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Cardano

Cardano Turns 9: Nine Years of Shipping

Cardano started 9 years ago as a centralized network with a roadmap and a small, determined community. Today that community runs the network, votes on its upgrades, and decides how its treasury is spent. Here’s to the next nine years!

SEP 23, 2026

nakamoto coefficient

The ABCs of Crypto

web3 infrastructure

Nakamoto Coefficient: Measuring Validator Decentralization

The Nakamoto coefficient is the smallest number of independent entities that would have to collude to halt or censor a network.

SEP 22, 2026

Institutional Staking When Banks Offer It Under Their Brand

Institutional

The Future of Institutional Staking: When Your Bank Offers It Under Its Own Brand

Banks are demonstrating custody-first moves for digital assets, meaning the banks are first building the ability to safely hold crypto for clients. Staking is the next step on top of that custody, and it is not yet universally announced.

SEP 21, 2026

How Staking ETFs Stay Liquid: Liquidity Sleeves

ethereum

Institutional

How Staking ETFs Stay Liquid: Liquidity Sleeves and Redemption Buffers

Why is the ETF staking rate typically below the network rate? The answer is the liquidity sleeve, an unstaked slice of a staking ETF kept ready to pay redemptions without waiting out the network exit queue.

SEP 18, 2026

Staking Diligence Framework for Private Bankers

Institutional

What Private Bankers Need Before Recommending Staking to Clients

A diligence framework for staking for private banking: what advisors must understand, disclose, and ask before they recommend it.

SEP 18, 2026

Crypto ETF Concentration Risk

bitcoin

ethereum

Institutional

Concentration Risk in Crypto ETFs: The Single-Custodian Problem

One entity custodies most US spot Bitcoin ETF assets, and Ethereum ETFs add validator concentration. Bitcoin’s custody risk can be reduced by issuers and the market, while Ethereum’s staking concentration can be shaped at the protocol level, including draft EIP-8363.

SEP 17, 2026

Specialized Crypto Infrastructure

Institutional

Should Institutions Trust One Vendor or Four? The Case for Specialized Crypto Infrastructure

FTX and Bybit both failed because one entity or one signing pathway held every function at once. Separating custody, staking, prime brokerage, and issuance into independently audited entities keeps a single failure from spreading.

SEP 16, 2026

Blockchain Interoperability Problem

Institutional

web3 infrastructure

Blockchain Interoperability Problems in 2026: Security, Trust and Cross-Chain Fragmentation

Blockchains are separate consensus systems, so one chain cannot treat another’s state as authoritative without adding a trust dependency. Nearly every cross-chain failure, from bridge hacks to liquidity fragmentation, traces back to this unsolved verification problem.

SEP 14, 2026

L1 vs L2: Does Ethereum Still Need Rollups in 2026?

ethereum

L1 vs L2: Does Ethereum Still Need Its L2s after Glamsterdam in 2026?

If the Ethereum becomes cheap and fast by itself, what is left for an L2 to do after Glamsterdam?

SEP 11, 2026

Staking APR After SGP-0002

solana

SOL Staking APR After SGP-0002: How Much Could Rewards Change?

Solana validators narrowly approved SGP-0002 on August 28, 2026, doubling the annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%. Nominal SOL staking rates fall toward 2.25% near 2029, though slower dilution and untouched MEV and fee rewards might cushion the real impact.

SEP 10, 2026

Fragmentation vs Liquidity Mobility on Arc, Canton and Tempo

Arc

Canton

Institutional

Tempo

Institutional Blockchain Fragmentation: Can Liquidity Mobility Solve the Problem?

Purpose-built institutional chains like Canton, Tempo, and Arc face a critique borrowed from DeFi about liquidity fragmentation. The more useful test is mobility: whether tokenized collateral moves atomically across obligations at lower cost than the status quo.

SEP 09, 2026

Block-Level Access Lists EIP-7928

ethereum

EIP-7928 Explained: How Block-Level Access Lists Bring Parallel Execution to Ethereum L1

EIP-7928 introduces Block-Level Access Lists that record every account and storage slot a block touches, letting Ethereum clients read and validate transactions in parallel. It ships as a headliner of the Glamsterdam upgrade, targeted for Q4 2026, and supports a gas limit increase from 60M toward 200M.

SEP 08, 2026

Arc RWA tokenization

Arc

Institutional

Arc’s Native RWA and Tokenization Support: An Overview

Learn why Arc blockchain optimizes for RWA and tokenized assets in addition to stablecoins, what design principles favor institutions using Arc.

SEP 07, 2026

everstake copper

Partnership

Everstake and Copper Expanded Staking Across Seven Networks

Expanding on the existing partnership, Copper now lets clients select Everstake directly as a staking provider across Aptos, Cosmos, Injective, NEAR, Solana, Sui, and Sei.

SEP 04, 2026

Structured On-Chain Memos: Reconciling Blockchain with ISO 20022

Arc

Institutional

Structured On-Chain Memos: Reconciling Blockchain with ISO 20022

Institutions cannot reconcile a plain blockchain memo with the bank systems they run on ISO 20022. A structured on-chain memo carries the same fields, so the transaction rebuilds as a full payment record.

SEP 03, 2026

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