Reappointments made to the Environment Agency Board
Sarah Mukherjee and Mark Suthern have been reappointed to the Board of the Environment Agency.
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Firm involved in political scandal fined for waste fire permit breaches
Atlantic Recycling Ltd has been fined £40,000 for contravening a condition of its environmental permit for its waste site in Cardiff.
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Reappointments made to the Environment Agency Board
Sarah Mukherjee and Mark Suthern have been reappointed to the Board of the Environment Agency.
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Sarah Mukherjee and Mark Suthern have been reappointed to the Board of the Environment Agency.
The Board provides strategic, corporate leadership to the Environment Agency. Both Mukherjee and Suthern have been reappointed for a second term of twelve months. The Board for the Environment Agency currently comprises a Chair and eight members.
The Environment Agency is a Non-Departmental Public Body set up under the Environment Act 1995 and tasked with environmental protection and enhancement in England.
It has major responsibilities in flood management, water resources and quality, climate change, land quality, chemicals, pollution prevention and control, waste, conservation and biodiversity, fisheries conservation, air quality and navigation.
Sarah Mukherjee MBE is the Chief Executive of ISEP (Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals) She was also the BBC’s Environment Correspondent for many years.
Since leaving the BBC, she has been a panel member for the National Parks Review and sat on the National Food Strategy Advisory Panel. She has previously held Non-Executive Director roles at the Woodland Trust, Harper Adams University and the Oxford Farming Conference.
Mark Suthern is Chair of the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance and Environment and Business Committees.
Suthern was also formerly the Managing Director and National Head of Agriculture and Landed Estates at Barclays UK Plc. While there, he was focused on farming, agri-tech, sustainability, energy and the environment.
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Firm involved in political scandal fined for waste fire permit breaches
Atlantic Recycling Ltd has been fined £40,000 for contravening a condition of its environmental permit for its waste site in Cardiff.
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Atlantic Recycling Ltd has been fined £40,000 for contravening a condition of its environmental permit for its waste site in Cardiff.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) brought the prosecution after inspections revealed the company’s failure to manage operations in line with its own Fire Prevention and Mitigation Plan.
NRW said the offence increased the risk of fire at the site, which stores highly combustible Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and had previously experienced serious fires in 2014 and 2015.
The company continued to accept additional waste in July 2019, despite agreeing with NRW to stop, and failed to maintain the required quarantine area to manage fire risk.
How was Atlantic Recycling involved in a Welsh political scandal?
In 2024, then Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething was embroiled in controversy after it emerged that Atlantic Recycling had donated £200,000 to his campaign.
Atlantic Recycling is owned by David John Neal, 65, who received a three-month suspended sentence in 2013 after a recycling firm he owned illegally disposed of waste in a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Neal was also fined £10,000, and two of his firms were ordered to pay fines and costs of £202,000 after he pleaded guilty at Cardiff Magistrates Court.
In 2017, Neal admitted to not complying an order to remove the waste and was handed a suspended 18-week prison sentence, as well as fines and costs of £230,000.
In March 2024, Atlantic Recycling was fined £300,000 after a father-of-two was killed by a shovel loader. Anthony Bilton was killed on 4 September 2019 when he was run over from behind by a Volvo shovel loader at the firm’s Atlantic Ecopark site in Cardiff.
The HSE investigation found that although a risk assessment had been produced before the work commenced, it was ‘not suitable nor sufficient’.
Gething faced calls to return the £200,000 donation, and it was one of the factors that led to him resigning as First Minister after only four months in office.
Judge says Atlantic Recycling could have caused serious environmental consequences
At the sentencing hearing, the court fined Atlantic Recycling £40,000 and ordered the company to pay £28,000 in costs to NRW. A victim surcharge is yet to be decided.
The sentencing judge, Her Honour Judge Celia Hughes, said: “The company ran a risk of causing serious environmental consequences by cutting corners, by ignoring its own Fire Prevention and Mitigation Plan and the requirements set out by NRW, even when it was warned about its behaviour.”
“It is fortunate that nothing more serious arose from those breaches, and I am told that the company has now taken more steps to comply with its enormous responsibility to run a safe and environmentally sensitive business on Welsh land.”
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What to Do Now to Prepare for Tax Season
Preparing for tax season often seems more like a sprint than a marathon. You receive your W2 forms in the mail in late January, and then it’s
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Preparing for tax season often seems more like a sprint than a marathon. You receive your W2 forms in the mail in late January, and then it’s time to excavate your receipt shoe box and spend a stressful weekend trying to make sense of your tax return. All in all, it feels like a hurried, overwhelming, and nerve-wracking chore that you dread every year.
But what if filing your taxes didn’t have to be quite so stressful?
The trick to making your tax season a breeze is preparing for it early. As in, right now. If you want an easy and relaxed tax season, here’s what you can do now to get ready.
Make a list of the information you’ll need
One of the most frustrating moments in tax preparation is discovering you’re still missing one vital piece of information after you’ve gathered everything you thought you needed. And it’s even worse if you don’t know how to find the missing information.
