Inspired by Tether’s recent announcement of issuing USDT as a Taproot Asset on Bitcoin, I explore (a) Bitcoin’s evolution into a multi-asset platform via Taproot Assets and Lightning; (b) features of Taproot Assets that make it a strong competitor in the tokenization market; (c) how Lighting facilitates fast, low-cost asset transfers and atomic swaps, all routed in BTC; and (d) Bitcoin as a tokenization platform compared with other blockchains and traditional payment systems.

AI-driven NLIs are shifting the crypto UX from complex GUIs to conversational experiences. Autonomous linguistic financial agents (ALFAs) are starting to surface actionable insights, automate DeFi tasks, and compete for alpha. Their workflows span data synthesis, adaptive modeling, real-time inference, and action orchestration. While this could be crypto’s “ChatGPT moment,” provable utility, scalable infrastructure, and verifiability remain hurdles for adoption.

The crypto ecosystem is accelerating at the intersection of technological innovation and user-driven demand. Over the past few years, infrastructure has made remarkable progress: scaling solutions like modular blockchains, validity rollups, and layer-2 frameworks have progressed from whitepaper concepts to production-grade infrastructure, lowering costs and increasing throughput in ways that were unthinkable five years ago. Yet, alongside these advancements, the memecoin mania of 2024 reveals...

What is the verifiable web and what will it look like? Here, we explore web proofs (aka “zkTLS”) and its use cases. Web proofs enable cryptographic verification of data authenticity and provenance over HTTPS without requiring cooperation from centralized platforms. Zero-knowledge proofs augment web proofs with selective disclosure and privacy. We highlight diverse use cases for web proofs across four key areas: credentials, data integrity, data portability, and data monetization.

Based rollups utilize Ethereum’s infrastructure for "based sequencing," improving composability and reducing centralization issues. To overcome Ethereum’s block time constraints, preconfirmations provide fast transaction assurances like centralized sequencers. Based rollups with preconfirmations can reduce fragmentation, improve UX, and balance economic benefits between Ethereum L1 and L2. Not only is this approach highly composable, it is optimal in terms of credible neutrality and security.

We are excited to launch our new $70 million fund, with a clear mandate to help exceptional early-stage projects at the cutting edge of Web3 innovation scale at pace.

In today's digital ecosystem, users find themselves confined within 'walled gardens' characterised as closed systems under the strict control of monolithic entities. These so-called digital platforms hold sway over user identities, data, and even the relationships between users, unilaterally setting

Why we are investing in Puffer. Puffer built on EigenLayer, addresses the prevalent challenges in the LSD space through the incorporation of their unique Secure-Signer technology, a remote signing tool specifically designed to bolster validator security and mitigate slashable offences.

Play to Earn (P2E) Games is the new paradigm in video games that combines DeFi and entertainment to create a new game genre that allows players to make money while playing.

The topic considered for this research is Collateralized Stable Coins, research downloadable here. Together with Algorithmic Stable Coins, these digital coins are attracting lots of attention from investors and are greatly innovating the world of DeFi with increasingly efficient protocols creating new use cases for users.