Discoveries
Unexpected projects, signals and finds worth putting on your radar.
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.
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 · Programmable Money The next institutional form of onchain dollars may not look like a stablecoin at all. The Clearing House is building a
Discoveries · Tokenized Finance Tokenization has spent years searching for its settlement layer. Europe has just put a new option into production: central
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
Payments & Stablecoins / Discovery On September 9, 2026, U.S. Bank said it had completed a live cross-border payment using USBDC, its proprietary dollar-backed