Eleven Charters, 83 Days: Crypto Becomes the Bank
Eleven firms sought OCC trust charters in 83 days. What the charter permits, why GENIUS forces it, and what the consolidation costs.
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Zama's FHE layer and ERC-7984, examined across handles, coprocessors, threshold decryption, and real throughput limits.
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Eleven firms sought OCC trust charters in 83 days. What the charter permits, why GENIUS forces it, and what the consolidation costs.
FHE Goes Live: ERC-7984 and the Throughput Ceiling
Zama's FHE layer and ERC-7984, examined across handles, coprocessors, threshold decryption, and real throughput limits.
DeFi 15 min read
BIP-360 and the Bitcoin Coins That Cannot Move
Bitcoin's post-quantum migration requires signing with vulnerable keys, and the most exposed coins belong to owners who cannot sign.
BTCFi 18 min read
The Fee Switch Era: Uniswap, Aave, and Buyback Design
Uniswap's fee switch and Aave's automated buybacks turned protocol value capture into a template. A look at what the mechanisms actually take, and from whom.
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Who Decides the Truth in Prediction Markets
Polymarket added a proposer whitelist to its UMA oracle under UMIP-189. A taxonomy of resolution failure modes and which oracle designs survive each.
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