So look over the specific info you need to file now, to give yourself time to gather all the items well before Tax Day. Specifically, you’ll need:
- A copy of last year’s tax return
- The Social Security or Tax ID number of every member of your household
- The income records of every member of your household
- Receipts for your deductible expenses
- Records of any taxes you’ve paid throughout the year
Putting together your list of necessary information and checking each item off as you gather it will ensure that you’re fully prepared when you finally sit down to file. (See also: The 7 Most Common Tax Questions for Beginners, Answered)
Organize your receipts
Keeping track of tax-related receipts throughout the year is one of the most difficult parts of handling your taxes. Many people throw all of their receipts for work-related expenses, charitable donations, mortgage payments, medical expenses, and interest statements in a single folder or box to deal with "later."
Now is an excellent time to dig out your receipts and start organizing them according to category. Having your receipts neatly separated now will make it easy to sort the last few that come in as the year comes to a close, and can help you get into the habit of putting them in order as you receive them.
Gather your paystubs together
Though the majority of filers will receive either a W2 or 1099 form from their employer(s), it’s still a good idea to gather your paystubs before the end of the year to get a rough idea of your income. That will help you identify any potential mistakes on your W2 or 1099 forms as soon as they arrive. It’s far better to catch a mistake early rather than find you need to request a corrected form close to the IRS deadline.
Plus, checking over your paystubs all at once gives you a chance to take a look at your federal and state tax withholding over the year, as well as any pretax contributions you’ve made to your 401(k) or IRA.
Review your W4
Another great reason to look at your paystubs now is that it gives you a chance to review your W4 with your employer.
The W4 form determines how much tax withholding is taken from each paycheck. If you expect to receive a large refund this year, you can adjust your withholding allowances now to ensure that more of your paycheck will come home with you in 2020. If, on the other hand, you worry that you may owe money because you didn’t have enough withheld, now is a good time to adjust your W4 to be sure you don’t have the same problem in the coming year. (See also: Are You Withholding the Right Amount of Taxes from Your Paycheck?)
Send more money to your retirement fund
If you have access to a tax-deferred retirement account like a 401(k) or an IRA, now is the time to see how much money you have set aside this year, and try to increase that number.
As of 2019, workers under 50 years old can save up to $19,000 in a 401(k) and up to $6,000 in an IRA. And every dollar you put into these kinds of accounts reduces the amount of income you have to pay taxes on.
Now is an excellent time to try to maximize your 2019 contribution. You have until the end of the calendar year to maximize your 2019 401(k) contribution, but you can continue contributing to your 2019 IRA until April 15, 2020.
Getting into the habit of increasing your contribution now can also help you reach the maximum in 2020, which is going up to $19,500 for 401(k) accounts, although the IRA maximum will hold steady at $6,000. (See also: 8 Tax Return Mistakes Even Smart People Make)
Plan ahead for your refund
If you expect to receive a refund this year, start thinking about the best way to use the money now. We tend to think of a tax refund as "free money," even though it’s just your own salary being returned to you. But with a free money mindset, it’s very easy to go overboard spending the refund on fun stuff, like a vacation or a new gadget.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying your tax refund, but taking a hard look at your budget and finances now can help you to determine if having fun with your refund is the best use of the money. Is there some debt you could pay down (or pay off) with the refund instead? Or is there a major goal you’re saving toward — like a down payment on a house — that would benefit from an injection of cash?
Thinking through the best use of your tax refund before you have it in your hot little hands makes it more likely you’ll make good decisions with it. Once you have the money in your possession, it’s very tempting to make it rain instead of saving for a rainy day.
Make your tax season less stressful
Getting a jump start on your filing chores will not only make tax season much easier, but it can also help you prepare for your finances in the coming year. Start 2020 on the right financial foot by starting your tax season preparation early.
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101 Blockchains Recognized in G2 Winter 2026 Reports
101 Blockchains has come a long way in the journey of transforming learners worldwide into blockchain experts with the best resources for professional blockchain training. The G2 Winter report 2026 ha
Blockchain News101 Blockchains has come a long way in the journey of transforming learners worldwide into blockchain experts with the best resources for professional blockchain training. The G2 Winter report 2026 has marked our transition to a leader among online course providers specializing in technical skills development. We have earned 31 badges in the latest report by G2, which adds more credibility to our reputation.
We are grateful to our learners for showing us that they trust 101 Blockchains and choose us over others for developing technical skills in blockchain and other technologies. Our whole team also extends heartfelt gratitude to G2 for always offering us an unbiased impression of the quality of our services. We are really excited to share our achievements with you in this post.
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G2 Reports and Credible Valuation of Our Performance
Upon reading the exciting news of the latest report by G2, we felt a great sense of accomplishment and success. Why is the new G2 report a big thing for us? G2 is the world’s leading platform where real users provide authentic feedback for software solutions. It also includes a special section for online course providers, who provide different types of learning resources for professional development.
The fact that all the G2 reports are based on reviews by real users shows the credibility of the valuation in the reports. It proves that our training courses and accredited certifications have actually helped real people achieve their career goals. The results of the new report by G2 serve as testimony to the quality of our services. Based on genuine reviews by our learners, the report tells us that learners trust our products.
