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PayFi is the label for stablecoin-based payment and credit rails, from on-chain lending to B2B settlement, that rebuilds traditional finance plumbing on faster rails.
About $320M in BTC left Liquid's federation reserve Sept. 6 after an Elements software flaw produced L-BTC with no real Bitcoin backing; 11 of 15 functionaries signed the release, and the funds now…
Liquid issues L-BTC against bitcoin locked in reserve to speed up exchange settlements, so a near-total drain of that reserve forces every federation member to answer whether the model itself is…
Researchers are focusing on a validation-cache flaw that may have let unbacked L-BTC reach a Bitcoin peg-out, while the affected software deployment remains unconfirmed.
Liquid says federation members are working to restore service, but the network gave no restart timeline and has not disclosed the root vulnerability that let roughly 95% of its bitcoin reserves walk…
Compound is the lending protocol that helped invent DeFi yield. Deposit assets, earn interest set by an algorithm, or borrow against them. Here is how it works.
The GENIUS Act sets US rules for payment stablecoins: 100% reserves, no yield, and a new OCC license. Here is what it actually changes.
A $15M Bitcoin security consortium forms the same week a cross-chain bridge is drained twice. The ledger tells a story of two very different on-chain maturities.
A fifth day of ETF inflows and progress on the CLARITY Act put Bitcoin into the lead, even as tariffs and oil kept the macro backdrop hostile.
With ~4,000 BTC sitting outside Federation custody and the sidechain paused, every L-BTC peg now hinges on whether the 'white-hat' framing holds and the funds come back.
Liquidity pools replace the matchmaker in a traditional exchange with a pile of two assets and a formula. Here is how AMMs price trades, what slippage really is, and what you sign up for when you become an LP.
Toncoin (TON) is the native asset of The Open Network, a blockchain born from Telegram and tightly woven into its messenger and mini-app ecosystem.
The Lightning Network lets you send Bitcoin instantly and cheaply by moving most payments off-chain. Here is how it works, what it solves, and its limits.
Spot products keep printing inflows into a tape that cannot hold a bid. The contradiction is the signal, and it points to who is actually in control of this market.
The Travel Rule requires sender and recipient data on crypto transfers above $1,000. Stablecoins are the main target because they are traceable and freezable by design.
Banks and asset managers spent the day wiring stablecoins, tokenized dollars, and custody rails deeper into the plumbing, even as price action and ETF outflows told a much colder story.
Glassnode and CoinGlass show BTC and ETH on-chain signals, but reading them wrong is easy. Here's how to layer exchange flows, SOPR, and liquidation heatmaps.
RLUSD is a US dollar stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York trust charter, live on XRP Ledger and Ethereum, and built for cross-border payments and tokenized assets.
Chain abstraction promises one signature across any blockchain. ERC-7683 is the emerging standard that makes it work. Here is how intents, fillers, and cross-chain settlement actually fit together.
Regulation and exchange-custody plumbing, not price, define the day. The CLARITY Act clears the Senate, ICE teams with OKX, and stablecoin rails keep buckling.
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Marco De Santis
Alex Morgan
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Lina Haddad