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Can Derive Build an Institutional Options Market Onchain?
How Lyra became Derive—and whether its liquidity, economics, custody integrations and V3 migration can build a lasting institutional options market.
Circle, Coinbase and the Price of Distribution
Circle’s USDC franchise produces substantial reserve income, but distribution partners capture much of the economics. Arc is the bet that owning more infrastructure can improve what shareholders keep.
Can Markets Govern Companies?
Umia is testing whether prediction markets can move from forecasting to corporate control, governing treasury spending, strategic decisions and onchain execution.
Robinhood Chain: Two Months In
Two months after launch, Robinhood Chain has scaled rapidly across Stock Tokens, Pons and Lighter, but its economics, retention and institutional utility remain largely unproven.
The Euro Stablecoin Experiment
Why the euro remains a major currency offline but a minor currency onchain, and whether distribution, MiCA and bank-led issuance can change that.
Who Sees the Company First?
Venture sourcing is shifting from static databases toward continuous company graphs, founder signals, relationship data and AI-native private-market intelligence.
The Public Round Returns
Startup capital formation is moving toward programmable public markets, combining auctions, early liquidity, onchain treasuries and decision-market governance.
Stablecoin Regulation 2026: Law, Banking and the Economics of Digital Money
Stablecoin rules are converging on reserves and redemption, while property rights, insolvency, yield and bank funding still diverge across major markets.
The State of Onchain Real-World Assets in Mid-2026
Tokenized stocks nearly doubled to $1.89B by July 2026, but ownership rights, liquidity and price discovery remain fragmented across products.
Augustus: How a 25-Year-Old Founder Raised $180M to Build a Bank
Augustus is turning a European payments business into a proposed US clearing bank for stablecoin settlement, programmable dollar access and AI-native banking.
fomo: Behind the $75M Series B from Index, USV and Benchmark
fomo is betting that verified trading activity can become a social graph, combining multichain execution, perpetuals and consumer distribution.
Robinhood’s Chain and Digital Asset Strategy
Robinhood Chain turns brokerage distribution into programmable financial infrastructure across tokenized stocks, wallets, DeFi integrations and global digital asset access.
Open USD: A New Stablecoin Playbook for Global Finance
Open USD turns stablecoin reserve income into distribution infrastructure, bringing Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase and Shopify into a consortium-style dollar network.
Hyperliquid Beyond the Exchange
Hyperliquid has moved beyond a crypto exchange into an exchange-funded financial network, combining onchain order books, HyperEVM, HIP-3 market creation and protocol-owned economics.
The Card Is Not the Product: A Case Study of Moto
A case study of Moto and the shift from premium cards to private financial membership layers built around access, credit, travel utility and invisible infrastructure.
How AI Became the Core Theme in Venture Capital
AI has become venture capital’s core allocation theme, moving from state-funded computation to a capital-intensive supercycle shaped by compute and scale.
How Global Digital Asset Markets Are Being Rebuilt
Global digital asset markets are shifting from token classification debates toward regulated market structure, stablecoin reserves, custody and licensing regimes.
Crypto Venture Capital 2026
Crypto venture capital is reopening around scaled managers, later-stage companies and financially legible infrastructure across stablecoins, tokenization and market structure.
Stablecoins as Corporate Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure
Stablecoins are becoming corporate cross-border payment infrastructure, improving selected payout corridors through always-on settlement, liquidity efficiency and programmable reconciliation.
Stablecoins Enter TradFi: The New Financial Stack
Stablecoins are entering traditional finance as regulated payment, reserve, settlement and yield infrastructure, reshaping banks, Treasury demand and tokenized markets.
From Gagosian to Onchain Art
This essay maps how Gagosian’s private-market playbook, art-backed lending and onchain provenance could reshape high-end art infrastructure.
Why Switzerland Matters in Digital Assets
Switzerland’s digital-asset edge is institutional sequencing: Crypto Valley, protocol foundations, regulated banks, DLT markets and Swiss-franc settlement experiments.
From Charge Plates to Stablecoin Credit
A history of cards as portable trust and credit infrastructure, from charge plates and Diners Club to Amex, Moto and stablecoin-settled card networks.
Venture Capital: From Doriot to the Power Law
A history of venture capital’s institutional evolution from Georges Doriot and ARD to Silicon Valley’s power-law model, founder control and the modern outlier economy.
Erebor: A Stablecoin-Native U.S. Bank for the Innovation Economy
A case study of Erebor’s de novo national bank charter, stablecoin rails, frontier-industry deposit base and the early balance-sheet signals that will determine whether crypto-native banking can move inside the U.S. regulated system.
AI Ate Venture Capital
A data-driven look at how Q1 2026 venture funding became dominated by frontier AI mega-rounds, why breadth remained fragile, and what that means for crypto, fintech and infrastructure investors.
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s 2026 New Media Strategy
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz show why venture media is moving from defensive PR to owned distribution, founder voice, launch mechanics and narrative leverage.