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What Have We Achieved in the G2 Winter Report 2026?
We have achieved badges in the “Online Course Providers” and “Technical Skills Development” categories of the latest report by G2. On top of it, we have also earned the important “Users Love Us” badge again without breaking our streak.
Online Course Providers
The biggest highlight for us in the new report by G2 is our performance in the “Online Course Providers” category. We have achieved 15 badges in this category, with most of them being “High Performer” badges. Our record as a “High Performer” just got better as we have accomplished the same feat for small businesses and enterprise clients. G2 offers the “High Performer” badge to course providers who deliver the highest user satisfaction, based on learner reviews.
We have also achieved the “Best Support Enterprise” badge in the new report by G2. The badge serves as proof of the quality of support services that we provide to our enterprise clients. Our capability to help enterprises implement blockchain training programs for their teams with seamless support helped us earn this badge. The “Easiest Admin” badge is another promising achievement for 101 Blockchain in G2 Report that validates how easy it is to use our courses. The badge proves that businesses using our courses and certifications for professional training can monitor the learning progress and manage the learning process of teams efficiently from one place.
The biggest and newest achievement for us in the “Online Course Providers” category is the “Leader Small-Business” badge. We have found a spot in the “Leader” quadrant of the Small-Business Online Course Providers grid scoring by G2. The “Leader” badge shows that we have received high ratings for our products from small businesses. It also represents the fact that we have built a sizeable market for our courses and certification programs among small businesses.
Here are the badges we have achieved in this category –
- High Performer
- High Performer – Enterprise
- Leader – Small Business
- Best Support – Enterprise
- Easiest Admin
- High Performer – Small-Business United Kingdom
- High Performer – United Kingdom
- High Performer – EMEA
- High Performer – Small-Business Europe
- High Performer – Small-Business EMEA
- High Performer – Small-Business Asia Pacific
- High Performer – Small-Business Asia
- High Performer – Asia
- High Performer – Asia Pacific
- High Performer – Europe
Technical Skills Development
The new report by G2 also showcases us as a leading achiever in the “Technical Skills Development” category with 15 badges. We have achieved the “High Performer” and “High Performer Small-Business” badges, proving our capability to achieve the highest levels of user satisfaction. The “High Performer” badges show that we have been successful in helping learners achieve the technical skills they need for professional development.
We have also accomplished the “Best Meets Requirements” badge, which is a first for us in G2 reports. The badge validates our ability to ensure that our learning resources are aligned exactly with the needs and preferences of learners. The “Easiest Admin” badge is another notable achievement for us in the new winter report by G2. It offers proof of our excellence in helping small businesses capitalize on our resources for training their teams efficiently.
Here are the badges we have achieved in this category –
- High Performer
- High Performer Small Business
- Best Meets Requirements
- Easiest Admin
- High Performer – Southeast Asia
- High Performer – United Kingdom
- High Performer – Canada
- High Performer – Middle East & Africa
- High Performer – Europe
- High Performer – EMEA
- High Performer – Small-Business Middle East & Africa
- High Performer – Small-Business EMEA
- High Performer – Small-Business Asia
- High Performer – Small-Business Asia Pacific
- High Performer – Small-Business Europe
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Users Love Us
We cannot deny the fact that the “Users Love Us” badge is the biggest highlight among our G2 badges. The G2 Winter Report 2026 did not surprise us, as we earned the “Users Love Us” badge year after year. It represents the love and trust of learners who have taken the time to write a good word about us.
G2 offers this badge to service providers who have earned positive reviews from real users. We have always considered the “Users Love Us” badge as proof that our learners consistently believe in our learning resources. It shows us that we maintain the best standards of service and drives us to offer better resources to learners.
How is the Recognition by G2 Helpful for Us?
The badges we have earned in the new report by G2 serve more than recognition for our services. All the reports by G2 show us what exactly our learners think about our products and what they want from us. The badges by G2 are important to our whole team as they provide valuable insights into different aspects of our services.
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The Quality of Our Learning Resources
The first thing that we take from every G2 report is the viewpoint of our users on our training courses and accredited certification programs. We have consistently achieved the best performance in G2 reports, proving our commitment to maintaining the highest quality standards. The badges we earn in each report push us to serve you with even better learning resources each year.
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Validating Our Reach in New Markets
The new report by G2 also showcases how effectively we have catered to the requirements of small businesses and enterprise clients. We have not only delivered the highest user satisfaction in new markets but also emerged as a leader among online course providers for small businesses.
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Love and Trust of Our Learners
We are also proud to have helped our learners achieve their desired goals with our training courses and certifications. Our learners have provided positive feedback and high ratings for our products on G2, validating our excellence in helping them with technical skill development. We expect that the love shown by our users will continue to grow and push us to serve you better.
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The Road We Wish to Take from Here
The recognition we received in the G2 Winter Report 2026 is only the beginning of another phase in our journey. We aim to elevate our efforts from here and continuously improve our training courses and certifications. Our primary focus right now is on introducing new learning resources for emerging technologies.
We strive to help our learners acquire skills in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and discover new career prospects. We have introduced accredited certification programs on artificial intelligence and Web3, as well as dedicated career accelerators. Our team will open new doors for professional development by helping learners prepare for different career paths in a practical way.
