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• The Web3 trade publication’s reporting will be stored as data files called “blobs” on Walrus, a protocol built upon layer-1 network Sui, the companies’ representatives said Tuesday at the Token 2049 conference in Singapore. The aim is to create a secure, “tamper-proof” record of Decrypt’s content to foster trust among the publication’s readership.
• “Ultimately the press serves the public interest and ensuring the integrity and availability of news stories is a public good " George Danezis, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Mysten Labs, the blockchain infrastructure firm behind layer-1 network Sui,
• In the past decade, the disappearance of news content across the internet has surged due to link rot, or the breaking down of hyperlinks that makes web addresses that point to digital content such as news articles or videos no longer accessible to internet users.
• More than a third of online content vanished from the internet between 2013 and 2023, a Pew Research report shows. Meanwhile, 23% of news articles featured at least one dead link, the same data shows.

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