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Steven Goldfeder and Offchain: The Princeton Cryptographer Teaching Wall Street to Live OnChain

Steven Goldfeder and Offchain: The Princeton Cryptographer Teaching Wall Street to Live OnChain

How the CEO behind Arbitrum dropped "Labs" from his company name, helped claw back $71 million from North Korean hackers, and put Robinhood's stock tokens on a blockchain, all while trying to make his own emergency powers obsolete.

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the state of tokenization

the state of tokenization

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Jim Hiltner and Superstate: The Citibank Veteran Building Wall Street's Onchain Plumbing

Jim Hiltner and Superstate: The Citibank Veteran Building Wall Street's Onchain Plumbing

How a former Compound Treasury executive is rerouting nearly $1.3 billion in regulated securities through public blockchains, with the first onchain IPO targeted for late 2026.

DeFi's institutional flip

DeFi's institutional flip

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Sid Powell and Maple Finance: $20 Billion Later, DeFi Is Dead. And That Is the Point.

Sid Powell and Maple Finance: $20 Billion Later, DeFi Is Dead. And That Is the Point.

How a former securitization banker built one of the largest on-chain credit businesses in the world by betting that DeFi's original identity was its biggest liability.

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where DeFi risks really lives in 2026

where DeFi risks really lives in 2026

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Yat Siu's Strategy to Make Altcoins the Next Trillion-Dollar Asset Class

Yat Siu's Strategy to Make Altcoins the Next Trillion-Dollar Asset Class

How the chairman of a $5B+ Web3 conglomerate went from getting deplatformed by Apple to preparing 400+ crypto investments for public markets

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From DeFAI hype to agentic onchain treasury

From DeFAI hype to agentic onchain treasury

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Joseph Onorati's DFDV: Building a $300M+ Solana DAT

Joseph Onorati's DFDV: Building a $300M+ Solana DAT

The founder of DeFi Development Corp explains why his publicly-traded company chose Solana over Ethereum, how DATs generate 11.4% yield, and why sound money adoption matters more than short-term price action.

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aarna 2025 year-end update

aarna 2025 year-end update

What we built, what we learned, what is now coming together

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Arthur Breitman and Tezos: Why Most Blockchains Are Just Selling Stories

Arthur Breitman and Tezos: Why Most Blockchains Are Just Selling Stories

The Tezos co-founder explains why tokenizing uranium makes more sense than launching another special-purpose chain, and what it takes to build infrastructure that actually lasts.

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Mriganka Pattnaik of Merkle Science: Why Criminals Are Crypto's Best Trend Indicator

Mriganka Pattnaik of Merkle Science: Why Criminals Are Crypto's Best Trend Indicator

The CEO who moved from Singapore to New York explains how tracking illicit activity became a $25M+ business, and why Tether on Tron is now the preferred highway for financial crime.

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