A Note of Gratitude for You
We thank our esteemed learners for showing us that we are good at what we do. Without your support, it would have been difficult for us to become a leading online course provider. The acknowledgement we have received for our courses and certifications from our learners continues to motivate us. We promise to grow bigger and better, and help more learners achieve their career goals with new opportunities for skill development.
Final Thoughts
We thank G2 for providing us with a genuine valuation of our performance as an online course provider. The G2 Winter Report has shown how much our learners love our products and the quality of our support services. Our team also expresses gratitude to our valued learners for providing honest reviews and feedback for our learning resources.
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Opinion: With the penny dead, NYC can’t forget about those who rely on cash
The other day at a bodega off West Fourth Street, I watched the cashier point to a handwritten sign that read, “NO PENNIES. CASH TOTALS ROUNDED.” My friend tapped her phone to pay and moved on wit
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The other day at a bodega off West Fourth Street, I watched the cashier point to a handwritten sign that read, “NO PENNIES. CASH TOTALS ROUNDED.” My friend tapped her phone to pay and moved on without thinking twice. The woman in front of us, however, counting crumpled singles and quarters, hesitated before handing over her last dollar. It was a small moment, but it revealed exactly who would feel the absence of the penny most.
Last month, the U.S. Mint officially stopped producing pennies after 232 years, citing cost production issues — it costs about 3.8 cents for the bureau to make just one. Now, Congress is reviewing the aptly named Common Cents Act, which would require all purchases nationwide to be rounded to the nearest nickel.
Keeping the penny never made economic sense. For the past decade, the U.S. Mint has lost tens of millions of dollars annually producing a coin that only around 31% of people actually use. On top of that, a convenience store trade group found that pennies add around 2.5 seconds to every cash transaction. For New Yorkers who live in an urban environment that thrives on convenience, wasted time is an unacceptable caveat.
While the government sees rounding as an easy fix to this new change, the switch isn’t as simple for individual Americans — especially for the less fortunate, for whom every cent counts. About 8% of New York households are unbanked, meaning residents do not have their own checking or savings accounts, which is almost double the 2023 national average of 4.2%. Those unbanked are disproportionately low-income, Black, Hispanic and disabled — and because of access issues, cash is often their default. A few cents on each purchase may sound trivial to students on a $3,000 meal plan, but it adds up for those who depend on paying for groceries, laundry and MetroCards in cash every week.
Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond warn that rounding up can function like a small rounding tax if stores systematically round up more than they round down. While one cent isn’t a lot at face value, if that pattern holds in New York, the cost of a missing penny won’t show up as just a small fee, but will quietly drain a few dollars every month from the bank accounts of those who can least afford it. This is no measly change for those who count on every singular dollar to make it through each month.
At NYU, the penny — and in many ways, cash as a whole — has been dead for years. Dining halls and other on-campus food establishments employ tap-to-pay methods. None of us are digging through our wallets for coins at Upstein, but when taking a look at local businesses near campus, the city tells a different story: Many laundromats operate on a cash-only basis, and do local halal carts and even some restaurants.
So while students might see the death of the penny as something to shrug off, groups focused on mutual aid and financial literacy should advocate for those who frequently use cash. Petition for the university to expand access to low-fee bank accounts and financial counseling — because the people who will feel the penny’s absence most aren’t the ones whose Venmo handles are printed on student club flyers.
Retiring the penny was the right call. But if New York City lets rounding policies develop through a patchwork of register signs and corporate memos, people will begin to feel it. We can treat the end of the penny as an opportunity instead: to design fair, transparent rules for cash transactions and to finally take seriously the financial lives of the New Yorkers for whom every cent still counts.
New York City can take steps to proactively address this issue in support of its most vulnerable residents. Bodega owners shouldn’t have to accept accountability for decisions made by the government that inadvertently affect the less fortunate. Instead, the New York City Council must implement transparent rounding rules and require straightforward, multilingual signage across businesses as a uniform response to the change. For many New Yorkers, the change might be the difference between having enough to buy a bodega sandwich for lunch or a pack of diapers for their children.
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Success Story: Sohail Ghafoor’s Learning Journey with 101 Blockchains
About Sohail Ghafoor Name: Sohail Ghafoor Designation: Senior Blockchain Architect Company: Finstreet Country: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Sohail’s Learning Journey That Inspires Which 101 Block
Blockchain NewsAbout Sohail Ghafoor
Name: Sohail Ghafoor
Designation: Senior Blockchain Architect
Company: Finstreet
Country: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Sohail’s Learning Journey That Inspires
Which 101 Blockchains courses or certifications have you completed?
I achieved 101 Blockchains’ Certified Enterprise Blockchain Architect (CEBA)
certification.
Why did you choose 101 Blockchains, and how was your Overall Learning Experience with the Platform?
I selected this certification because I was looking for an enterprise-centric, structured approach to understand blockchain architecture that links technical design with practical business use cases.
Learning with 101 Blockchains has been one of the most productive experiences in my life. The CEBA certification program offered practical training at par with latest industry standards with a well-structured design. I also figured out how to accommodate regulatory compliance, tokenization frameworks, and custody solutions in architectural design to support blockchain adoption in finance.
