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Google Advances Its Layer-1 Blockchain; Here’s What We Know So Far Rich Widmann, head of Web3 at Google, outlined on Tuesday how his firm's upcoming layer-1 blockchain for finance differs from Stripe's Temp and Circle's Arc. https://t.co/FmAMISnojc @coindesk
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