Revolut: $6B Revenue, 70M Customers, and Digital Assets Strategy
Revolut has scaled into a profitable global fintech bank, pairing $6B revenue, 70M customers and regulated digital-asset optionality inside a broader banking platform.
Inside Circle’s Stablecoin Economics
An institutional breakdown of Circle’s reserve-income model, Coinbase economics, USDC balance growth, rate sensitivity and the financial mechanics behind public-market stablecoin infrastructure.
The State of Onchain Real-World Assets
A market-structure breakdown of onchain real-world assets in 2026, separating represented ledgers from transferable tokens across Treasuries, commodities, tokenized stocks and distribution-led platforms.
Stablecoins in Agentic Commerce
Stablecoins are becoming programmable settlement rails for agentic commerce, connecting AI agents, mandates, identity, card networks and machine-native payments.
The End of Financial Friction
A market-structure thesis on how open standards, tokenized vaults, proof-of-reserves and onchain settlement can compress the hidden costs of legacy finance and turn capital movement into programmable infrastructure.
Inside a16z's New Media Playbook
How a16z, TBPN, 20VC, All-In and other creator-led platforms are turning narrative, distribution and audience ownership into a venture advantage.
Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI Data Centers
Bitcoin miners are turning power assets into AI data center infrastructure, with hyperscaler leases, project finance and HPC demand reshaping the 2026 investment thesis.
The State of Stablecoin Cards in 2026
Stablecoin cards are becoming the bridge between digital assets and everyday commerce as card networks, crypto-native issuers and PayPal turn balances into card spend.
What Ribbit Sees Before Everyone Else
Ribbit Capital’s edge comes from operator-led fintech pattern recognition, regulatory fluency and early conviction in financial infrastructure from Coinbase and Robinhood to Nubank.
Active Prediction Markets in 2026: Kalshi, Polymarket and Market Structure
A 2026 prediction markets thesis covering Kalshi, Polymarket, sports contracts, regulation, liquidity and the shift from crypto niche to financial infrastructure.
Fintech 3.0: Stablecoin Rails
Stablecoins are turning fintech from UX layers on legacy banking into programmable payment infrastructure for cross-border SMEs, wallets, payroll, treasury and vertical finance.
Venezuela Travellers Cheques as Proto Stablecoins
A monetary-history case study of Venezuelan travellers cheques as analogue stablecoins, showing how capital controls, exchange-rate arbitrage and financial repression foreshadow modern dollar stablecoin demand.
The New Playbook For Financing Clean Energy
A market-structure case study of Fuse Energy, Glow and Daylight, and how token incentives, project finance and distributed energy networks are reshaping clean-energy funding.
Inversion Capital: Private Equity On-Chain
A case study of Inversion Capital and the emerging thesis that crypto rails can become an operating system for private equity value creation.
How We Dodged a Fake Binance Fund
A founder security note on a fake VC outreach attempt, the red flags that exposed it, and a practical checklist for avoiding fundraising scams in crypto.
How Did AngelList Democratize Seed Funding?
AngelList turned seed investing into software infrastructure by combining syndicates, rolling funds, fund admin and network effects into a platform for founders, angels and emerging managers.
Can Kraken Justify a $15B Valuation?
Kraken’s $15 billion valuation depends on whether its revenue rebound, derivatives expansion, NinjaTrader acquisition and regulatory posture can offset scale gaps versus Coinbase and Binance.
The Evolution of Crypto Venture Capital
Crypto venture capital evolved from classic VC fund structures into a token-native capital stack shaped by ICOs, liquid tokens, infrastructure cycles and institutional allocators.
Family Offices and Digital Assets Strategy
Family offices are moving from speculative crypto exposure toward structured digital asset strategies built around ETFs, custody, governance, risk controls and next-generation wealth allocation.
Can Stablecoins Reshape Global Finance?
A market-structure essay on stablecoins as global finance infrastructure, covering supply growth, cross-border payments, payroll, regulation, issuer economics and the path from crypto settlement to real-world money movement.
Stripe’s Stablecoin Strategy
Stripe’s Bridge acquisition shows how stablecoins are moving into merchant payouts, global treasury and cross-border payment infrastructure.
Why Tokenized Assets Are Reshaping Finance
Tokenized assets are turning funds, Treasuries, credit and alternative assets into programmable financial infrastructure as RWAs move from crypto narrative to institutional market structure.
Hyperliquid: Inside the $1.5B Token Airdrop
Hyperliquid’s $1.5 billion HYPE airdrop shows how community distribution, fee-funded token economics and high-performance onchain order books can reshape DeFi market structure.
Geospatial Innovations: Market Overview (Geodnet, Spexi)
Geodnet, Onocoy and Spexi show how DePIN models can turn GNSS correction, drone imagery and geospatial data into open infrastructure for autonomous systems, mapping and precision industries.
Navigating The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA)
MiCA gives Europe a single rulebook for crypto assets, stablecoins and CASPs, replacing fragmented national regimes with licensing, disclosure and market integrity standards.