At 101 Blockchains, you don’t just earn certifications — you gain real-world skills that shape you into a confident blockchain professional.
How has this program contributed to your professional growth?
The certification significantly improved my capability to build secure blockchain infrastructures, especially in areas like asset tokenization, institutional compliance and MPC wallet custody.
Which Skills or Knowledge Do you think have helped you the most?
It also helped me better understand blockchain governance models, interoperability and how to align technical frameworks with legal requirements. These abilities are now crucial elements that direct my work in designing the architecture of blockchain custody solutions and exchanges.
My confidence and credibility to lead blockchain projects and collaborate with fintech partners and regulatory bodies have increased significantly, thanks to the CEBA certification program.
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What advice would you give to someone considering a career in blockchain?
Anyone thinking about a career in blockchain must acquire technical skills in blockchain along with strategic thinking abilities. You should learn how blockchain works and the different ways in which it can transform industries. What really distinguishes blockchain professionals is the fusion of architecture, regulation and business value.
Would you recommend 101 Blockchains to others? Why?
I would unquestionably recommend 101 Blockchains to others. Their courses empower you to design, lead, and innovate in the rapidly evolving web3 space in addition to teaching blockchain.
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How to Become a Successful Crypto Project Manager?
The blockchain and crypto space is back in the limelight again, not as if they had ever faded out since their arrival. Bitcoin reached its all-time highs in 2025 and the larger crypto asset market fol
Blockchain NewsThe blockchain and crypto space is back in the limelight again, not as if they had ever faded out since their arrival. Bitcoin reached its all-time highs in 2025 and the larger crypto asset market followed suit and rallied behind the biggest cryptocurrency. With crypto ETFs bringing cryptocurrencies closer to institutions and retail investors, the decision to become a crypto project manager might be the best career move. The world has already witnessed a steady rise in the number of cryptocurrency projects, including DeFi solutions and NFTs.
As more companies try to dip their hands in blockchain and crypto projects, they find themselves at the crossroads of tradition and innovation. This is where a crypto or blockchain project manager can serve as the bridge between project management and technology of the future. Becoming a successful crypto project manager requires awareness of job responsibilities, career progression, and essential skills required for the job.
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Who is a Crypto Project Manager?
The first thing a beginner needs to become a successful crypto or blockchain project manager is the awareness of responsibilities involved in the role. You can find the right answer to “How to become a blockchain project manager?” only by understanding what the role entails. Blockchain or crypto project management is an innovative field that blends the traditional elements of product management and the power of blockchain technology.
As a crypto project manager, you will be expected to guide the development, launch, and scalability of cryptocurrency products or services. In the broader sense, crypto or blockchain project managers can define the ideal roadmap for success of projects that leverage blockchain technology. Diving deeper into the responsibilities of crypto project managers can help you identify the skills required to achieve professional excellence.
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Using Market Research to Discover Opportunities
The secret to successful crypto product development revolves around identifying the ideal use cases. Project managers must learn about new market trends, what the competitors are offering and the requirements of their target audience. Comprehensive market and user research helps project managers identify use cases that will address the pain points of customers. It establishes the ideal foundation to create a crypto product that is relevant to your target audience.
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Defining the Product Vision and Roadmap
The next crucial responsibility in crypto project manager jobs is about using insights from market research to come up with a product vision. Crypto project managers must evaluate the customer’s requirements and the goals of the business to define the product vision. The project manager also communicates the product vision to the teams and crafts a product roadmap. Crypto project managers have to define the key features of the product and timeline for the project in their roadmap.
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Identifying Product Specifications
Crypto project managers should also work in collaboration with all stakeholders in the project to define product specifications. The essential highlights in crypto product specifications include the features, desired functionality and user experience offered by the product. Project managers can leverage their blockchain expertise to determine the ideal blockchain platform for the product. In addition, crypto project managers also identify the relevant consensus mechanisms and cryptographic techniques required for their project.
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Managing the Product Development Lifecycle
The actual work of a crypto project manager begins with initiation of the product development process. Professionals with a blockchain project manager certification would know the importance of monitoring the work of cross-functional teams involved in the project. The crucial responsibilities of crypto project managers at this stage also involve prioritizing features and improvements on the basis of feedback and resource availability. At every stage of product development lifecycle, the project manager checks alignment with the defined roadmap.
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Analyzing the Product Performance and Future Growth
The final addition among responsibilities of crypto project managers revolves around evaluating how the product performs. Crypto and blockchain project managers must also implement strategies to grow the product through community engagement and increasing awareness. With the help of effective governance systems and incentives, crypto project managers ensure that crypto products reach a broader base of customers.
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Unraveling the Essential Skills Required for Crypto Project Managers
You would not get any special prizes for guessing that crypto project managers need a mix of project management and technical skills. As a crypto project manager, you will be expected to know about traditional project management methodologies. Project managers should know how to incorporate blockchain and crypto development in popular project management methodologies.
