Infrastructure
The technology layer powering digital assets: custody solutions, tokenization platforms, AI agents, and the infrastructure enabling programmable finance.
Custody & Security
Understanding how digital assets are stored, secured, and controlled in institutional settings.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 08-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering 16 signals across 9 jurisdictions: US tokenization wave (OCC charter, SEC guidance, NYSE 24/7, BNY deposits), EU stablecoin expansion, Japan's $500M digital bond, GCC card settlement, pan-African stablecoin networks, Philippines remittance corridors, and India's rupee stablecoin.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 07-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering LSEG on-chain depository, DTCC tokenization pilot, UK digital gilt pilot, BlackRock DeFi trading, CFTC stablecoin expansion, and UBS tokenized deposits.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 06-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering UK Cryptoassets Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/102), Fidelity stablecoin launch, CME-Google tokenized settlement, Qivalis European bank consortium, Canton Network Treasury tokenization, and SWIFT blockchain shared ledger.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 04-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering LSEG DiSH launch, State Street digital asset platform, BNY Mellon tokenized deposits, OCC bank charters, Swift blockchain scheme, and CBDC pilot expansions.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 03-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering DTCC Canton Treasury tokenization MVP launch, RWA market exceeding $20.8B, BlackRock BUIDL multi-chain expansion, Circle Arc testnet with Visa validator, and institutional settlement rails scaling on Solana.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 02-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering Fireblocks acquisition, SEC tokenization approval, Basel deadline, institutional DeFi growth, China RWA ban, and emerging markets stablecoin adoption.
Client Asset Protection: What the Regulations Actually Require (And What They Don't Say)
The collapse of FTX vaporised $8.7 billion in customer deposits because client assets were never actually protected. MiCA and UK CASS now establish detailed requirements for segregation, reconciliation, consent, and governance. For compliance teams, the work isn't reading the regulations. It's reading them as risk documents: identifying where definitions have expanded, where operational models trigger obligations they weren't designed for, and where the gap between stated compliance and actual protection might surprise you in insolvency.
Crypto Weekly Roundup: December 27, 2025 - January 2, 2026
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 52-2025
Tokenization, settlement, custody, and institutional crypto infrastructure
Crypto Weekly Roundup: December 13-19, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
Crypto Weekly Roundup: December 6-12, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
UK Property (Digital Assets) Act 2025 Guide
The United Kingdom has taken a decisive step that other jurisdictions have hesitated over for nearly a decade. With a deliberately modest Act of two sections, the UK has confirmed that digital assets such as Bitcoin, stablecoins, and NFTs can attract personal property rights. This very short Act has much more in it than you would think at first glance.
Crypto Weekly Roundup: November 22 - 28, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
Crypto Weekly Roundup: November 1 - 7, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
Programmable Custody: Who Really Owns What?
On October 29, 2025, Paxos accidentally created $300 trillion in PYUSD tokens - then burned them twenty minutes later. You held your keys the entire time. But did you own your crypto? When smart contracts mediate ownership, custody becomes programmable. And whoever writes the code holds the real power.
Tokenization & RWA
Real-world asset tokenization, from securities to real estate to intellectual property.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 08-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering 16 signals across 9 jurisdictions: US tokenization wave (OCC charter, SEC guidance, NYSE 24/7, BNY deposits), EU stablecoin expansion, Japan's $500M digital bond, GCC card settlement, pan-African stablecoin networks, Philippines remittance corridors, and India's rupee stablecoin.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 07-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering LSEG on-chain depository, DTCC tokenization pilot, UK digital gilt pilot, BlackRock DeFi trading, CFTC stablecoin expansion, and UBS tokenized deposits.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 06-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering UK Cryptoassets Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/102), Fidelity stablecoin launch, CME-Google tokenized settlement, Qivalis European bank consortium, Canton Network Treasury tokenization, and SWIFT blockchain shared ledger.
Digital Assets 2026: Strategic Outlook for Institutional Professionals
A comprehensive strategic intelligence brief on the six critical themes shaping digital assets in 2026 - from regulatory enforcement escalation to infrastructure maturation, AI governance convergence, and the mainstreaming of stablecoin rails.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 04-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering LSEG DiSH launch, State Street digital asset platform, BNY Mellon tokenized deposits, OCC bank charters, Swift blockchain scheme, and CBDC pilot expansions.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 03-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering DTCC Canton Treasury tokenization MVP launch, RWA market exceeding $20.8B, BlackRock BUIDL multi-chain expansion, Circle Arc testnet with Visa validator, and institutional settlement rails scaling on Solana.
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 02-2026
Infrastructure intelligence brief covering Fireblocks acquisition, SEC tokenization approval, Basel deadline, institutional DeFi growth, China RWA ban, and emerging markets stablecoin adoption.
