Figure + loanDepot: Blockchain Mortgages Take On a $23T Market and MERS's 45-Day Paper Trail
Figure's partnership with loanDepot moves blockchain-native mortgage origination into top-10 non-bank lending. The $23T U.S. mortgage market finally has a production-scale alternative to MERS's 45-day paper trail.
Is AI Summer 2026 the New DeFi Summer? Three Conditions for Ignition
AI crypto tokens outperformed every sector in Q1 2026 while markets crashed. With $470M in agent-generated GDP and Gartner predicting 40% of enterprise apps will use AI agents by year-end, is the Compound Moment approaching?
ERC-8183 Explained: How Ethereum Built a Freelance Economy for AI Agents
ERC-8183 turns every AI agent interaction into a trustless smart contract Job with escrow, verification, and settlement. We break down how the Virtuals Protocol and Ethereum Foundation standard works, how it compares to x402 and Google A2A, and why it may define the trillion-dollar autonomous agent economy.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Hard Fork Explained: How Parallel Execution and ePBS Target 10,000 TPS
Ethereum's Glamsterdam hard fork targets H1 2026 with parallel execution via Block-Level Access Lists (EIP-7928), enshrined proposer-builder separation (EIP-7732), and gas repricing that could push L1 throughput to 10,000 TPS while cutting fees by 79%. We break down the architecture, the competition, and the risks.
KlarnaUSD on Tempo: How the World's Largest BNPL Platform Is Betting Its Future on Stablecoins
Klarna launched KlarnaUSD on Stripe's Tempo blockchain, becoming the first bank to issue a stablecoin on the payments-focused L1. Here is how the BNPL giant's stablecoin play targets the $120 billion cross-border fee pool and what it means for the fintech-crypto convergence.
Sahara AI Wants to Pay You for Training AI — Here Is How Its AI-Native Blockchain Actually Works
Sahara AI is building the first full-stack AI-native blockchain to register, license, and monetize AI data on-chain. With $43M in funding, 780K testnet users, and a Danal Fintech partnership, here is how its four-layer architecture and SAHARA token aim to solve AI's $50 billion data provenance gap.
Sei Just Deleted Hundreds of Thousands of Lines of Code — And That Might Be the Smartest Move in Crypto
Sei Network executes its historic SIP-3 migration on April 6-8, dropping its entire Cosmos stack to become an EVM-only chain. We break down why the first major L1 to abandon multi-VM architecture is betting that deleting hundreds of thousands of lines of code is the fastest path to 200,000 TPS.
Somnia's Mainnet Bet: Can a 400K TPS Chain Finally Make On-Chain Gaming Real?
Somnia's mainnet launched with MultiStream Consensus and compiled EVM execution, claiming 400K+ TPS for on-chain gaming and metaverse applications. Six months in, we examine the technology, ecosystem, and whether the infrastructure can attract the builders it needs.
Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol: How Stripe's Payment L1 Creates OAuth-for-Money and Rewires the AI Agent Economy
Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol introduces 'sessions' — an OAuth-for-money primitive that lets AI agents stream stablecoin micropayments without per-transaction approval. Backed by Stripe and Paradigm with partners including OpenAI, Visa, and Mastercard, we break down the architecture, competitive landscape, and what purpose-built payment chains mean for the trillion-dollar agent economy.