In terms of technical skills, you don’t have to be a blockchain developer to become project managers. Crypto project managers must know about the use cases of smart contracts, best practices of dApp development and cryptographic security. Furthermore, awareness of different types of governance models and token standards can elevate your skills for crypto project manager roles.
The list of skills required to become a crypto project manager also includes soft skills that differentiate you from other candidates. You will need communication skills to maintain coordination with all teams involved in the project and stakeholders. At the same time, crypto project managers must have leadership qualities that empower them to help team members, achieve consensus among people and solve problems.
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Path of Career Growth as a Crypto Project Manager
What are the opportunities one can explore for their career in crypto project management? You can begin as an entry-level or junior crypto project manager to get a taste of the role. The responsibilities of junior crypto project managers revolve around planning, assisting with task scheduling, and maintaining communication between cross-functional teams.
Upon moving one step ahead, you will become a senior project manager who oversees teams, manages resources, and monitors deadlines. Senior crypto project managers can also grow as their responsibilities shift towards bigger, and in some cases, multiple projects.
The crypto project manager salary depends significantly on their experience and their ability to achieve success. You can earn between $18,000 and $280,000 as a project manager in blockchain or crypto startups. Large tech companies like Microsoft and IBM and financial giants like JP Morgan also hire crypto project managers with attractive benefits.
Starting Your Crypto Project Management Journey from Scratch
Many beginners in the domain of crypto and blockchain may have multiple doubts regarding the ideal steps for professional development. You can begin by developing in-depth knowledge of blockchain technology and acquiring project management skills. Comprehensive training courses by reliable platforms and certification programs can establish strong foundations for your career in crypto project management. On top of it, you should gain hands-on experience through internship opportunities in crypto startups to hone your skills. You must also understand the value of professional networking and continuous learning to achieve long-term growth in your career.
Final Thoughts
Your dream of becoming a successful crypto project manager can finally come true. The availability of multiple listings for crypto or blockchain project manager roles is a proof of the growing demand for project managers in the crypto space. On top of it, crypto project manager jobs have become a must-have for companies experimenting with crypto assets. Comprehensive training and the right guidance can help you become a crypto or blockchain project manager with the relevant skills. Find out the ideal learning resources that can help you start your career in crypto project management right now.
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Off Topic: Sports can’t stay fair when betting drives the game
On Oct. 23, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups were arrested as part of a large-scale gambling investigation tied to insider sports betting and mafia-r
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On Oct. 23, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups were arrested as part of a large-scale gambling investigation tied to insider sports betting and mafia-run poker schemes. Authorities claim more than 30 defendants are involved, with “mind-boggling” sums of money at stake. This scandal reignites the debate over how sports gambling continues to blur ethical lines and threaten the integrity of the game.
Over the past few years, sports betting has skyrocketed in popularity. In 2024 alone, Americans bet $148 billion through apps like Underdog or DraftKings, which provide platforms where users can place wagers on games. This rise in instant betting has also created new opportunities for misuse, as seen in the Rozier case, where private information on his playing status was used to place bets on his performance. The line between fair play and manipulation has become blurred as users can now bet on nearly every in-game action, exploiting even the smallest shifts in player performance. As a result, the explosion of sports betting apps is slowly ruining the integrity of the games they profit from.
Not too long ago, sports betting was seen as taboo — at the beginning of 2018 it was only legal in four states. Prior to this, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act blocked sports betting in an attempt to protect the overall integrity of sports, a law later challenged in Murphy vs. NCAA, which argued that it violated the 10th Amendment. The decision ultimately struck down PASPA, giving states the authority to decide whether or not to legalize sports betting. Leagues from the NFL to the NBA took part in suing New Jersey, saying that the law was a “clear violation” of the federal ban on state-sponsored sports betting. It’s strikingly ironic that leagues that were once opponents of legalized sports betting now profit from the very industry they fought to ban, forming partnerships with sportsbooks like FanDuel — a hypocritical move that enabled recent scandals to occur.
The ease of placing bets via apps for the chances of extreme financial gain makes it even more tempting for players and officials to manipulate or rig games. Since the repeal of PASPA, multiple professional athletes and coaches have been either suspended or fired for gambling-related reasons. Furthermore, the ability to place prop bets and microbets makes scheming easier, since altering a small event is harder to detect. Each new scandal exposes just how fragile sports integrity has become.
Moreover, sports betting has been linked to multiple psychological and financial risks. In a Huff Post article, psychotherapist Renèe Zavislak shared that the dangers of sports betting apps is that they combine “the highly addictive nature of smartphone use” with “the highly addictive nature of sports gambling.” Essentially, these sports betting apps are designed to keep users constantly engaged, similar to social media. A study from the National Library of Medicine also found that “young adults with greater problem sports betting severity had significantly higher scores on each index of mental health symptomology and had poorer indices of well-being.” In recent years, the NCAA has also been very vocal about the negative mental health impacts of sports betting, specifically involving abusive threats.
Alongside psychological impacts, sports betting has also been linked to financial risks. A 2025 U.S. News Report found that one out of four sports bettors say they have been unable to pay a bill because of wagers they made and almost a third of sports betters say they have debts they attribute to gambling. Ultimately, the promise of quick cash seems to be giving way to mental and financial instability for many.