Crypto Weekly Roundup: December 27, 2025 - January 2, 2026
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 52-2025
Tokenization, settlement, custody, and institutional crypto infrastructure
Crypto Weekly Roundup: December 13-19, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
Digital Assets Infrastructure Update W51-2025
Ten transformational infrastructure developments: DTCC SEC tokenization authorization, OCC national trust bank charters, CFTC derivatives collateral pilot, J.P. Morgan MONY fund, State Street-Galaxy SWEEP fund, Visa USDC settlement expansion, ADI Chain partnerships with BlackRock/Mastercard/Franklin Templeton, Intuit-Circle USDC integration, OCC riskless principal letter, and SoFi's first national bank stablecoin on public Ethereum.
Crypto Weekly Roundup: December 6-12, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
What Tokenization Can Do?
Forget finance for a second. Forget treasuries and condos. Let's talk about you, me, and the weird little moments in life that actually matter. Tokenization isn't just about money—it's about proof, privacy, and power.
Why RWA Tokenization Isn't Mainstream? (Yet)
Tokenization hasn't failed, but it didn't skyrocket either, yet. The technology's ready. But the law, compliance, and liquidity systems haven't caught up. And yet, in some corners of the world, this shift is already happening, because the need and pain are what drive adoption.
The Future Isn't Coins - It's Tokens!
Crypto isn't dead. It's just maturing. While everyone in the West debates regulation and watches charts, real-world asset tokenization is already happening - especially in emerging markets. The use cases are real, the rails are built, and some of the smartest builders are bypassing Wall Street entirely.
AI & Autonomous Agents
How AI agents are transforming payments, trading, and financial infrastructure.
Google-Coinbase AI Payments: Hidden Costs
Google and Coinbase launched a protocol that lets AI agents pay each other in stablecoins. Behind the shiny demos and corporate headlines sits a different story - not about innovation, but about control. Once AI can move money, whoever controls the rails controls the economy. And this time, it isn't the banks.
Who Spent My Money?
We used to worry about hackers. Now we have to worry about our own software. Because the next time money leaves your wallet, you might not be the one who sent it. Welcome to agent commerce: Where AI doesn't just recommend, it executes.
Your Wallet Just Got A Brain
Shopping used to mean browsing. Then it meant clicking. Now, it might mean nothing more than typing one sentence and walking away. e-commerce as we know it will soon disappear. The new rising king is 1-prompt-shopping, where AI agents act on your desires, stablecoins settle the bill, and the interface disappears.
More Infrastructure Topics
Weekly DeFi & RWA Brief: Week 06-2026
Tether consolidates institutional RWA strategy with $250M in strategic investments; Flutterwave embeds stablecoin rails for African merchants; Hivemind and CPIC launch $500M tokenization fund targeting Asian private credit markets.
The Quarter Crypto Became Finance: Q4 2025 - Q1 2026 Trend Analysis
Ten weeks of data. Three converging forces. One conclusion: Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 marks the quarter digital assets stopped being an alternative and started becoming infrastructure. Banks entered through the front door. Regulators shifted from frameworks to enforcement. And AI governance emerged as the next compliance battleground.
The EU Data Act's 'Kill Switch' Clause: Article 36 and the Existential Challenge to Decentralized Finance
Article 36 of the EU Data Act mandates that smart contracts include termination mechanisms - directly conflicting with blockchain's core promise of immutable, unstoppable code. Enforceable since September 2025, this provision requires 'rigorous access control mechanisms' and 'safe termination' capabilities that are architecturally impossible in permissionless DeFi protocols like Uniswap. The EU is the first major jurisdiction to regulate smart contract internal design, creating a kill switch trilemma: decentralization, immutability, and regulatory compliance - choose two.
Weekly DeFi & RWA Brief: Week 52-2025
Institutional DeFi and real-world asset tokenization developments for professionals
Digital Assets Infrastructure Update W50-2025
Six high-signal infrastructure developments from the past 24 hours: Tassat's yield-in-transit patent, OCC bank crypto intermediation clarity, MetaComp's $22M stablecoin settlement raise, Flutterwave-Polygon partnership, IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition, and retail stablecoin settlement pilots.
Crypto Weekly Roundup: November 29 - December 5, 2025
Weekly intelligence brief on institutional digital asset developments
99% Of Crypto Is Noise. How to Find Real Value in 60 Seconds
99% of tokens are noise. Your edge is learning to mute them, fast. A practical 60-second filter to separate real crypto value from digital confetti.
Who's Holding My Money? The Ugly Truth No One Tells You
You've bought crypto. But do you actually own it? This is the issue they don't explain: wallets, keys, and who's really in control.
Liquidity Pools: The Return You See. The Risk You Don't.
Liquidity pools promise passive income, but they rarely deliver it without cost. You're not just earning returns, you're absorbing risk you probably weren't aware of. This isn't investing. It's unaware underwriting.
The $40B Collapse That Changed Crypto Forever
How the collapse of Terra's UST reshaped the conversation around stablecoins, trust, and the future of digital currencies.
Coin vs. Token - What's the Difference?
Making crypto make sense: plain-language explanation of the difference between coins and tokens, with supporting references.