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Discoveries
Cardano’s Programmable Tokens Make Compliance a Transfer Condition
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Cardano’s CIP-113 brings programmable compliance to native tokens, introducing shared infrastructure for regulated assets, transfer restrictions, and real-world tokenization.
Projects
ENS Is Making Crypto Addresses Readable—and Names Useful Across Apps
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Ethereum Name Service connects readable names with wallet addresses, profile records, and content. Here is how the project works, why resolution checks
Discoveries
zkAPI Is Turning API Access Into Private Usage Credits
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Discovery · Privacy Infrastructure A new Ethereum-based system is testing whether an API can know that a request is paid for without needing to know who is paying.
Discoveries
zkAPI Is Turning Payment Into a Privacy Layer for AI
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zkAPI introduces a new privacy model for AI and paid APIs: prove you can pay without revealing the identity behind the payment. By combining zero-knowledge
Discoveries
America’s Banks Are Building a Shared Rail for Tokenized Deposits
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Discoveries · Programmable Money The next institutional form of onchain dollars may not look like a stablecoin at all. The Clearing House is building a
Discoveries
Pontes Is Bringing Central Bank Money Into Tokenized Markets
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Discoveries · Tokenized Finance Tokenization has spent years searching for its settlement layer. Europe has just put a new option into production: central
Ecosystems
Arc Is Live: Circle Is Testing a Different Kind of Layer 1
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Discovery Brief Crypto does not have a shortage of Layer 1 blockchains. That is precisely why Arc is worth examining. Circle opened Arc’
Discoveries
Private DeFi Is Becoming a Product, Not Just a Cryptography Demo
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DeFi · Discovery Primary reader question Can privacy become a usable layer on top of existing DeFi liquidity instead of requiring users to move into separate
Ecosystems
Circle Just Launched Arc. The More Interesting Question Is What Stablecoin-Native Chains Become
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Infrastructure · Discovery Circle spent years making USDC portable across other people’s blockchains. Now it has launched a blockchain of its own.
Ecosystems
Inside Arc: The New Blockchain Ecosystem Built Around Stablecoins
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Ecosystem Discovery · September 17, 2026 Circle’s Arc mainnet is now live. Its more consequential proposition is not simply faster settlement, but an ecosystem