Yorke also shares insights on tokenization, new business models for creators, and the ethical implications of media in the blockchain age. Join him as he explores the intersection of technology and trust.
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Early Microsoft–ConsenSys Collaboration
- Yorke Rhodes III described partnering with ConsenSys in 2015 to ship an early Visual Studio plugin.
- The project launched in about three months and jumpstarted Microsoft's formal blockchain learning.
Provenance Is Becoming Nonnegotiable
- Yorke sees provenance as essential to solving synthetic media and evidentiary problems.
- He believes credibility, censorship resistance, and permanence are rising public priorities.
Follow Customer Signals And Regulatory Clarity
- Monitor customer signals from financial services to guide enterprise blockchain adoption.
- Treat regulatory clarity as a key enabler before scaling production offerings.
