Research & Opinion

Financial exclusion hasn't solved the compliance problem. Stablecoin infrastructure built around rigorous controls can expand access while strengthening oversight.

Stablecoin card spending went from $4.2 million a month in late 2023 to $1.2 billion a month today, and none of it is RLUSD. Tria's John Lilic argues its stack, with BestPath settling on the XRP Ledger, can make RLUSD the default dollar for neobanks and money apps.

Zoomex brings the week's biggest ETF stories onto a single, rule-based derivatives venue, giving traders easy-to-use exposure to SPY, QQQ, IWM, XLF, XLK, and TQQQ ahead of this week's interest rate decision.

Every incentives team knows the chart. Emissions start, TVL rises, dashboards light up, and the program looks like it worked. Then emissions end and the line returns to where it began.

DeFi carries close to $100 billion in total value locked, and under 2% of that is covered by anything resembling insurance. Firelight's Connor Sullivan argues the real gap isn't missing coverage but coverage nobody outside the deal can verify.

A regulated security backed 1:1 by independently certified bitumen reserves — issued under ERC-3643, settled on Ethereum, and offered to accredited investors through a dedicated SPV. The thesis: a structural supply shock in U.S. asphalt binder, met with a tokenization framework purpose-built for the kind of long-lifecycle, securities-compliant commodity exposure institutional balance sheets actually want.

The blockchain ecosystem has long grappled with a critical challenge: interoperability. Bitcoin, as the first and most renowned cryptocurrency, has remained largely isolated from the innovations flourishing on other blockchains. NEAR's introduction of Chain Signatures represents not just a technical evolution but a strategic pivot towards a unified blockchain future. Here's an in-depth exploration into why this technology is pivotal.