What began as a form of getting fans engaged has transformed into an industry that is profiting from addiction and financial loss. It is critical that these apps, alongside the leagues, take responsibility for the culture they have helped to create. Stronger regulations and responsible gaming education are crucial steps that should be taken to restore integrity for both athletes and users. If the business of sports continues to prioritize profit over people, we risk not just losing the integrity of sports, but also the trust that makes fans fall in love with the game in the first place.
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Blockchain and AI for Healthcare & Bioinformatics
Advanced technologies such as AI or Artificial Intelligence and blockchain are rapidly reshaping the healthcare as well as bioinformatics landscape. Blockchain and AI in healthcare have become a cruci
Blockchain NewsAdvanced technologies such as AI or Artificial Intelligence and blockchain are rapidly reshaping the healthcare as well as bioinformatics landscape. Blockchain and AI in healthcare have become a crucial part in solving some major challenges, like diagnostic accuracy, data security, personalized healthcare, and interoperability.
Besides, they are also revolutionizing the process of drug development. This combination marks the beginning of a truly digital health revolution, establishing a system that is highly intelligent, secure, and transparent.
In this blog, we will discuss more about this in detail and understand how will blockchain and AI affect healthcare? Let’s explore.
Blockchain and AI in Healthcare: Understanding the Synergy
Blockchain technology, which is a decentralized ledger, brings security, immutability, and transparency to healthcare operations and data. On the other hand, AI can help in extracting and analyzing patterns, insights, and predicting outcomes from huge datasets.
AI and blockchain in healthcare set a foundation to create a modern healthcare system developed on automation, trust, and intelligence. Together, these technologies can solve some key challenges:
- Trustworthy and real-time drug histories and patient data.
- Secure exchange for sensitive data without worrying about data leaks.
- Data auditability and integrity for insurance claims, research, and clinical trials.
- Autonomous decision-making for healthcare, management, treatment, and diagnostics.
Blockchain and AI in healthcare are empowering a safer and smarter healthcare system, creating opportunities for medical innovation and patient care.
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Blockchain and AI in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is a process of analyzing biological data, such as metabolomics, proteomics, and genomics. It is privacy-sensitive as well as complex. Traditional analysis methods take a lot of time. However, blockchain and AI in bioinformatics offer traceable and decentralized frameworks to manage and share data sets, ensuring integrity in biological research.
Blockchain records every transaction securely, including access, consent, sharing, and analysis, through cryptographic protection. Artificial intelligence projects disease pathways, extracts patterns, and builds predictive models for clinical data sets. This can foster reproducibility and collaborative research in various complex medical studies.
Furthermore, smart contracts and zero-knowledge proofs support secure data sharing in research between involved parties. All these things empower startups and scientists to innovate quickly and confidently, while keeping sensitive data secure.
Remarkable AI Blockchain Projects in Healthcare
A growing ecosystem of blockchain and medical AI startups is supporting this transformation. Some popular AI blockchain projects and startups to consider are:
Popular AI Blockchain Projects
| Platform/Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Nebula Genomics | Well-known blockchain-powered genomic data platform with AI-driven insights. |
| Medicalchain | Offers blockchain-enabled electronic medical records. |
| ClinTex CTi | Supports pharma clinical trials through smart contracts and prediction analytics. |
| MediBloc | Offers blockchain-enabled and AI-powered electronic health records. |
| Aimedis AIMX | Comprehensive healthcare ecosystem powered by AI, medical data, Web3 technologies, and the metaverse. |
All these platforms play a major role in creating new business models, focusing on decentralized governance, peer-to-peer transactions, and crypto tokens. The introduction of blockchain and AI promises highly scalable and transparent digital solutions for the most common healthcare challenges.
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How Will Blockchain and AI Affect Healthcare?
The combined effect of blockchain and AI is redefining healthcare, setting a solid foundation for a more transparent and smarter medical ecosystem. These technologies have multiple applications in this sector and address long-standing pain points.
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Security, Ownership, and Data Privacy
Healthcare systems are dealing with various issues like interoperability issues, data breaches, and fragmented data. Blockchain helps create tamper-proof and secure electronic health records. Patients get complete control of their personal and medical data. They can use smart contracts to grant consent to researchers and service providers.
Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, accelerates data analysis, enhancing decision-making for doctors while maintaining privacy.
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Predictive Analytics and Personalized Medicine
AI-powered tools can easily process massive amounts of data to identify patterns, customize treatment, and predict possible risk, lowering chronic health issue burdens and emergency room visits.
Blockchain-powered data aggregation makes sure that those models are developed on diverse, robust, and verified sources, reducing error and bias. Together, they facilitate individualized medicine and accurate health analytics.
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Administrative Efficiency
With the help of blockchain, it is possible to remove those centralized and expensive intermediaries while simplifying verification and compliance processes. Artificial intelligence can automate various administrative tasks such as patient triage, insurance processing, resource allotment, and more.
This level of administrative efficiency can save hospitals billions of dollars every year, allowing them to use more resources in patient care.
