Google Multi-Party Compute: What MPC Custody Means for Banks Google is not launching a crypto wallet for you and me. It is building something more consequential for the plumbing of finance: a service that lets banks hold and move cryptocurrency and tokenised assets without any single machine ever holding a complete private key. The product…
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Chainlink (LINK) Explained: Real Infrastructure or Just Another Altcoin? 1. Introduction: Why Chainlink Is Worth Testing Now Chainlink is one of the few crypto projects that regularly appears in announcements alongside banks, market infrastructure firms and even a US government department. It is also a token that trades about 78% below its May 2021 all-time…
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Standard Chartered Crypto Trading in the UAE: Binance Rival? In mid-October 2026, Standard Chartered opened spot Bitcoin and Ether trading to wealth clients in the UAE, with approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Eligible clients can now buy and sell both assets straight from their existing bank accounts, with no separate wallet and…
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Open USD (OUSD) Explained: Can It Beat USDT, USDC and Swift? In the last week of September 2026, two very different visions of digital dollars went live within days of each other. On 30 September, Open USD (OUSD), a dollar stablecoin run by a company called Open Standard and backed by Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase…
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Robinhood Stock Tokens: What the AMC Clash Really Means 1. Introduction: Why Tokenized Stocks Matter Now Tokenized equities stopped being a conference slide this month and became a public argument between two chief executives. On 3 September 2026, AMC Entertainment chief executive Adam Aron attacked Robinhood over stock tokens that track AMC’s share price, and…
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Meme Coin History: How a 2013 Joke Became a $150B Market 1. Introduction: The $150 Billion Joke, Twelve Years On In December 2013 two engineers built a cryptocurrency to make fun of cryptocurrency. Eleven years later, in December 2024, the asset class they accidentally founded was worth more than $150 billion. Today, on 1 September…
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Bitcoin at $80K: Anatomy of a $3 Billion Short Squeeze Bitcoin has just delivered its strongest week in more than two years, clearing $80,000 on 25 August 2026 after six weeks of going nowhere. The headlines credit a White House crypto meeting, a pending Senate vote and a Treasury liquidity announcement. Those things all happened,…
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