Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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Six Months After Fusaka: How PeerDAS Quietly Rewrote Ethereum's L2 Fee Equation
Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade activated PeerDAS on December 3, 2025, cutting L2 fees 40–95% across Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base. Six months in, the numbers tell a story more nuanced than the hype — and L2 operators are rethinking their entire business model.
Stripe's 'AWS for Money': How Bridge, Privy, and a Federal Bank Charter Built the First Vertically Integrated Stablecoin Stack
Stripe has assembled the world's first vertically integrated stablecoin developer platform — combining Bridge's $1.1B settlement infrastructure, Privy's 75M-account embedded wallet, and a conditional OCC federal bank charter into a single API stack. Here's what it means for developers in 2026.
$73M and 176 Million Transactions: How AI Agents Made Crypto Rails the Default Payment Layer
AI agents settled $73M across 176 million transactions in twelve months — 98.6% in USDC, and 76% of payments below Visa's $0.30 fee floor. Here's why crypto rails won, why USDC dominance is both a strength and a risk, and how x402, MPP, AP2, and ACP are racing to own the $450B agent economy's payment layer.
JPMorgan Grew Its Bitcoin ETF Stake 175% While Dimon Called BTC Worthless
JPMorgan's Q1 2026 13-F reveals the world's largest bank added $162M in Bitcoin ETF exposure — a 175% stake increase — while CEO Jamie Dimon publicly dismissed BTC's value. The gap between TradFi rhetoric and TradFi action tells you more about where institutional money is heading than any shareholder letter.
CLARITY Act Passes Senate Banking Committee 15-9: What It Means for Crypto's Legal Future
The Senate Banking Committee's 15-9 vote to advance the CLARITY Act marks the first time a comprehensive U.S. crypto market structure bill has cleared a Senate committee — resolving SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, reshaping DeFi's legal standing, and setting up a make-or-break floor vote before August recess.
Why the World's Largest Stablecoin Issuer Just Gave Away Its Bitcoin Mining OS for Free
Tether open-sourced MiningOS in February 2026, eliminating the dev fees charged by Braiins OS+ and LuxOS while building ecosystem lock-in across Bitcoin mining infrastructure — an open-source competitive strategy borrowed directly from Google's Android playbook.
Q1 2026 Crypto Security Report: How the $1.5B Bybit Hack Signals a New Era of Infrastructure Attacks
Q1 2026 saw $2 billion in crypto losses as attackers abandoned smart contract exploits for supply chain attacks, social engineering, and DNS hijacks. The $1.5B Bybit breach and $286M Drift Protocol hack reveal a new threat model requiring full-stack security beyond Solidity auditing.
CLARITY Act Clears Senate Banking Committee in Historic 15-9 Vote — What Happens Next
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a historic 15-9 bipartisan vote on May 14, 2026 — the first comprehensive crypto market structure bill to clear a Senate committee. Here's what the bill does, why the vote matters, and what the 60-vote Senate floor challenge means for crypto's regulatory future.
Fasset's $51M Series B: The Stablecoin-Powered Islamic Neobank Quietly Moving $32B Across 50+ Emerging Market Corridors
Fasset's $51M Series B reveals where stablecoin adoption is actually accelerating: not in New York boardrooms, but across 50+ payment corridors in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East — where a Sharia-compliant neobank is processing $32B in annualized volume for 1,000+ SMEs and 2 million wallets.