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An Efficient Research Engine
AI systems combined with blockchain can collect data from millions of sources securely. They can easily access and process datasets without any errors. This, in turn, accelerates the process of rare disease discovery. Furthermore, it helps ensure that new medical treatments are created and deployed properly.
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Fraud Prevention
Blockchain facilitates transparent tracking, and this helps combat fraudulent claims and counterfeit drugs in global supply chains. Artificial intelligence analyzes market signals and supply data to forecast shortages and makes sure that genuine pharmaceutical products reach patients.
Some projects, such as FarmaTrust and MediLedger, are demonstrating the impact by varying drug expiry date, origin, and can even process compliance reports automatically.
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Major Challenges and The Future
While the blockchain and AI in healthcare promise a decentralized healthcare system, several challenges need to be addressed properly in order to unlock its maximum potential. Some key challenges that may slow down the adoption rate are:
- Patient consent management and data privacy laws in a borderless healthcare ecosystem.
- Scalability of blockchain networks for properly processing huge clinical and multi-omics datasets.
- Integration of blockchain and AI in healthcare systems requires standardized APIs, data formats, and ontologies.
- Some blockchain protocols consume a lot of energy, raising concerns about sustainability.
- Navigating multiple health data laws like GDPR, HIPAA, or the DPDP Act while using decentralized AI models can be challenging.
- Some modern healthcare systems may not be compatible with legacy systems.
Addressing such challenges requires sophisticated governance frameworks, cross-sector collaboration, and more innovations.
Future of Bioinformatics and Healthcare
- AI models trained on decentralized datasets would be able to support multi-institutional medical research and facilitate privacy-preserving, accurate diagnostics.
- More AI blockchain projects will come up, driving innovation in remote diagnostics, wearable tech, and telemedicine.
- Programmable blockchain logic will play a crucial role in automating insurance workflows and patient consents.
- AI models are expected to offer proactive care by analyzing data from biosensors, smartwatches, and other wearable or IoT devices.
- The industry will witness the wide adoption of consensus mechanisms to support sustainability in medical AI crypto ecosystems.
As these technologies evolve, they will reshape the healthcare landscape, offering people a more inclusive, resilient, intelligent, and personalized healthcare ecosystem.
A New Era of Secure and Intelligent Medicine
Well, the future of healthcare and medicine is programmable and also decentralized. Blockchain and AI in healthcare clearly represent a significant shift from an expensive, reactive, and fragmented system to an economical, predictive, and transparent system. In the future, AI and blockchain in healthcare would expand from pilot programs to government-supported and enterprise-grade platforms.
These technologies are opening doors to an era of trusted data sharing, decentralized medicine, and rapid discovery. However, to ensure a smooth and quick transformation, it is crucial for entrepreneurs, healthcare experts, policymakers, and researchers to collaborate and address the present challenges. To explore these opportunities and innovations in depth, consider joining the Blockchain in Healthcare Masterclass.
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Success Story: Edward Manoukian’s Learning Journey with 101 Blockchains
About Edward Manoukian Name: Edward Manoukian, MSc Designation: Blockchain Strategy Specialist & Blockchain Analyst Company: CryptoGnosis Country: Kansas City, Missouri, United States Edward’s L
Blockchain NewsAbout Edward Manoukian
Name: Edward Manoukian, MSc
Designation: Blockchain Strategy Specialist & Blockchain Analyst
Company: CryptoGnosis
Country: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Edward’s Learning Journey That Inspires
Which 101 Blockchains course(s)/certification(s) did you complete?
I achieved 101 Blockchains’ Certified Blockchain Security Expert (CBSE) certification.
Why did you choose this program, and how was your overall learning experience with 101 Blockchains?
As someone who regularly researches and works with blockchain smart contracts as well as advises on risk, I needed the most up-to-date, practitioner-level security curriculum available. The CBSE stood out for its depth on reentrancy, oracle manipulation, access-control patterns, formal verification topics I would deal with in the future. The learning experience was wonderful: crystal-clear explanations, real exploit case studies.
What skills or knowledge did you gain that helped you most?
The advanced audit frameworks, on-chain attack modeling, and bridge/oracle security checklists have become core to my workflow. As well as following ongoing regulatory updated per NIST, CSS, and CCSS. I now systematically integrate Slither + other blockchain cybersecurity tools for formal verification into every contract suite to catch edge cases that external auditors may previously miss.
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How has this program contributed to your professional growth?
The CBSE certification gives me credibility when advising DAOs and enterprises on any treasury safety and RWA tokenization security. It directly contributes to following proper procedures for step by step battle-tested security expertise.
What advice would you give to someone considering a career in blockchain?
Be a translator, it is key these days to be able to translate the internal requirements for business stakeholders but also communicate them effectively when they are technical, as security is the foundation of sustainable adoption. Mastering how protocols actually might break before you build anything that holds value. One overlooked vulnerability can erase years of progress so investing early in defensive thinking is critical.
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Would you recommend 101 Blockchains to others? Why?
Without hesitation. The CBSE is the start of the gold standard for anyone serious about smart-contract security. It’s practical, continuously updated, and taught by people who have found real exploits in the wild. In an industry where mistakes cost millions, this certification pays for itself on day one.
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